v. 465. _wretchockes_] “The famous imp yet grew a _wretchock_; and though for seven years together he was carefully carried at his mother’s back, rocked in a cradle of Welsh cheese, like a maggot, and there fed with broken beer, and blown wine of the best daily, yet looks as if he never saw his _quinquennium_.” Jonson’s Masque, _The Gipsies Metamorphosed_,—_Workes_, vii. 371. ed. Gifford, who thus comments on the passage in his authoritative style: “i. e. pined away, instead of thriving. Whalley appears to have puzzled himself sorely in this page, about a matter of very little difficulty. In every large breed of domestic fowls, there is usually a miserable little stunted creature, that forms a perfect contrast to the growth and vivacity of the rest. This unfortunate abortive, the goodwives, with whom it is an object of tenderness, call a _wrethcock_; and this is all the mystery. Was Whalley ignorant that what we now term chick, was once chocke and _chooke_?” The fol. ed. of the _Masque of Gipsies_ has “_wretch-cock_,” which Nares, who does not know what to make of the word, observes “would admit of an easy derivation from _wretch_ and _cock_, meaning a poor wretched fowl.” _Gloss._ in v. Page 110. v. 466. _shyre shakyng nought_] i. e. sheer worthless. So again our author in his _Magnyfycence_; “From _qui fuit aliquid_ to shyre shakynge nought.” v. 1319. vol. i. 267. v. 475. _fall_] i. e. fallen. v. 483. _foggy_] “_Foggy_, to full of waste flesshe.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxxviii. (Table of Adiect.). v. 489. _craw_] i. e. crop, stomach. v. 491. _on_] i. e. of: compare v. 131. Page 111. v. 492. _an old rybibe_] Chaucer, in _The Freres Tale_, says, “This Sompnour, waiting ever on his pray, Rode forth to sompne a widewe, _an olde ribibe_.” v. 6958. ed. Tyrwhitt,— who says he cannot guess how this musical instrument came to be put for an old woman, “unless perhaps from its shrillness.” The word so applied occurs also in Jonson’s _Devil is an Ass_, act i. sc. 1, where Gifford observes, “_Ribibe_, together with its synonym _rebeck_, is merely a cant expression for an old woman. A ribibe, the reader knows, is a rude kind of fiddle, and the allusion is probably to the inharmonious nature of its sounds.” _Works_, v. 8. v. 493. _She halted of a kybe_] i. e. She limped from a chap in the heel. The following remedy is seriously proposed in _The Countrie Farme_, and was no doubt applied by our ancestors: “_For kibes on the heeles_, make powder of old shooe soles burned, and of them with oile of roses annoint the kibes; or else lay vnto the kibes the rinde of a pomegranat boiled in wine.” p. 83. ed. 1600. v. 496. _And fell so wyde open_ _That one myght se her token_] Compare _The foure P. P._ by Heywood; “So was thys castell layd _wyde open_ _That euery man myght se the token_.” Sig. D i. ed. n. d. v. 498. _wroken_] i. e. wreaked.