Page 313, v. 51. _connyng bagge_] i. e. bag, store, of knowledge or learning. v. 52. _hagge_] See note, p. 99. v. 19. v. 53. _though my ryme be ragged_] So Sir D. Lyndsay; “my rural _raggit_ vers.” _Prol. to Monarchie_,—_Works_, ii. 330. ed. Chalmers; and Spenser, “My _ragged rimes_.” _F. Queene_, i. xii. 23. v. 54. _iagged_] See note, p. 163. v. 124. v. 56. _moughte eaten_] i. e. moth-eaten. v. 66. _blother_] i. e. gabble. v. 67. _The tone agayng_] i. e. The one against. v. 68. _shoder_] i. e. shudder. v. 69. _hoder moder_] i. e. hugger-mugger. Page 314. v. 70. _faute_] i. e. fault. v. 71. _ben so haut_] i. e. be so haughty. v. 72. _loke_] i. e. look. v. 77. _sely_] i. e. silly, simple, harmless. v. 79. _wull_] i. e. wool. v. 80. _Vnethes_] i. e. Scarcely. v. 82. _connynge_] i. e. knowledge, learning. v. 83, _A glommynge_] i. e. A glumming, a looking gloomy, sour. —— _a mummynge_] Compare our author elsewhere; “Men of suche maters make but a _mummynge_.” _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 200. vol. i. 370. “Thhere was amonge them no worde then but _mum_.” _Id_. v. 1118. p. 406. “But play scylens and glum, Can say nothynge but _mum_.” v. 906 of the present poem. v. 84. _iape_] i. e. jest, joke. v. 87. _hole_] i. e. whole. Page 314. v. 89. _the forked cap_] i. e. the mitre. “No wise man is desirous to obtayne _The forked cappe_ without he worthy be.” Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, fol. 236. ed. 1570. v. 90. _to lewd_] i. e. too wicked, vile. v. 91. _all beshrewd_] i. e. altogether cursed. v. 99. _For other mennes skyll_]—_skyll_, i. e. reason: the line seems to mean—Notwithstanding other men’s reasons. Page 315. v. 107. _solfa so alamyre_]—_alamire_ is the lowest note but one in Guido Aretine’s scale of music: Gayton, in his _Notes upon Don Quixote_, 1654, says (metaphorically) that Maritornes “plaid her part so wel, that she run through all the keyes from _A-la-mi-re_ to double Gammut,” &c. p. 83. v. 108. _premenyre_] i. e. præmunire. v. 115. _heedes_] i. e. heads. v. 119. _warke_] i. e. work. Page 316. v. 137. _A great parte is for slouth,_ _But the greattest parte_ _Is for they haue but small arte_ _And ryght sklender connyng_ _Within theyr heedes wonnyng_] —— _sklender connyng_, i. e. slender knowledge, learning: _wonnyng_, i. e. dwelling. The meaning of the passage is—a great part of this is owing to their laziness, but it is chiefly to be attributed to their ignorance, &c. Page 317. v. 151. _werkes_] i. e. works. v. 152. _Ure_] i. e. Urias. v. 154. _werryn_] i. e. hinder, ward off. v. 159. _heery_] i. e. hairy. v. 160. _Set nought by_] i. e. Value not. —— _ne_] i. e. nor. v. 162. _mell_] i. e. meddle. v. 163. _loth to hang the bell_ _Aboute the cattes necke_] So Heywood; “And I will _hang the bell about the cats necke_: For I will first breake and ieoperd the first checke.” _Dialogue, &c._ sig. D 3,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.