Compare Heywood’s _Dialogue_, &c.; “Howbeit suddenly she minded on a day, To pick the chest locke, wherein this bagge lay: ... But streight as she had forthwith opened the locke, And look’t in the bagge, _what it was a clocke_,” &c. Sig. K 3,—_Workes_, ed. 1598. In our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_ we find, “With burris rowth and bottons _surffillyng_ [MS. _surfullinge_].” v. 803. vol. i. 394. which is cited (_Dict._ in v. _Surfel_) by Richardson, who, after quoting from Gifford that “To _surphule_ or _surfel_ the cheeks, is to wash them with mercurial or sulphur water,” &c., adds that Gifford’s “explanation does not extend to the passage from Skelton.” The fact seems to be that Skelton uses _surfle_ for _purfle_, i. e. border, embroider: and I may notice that Brathwait, on the other hand, seems to employ _purfle_ for _surfle_; “With painting, _purfling_, and a face of Art.” _A Strappado for the Diuell_, 1615. p. 150. Page 319. v. 222. _And howe whan ye gyue orders_ _In your prouinciall borders,_ _As at Sitientes, &c._] _Sitientes_ is the first word of the Introit of the Mass for Passion Sunday (_“Sitientes, venite ad aquas, dicit Dominus,” &c._, _Isaiah_ lv. 1). For this note I am indebted to W. Dyce, Esq., who further observes that _Sitientes_ Saturday was of old, and is now abroad, the Saturday before Passion Sunday. Page 320. v. 233. _renne they in euery stede_] i. e. run they in every place. v. 234. _nolles_] i. e. heads. v. 239. _Pystle_] i. e. Epistle. v. 243. _prymes and houres_] i. e. the devotions so named. v. 248. _vagabundus_] i. e. vagabonds. v. 251. _ale stake_] i. e. stake set up before an ale-house by way of sign. v. 252. _welcome hake and make_] An expression which I have not elsewhere met with. Ray gives among _North Country words_, “To _hake_, To sneak, or loiter:” in Hunter’s _Hallam. Gloss._ is “A _haking_ fellow, an idle loiterer;” and in a song cited by Mr. J. P. Collier (_Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet._, ii. 472) from a MS. drama called _Misogonus_ by T. Richards, we find,— “With Bes and Nell we love to dwell In kissinge and in _hakinge_.” —_make_ is common in the sense of—mate, companion. Page 321. v. 262. _stylla_] i. e. still. v. 263. _wylla_] i. e. will. v. 264. _pekes_] See note, p. 129. v. 409. v. 266. _faute_] i. e. fault. v. 267. _apposed_] i. e. questioned, examined. “He was _apposed_, or examyned of his byleue. De religione _appellatus est_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. D ii. ed. 1530. v. 269. _connyng_] i. e. knowledge, learning. Page 322. v. 284. _Tom a thrum_] See note, p. 189. v. 204. v. 293. _There shall no clergy appose_ _A myter nor a crose,_ _But a full purse_]—_clergy_, i. e. erudition. “Androgeus by kyng Mynos was sent, For he should profite in _cleargy_, To Athens.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. I. leaf xii. ed. Wayland.