v. 67. _Iobab was brought vp in the lande of Hus_] “Verisimile est Jobum eumdem esse cum Jobabo, qui quartus est ab Esaü ... Duces in ista opinione sequimur omnes fere antiquos Patres quos persuasit, ut ita sentirent, additamentum in exemplaribus Græcis, Arabicis et in antiqua Vulgata Latina appositum: ‘Job vero habitabat in terra Hus, inter terminos Edom et Arabiæ, et antea vocabatur Jobab,’” &c. _Concordantiæ Bibl. Sacr. Vulg. Ed._ by Dutripon, in v. _Job. ii._ Page 5. v. 71. _Howst thé, lyuer god van hemrik, ic seg_]—_Howst thé_ is (I suppose) Hist thee: what follows is German,—_lieber Got von Himmelsreich, ich sage_—Dear God of heaven’s kingdom, I say,—spoken by way of oath. v. 72. _In Popering grew peres_] From _Popering_, a parish in the Marches of Calais (see Tyrwhitt’s note on Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, v. 13650), the _poprin_, _poperin_, or _popperin_ pear, frequently mentioned in our early dramas, was introduced into this country. v. 73. _Ouer in a whynny meg_] The initial words of a ballad or song. Laneham (or Langham) in his strange _Letter_ concerning the entertainment to Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth Castle in 1575, mentions it as extant in the collection of Captain Cox, who figured in the shows on that occasion: “What shoold I rehearz heer what a bunch of Ballets and songs all auncient: Az Broom broom on hill, So wo iz me begon, troly lo, _Over a whinny Meg_,” &c. See Collier’s _Bridgewater-House Catalogue_, p. 164. v. 74. _Hop Lobyn of Lowdeon_] See note, p. 217. v. 59. v. 75. _The iebet of Baldock_] Is mentioned again in our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 953. vol. ii. 56. “And in Caldee the chief Cytee is _Baldak_.” _Voiage and Travaile of Sir J. Maundevile_, p. 51. ed. 1725. v. 78. _to_] i. e. too. v. 80. _erstrych fether_] i. e. ostrich-feather. v. 81. _Beme_] i. e. Bohemia. v. 82. _byrsa_] An allusion to Virgil; “Mercatique solum, facti de nomine _Byrsam_, Taurino quantum possent circumdare tergo.” _Æn._ i. 367. Perhaps too Skelton recollected a passage in Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. ii. leaf xlviii. ed. Wayland. Page 5. v. 84. _Colostrum_] i. e. the biesting,—the first milk after the birth given by a cow (or other milch animal). This form of the word occurs in the title of an epigram by Martial, lib. xiii. 38, and in Servius’s commentary on Virgil, _Ecl._ ii. 22. v. 85. _shayle_] See note, p, 97. v. 19. v. 87. _Moryshe myne owne shelfe, the costermonger sayth_] From the next line it would seem that “Moryshe” is meant for the Irish corruption of some English word; but of what word I know not. v. 88. _Fate, fate, fate, ye Irysh waterlag_] Mr. Crofton Croker obligingly observes to me that he has no doubt of “fate” being intended for the Irish pronunciation of the word _water_.—“There is rysen a fray amonge _the water laggers_. Coorta est rixa inter _amphorarios_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. q vi. ed. 1530.