Page 15. v. 6. _prendergest_] A word (probably the origin of the surname _Prendergast_) which I am unable to explain. v. 8. _bayardys bun_] i. e. horse-loaf, a sort of bread formerly much used for feeding horses: _bayard_ is, properly, a bay horse. v. 9. _sumdele_] i. e. somewhat. v. 11. _maunchet_] Properly, a small loaf of fine white bread. —— _morell_] Properly, a dark-coloured, a black horse. v. 13. _carp_] Which generally means—speak, talk,—is sometimes found applied to music, and here, perhaps, is equivalent to—make a noise. v. 14. _Lo, Jak wold be a jentylman!_] So in Heywood’s _Dialogue_; “_Iacke would be a gentleman_, if he could speake French.” Sig. D 2,—_Workes_, ed. 1598. See also Ray’s _Proverbs_, p. 124. ed. 1768. v. 15. _Wyth, Hey, troly, loly, lo, whip here, Jak,_ _Alumbek sodyldym syllorym ben!_ _Curyowsly he can both counter and knak_ _Of Martyn Swart and all hys mery men_] _Hey, troly, loly_, Ritson observes, is a chorus or burden “of vast antiquity;” see _Anc. Songs_, ii. 8. ed. 1829: _counter_; see note on title of the poem: _knak_, i. e. triflingly, or affectedly shew off his skill in singing about, &c. In _A very mery and Pythie Commedie, called The longer thou liuest, the more foole than art_, &c. _Newly compiled by W. Wager_, 4to. n. d. (written in the early part of Elizabeth’s reign), Moros sings, among other fragments of songs, “_Martin swart and his man, sodledum sodledum,_ _Martin swart and his man, sodledum bell._” Sig. A 3. and in a comparatively recent drama we find; “The Beare, the Boare, and Talbot with his tuskish white, Oh so sore that he would bite, The Talbot with his Tuskish white, _Soudledum Soudledum_; The Talbot with his Tuskish white, _Soudledum bell_. The Talbott with his Tuskish white, Oh so sore that he would bite, _Orebecke soudledum, sing orum bell_.” _The Varietie_ (by the Duke of Newcastle), 1649. 12mo. p. 41. Martin Swart, “a noble man in Germany, and in marciall feactes verye expert,” (Hall’s _Chron._ (_Henry VII._) fol. ix. ed. 1548), headed the auxiliaries sent by the Duchess of Burgundy with Lambert Simnel, and fell, fighting with great valour, at the battle of Stoke. Page 15. v. 19. _pohen_] i. e. pea-hen. Page 16. v. 21. _An holy water clarke_] _Aquæbajulus_; an office generally mentioned with contempt. v. 23. _solfyth to haute_] i. e. solfas too haughtily,—highly. v. 25. _to sharp is hys my_] “The syllable Mi used in solmisation.” Hawkins’s _Hist. of Music_, iii. 41. v. 26. _pyrdewy_] Compare _Hycke Scorner_; “Than into loues daunce we were brought, That we played _the pyrdewy_.” Sig. A v. ed. W. de Worde. and _Colkelbie Sow_; “Sum _Perdowy_ sum Trolly lolly.” v. 303. Laing’s _Early Pop. Poet. of Scotland_. v. 27. _besy_] i. e. busy. v. 29. _a lewde lewte_] i. e. a vile lute.