—— _Roty bully joyse_] “The initial words of some old song.” Hawkins’s _Hist. of Music_, iii. 41.—In our author’s _Magnyfycence_, Courtly Abusyon exclaims, “_Rutty bully_, ioly rutterkyn, heyda!” v. 757, vol. i. 249. Perhaps the same air is alluded to in _Colkelbie Sow_; “Sum _Rusty bully_ with a bek.” v. 320.—Laing’s _Early Pop. Poet. of Scotland_. v. 33. _and he wyst_] i. e. if he knew. v. 34. _sped_] i. e. versed. —— _tauellys_] “_Tauell_ an instrument for a sylke woman to worke with.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxix. (Table of Subst.) v. 36. _a payre of clauycordys_] i. e. a clavichord (so, formerly, an organ was called _a pair of organs_); of which see an engraving in Hawkins’s _Hist. of Music_, ii. 443. v. 43. _jet_] Is explained in modern dictionaries—strut.—“I _Get_ I vse a proude countenaunce and pace in my goyng, _Ie braggue_.” “I _Iette_ with facyon and countenaunce to set forthe myselfe, _Ie braggue_.” “I Go a _iettynye_ or a ryottynge, _Ie raude_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fols. ccxlvi, cclxv, ccli. (Table of Verbes.) Page 16. v. 47. _dumpys_] i. e. dumps. v. 48. _prycke songe_] i. e. music _pricked_ or noted down; when opposed (see v. 54) to _plain song_, it meant counter-point, as distinguished from mere melody. v. 49. _a larg and a long_] Characters in old music: one _large_ contained two _longs_, one _long_ two breves, &c. v. 50. _iape_] i. e. jest, joke. v. 51. _solayne_] i. e. sullen. Page 17. v. 53. _fayne_] Palsgrave gives, “I _feyne_ in syngyng, _Ie chante a basse voyx_. We maye nat synge out we are to nere my lorde, but lette vs _fayne_ this songe,” &c. _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccxxxv. (Table of Verbes.) But here, I apprehend, _fayne_ can only mean—sing in falsetto. Our author, in _The Bowge of Courte_, has “His throte was clere, and lustely coude _fayne_.” v. 233. vol. i. 39. v. 55. _Thys docter Deuyas commensyd in a cart_] So again Skelton in his _Colyn Cloute_, “Auaunt, syr _doctour Deuyas_!” v. 1159. vol. i. 356. Compare a much later writer: “What, a graue Doctor, a base Iohn Doleta the Almanack-maker, _Doctor Deuse-ace_ and Doctor Merryman?” Nash’s _Haue with you to Saffron-Walden_, 1596. sig. L 3.—_commensyd_, i. e. who took his degree. v. 60. _ne_] i. e. nor. v. 61. _wark_] i. e. work, business. v. 62. _walk, and be nought!_] Equivalent to—away, and a mischief on you! v. 68. _Take thys in worth_] “I _Take in worthe_ or I take in good worthe, _Ie prens en gré_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccclxxxiiii. (Table of Verbes.)