v. 5. _Tully valy_] Or _Tilly vally_—an exclamation of contempt, the origin of which is doubtful. v. 6. _Gup_] See note, p. 99. v. 17. —— _Cristian Clowte_] Compare our author’s _Colyn Cloute_; “He coud not syng himselfe therout But by the helpe of _Christyan Clout_.” v. 880. vol. i. 345. —— _Jak of the vale_] So our author in his _Magnyfycence_; “some iangelynge _Jacke of the vale_,” v. 260. vol. i. 234. Compare two pieces of a much later date; “I am not now to tell a tale Of George a Greene, or _Jacke a Vale_.” _The Odcombian Banquet_, 1611. sig. C 3. “And they had leauer printen _Jacke a vale_ Or Clim o Clough,” &c. J. Davies,—_Other Eglogues_ annexed to _The Shepheards Pipe_, 1614. sig. G 4. v. 8. _Be_] i. e. By. —— _praty pode_]—_praty_, i. e. pretty: _pode_, i. e., perhaps, toad. Compare Roy’s satire, _Rede me, and be nott wrothe_, &c.; “A littell, _pratye_, foolysshe _poade_.” _Harl. Miscell._ ix. 19. ed. Park. v. 10. _Strawe, Jamys foder, ye play the fode_] The meaning of _Jamys foder_,—and whether “fode” is used here in the sense of—deceiver, one who feeds another with words (compare our author’s _Magnyfycence_, v. 1719. vol. i. 281.),—I must leave the reader to determine. v. 12. _bole_] i. e. (I suppose) bull. v. 15. _I wiss_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.). v. 17. _piggesnye_] See note, p. 97. v. 20. v. 19. _Be_] i. e. By. —— _hardely_] i. e. assuredly. v. 20. _japed bodely_] See Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cclxv. (Table of Verbes); Puttenham’s _Arte of English Poesie_, B. iii. c. xxii. p. 212. ed. 1589; and the Prologue to the anonymous old play, _Grim the Collier of Croydon_. Page 29. v. 27. _thought_] i. e. sadness, grief: see note, p. 101. v. 10. THE BOWGE OF COURTE. “It is a _bouge of courte_. _Ceremonia aulica_ est.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. s iii. ed. 1530. “_Bouche à Court._ _Budge-a-Court_, diet allowed at Court.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ “The Kings Archers ... had _Bouch of Court_ (to wit, Meat and Drink) and great Wages of six Pence by the Day.” Stow’s _Survey_, B. vi. 49. ed. 1720. “The poem called the BOUGE OF COURT, or the _Rewards of a Court_, is in the manner of a pageaunt, consisting of seven personifications. Here our author, in adopting the more grave and stately movement of the seven lined stanza, has shewn himself not always incapable of exhibiting allegorical imagery with spirit and dignity. But his comic vein predominates.” Warton’s _Hist. of E. P._, ii. 347. ed. 4to.