—— _party space_] May mean—a short space; but (as I have noticed _ad loc._) “_party_” is probably a misprint for “_praty_” (pretty). v. 199. _auowe_] i. e. vow. “That hyr _auowe_ maad of chastyte.” Lydgate’s _Lyf of our Lady_, sig. b i. v. 210. _auyse_] i. e. advice. v. 215. _shryue me_] i. e. confess myself, tell my mind. v. 216. _plenarely_] i. e. fully. v. 219. _dyscure_] i. e. discover. v. 221. _with all my besy cure_] i. e. with all my busy care,—a common expression in our early poetry. Page 39. v. 225. _quod_] i. e. quoth. v. 226. _all and some_] Another expression frequently used by our early poets. “All and some: _Tout entierement_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxlviii. (Table of Aduerbes). v. 228. _he wolde be come_] i. e. he would go. v. 231. _lyghte as lynde_] So in _Annunciacio_; “A, what, I am _light as lynde_!” _Towneley Myst._ p. 80. and in Chaucer’s _Clerkes Tale_; “Be ay of chere _as light as_ lefe on _linde_.” v. 9087. ed. Tyr. _Lynde_ is properly the linden or lime-tree,—used for a tree in general. Page 39. v. 232. _a versynge boxe_] Does it mean—a dice-box? v. 233. _fayne_] See note, p. 95. v. 53. v. 234. _foxe_] i. e. fox-skin. v. 235. _Sythe I am no thynge playne_] i. e. Since I, &c.—the commencement of some song. v. 236. _pykynge_] i. e. picking, stealing. —— _payne_] i. e. difficulty. v. 239. _sadde_] i. e. grave, serious. v. 243. _auowe_] See note on v. 199. v. 245. _and ye wolde it reherse_] i. e. if you would recite it. Page 40. v. 252. _Heue and how rombelow_] A chorus of high antiquity, (sung chiefly, it would seem, by sailors): “They sprede theyr sayles as voyde of sorowe Forthe they rowed saynt George to borowe For ioye theyr trumpettes dyde they blowe And some songe _heue and howe rombelowe_.” _Cocke Lorelles bote_, sig. C i. “Synge _heaue and howe rombelowe_, trolle on away.” Burden to the Ballad _On Thomas Lord Cromwell_,—Percy’s _Rel. of A. E. P._, ii. 64. ed. 1794. Varied thus: “Wit[h], _hey, howe, rumbelowe_.” Skelton’s _Epitaphe_, &c., v. 61. vol. i. 171. “They rowede hard, and sungge thertoo, With _heuelow and rumbeloo_.” _Richard Coer de Lion_,—Weber’s _Met. Rom._ ii. 99. “Maydens of Englande sore may ye morne For your lemmans ye haue loste at Bannockys borne, Wyth _heue a lowe_. What weneth the king of England So soone to haue wone Scotland, Wyth _rumbylowe_.” Scottish Song on the Battle of Bannockburn,—Fabyan’s _Chron._, vol. ii. fol. 169. ed. 1559. “Your maryners shall synge arowe _Hey how and rumby lowe_.” _The Squyr of Lowe Degre_,—Ritson’s _Met. Rom._ iii. 179. “I saw three ladies fair, singing _hey and how_, Upon yon ley land, hey: I saw three mariners, singing _rumbelow_, Upon yon sea-strand, hey.” Song quoted _ibid._, iii. 353. “Where were many shippes and maryners noyse with _hale & how_.”