“Good brother Philip, I haue borne you long, I was content you should in fauour creepe, While craftily you seem’d your _cut to keepe_, As though that faire soft hand did you great wrong.” _Astrophel and Stella_, p. 548. ed. 1613. Brome in _The Northern Lasse_, 1632; “A bonny bonny Bird I had A bird that was my Marroe: A bird whose pastime made me glad, And Phillip twas my Sparrow. A pretty Play-fere: Chirp it would, And hop, and fly to fist, _Keepe cut_, as ’twere a Vsurers Gold, And bill me when I list.” Act iii. sc. 2. sig. G 2. and in _The New Academy_; “But look how she turnes and _keeps cut like my Sparrow_. She will be my back Sweet-heart still I see, and love me behind.” Act iv. sc. 1. p. 72. (_Five New Playes_, 1659). Page 55. v. 125. _Betwene my brestes softe_ _It wolde lye and rest_] So Catullus, in the beginning of his verses _Ad Passerem Lesbiæ_, (a distinct poem from that mentioned at p. 120); “Passer, deliciæ meæ puellæ, Quicum ludere, _quem in sinu tenere_,” &c. v. 127. _It was propre and prest_] Compare v. 264, “As _prety_ and as _prest_,” where “prety” answers to “propre” in the present line. “_Proper_ or feate. _coint_, _godin_, _gentil_, _mignot_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._ 1530. fol. xciii. (Table of Adiect.):—_prest_, which generally means—ready, seems here to be nearly synonymous with _propre_; and so in a passage of Tusser,—“more handsome, and _prest_,”—cited by Todd (_Johnson’s Dict._ in v.), who explains it “neat, tight.” v. 137. _gressop_] i. e. grasshopper.—“_Cicada_ ... anglice _a gresse hoppe_.” _Ortus Vocab._, fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. v. 138. _Phyp, Phyp_] See note on v. 7. p. 121. v. 141. _slo_] i. e. slay. v. 147. _dome_] i. e. judgment, thinking. v. 148. _Sulpicia_] Lived in the age of Domitian. Her satire _De corrupto statu reipub. temporibus Domitiani, præsertim cum edicto Philosophos urbe exegisset_, may be found in Wernsdorf’s ed. of _Poetæ Latini Minores_, iii. 83. v. 151. _pas_] i. e. pass, excel. v. 154. _pretende_] i. e. attempt. Page 56. v. 171. _perde_] i. e. _par dieu_, verily. v. 173. _nyse_] i. e. foolish, inclined to folly, to toyish tricks: compare our author’s _Manerly Margery_, &c., v. 2. vol. i. 28. v. 176. _To pyke my lytell too_]—_too_, i. e. toe.—In a comedy (already mentioned, p. 93. v. 15), _The longer thou liuest, the more foole thou art_, &c., n. d., by W. Wager, Moros sings “I haue a prety tytmouse Come _picking on my to_.” sig. D ii. v. 186. _ryde and go_] A sort of pleonastic expression which repeatedly occurs in our early writers. Page 57. v. 192. _Pargame_] i. e. Pergamus. v. 198. _wete_] i. e. know. v. 205. _be quycke_] i. e. be made alive. Page 57. v. 211. _the nones_] i. e. the occasion. v. 213. _My sparow whyte as mylke_] Compare Sir P. Sidney;