In a note on the latter passage, Whalley quotes from Cotgrave’s _Dict.:_ “_Coquine_, a beggar-woman, also a cockney, _simper de cockit_, nice thing.” Gifford (_ibid._) remarks, “_Cocket_ was a fine species of bread, as distinguished from common bread; hence, perhaps, the name was given to an overstrained affectation of delicacy. To _simper_ at, or over, a thing, is to touch it _as in scorn_.” Nares (_Gloss._ in v.) doubts (justly, I think) the connexion of _simper-the-cocket_ with _cocket_ bread, and explains it, “quasi simpering coquette,” observing, that “one of Cotgrave’s words in rendering ‘coquette’ is _cocket_.” I may add, that in _Gloss. of Prov. and Loc. Words_ by Grose and Pegge, ed. 1839, is, “_Cocket_, brisk, apish, pert,” and “_Simper_, to mince one’s words.” Page 97. v. 56. _Her huke of Lyncole grene,_ _It had ben hers, I wene,_ _More then fourty yere_] “Huke _surquanie, froc_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xli. (Table of Subst.). “A loose kind of garment, of the cloak or mantle kind.” Strutt’s _Dress and Habits_, &c. ii. 364. “_Lyncolne_ anciently dyed _the best greene_ of England.” Marg. note in Drayton’s _Polyolbion_, Song 25. p. 111. ed. 1622.—Compare a celebrated ballad; “My _cloake_ it was a verry good cloake, Itt hath been alwayes true to the weare, But now it is not worth a groat; I have had it _four and forty yeere_.” _Take thy old cloak about thee_,—Percy’s _Rel. of A. E. P._ i. 206. ed. 1794. Page 97. v. 63. _woll_] i. e. wool. v. 68. _gytes_] i. e. clothes. _Gite_ is properly a gown: “And she came after in a _gite_ of red.” Chaucer’s _Reves Tale_, v. 3952. ed. Tyr. v. 69. _pranked with pletes_]—_pletes_, i. e. plaits. “I _Pranke_ ones gowne I set the _plyghtes_ in order.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cccxxi. (Table of Verbes). v. 70. _Her kyrtel Brystow red_]—_kyrtel_; see note, p. 149. v. 1194. “London hath scarlet, and _Bristowe_ pleasaunt _red_.” Barclay’s _Fourth Egloge_, sig. C iiii. ed. 1570. “At _Brystowe_ is the best water to _dye reed_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. V ii. ed. 1530. v. 74. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion. v. 75. _whym wham_] i. e. something whimsically, fantastically devised. The word is frequently applied to articles of female finery by our early dramatists. In _Ane Interlude of the Laying of a Gaist_, we are told that the Gaist (ghost) “stall fra peteouss Abrahame An quhorle and _ane quhum quhame_.” v. 74,—Laing’s _An. Pop. Poetry of Scotland_. _Whim-wham_ is used by Gray, _Works_, iii. 123. ed. Mitford, and by Lamb, _Prose Works_, ii. 142. v. 76. _trym tram_] i. e. some trim, neat ornament, or pretty trifle. In Weaver’s _Lusty Juuentus_, Hipocrisie, after enumerating a variety of popish trumpery, adds “And a hundred _trim trams_ mo.” Sig. B iiii. ed. Copland. v. 77. _brayne pan_] i. e. skull, head. See note, p. 100. v. 31. v. 78. _Egyptian_] i. e. gipsy.