“Thow I be the last that take my leve ȝit fayre _mullynge_ take it nat at no greve.” _MS. Cott. Vesp._. D viii. fol. 91. Compare also Hormanni _Vulgaria_: “This is a fayre and swete _mullynge_. Blandus est _puerulus_ insigni festiuitate.” Sig. dd vii. ed. 1530. —— _mytyng_] In the _Towneley Mysteries_, one of the shepherds says to the infant Saviour, “Haylle, so as I can, haylle, praty _mytyng_!” p. 96. and Jamieson gives _myting_ as a fondling designation for a child, _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._—In our author’s third poem _Against Garnesche_, v. 115. vol. i. 123, “myteyng”—(but used as a term of contempt)—is, as here, the rhyme to “wyteyng.” Since writing the above note, I have met with a passage in the comedy called _Wily Beguilde_, which might be adduced in support of the reading, “nytyng;” but I still think that “mytyng” is the true one: the dramatist evidently recollected Skelton’s poem, in the ed. of which he had found “nytyng,” “nittinge,” or “nittine:”—“Comely Pegge, my _nutting_, my sweeting, my Loue, my doue, my honnie, my bonnie, my ducke, my deare and my deareling.” Sig. C 4. ed. 1606. Page 102. v. 225. _His nobbes and his conny_] So in a song in _The Triall of Treasure_, 1567; “My mouse my _nobs_ and _cony_ swete.” Sig. E. _conny_, i. e. rabbit. v. 227. _Bas_] i. e. Kiss. —— _bonny_] i. e. precious one (rather than—beautiful one,—for it has the epithet “prety”). v. 229. _This make I my falyre fonny_] _This_, i. e. Thus; see note, p. 86. v. 38: it has been suggested that _falyre_ means fellow; which I doubt: _fonny_ is, I suppose, foolishly amorous; compare— “As freshly then thou shalt begin to _fonne_ And dote in loue.” Chaucer’s _Court of Loue_,—_Workes_, fol. 329. ed. 1602. “With kissing, and with clapping, _I gert the carill fon_.” Dunbar’s _Tua Maryit Wemen and The Wedo_, _Poems_, i. 71. ed. Laing. v. 230. _dronny_] i. e. drone. v. 232. _rout_] i. e. snore. Page 103. v. 245. _conny_] i. e. rabbit. v. 247. _a salt_] i. e. a salt-cellar. —— _spone_] i. e. spoon. v. 248. _shone_] i. e. shoon, shoes. v. 250. _a skellet_] i. e. a skillet, a small kettle: in Suffolk it means a brass perforated implement for skimming the cream off milk; see Moor’s _Suff. Words_. v. 251. _Some fyll theyr pot full_ _Of good Lemster woll_] The meaning is—in the pot which was to hold the ale they brought wool “instede of monny” (v. 244). Page 103. v. 254. _athrust_] i. e. a-thirst. v. 258. _slaty or slyder_] i. e. miry or slippery. Page 104. v. 266. _renne_] i. e. run. v. 269. _byrle_] The word _birl_—to pour out, furnish for, or part drink among guests—(see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ in v., and Leyden’s Gloss. to _The Comp. of Scotland_ in v. _Beir_)—is not very common in English literature: “the olde God of wyne called Baccus _birlyng_ the wyne.” Hall’s _Chronicle_, (_Hen. viii._) fol. lxxiii. ed. 1548. v. 270. _gest_] i. e. guest.