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682. Bottles formerly were of leather; though perhaps a wooden bottle might be here meant. It is still a diversion in Scotland to hang up a cat in a small cask or firkin, half filled with soot: and then a parcel of clowns on horseback try to beat out the ends of it, in order to show their dexterity in escaping before the contents fall upon them.

683. i.e. Each with a canvas bow-case tied round his loins.

684. [Ritson's book.]

685. Clym of the Clough, means Clem. [Clement] of the Cliff: for so Clough signifies in the North.

686. [attend.]

687. [companion or wife.]

688. Ver. 24. Caerlel, in PC. passim.

689. [from this wild wood depart.]

690. [six o'clock in the morning.]

691. V. 35. take, PC. tane, MS.

692. [might.]

693. [glad.]

694. Ver. 85. sic MS. shop window, PC.

695. [company.]

696. [from thee.]

697. [burn.]

698. [burnt.]

699. [sooner.]

700. [in the crowd to run.]

701. [wild.]

702. [in a crowd.]

703. [fiercely.]

704. Ver. 151. Sic MS. hye Justice, PC.

705. V. 153, 4, are contracted from the folio MS. and PC.

706. [quickly.]

707. [lusty.]

708. Ver. 179. yonge men, PC.

709. [condemned.]

710. [hang.]

711. Ver. 190. sic MS. shadowes sheene, PC.

712. [vexation.]

713. V. 197. jolly yeomen, MS. wight yong men, PC.

714. [redeem.]

715. [unto.]

716. [hastened.]

717. [sluggard or stupid fellow.]

718. [mad.]

719. Ver. 38. Lordeyne, PC.

720. i.e. weened, thought (which last is the reading of the folio MS.)——Calais, or Rouen was taken from the English by showing the governor, who could not read, a letter with the king's seal, which was all he looked at.

721. [doffed his hood.]

722. [glad.]

723. [despoiled.]

724. So Ascham in his Toxophilus gives a precept; "The Stringe must be rounde" (p. 149. Ed. 1761): otherwise, we may conclude from mechanical principles, the Arrow will not fly true.

725. [hour.]

726. [inquest.]

727. Ver. 105. lowsed thre, PC.

728. V. 108. can bled, MS.

729. [went off.]

730. [pressed.]

731. Outhorne, is an old term signifying the calling forth of subjects to arms by the sound of a horn. See Cole's Lat. Dict., Bailey, &c. [Perhaps "a nouthorne," or neat's horn, from nowt, cattle.]

732. [company.]

733. [fear.]

734. Ver. 148. For of, MS.

735. [fight.]

736. [pike or halbert.]

737. [burst.]

738. [abroad.]

739. This is spoken ironically.

740. [lime tree.]

741. Ver. 175. merry green wood, MS.

742. [company.]

743. Ver. 185. see Part I. ver. 197.

744. [might.]

745. [thought.]

746. Ver. 20. never had se, PC. and MS.

747. [clear space in a forest.]

748. [fat hart.]

749. [without lying.]

750. Ver. 50. have I no care, PC.

751. i.e. hie, hasten.

752. [pressed quickly.]

753. [blamed.]

754. Ver. 111, 119. sic. MS. bowne, PC.

755. [at once.]

756. [satisfaction.]

757. [dear.]

758. [I thank you.]

759. Ver. 130. God a mercye, MS.

760. [lying.]

761. [pity.]

762. [rather.]

763. [vexeth.]

764. Ver. 168. left but one, MS. not one, PC.

765. [foresters of the king's demesnes.]

766. [slain.]

767. [get them ready instantly.]

768. V. 185. blythe, MS.

769. i.e. mark.

770. Ver. 202, 203, 212. to, PC.

771. [hazel rods.]

772. V. 204. i.e. 400 yards.

773. V. 208. sic MS. none that can, PC.

774. [an arrow that carries well.]

775. [trial of skill.]

776. V. 222. i.e. 120 yards.

777. Ver. 243. sic, MS. out met, PC.

778. V. 252. steedye, MS.

779. [nigh.]

780. [ranger.]

781. Ver. 265. And I geve the xvij pence, PC.

782. [faith.]

783. V. 282. And sayd to some Bishopp wee will wend, MS.

784. [absolved.]

785. he, i.e. hie, hasten.