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[13] Found.

[14] [Vele's ed. _nilet_.]

[15] [Intended as a sneer at Charity's pious sentiments. _Sir John_ is the common term in old plays, and literature generally, for a parson.]

[16] Cool.

[17] [Trumpington is in Ess.e.x, a county proverbial, rightly or wrongly, for the stupidity of its inhabitants.]

[18] [Equivalent to calling him a churl. See Hazlitt's ”Proverbs,” 1869, pp. 315-316 and 489; and Halliwell's ”Dictionary,” _v_. Hogsnorton. But in none of the instances cited there do we find Trumpington mentioned.]

[19] See ”Popular Antiquities of Great Britain,” ii. 286.

[20] ”Popular Antiquities of Great Britain,” ii. 315.

[21] Should we not read _Hey-go-bet_?

[22] See Hazlitt's ”Popular Poetry,” iii. 73-4.

[23] _Post and pair_.

[24] [We do not find this mentioned elsewhere. The same remark applies to _aums-ace_.]

[25] [Halliwell, in his ”Dict.” v. Pink, says:--”A game, the same as post and pair.” Surely this is not so. It seems rather to be used, here at least, in the sense of _gamble_. But _pink_, after all, may signify something very different, viz., _lechery_.]

[26] The target or b.u.t.ts.

[27] [Copland's ed. _books_.]

[28] [This line is omitted in Waley's ed.]

[29] [The colophon of Waley's ed. is: Imprinted at London by John Waley, dwellyng in foster lane.]

[30] [The colophon of Vele's ed. is at the end _infra_.]

[31] [Afterwards parted with to Dr Dibdin. A second copy is in the Bodleian.]

[32] [An error. No edition by Pinson is known, or is likely to have ever existed. The impression referred to is Copland's. _See_ Hazlitt's ”Handbook,” p. 649-50.]

[33] Gen. viii.; Jer. xvii.; Eccles. x.x.x.

[34] _And_, Copland's edition.

[35] _Forsakyn_, Copland's edition.

[36] _Consolaion_, Vele's edition.

[37] _Arbour_, Copland's edition.

[38] _Aslope_, Copland's edition.