Chapter XXXI: Appendix (10)

[286] Perhaps 'tofore' means 'for use in,' or 'to be presented in'; and 'November' was some special occasion.

[287] As, e. g. in the curious satirical ballad 'Against the King of Almaigne,' printed in Percy's Ballads, Series II. Book I, and in Wright's 'Political Songs,' p. 69. Henry was also called Henry of Winchester, from the place of his birth.

[288] The thief is the Ribauld; the ploughboy, the Labourer; the apothecary, the Physicien; the soldier, the Garde; the tailor, the Marchaunt; the tinker, the Smyth. Only two are changed.

[289] Koch instances _góddes_ in the Envoy to Scogan, 15, which he assumes was _góddis_. Not at all; it is like Chaucer's rime of _clérkes_, _derk is_; the _-es_ being unaccented. This could never produce _goddís_, and still less _goddísse_.

[290] In old French, _a tard_ means 'slowly, late'; later French drops _a_, and uses _tard_ only.

[291] _Voto_, 'hollow, voide, empty'; Florio.

[292] The MS. has _And_ for _Than_ (wrongly).

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Corrections made to printed text:

P. xi. "belonged to the said Richard and Mary": "Richard" corrected from "Robert".

P. 4. § 7. 5. "_may_, _assay_, 2453" corrected from "453".

P. 499. Note to line 114. "there was no other planet in Gemini" corrected from "Germini".