FOOTNOTES:
[90] Bace in the second copy, rightly, that is, bash, beat; bare in the first (probably mistranscribed).
[91] A merry jeste of a shrewde and curste wyfe lapped in Morrelles skin for her good behauyour. Imprinted at London in Fleetestreete, beneath the Conduite, at the signe of Saint John Euangelist, by H. Jackson; without date, but earlier than 1575, since the book was in Captain Cox’s library. Reprinted in Utterson’s Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry, 1825, II, 169; The Old Taming of the Shrew, edited by T. Amyot for the Shakespeare Society, 1844, p. 53; W. C. Hazlitt’s Early Popular Poetry, IV, 179.
[92] These passages are worth noting:
She can carde, she can spin,
She can thresh and she can fan. (v. 419 f.)
In euery hand a rod he gate
And layd vpon her a right good pace. (v. 955 f.)
Where art thou, wife? shall I haue any meate? (v. 839.)
(Compare Herd’s fragments with the last two, and with 903-10.)