[42].

‘To our well-beloved servaunt, Antony Lambeson.’

(Grants of Ed. V. Cam. Soc.)

[43]. ‘Walter fil. Kitte.’ (Household Exp. Bishop Swinfield, p. 170, Cam. Soc.)

[44]. In the ‘Romaunt of the Rose,’ it is said—

‘For right no more than Gibbe, our cat,

That awaiteth mice and rattes to killen,

Ne entend I but to beguilen.’

In Peele’s ‘Edward I.,’ too, the Novice says to the Friar—

‘Now, Master, as I am true wag,