4.
4.4 ‘divel’s mouth.’ Skeat has suggested that this metaphor is derived from the devil’s mouth always being wide open in painted windows.
Then he lookt east, then hee lookt west,
Hee lookt north, so did he south;
He could not finde a privy place,
For all lay in the divel’s mouth.
5.
‘If you will carry me, gentle sir,
A mayde unto my father’s hall,
Then you shall have your will of me,