18.

18.2 ‘yates,’ gates.

18.3 In each case the Folio gives ‘24’ for ‘four and twenty.’

18.4 ‘wordlye make,’ worldly mate.

‘Seest thou not yonder hall, Ellen?

Of redd gold shine the yates;

There’s four and twenty ffayre ladyes,

The ffairest is my wordlye make.

19.

‘Seest thou not yonder hall, Ellen?