Ay till he should come hame.

6.

6.1 ‘limmer,’ wretch, rascal.

But the nourice was a fause limmer

As e’er hung on a tree;

She laid a plot wi’ Lamkin,

Whan her lord was o’er the sea.

7.

7.3 ‘shot-window’: see special section of the Introduction.

She laid a plot wi’ Lamkin,