P. [67], l. 13. 'fistling,' possibly whistling.
P. [70], l. 22. 'luggish.' This word is explained in Halliwell's glossary as an adjective meaning dull or heavy. The sense here seems to require 'luggishness,' i.e. sluggishness or heaviness. 'Lugge,' meaning slug or sluggard, is applied by Ascham in his Toxophilus to a bow which is 'slow of cast.'
P. [74], l. 18. 'burick,' compare p. 78, l. 1, 'beverick.' The word usually employed to describe this liquor is 'beverage,' which is defined in the New English Dictionary as: 'The liquor made by pouring water over the pressed grapes after the wine has been drawn off.'
P. [79], l. 19. 'strick.' This word probably means a flat piece of board. Nares in his glossary (ed. Halliwell and Wright) explains 'strickle' as meaning an instrument for levelling corn, &c. in the measuring, and gives the following examples:
'The strickler is a thing that goes along with the measure, which is a straight board with a staffe fixed in the side, to draw over corn in measuring, that it exceed not the height of the measure.'—Randle Holme's Acad. of Armory, p. 337.
'A stritchill: a stricke: a long and round peece of wood like a rolling pinne (with us it is flat), wherewith measures are made even.'—Nomenclator.
At a pinch such a bit of wood might serve as a paddle.
P. [79], l. 22. 'Chartrux.' The Quai des Chartrons?
P. [81], l. 19. 'progenety,' i.e. progenetrix.
P. [91], l. 18. 'bouried.' The reading of the MS. is 'bourned,' but the sense seemed to require the alteration made in the text.