Rosa solis and damnable hum;
But we will rack
In the place of sack
’Gainst Omne quod exit in um.”
(Witts Recreations, 1654.)
[15] Compostie = compost, a mixture. “Compostes and confites.” (Babees Boke, p. 121.)
[16] Algiers.
[17] Asia Minor.
[18] These words are in a later hand.
[19] Virginals were spinetts, so called from being played by young girls. The term “a pair of virginals”, “a pair of organs”, was common, and only denoted one instrument. Cf. the phrases “a pair of stairs”, “a pair of bellows”, still exist.