576. G reads ‘perstimulant’ with CED.
579 f. See Ovid, Metam. vi. 366 ff. Apparently ‘colonum’ is for ‘colonorum.’
603. Toruus oester: cp. Speculum Stultorum, p. 25.
615 f. Cp. Speculum Stultorum, p. 24, l. 21 f.
635. Cp. Speculum Stultorum, p. 25, l. 15.
637 f. Speculum Stultorum, p. 26,
‘Haec est illa dies qua nil nisi cauda iuvabit,
Vel loca quae musca tangere nulla potest.’
652. stramine: probably an allusion to the name of Jack Strawe, as ‘tegula’ in the next couplet to Wat Tyler.
Cap. ix. Heading, l. 3. It seems to be implied that the jay, which must often have been kept as a cage-bird and taught to talk, was commonly called ‘Wat,’ as the daw was called ‘Jack,’ and this name together with the bird’s faculty of speech has suggested the transformation adopted for Wat Tyler.