“heere’s the King, nay stay:
And heere, I heare [ay, here]: there goes the Hare away.”
The Spanish Tragedie (by Kyd), sig. G 3. ed. 1618.
[Page 30.] v. 118. the gray] i. e. the badger: see note, p. 303. v. 101.
v. 119. the buck] Qy. does Skelton, under these names of animals, allude to certain persons? If he does, “the buck” must mean Edward Duke of Buckingham, who, according to the popular belief, was impeached and brought to the block by Wolsey’s means in 1521: so in an unprinted poem against the Cardinal;
“Wherfor nevyr looke ther mowthes to be stoppyd
Tyll ther money be restoryd thow sum hedes be of choppyd
As thowe dyd serue the Buckke
For as men sey by the that was done
That sens had this lande no good lucke.”