Prima Pastorum,—Towneley Mysteries, p. 89
(a passage which the writer of the Gloss. altogether misunderstands), and;
“Thy mone pynnes bene lyche olde yuory,
Here are stumpes feble and her are none,” &c.
Lydgate, The prohemy of a mariage, &c.—MS. Harl. 372. fol. 45.
Munpynnys is, I apprehend, mouth-pins, teeth. Ray gives “The Munne, the Mouth.” Coll. of Engl. Words, &c.—Preface, p. x. ed. 1768: and Jamieson has “Munds. The mouth.”—“Muns. The hollow behind the jaw-bone.” Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang. and Suppl.
—— crag] i. e. neck, throat.
v. 295. hag] See note, p. 99. v. 19.
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