“Sad Cyr. Then of foly in tymes past ye repent?
Magn. Sothely, to repent me I haue grete cause:
Howe be it from you I receyued a letter sent,
Whiche conteyned in it a specyall clause,” &c.
Against which I have nothing to object except the violence of the alteration.
P. 357.
“And Saynt Mary Spyttell,
They set not by vs a whystell.”
“Perhaps ‘whyttle,’” says the reviewer in G. M. p. 245.—I had originally proposed the latter reading, but afterwards rejected it, having found in Lydgate (see my note on the passage, vol. ii. 297),
“For he set not by his wrethe a whistel.”