—— Roty bully joyse] “The initial words of some old song.” Hawkins’s Hist. of Music, iii. 41.—In our author’s Magnyfycence, Courtly Abusyon exclaims,
“Rutty bully, ioly rutterkyn, heyda!”
v. 757, vol. i. 249.
Perhaps the same air is alluded to in Colkelbie Sow;
“Sum Rusty bully with a bek.”
v. 320.—Laing’s Early Pop. Poet. of Scotland.
v. 33. and he wyst] i. e. if he knew.
v. 34. sped] i. e. versed.
—— tauellys] “Tauell an instrument for a sylke woman to worke with.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. lxix. (Table of Subst.)
v. 36. a payre of clauycordys] i. e. a clavichord (so, formerly, an organ was called a pair of organs); of which see an engraving in Hawkins’s Hist. of Music, ii. 443.