v. 43. jet] Is explained in modern dictionaries—strut.—“I Get I vse a proude countenaunce and pace in my goyng, Ie braggue.” “I Iette with facyon and countenaunce to set forthe myselfe, Ie braggue.” “I Go a iettynye or a ryottynge, Ie raude.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fols. ccxlvi, cclxv, ccli. (Table of Verbes.)
Page 16. v. 47. dumpys] i. e. dumps.
v. 48. prycke songe] i. e. music pricked or noted down; when opposed (see v. 54) to plain song, it meant counter-point, as distinguished from mere melody.
v. 49. a larg and a long] Characters in old music: one large contained two longs, one long two breves, &c.
v. 50. iape] i. e. jest, joke.
v. 51. solayne] i. e. sullen.
Page 17. v. 53. fayne] Palsgrave gives, “I feyne in syngyng, Ie chante a basse voyx. We maye nat synge out we are to nere my lorde, but lette vs fayne this songe,” &c. Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. ccxxxv. (Table of Verbes.) But here, I apprehend, fayne can only mean—sing in falsetto. Our author, in The Bowge of Courte, has
“His throte was clere, and lustely coude fayne.”
v. 233. vol. i. 39.
v. 55. Thys docter Deuyas commensyd in a cart] So again Skelton in his Colyn Cloute,