—— Cristian Clowte] Compare our author’s Colyn Cloute;
“He coud not syng himselfe therout
But by the helpe of Christyan Clout.”
v. 880. vol. i. 345.
—— Jak of the vale] So our author in his Magnyfycence; “some iangelynge Jacke of the vale,” v. 260. vol. i. 234. Compare two pieces of a much later date;
“I am not now to tell a tale
Of George a Greene, or Jacke a Vale.”
The Odcombian Banquet, 1611. sig. C 3.
“And they had leauer printen Jacke a vale
Or Clim o Clough,” &c.