v. 421. The popyngay] i. e. The parrot.
Page 64. v. 422. toteth] Or tooteth; see note on v. 411.
v. 424. The mauys] Is properly the song-thrush, as distinguished from the missel-thrush: see note on v. 460, p. 131.
v. 425. the pystell] i. e. the Epistle.
v. 426. a large and a longe] See note, p. 95. v. 49.
Page 64. v. 427.
To kepe iust playne songe,
Our chaunters shalbe the cuckoue]
See note, p. 95. v. 48. So Shakespeare mentions “the plain-song cuckoo gray.” Mids. Night’s Dream, act iii. sc. 1.