p. 382.
Wilbraham, in his Cheshire Gloss., p. 105, gives the following metrical adage as common in that county;
“The Robin and the Wren
Are God’s cock and hen,
The Martin and the Swallow
Are God’s mate and marrow.”
In the Ballad of Kynd Kittok, attributed to Dunbar, we are told that after death she “wes our Ledyis henwyfe,” Poems, ii. 36. ed. Laing.—An Elysium, very different from that described in the somewhat profane passage of our text, is assigned by the delicate fancy of Ovid to the parrot of his mistress, in the poem to which (as I have before observed, p. 120,) Skelton seems to have had an eye;
“Colle sub Elysio nigra nemus illice frondens,” &c.
Amor. ii. 6. 49.
Page 69. v. 609. asayde] i. e. tried—tasted: compare our author’s Elynour Rummyng, v. 397. vol. i. 108.