That no kunnyng may preuayl and appere
Ayens a womans wytt and hir answere.”
The prohemy of a mariage, &c.,—MS. Harl. 372. fol. 50.
I do not understand the expression. In Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530, besides “Male or wallet to putte geare in,” we find “Mayle that receyueth the claspe of a gowne in to it ... porte,” fol. xlvi. (Table of Subst.).
v. 702. The song of louers lay]—lay seems here to mean—law.
“Of louers lawe he toke no cure.”
Harpalus (from pieces by uncertain authors printed with the poems of Surrey),—Percy’s Rel. of A. E. P. ii. 68. ed. 1794.
Page 73. v. 716. kys the post] So Barclay;
“Yet from beginning absent if thou be,
Eyther shalt thou lose thy meat and kisse the post,” &c.