It had ben hers, I wene,
More then fourty yere]
“Huke surquanie, froc.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. xli. (Table of Subst.). “A loose kind of garment, of the cloak or mantle kind.” Strutt’s Dress and Habits, &c. ii. 364. “Lyncolne anciently dyed the best greene of England.” Marg. note in Drayton’s Polyolbion, Song 25. p. 111. ed. 1622.—Compare a celebrated ballad;
“My cloake it was a verry good cloake,
Itt hath been alwayes true to the weare,
But now it is not worth a groat;
I have had it four and forty yeere.”
Take thy old cloak about thee,—Percy’s Rel. of A. E. P. i. 206. ed. 1794.
Page 97. v. 63. woll] i. e. wool.
v. 68. gytes] i. e. clothes. Gite is properly a gown: