v. 102. noppy] i. e. nappy.
v. 103. port sale] If the right reading, must be used here for—sale in general. “Port-sale, The Sale of Fish as soon as it is brought into the Harbour; also an Out-cry or Publick Sale of any Commodity.” Kersey’s Dict.
v. 105. To sweters, to swynkers] i. e. to those who sweat and labour hard,—to labourers of various kinds.
“For we can neyther swyncke nor sweate.”
Pierce Plowman, sig. I ii. ed. 1561.
v. 110. Now away the mare] Skelton has the same expression in his Magnyfycence, v. 1342. vol. i. 268. Compare The Frere and the Boye;
“Of no man he had no care,
But sung, hey howe, awaye the mare.”
Ritson’s An. Pop. Poetry, p. 37.
and Jyl of Braintfords Testament, n. d.;