v. 218. ble] i. e. colour, complexion.
v. 219. Ich am] i. e. I am.
v. 222. In lust and in lykyng] See note, p. 98. v. 23.
v. 223. whytyng] So in our early dramas, whiting-mop (young whiting) is a cant term for a nice young woman, a tender creature: see Puttenham’s Arte of E. P., 1589. p. 184., and note in my ed. of Webster’s Works, in. 37.
v. 224. mullyng] This term of endearment occurs in the Coventry Mysteries, applied by one of the shepherds to the infant Saviour;
“Thow I be the last that take my leve
ȝit fayre mullynge take it nat at no greve.”
MS. Cott. Vesp.. D viii. fol. 91.
Compare also Hormanni Vulgaria: “This is a fayre and swete mullynge. Blandus est puerulus insigni festiuitate.” Sig. dd vii. ed. 1530.
—— mytyng] In the Towneley Mysteries, one of the shepherds says to the infant Saviour,