At the ale stakis.”
MS. Harl. 2251. fol. 14.
v. 288. sowre dowe]—dowe, i. e. dough. “Sower dough leuayn.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. lxv. (Table of Subst.).
v. 289. howe] i. e. ho.
v. 292. And pype tyrly tyrlowe] Compare a Song belonging to the Tailors’ and Shearmen’s Pageant;
“Thé sange terly terlow.”
Sharp’s Diss. on Coventry Pag. and Myst., p. 114.
v. 295. hekell] i. e. comb for dressing flax.
v. 296. rocke] i. e. distaff.—In a poem entitled Cryste Crosse me Spede. A. B. C. Imprynted at London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the Sonne, by me Wynkyn de Worde, 4to. (which I know only from the account of it in Typog. Antiq. ii. 367. ed. Dibdin) are the following lines;
“A grete company of gossyps gadred on a route