“Malkyn Mylkedoke and fayr Mabyle.”
MS. Cott. Vesp. D viii. fol. 74.
v. 419.
Her kyrtell she did vptucke
An ynche aboue her kne]
—kyrtell; see note, p. 149. v. 1194.—So in our old ballad poetry;
“Then you must cut your gowne of greene,
An inch above your knee.”
Child Waters,—Percy’s Rel. of A. E. P. iii. 56. ed. 1794.
v. 422. stubbed] i. e. short and thick.