v. 443. podynges and lynkes] “Links, a kind of Pudding, the skin being filled with Pork Flesh, and seasoned with diverse Spices, minced, and tied up at distances.” R. Holme’s Ac. of Armory, 1688. B. iii. p. 83. In Scotland the terms puddings and links are applied to various intestines of animals.
v. 447. leche] i. e. physician, doctor.—Dunbar makes a distinction, which I do not understand;
“In Medicyne the most Practicianis,
Leichis, Surrigianis, and Phisicianis.”
Poems, i. 213. ed. Laing.
v. 450. keke] i. e. kick.
v. 451. the vertue of an vnset leke] “Vnsette lekes be of more vertue than they that be sette ... præstant in medicina.” Hormanni Vulgaria, sig. f ii. ed. 1530.
v. 452. breke] i. e. breeches.
v. 453. feders] i. e. feathers.
v. 460. noughty froslynges] i. e. worthless things, stunted by frost. In Suffolk, froslin is applied to any thing—a lamb, a goslin, a chicken, an apple, &c., nipped, or pinched, or injured by frost: see Moor’s Suffolk Words, Appendix.