MS. Cott. Calig. A ii. fol. 91.
v. 512. stert] i. e. started.
v. 515. dant] In Kilian’s Dict. is “Dante. Ambubaia, mulier ignaua.” ed. 1605; and in Gloss. to West. and Cumb. Dialect, “Dannet, a ... woman of disreputable character:” but, for aught I know, the word in the text may have some very different signification.
v. 516. a gose and a gant] Must mean here,—a goose and a gander: yet Skelton in Phyllyp Sparowe mentions first “the gose and the gander,” and afterwards “the gaglynge gaunte:” see note, p. 130. v. 447.
v. 517. wesant] i. e. weasand.
v. 519. olyfant] i. e. elephant.
v. 520. bullyfant] Another word which I do not understand.
v. 522. hedes] i. e. heads.
Page 112. v. 525. ale pole] i. e. pole, or stake, set up before an ale-house by way of sign.
v. 535. A strawe, sayde Bele, stande vtter]—stande vtter, i. e. stand more out, back.