“Of Songs and Balades also he is a maker,
And that can he as finely doe as Jacke Raker.”
Act ii. sc. 1. p. 27. (reprint.)
Mr. Collier (Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet. ii. 448) speaks of Jack Raker as if he really had existed: I rather think that he was an imaginary person, whose name had become proverbial.
v. 110. crakar] i. e. vaunter, big talker.
Page 123. v. 114. despyghtyng] “I Dispyte I grutche or reprime agaynst a thing.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. ccxiiii. (Table of Verbes).
v. 115. nat worthe a myteyng]—myteyng (which occurs in our author’s Elynour Rummyng as a term of endearment, v. 224. vol. i. 102) is here perhaps equivalent to “Myte the leest coyne that is pite.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. xlviii. (Table of Subst.).
v. 117. scole] i. e. school.
v. 118. occupyed no better your tole] i. e. used no better your tool, pen: see note, p. 86. v. 52.