“A chase at tennis is that spot where a ball falls, beyond which the adversary must strike his ball to gain a point or chace. At long tennis, it is the spot where the ball leaves off rolling.” Douce’s Illust. of Shakespeare, i. 485. Compare our author’s Why come ye nat to Courte, v. 880. vol. ii. 53.
Page 157. v. 63. corporas] i. e. communion-cloth, the fine linen cloth used to cover the body, or consecrated elements.
v. 65. gambawdis] i. e. gambols, pranks.
v. 66. wexid] i. e. waxed.
—— gery] “Gerysshe, wylde or lyght heeded farouche.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. lxxxviii. (Table of Adiect.).
“Howe gery fortune furyous and wode.”
Lydgate’s Fall of Prynces, B. iii. leaf lxxvii. ed. Wayland.
“And as a swalowe geryshe of her flyghte,
Twene slowe and swifte, now croked nowe vpright.”
Ibid. B. vi. leaf cxxxiiii.