Page 159. v. 119. fawconer] i. e. falconer.
vv. 120, 121. gospellers ... pystillers] “Gospellar that syngeth the gospell.” “Pysteller [Epistler] that syngeth the masse.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fols. xxxvii., liiii. (Table of Subst.). But in our author’s Phyllyp Sparowe we find,
“Shal rede the Gospell at masse
...
Shal rede there the pystell.”
vv. 423, 5. vol. i. 64.
and see Todd’s Johnson’s Dict. in vv. Gospeller, Epistler.
v. 125. gydynge] “He controlled my lyuynge and gydynge.... mores.” Hormanni Vulgaria, sig. N vi. ed. 1530.
“Wise women has wayis, and wonderfull gydingis.”
Dunbar’s tale of The Tua Maryit Wemen and the Wedo,—Poems, i. 77. ed. Laing.