“Therfor I shalle the name that ever shalle rew the,
Kyng Copyn in oure game,” &c.
Towneley Mysteries, p. 194,—
the Glossary informing us that “A coppin is a certain quantity of worsted yarn wound on a spindle, and the spindle then extracted,”—which may be true, though it does not explain the passage. Some game must be alluded to.
v. 59. Hob Lobbyn of Lowdean] So again our author in Speke, Parrot;
“Hop Lobyn of Lowdeon wald haue e byt of bred.”
v. 74. vol. ii. 5.
Perhaps there is an allusion to some song or ballad: Lowdean is, I apprehend, Lothian.
v. 60. what good ye can] See note, p. 190. v. 23.
v. 61. Locrian] i. e. Loch Ryan—a large bay in Wigtonshire, which by approximating to the bay of Luce, forms the peninsula called the Rinns of Galloway. It is mentioned by Barbour;