Page 300. v. 2293. motton] Long after Skelton’s time, as the readers of our early dramatists will recollect, mutton was a favourite cant term for a prostitute.
v. 2294. Ye ... to] i. e. Yea ... too.
v. 2295. queysy mete] “Quaisy as meate or drike is, dangereux.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. xciii. (Table of Adiect.). Compare Jyl of Braintfords Testament, n. d.;
“I pray you fil you not to much of the mutton
I promise you that it is very queisy.”
Sig. A.
Page 300. v. 2297. In fay] i. e. In faith.
—— froty] Is frequently, as here, used by our early writers for—forty.
v. 2303. at all assayes] See note on v. 433. p. 242.