“There is no moe such titifyls in Englandes ground,
To hold with the hare, and run with the hound.”
Dialogue, &c. sig. C,—Workes, ed. 1598.
Some have considered the word as derived from the Latin, titivilitium, a thing of no worth. Jamieson “suspects that it is a personal designation,” Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang. in v. Tutivillaris. In Juditium, Towneley Mysteries, p. 310, Tutivillus is a fiend; and in the Moral Play of Mankind he represents the sin of the flesh, Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet., ii. 297, by Mr. J.P. Collier, who says (ii. 223) that “the name afterwards came to mean any person with evil propensities,” and refers to the comedy of Rauf Royster Doyster, Skelton’s Works, and the Enterlude of Thersytes: when he objected to the derivation of the word from titivilitium and proposed “the more simple etymology, totus and vilis,” he was probably not aware that some writers (wrongly) “totivillitium volunt, quasi totum vile:” see Gronovius’s note on the Casina of Plautus, ii. 5, 39. ed. Var.
Page 327. v. 421. Of an abbay ye make a graunge] A proverbial expression.
“Our changes are soch that an abbeye turneth to a graunge.”
Bale’s Kynge Iohan, p. 23. Camd. ed.
“To bring an Abbey to a Grange.” Ray’s Proverbs, p. 174. ed. 1768.
v. 424. beade rolles] i. e. prayers,—properly, lists of those to be prayed for.
v. 429.