Than a chyldis birds and a knauis wyfe]
This proverbial expression occurs in Lydgate;
“Vnto purpos this prouerd is full ryfe
Rade and reported by olde remembraunce
A childes birdde and a knavis wyfe
Haue often sieth gret sorowe and myschaunce.”
The Chorle and the Bird,—MS. Harl. 116. fol. 151.
v. 1454. byll] i. e. writing.
v. 1455. By Mary Gipcy] In much later writers we find, as an interjection, marry gep, marry gip, marry guep, marry gup. v. 1456. Quod scripsi, scripsi] From the Vulgate, Joan. xix. 22.