To Wilsdon, Barking, or to some hallowes.”
The Schole House of Women, 1572,—Utterson’s Early Pop. Poetry, ii. 66.
But “to seek hallows” seems to have been a proverbial expression;
“O many woman hath caught be in a trayne,
By goyng out such halowes for to seke.”
Lydgate’s Warres of Troy, B. ii. sig. I ii. ed. 1555.
Page 427. v. 13. withholde] i. e. withheld.
v. 14. sayne] i. e. say.