[8] ‘Non grati victima sacri.’
[9] ‘Rough Clifford’ he is called a few lines before.
[10] ‘Concealers be such as find out concealed lands, that is such lands as privily are kept from the king by common persons, having nothing to shew for them.’—Cowell, The Interpreter, s. v.
[11] [This story rests on the sole authority of Gifford, the editor of Ben Jonson. For further information see N.E.D.]
[12] [This is a gloss on Spenser’s line, ‘Nor in all Kent nor in Christendome,’ which repeats a very common proverbial saying.]
[13] [It has been revived; for examples see N. E. D.]
[14] [The words deal and dole probably owe their difference of form to an original slight variation of suffix (-li, -lo), see Kluge (s.v. teil).]
[15] Vinegar.
[16] ‘Qui se harlotos appellant’ are the important words in Henry the Third’s letter to the Sheriff of Oxfordshire, requiring their dispersion.
[17] For the cognates of ‘loiter’ see Franck’s Dutch Etym. Dict. (s. v. leuteren).