[115] Magpie.

[116] Tamerlane (Tamburlaine), Cham, or Khan of Tartary. Compare Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, Act II. Sc. i.

[117] “A.D. 1419. This year Sir Symon Eyre built Leadenhall, at his proper expense, as it now appears, and gave the same to the City to be employed as a public granary for laying up corn against a time of scarcity.”—Maitland, ii., p. 187.

[118] Merry-making.

[119] Portentous.

[120] A red Spanish wine, made at Alicant.

[121] By our lady.

[122] Ballad-makers.

[123] i.e. Readily. Compare Gull’s Horn Book, Notts Ed. p. 160.

[124] Grandee.