[37] oratorie siccarlie, oratory, siccarly. "Oratory," properly a private chapel or closet for prayer; here a canting term for brothel: cf. abbess = bawd; nun = whore, and so forth. "Siccarly," certainly, surely "Thou art here, sykerlye, Thys churche to robb with felonye," MS. Cantab Ff. ii., 38, f. 240.

[38] heere, in; nicarie, deuory. "Nick," female pudendum: hence nickery, copulation. Deuory may either be Fr. devoir, duty; or devoure, to ravish, to deflower.

[39] offertorie, affidavit.

[40] wee'le, Ile.

[41] hearing hir so ernest, seeing her soe earnest.

[42] Gave hir hir, I gaue her her; and she the dore unlocks, and she the doare vnlockes.

[43] In am I entered, Nowe I am entered; venus, sweet Venus.

[44] where's this female, where's the female; do this, do the.

[45] By, through; meanders and by crankled, meander and through crooked.

[46] Shee leades, Shee leads; Aucthor saies, author sayes.