[236] Who was it, dear son? So in the ballad-poem of "Adam Bell," &c.—
"Ye myght have asked towres and towne,
Parkes and forestes plentie,
None so pleasaunt to my pay, she said;
Nor none so lefe to me."
[—Hazlitt's Popular Poetry, ii. 160.]
[237] Our, first edition.
[238] "As brisk as a body-louse was formerly proverbial." See Ray's "Proverbs," 1742, p. 219.
[239] "Callet, a lewd woman, a drab." [See Nares, edit. 1859, p. 128.] So in the "Supposes," by Geo. Gascoigne, act v., sc. 6: "Come hither, you old kallat, you tatling huswife: that the deuill cut oute your tong."
Again, in Jonson's "Fox," act iv., sc. 3—