"Why you know an'a man have not skill in the hawking and hunting languages now-a-days, I'll not give a rush for him."--Master Stephen. Every Man in his Humour.
"Ter conatus ibi collo dare brachia circum:
Ter frustra conprensa manus effugit imago,
Par levibus ventis, volucrique simillima somno."
--Virgil, Æn. vi. v. 700.
Probably the name of some difficult tune.
Jump here signifies to coincide. The old play of Soliman and Perseda uses it in the same sense:
"Wert thou my friend, thy mind would jump with mine."
So in Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Divele:--"Not two of them jump in one tale," p. 29.
Imputation here must be used for consequence; of which I am, however, unable to produce any other instance.