3116 swogging] Palsgrave, in a passage which I owe to the late Professor Skeat, 'I swag as a fat person's belly swaggeth as he goeth', might almost have been annotating this passage. Cf. also, of course, 'swagger'. As for the o, 'Maggie' and 'Moggie', 'flap' and 'flop', and a hundred other pairs, occur.

3118 We had 'claret' thus used in Benlowes, vol. 1, p. 358 (l. 202).

3143 larvèd] As before, l. 2592.

3152 Is this found elsewhere?

3155 The union of body and soul.

3158 Orig. 'rithmes'.

3160 'Ascending' &c. 'the ladder'.

3170 'Ferny flag' is not so bad for the tossed antlers.

3179 Malèd] Is this for 'mailed'? = 'armoured by fear against the briars'?

3182 Donnes] Donne? 'ladies'? [Return]