The 'Canzone' appears to aim at a sort of 'The Queen was in the parlour' measure:
Drink full ones tinker | methinks the monks are dry;
though the lines, as they always do in such cases, occasionally simulate regular decasyllables. [Return]
4047 fop] Same as 'fob' = 'put off with a false or trumped-up excuse'.
4054 Angel] The old pun on the coin.
4060 raddle-man] A hawker of coarse red paint.
4067 'podging', though it has various more definite senses, appears to be still dialectically used for 'stupid'. [Return]
4102 I do not find any of the recognized senses of 'swig' (orig. 'swigge') that fits this very well as = 'a fig', or something coarser. But it may well be coined.
4122 If anybody asks where Starley is it will be sufficient to answer that it is where the Danes used cannons. But 'act their juries' (if right) is one of those at first sight mad phrases of our author's which really have, if little method, some meaning.
4152 glide] Plural by the common attraction to 'channels'.