[623] Cf. III. iii, 53.

[624] Sic. E.

[625] H. changes to 'none.'

[626] Cf. the slight differences III. iii, 59.

[627] Entirely new line.

[628] Cf., on 'Voices' of Bells, Brand, Pop. Ant. 2: 214, 216.

[629] Cotgr.: a Triple; also Gaillard-time in Music.


APPENDIX

A. The Metre of Roister Doister.—Udall's verse is a long line of 9, 10, 11, 12 (and rarely more) syllables; a verse which represents the Middle English Long Line (or the Middle English Septenarius, as it has been called for lack of a better name), as we find it, for instance, in Robert of Gloucester, some Legends, and Robert of Brunne.