[12] In orig. and because.
[13] i.e. ere, before.
[14] Owned. In Northward Hoe, 1607, by Decker and Webster, act i. scene i., the writers have made use of this story. See Websters' Works, edit. Hazlitt, i. 178-9.
[15] either.
[16] moving.
[17] See Brand's Popular Antiquities, edit. 1849, iii. 387.
[18] The reverse of the Somersetshire saying. The proverb is well known: "An honest miller hath a golden thumb;" but to this the Somersetshire folks add, "none but a cuckold can see it."
[19] Burned.
[20] orig. reads muste.
[21] Richard Rawson was Archdeacon of Essex from 1503 to 1543, and was perhaps the person here intended. See Le Neve's Fasti, ed. Hardy, ii. 336.