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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Some time ago I was at the pains to transcribe from a unique MS. a long poem of Thomas Nashe. It is smoothly written, but very gross. There must be other poems of Nashe in MS.
[2] Also found in Dr. John Wilson's Cheerful Airs, 1660, and other collections.
[3] These verses are printed (with some slight alterations) in Wit's Interpreter, 1655. For "Kiss Me" (l. 15) Wit's Interpreter gives a word to rhyme with "Money" (l. 7).
[4] "There was probably a close connection here with the Song on Love, beginning, 'When I do love, I would not wish to speed,' printed in Parnassus Biceps, 1656, p. 82, and reprinted by Robert Jamieson, in Popular Ballads, ii. 311."—J. W. Ebsworth.
[5] This jocular song must have been written long before the date of publication, for a quotation from it occurs in Eastward Ho, 1605. (In Campion and Rosseter's Book of Airs, 1601, there is a song beginning, "Mistress, since you so much desire"; but Gertrude, in Eastward Ho, iii. 2—"But a little higher," &c.—was evidently quoting from the present song).
[6] In the 1671 edition of Wit's Interpreter this poem is headed "Love's Riddle Resolved." It is found in several miscellanies of the time.
["Amplified and spun out, it became a ballad printed for the assigns of Thomas Symcocke, in Roxburghe Collection, l. 242, a probably unique exemplar, entitled 'The Maid's Comfort.'"—J. W. Ebsworth.]