[60] Old ed. "by."
[61] Mr. Ebsworth reminds me that this is Theocles' song, by Sir William Davenant, sung in Act iii. of "The Rivals," 1668.
[62] Old ed. "they."
[63] This poem is by Thomas Flatman, and is printed among his Songs and Poems, 1669.
["Also in Westminster Drollery, Windsor Drollery, and Pills to P. Mel., iii. 153. The music to it was composed by Roger Hill."—J. W. Ebsworth.]
[64] "Coth" = quoth.
[65] "This was written by Henry Bold; it is in his Poems Lyrique, 1664, p. 6."—J. W. Ebsworth. (I suspect Bold stole it: he was a notorious pilferer.)
[66] D'Urfey printed these verses in his Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1700, ii. 93, as "The Silly Maids."
[67] This poem is ascribed by Lawes to Henry Harrington, son to Sir Henry Harrington. It is found among the Fancies and Fantasticks appended to Wit's Recreations.
["It has also been accredited to Dr. Henry Hughes; the initials suggest the ambiguity. It is also in Playford's Select Ayres, 1659, p. 26."—J. W. Ebsworth.]