_Tell you I chyll,_ _If that ye wyll_ _A whyle be styll_]
—_I chyll_, i. e. Ich wyll, I will. Compare _Syr Gawayn and the Grene Knyȝt;_
“_And ȝe wyl a whyle be stylle,_ _I schal telle yow_ how thay wroȝt.”
“_Yef ye wolen sitte stille_, Ful feole _Y wol yow telle_.”
Page 95. v. 4. _gyll_] Equivalent here to girl—a familiar name for a female; as in the proverb, “Every Jack must have his _Gill_:” supposed by some etymologists to be an abbreviation of _Julia_, _Juliana_, or _Gillian;_ by Richardson (_Dict._ in v.) to be a corruption of _giglot_.
v. 6. _gryll_] “Grymm _gryl_ and horryble ... horridus ... horribilis.” _Prompt. Parv._,—_MS. Harl._ 221. (Ed. 1499 of that work omits “_gryl._.”) The word is of frequent occurrence; but its exact meaning here seems to be doubtful.
v. 17. _bowsy_] i. e. bloated by drinking.
_Her nose somdele hoked,_ _And camously croked_]
—_somdele hoked_, i. e. somewhat hooked. “_Camed_ or short nosed. Simus.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “A _Camoise_ nose, that is to saie crooked vpward as the Morians [Moors].” Baret’s _Alvearie_. “_Camuse_. Flat.” Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_. “_Camused._ Flat, broad and crooked; as applied to a nose, what we popularly call a _snub-nose_.” Nares’s _Gloss._ Todd, quoting this passage of Skelton, explains _camously_, awry. _Johnson’s Dict._ in v.
“A _goundy_ eye is deceyued soone, That any colour cheseth by the moone.”
_Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sig. H iii. ed. 1555.
“_Gownde_ of the eye. Ridda, Albugo.” _Prompt. Parv._,—_MS. Harl._ 221.
v. 38. _jetty_] i. e. that part of a building which projects beyond the rest.
—— _how she is gumbed,_ _Fyngered and thumbed_]
i. e. what gums, fingers, and thumbs she has.
v. 51. _iet_] i. e. strut: see note, p. 94. v. 43.
v. 52. _fet_] Means, perhaps, _feat_,—neat, handsome one.
v. 53. _flocket_] “Is described as a loose garment with large sleeves:” see Strutt’s _Dress and Habits_, &c. ii. 373.
v. 54. _rocket_] i. e. a garment, worn often without, and sometimes with sleeves; sometimes it was made to reach the ground, and sometimes much shorter and open at the sides. See _Id. ibid._
v. 55. _With symper the cocket_] So Heywood in his _Dialogue_;
“Vpright as a candell standth in a socket, Stoode she that day, so _simper decocket_.”