v. 1124. _Vnneth_] i. e. Scarcely, not without difficulty. Here again the text seems to be defective.
v. 1125. _reclaymed_] A metaphor from falconry. “_Reclaming_ is to tame, make gentle, or to bring a Hawk to familiarity with the man.” Latham’s _Faulconry_ (_Explan. of Words of Art_), 1658.
Page 86. v. 1146. _tote_] i. e. look, gaze: see note on v. 411, p. 129.
_She is playnly expresse_ _Egeria, the goddesse,_ _And lyke to her image,_ _Emportured with corage,_ _A louers pilgrimage_]
I must leave the reader to form his own idea of the meaning of the last two lines, which are beyond my comprehension.
_So goodly as she dresses,_ _So properly she presses_ _The bryght golden tresses_ _Of her heer so fyne,_ _Lyke Phebus beames shyne._ _Wherto shuld I disclose_ _The garterynge of her hose?_]
—_Phebus beames shyne_, i. e. the shine of Phœbus’ beams. Compare Hawes;
“_Her shining here so properly she dresses_ Alofe her forehed with fayre _golden tresses_ ... Her fete proper, _she gartered well her hose_.”
_The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. S i. ed. 1555.
v. 1177. _to suppose_] i. e. to be supposed.
v. 1184. _lusty somer_] i. e. pleasant summer.
v. 1194. _kyrtell_] “_Kyrtell_ a garment _corpset_, _surcot_, _cotelle_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xliii. (Table of Subst.). It has been variously explained (see notes on _Henry IV_. Part ii. act ii. sc. 4, _Shakespeare_ by Malone and Boswell, xvii. 98, 99, Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._, and Nares’s _Gloss._), petticoat,—safe-guard or riding-hood,—long cloak,—long mantle, reaching to the ground, with a head to it that entirely covered the face, and usually red,—apron,—jacket,—and loose gown!!! The following note by Gifford on _Cynthia’s Revels_ (Jonson’s _Works_, ii. 260) gives the most satisfactory account of a kirtle: “Few words have occasioned such controversy among the commentators on our old plays as this; and all for want of knowing that it is used in a two-fold sense, sometimes for the jacket merely, and sometimes for the train or upper petticoat attached to it. A full kirtle was always a jacket and petticoat, a half kirtle (a term which frequently occurs) was either the one or the other: but our ancestors, who wrote when this article of dress was everywhere in use, and when there was little danger of being misunderstood, most commonly contented themselves with the simple term (kirtle), leaving the sense to be gathered from the context.”