[109] _Jebit avow mon companion._ Both 4tos.--_S._
[110] _Ihar vow pleadge pety Zawne._ Both 4tos. [_Zawne_ appears to be a loose application of _Zani_ quasi _noodle_, though here, perhaps, the meaning is rather _mimic_.]
[112] [Interrupt? See Nares, edition 1859, in v.]
[113] _Coppe_, in Chaucer, is used for the top of anything, and here seems intended to signify the head, or, as the common phrase is, a _hair-brained_ fellow.
[115] See “Gammer Gurton’s Needle,” vol. iii., p. 189, note.
[116] [See Rimbault’s “Little Book of Songs and Ballads,” 1851, p. 83.]
[117] _Benne_ is the French word for a sack to carry coals. See Cotgrave.
[118] Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton, is among the Proverbs published by Mr Ray. That gentleman adds, “Who this _Bolton_ was I know not, neither is it worth enquiring. One of this name might happen to say, _Bate me an ace_, and, for the coincidence of the first letters of the two words _Bate_ and _Bolton_, it grew to be a proverb. We have many of the like original; as _v.g._ Sup, Simon, &c., Stay, quoth Stringer, &c. There goes a story of Queen Elizabeth, that being presented with a Collection of English Proverbs, and told by the author that it contained all the English Proverbs, nay, replied she, _Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton_: which Proverb being instantly looked for, happened to be wanting in his Collection.” [See Hazlitt’s] “Proverbs,” p. [80.] This story of Queen Elizabeth forms the point of an epigram by H.P. (probably Henry Parrot) in a collection called “The Mastive,” 1615--
“A pamphlet was of proverbs penn’d by Polton Wherein he thought all sorts included were; Until one told him, _Bate m’ an ace, quoth Bolton_: Indeed (said he) that proverb is not there.”
[119] [Sacks of coal, more properly, _benters_, as just above.]
[120] In the former edition, Mr Dodsley had altered this to _pay mee wel_.
[122] _Aloue_, French is to allow, to approve, to praise. I know of no other word that resembles that in the text. _Alosed_, in Chaucer, is _praised_.--_S._ [Possibly, _Hallo, hallo!_ may be the true reading.]
[123] From the manner in which this expression is used by Sir John Harington, in “The Anatomie of the Metamorphosis of Ajax,” 1596, sig. L, 7, it seems as though it was intended for a sallow hue. “Both of a complexion inclining to the oriental colour of a _Croyden sanguine_.”