_And go in at my spayre,_ _And crepe in at my gore_ _Of my gowne before_]
“_Cluniculum_, an hole or a _spayre_ of a womans smoke.” _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. (In ed. 1514 of that work—“_spayre_ of a womans kyrtell”). “_Sparre_ of a gowne _fente de la robe_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxvi. (Table of Subst.). “That parte of weemens claiths, sik as of their gowne or petticot, quhilk vnder the belt and before is open, commonly is called the _spare_.” Skene, quoted by Jamieson, _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ in v. _Spare_.——“_Lacinia_ ... anglice a heme of clothe or a _gore_.” _Ortus. Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. (ed. 1514 of that work adds “or a trayne”). “_Goore_ of a smocke _poynte de chemise_.” Palsgrave, _ubi supra_, fol. xxxvii. (Table of Subst.). Jamieson (_ubi supra_), in v. _Gair_, says it was “a stripe or triangular piece of cloth, inserted at the bottom, on each side of a shift or of a robe,”—a description which agrees with that of R. Holme, _Ac. of Armory_, 1688. B. iii. p. 95.
Page 61. v. 351. _myne hert it sleth_]—_sleth_, i. e. slayeth.—So Chaucer;
“Thise rockes _slee min herte_ for the fere.”
_The Frankeleines Tale_, v. 11205. ed. Tyr.
Page 62. v. 360. _Phyppes_] See note on v. 7. p. 121.
“And if he maie no more do, Yet woll he stele a _cusse_ or two.”
Gower’s _Conf. Am._ lib. v. fol. cxix. ed. 1554.
v. 366. _this_] i. e. thus: see note, p. 86. v. 38.
v. 375. _Gyb_] See note on v. 27. p. 122.
v. 383. _bederolle_] See note on v. 12. p. 122.
_To wepe with me loke that ye come,_ _All maner of byrdes in your kynd, &c._]
—_loke_, i. e. look. Compare Ovid (see note on title of this poem, p. 120);
“Psittacus, Eois imitatrix ales ab Indis, Occidit: exequias ite frequenter, aves. Ite, piæ volucres, et plangite pectora pennis, Et rigido teneras ungue notate genas. Horrida pro moestis lanictur pluma capillis, Pro longa resonent carmina vestra tuba.”
v. 396. _ianglynge_] i. e. babbling, chattering—an epithet generally applied to the jay by our old poets.
v. 397. _fleckyd_] i. e. spotted, variegated.
v. 403. _the red sparow_] i. e. the reed-sparrow.
“The _Red-sparrow_, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren.”
Drayton’s _Polyolbion_, Song xiii. p. 215. ed. 1622.