“At diuers holes _his heare grewe through his hode._”
“There is a nest of chickens which he doth brood That will sure _make his hayre growe through his hood_.”
Ray gives, “_His hair grows through his hood_. He is very poor, his hood is full of holes.” _Proverbs_, p. 57. ed. 1768.
Page 43. v. 351. _how he dysgysed was_] i. e. what a wretched plight he was in:
“Ragged and torne, _disguised_ in array.”
Chaucer’s _Court of Loue_, fol. 329,—_Workes_, ed. 1602.
v. 352. _watchynge ouer nyghte_] i. e. over-night’s debauch:
“Withdraw your hand fro riotous _watchyng_.”
Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. ix. fol. xxxi. ed. Wayland.
v. 354. _ne couer myghte_] i. e. might not cover.
v. 355. _he wente so all for somer lyghte_]—_somer_, i. e. summer.
“For he sente hem forth selverles, in _a somer garnement_.”
_Peirs Plouhman_, Pass. Dec. p. 153. ed. Whit.
“It semed that he caried litel array, _Al light for sommer_ rode this worthy man.”
Chaucer’s _Chanones Yemannes Prol._ v. 16035. ed. Tyr.
See too Bale’s _Kyng Iohan_, p. 34. ed. Camd. Soc.; and our author’s _Phyllyp Sparowe_, v. 719. vol. i. 73.
v. 356. _His hose was garded wyth a lyste of grene_] i. e. his breeches were faced, trimmed with, &c. “There was an affectation of smartness in the trimming of his hose.” Warton, note on _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 348. ed. 4to.
Page 44. v. 359. _Of Kyrkeby Kendall was his shorte demye_] Kendal, or Kirkby in Kendal, was early famous for the manufacture of cloth of various colours, particularly green. Here the word “Kendall” seems equivalent to—green: so too in Hall’s _Chronicle_, where we are told that Henry the Eighth, with a party of noblemen, “came sodainly in a mornyng into the Quenes Chambre, all appareled in shorte cotes of Kentishe _Kendal_ ... like outlawes, or Robyn Hodes men.” (_Henry viii._) fol. vi. ed. 1548.—_demye_; i. e., says Warton, note on _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 348. ed. 4to., “doublet, jacket:” rather, I believe, some sort of close vest,—his “cote” having been mentioned in the preceding line.
v. 360. _In fayth, decon thou crewe_] The commencement of some song; quoted again by our author in _A deuoute trentale for old Iohn Clarke_, v. 44. vol. i. 170, and in _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 63. vol. ii. 28.