_The Varietie_ (by the Duke of Newcastle), 1649. 12mo. p. 41.
Martin Swart, “a noble man in Germany, and in marciall feactes verye expert,” (Hall’s _Chron._ (_Henry VII._) fol. ix. ed. 1548), headed the auxiliaries sent by the Duchess of Burgundy with Lambert Simnel, and fell, fighting with great valour, at the battle of Stoke.
Page 16. v. 21. _An holy water clarke_] _Aquæbajulus_; an office generally mentioned with contempt.
v. 23. _solfyth to haute_] i. e. solfas too haughtily,—highly.
v. 25. _to sharp is hys my_] “The syllable Mi used in solmisation.” Hawkins’s _Hist. of Music_, iii. 41.
v. 26. _pyrdewy_] Compare _Hycke Scorner_;
“Than into loues daunce we were brought, That we played _the pyrdewy_.”
v. 303. Laing’s _Early Pop. Poet. of Scotland_.
v. 29. _a lewde lewte_] i. e. a vile lute.
—— _Roty bully joyse_] “The initial words of some old song.” Hawkins’s _Hist. of Music_, iii. 41.—In our author’s _Magnyfycence_, Courtly Abusyon exclaims,
Perhaps the same air is alluded to in _Colkelbie Sow_;
v. 320.—Laing’s _Early Pop. Poet. of Scotland_.
—— _tauellys_] “_Tauell_ an instrument for a sylke woman to worke with.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxix. (Table of Subst.)
v. 36. _a payre of clauycordys_] i. e. a clavichord (so, formerly, an organ was called _a pair of organs_); of which see an engraving in Hawkins’s _Hist. of Music_, ii. 443.
v. 43. _jet_] Is explained in modern dictionaries—strut.—“I _Get_ I vse a proude countenaunce and pace in my goyng, _Ie braggue_.” “I _Iette_ with facyon and countenaunce to set forthe myselfe, _Ie braggue_.” “I Go a _iettynye_ or a ryottynge, _Ie raude_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fols. ccxlvi, cclxv, ccli. (Table of Verbes.)
v. 48. _prycke songe_] i. e. music _pricked_ or noted down; when opposed (see v. 54) to _plain song_, it meant counter-point, as distinguished from mere melody.
v. 49. _a larg and a long_] Characters in old music: one _large_ contained two _longs_, one _long_ two breves, &c.
Page 17. v. 53. _fayne_] Palsgrave gives, “I _feyne_ in syngyng, _Ie chante a basse voyx_. We maye nat synge out we are to nere my lorde, but lette vs _fayne_ this songe,” &c. _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccxxxv. (Table of Verbes.) But here, I apprehend, _fayne_ can only mean—sing in falsetto. Our author, in _The Bowge of Courte_, has
