To gird my loins about With charity throughout; And so to travel hence With feet of innocence: These done, I'll only cry God mercy, and so die. REFERENCES PAGE TITLE 1 2 4 HESPERIDES 1 Hock-cart, the last cart that comes laden from the harvest-field. Wakes, meaning in this case and in other instances village festivals of a social or religious character. 2 Cotes, cots, cottages. 3 Candor, whiteness, purity. 5 Thyrse, "a javelin twined with ivy." (Herrick's footnote.) Round, a rustic dance. 6 Beams, branches or sprays. 7 8 94 14 Weekly strewings, of flowers or ferns. The number of these strewings was supposed to express the degree of love or respect in which the deceased was held. 13 Indecency, imperfection. 14 Dropping, bleeding. 15 Reverend pitcher, that from which libations were made. 28 Gospel tree, the tree under which, in Rogation Week, the parish minister read the gospel. Procession, annual religious procession on the three days immediately preceding Ascension Day. 15 30 Lutes of amber. Old-fashioned musical instruments were frequently inlaid with amber. 16 17 26 30 33 45 31 Effusions, drink-offerings, holy sprinklings. 35 Infortunity, ill fortune. 44 Dardanium, "a bracelet, from Dardanus so called." (Herrick's foot-note.) 51 Brass, money, now become slang. Lar, a god of the fireside, closet deity. Size, assize. 55 Camlet, a fabric formerly woven of silk and camel's hair. 69 Green-gown, a tumble on the greensward. PAGE TITLE 78 73 Scene, a veil or covering of tissue. 87 Mab's state, the queen's state chair or throne. Cockal, an ancient game played with sheep's bones Codlin, formerly any hard green apple used for stewing. Fetuous, tasteful, neat. Watchet, a shade of blue. Hatch'd, inlaid or engraved. Bent, a spear of coarse grass or rush. Nits, Devonshire for nuts. 88 Kitling eyes, green, like the eyes of kittens. Bestrutted, distended, swollen. 90 Huckson, knuckle-bone. 99 Malkin, a cloth, a baker's clout. Fill-horse, shaft-horse. Frumenty, wheat boiled in milk and seasoned or flavored. 79 101 Teem'd, poured out. 80 102 Protestant, Dr. Grosart suggests "protester," which leaves the line only a shade less obscure. 85 110 Scare-fires, alarms of fire, possibly beacon-fires. 87 115 Tittyries, members of a seventeenth-century club of dissolute young fellows of rank who thought it excellent diversion to break windows, overturn sedanchairs, fight watchmen, and haze peaceful citizens on the London streets at night. The Mohocks of a later period were directly descended from these brawlers of the Tityre Tues. Mr. Pollard was the first annotator to explain the word "tittyries." Fox-i'-th'-hole, an obsolete game in which boys hopped on one leg and struck at one another with light switches or strips of leather attached to cords. Shoe the mare, another old English game, usually played at Christmas. 88 Liber Pater, Father Bacchus. 95 118 Pricket, a buck in his second year. 98 121 Vigil, watchman or doorkeeper. Button'd staff, a staff with knobs. 99 121 Suppling, tender. PAGE TITLE 105 125 Quintell, a tilting-board. 112 133 Remora, sea-lamprey or suckstone, popularly supposed ress. 114 136 Manchet, white bread of a superior quality. 115 Near, parsimonious; the word is still used in this 116 137 Oat, oaten pipe. 117 Drosomell, honeydew. 123 144 The heyes, a country dance. 127 148 Fil'd, defiled. 132 156 Springal, stripling. 133 157 Purfling, trimming, embellishing. 134 Margents, bowers, arbors. Comply, encircle. 136 158 Tabbies, watered silks. 137 162 Trental, a service for the dead-properly, thirty-six 141 169 Draw-gloves, conversing by finger-signs. 142 Gild the bays. Gilded branches of bay were used for 149 178 Soil'd, fertilized. 151 Cockrood, a run for snaring woodcock. Glade, an opening in thickets across which nets were 153 181 Adulce, sweetened. Strut, swell. 154 182 Simnel, a cake made of fine white flour and brought A-mothering. See preceding note. 157 186 Fantastic pannicles, cells of the brain. |