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Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601

"The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo"


266 _Lett_, let.
267 _handfulls highe_, handfulles high.
268 _plumb_, plump; _yett hauing_, and having.
269 _rhewme so feruentlie doeth raigne_, rheume soe fervently doth
raine.
270 _That_, the; _gulph maie_, gulfe can; _containe_, conteyne. Here
follow, in the Rawl. MS., lines 290-93 of the Petyt; lines 292-3 being
also reversed in the Rawl. text.
271 _Attired_, attird; _veluet_, velvet.
272 _nourisht_, norisht; _hott_, warme; _milk_, milke. "Whott," hot.
273 _Arm'd otherwhile_, Running sometymes.
274 _more glib_, more like; _to hell be lowe_, downe into hell.
275 _charriot_, chariot; _rydes_, rides.
276 _The which an arme strong driuer stedfast_, An arme strong guider
steadfastly him.
278 _who_, whoe; _pathes unknowne_, places vnknowne; _gate_, pace.
279 _Sometimes_, sometymes; _smoothlie slideth doune a_, smoothly
slippeth downe a.
280 _Another while_, some other tymes.
281 _clammie waies_, clayey wayes; _treaddeth_, treadeth.
282 _plasheth and sprayeth_, placeth himself &; _be him nye_, standeth
by.
283 _So_, soe; _iollie rider_, royall rider.


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