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[4] _Mon_ is used for _man_ or _woman_: human being. It is so used in
Lancashire still: they say _mon_ to a woman.
[5] "They weep quietly and _becomingly_." I think there must be in this
word something of the sense of _gently,-uncomplainingly_.
[6] "And are shrunken (_clung_ with fear) _like_ the clay." _So_ here is
the same as _as_. For this interpretation I am indebted to Mr. Morris.
[7] "It is no wonder though it pleases me very ill."
[8] I think the poet, wisely anxious to keep his last line just what it
is, was perplexed for a rhyme, and fell on the odd device of saying, for
"both day and night," "both day and the other."
[9] "All as if it were not never, I wis."
[10] "So that many men say--True it is, all goeth but God's will."
[11] I conjecture "All that grain (me) groweth green."
[12] _Not_ is a contraction for _ne wat, know not_. "For I know not
whither I must go, nor how long here I dwell." I think _y_ is omitted by
mistake before _duelle_.
[13] This is very poor compared with the original.
[14] I owe almost all my information on the history of these plays to Mr.
Collier's well-known work on English Dramatic Poetry.
[15] _Able to suffer_, deserving, subject to, obnoxious to, liable to
death and vengeance.
[16] The word _harry_ is still used in Scotland, but only in regard to a
bird's nest.
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