191 5 lusty vigorous

191 10 start-ups rustic labourer’s boots Sloe blackthorn berry 12 Russets reddish-brown or grey clothes 14 Baldricke belt worn from one shoulder across the chest and under the other arm 25 Cotes humble country dwellings simples medicinal herbs 26 mell mix, get involved 28 become suit, fit 32 brave handsomely got up Bell-wether leading sheep of a flock

191 41 Boord table spread for a meal 42 curiously carefully, exactly squar’d divided into squares 43 Cates delicacies 45 Whig sour milk, buttermilk, whey 46 Wildings wild apples 47 Dowsets doucets, sweet dishes clowted clotted 48 Syllibubs syllabubs, cream dishes, mixed with wine and frothed up 58 Cotswold range of hills in Gloucestershire 61–2 cp. Edmund Spenser, The shepheardes calender, ‘Aprill’ 1. 26, ‘And woes the Widdowes daughter of the glenne’; neither Spenser’s nor Drayton’s Rosalind, nor any of the other maidens mentioned in Drayton’s poem, has been convincingly identified with any known woman 63 Moreland-Mayden identified later in the poem as Sylvia

191 65 Peates pets, darlings 70 batning growing fat 71 skathe harm, danger 75 pointed appointed Roundelay short, simple song with a refrain 76 under-Song refrain, burden 84 kindly in this kind 89 Lincolne greene bright-green material made at Lincoln 90 likes her sight flatters her appearance

191 119 smerking smiling, perhaps affectedly