“And Saynt Mary Spyttell,
They set not by vs a _whystell_.”
“Perhaps ‘whyttle,’” says the reviewer in _G. M._ p. 245.—I had
originally proposed the latter reading, but afterwards rejected it,
having found in Lydgate (see my note on the passage, vol. ii. 297),
“For he _set not by_ his wrethe _a whistel_.”
P. 360. “_Colinus Cloutus, quanquam mea carmina multis,_” &c.
The reviewer in _G. M._ p. 246, would cure this corrupted passage as
follows;
“_Colinus Cloutus, quanquam mea carmina multis_
_Sordescunt stultis_; _sed_ paucis _sunt_ data _cultis_,
Paucis ante alios _divino flamine flatis_.”