273. _maltalent_, ill-will; see 330. Cf. _talent_, Cant. Ta. C 540.

276. Read _melt'th_. _for pure wood_, as if entirely mad. The simple phrase

_for wood_, as if mad, occurs in Ho. Fame, 1747; Leg. of Good Women, 2420

(unless _For-wood_ is there a compound adjective).

292. _baggingly_, askant, sideways; cf. _baggeth_, looks askant, Book Duch.

623.

311. _fade_, withered. 'Thi faire hewe is al _fade_'; Will. of Palerne,

891. Compare the description of Sorrow in Sackville's 'Induction'; see my

Specimens of Eng. Literature, iii. 286.

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