7455. _Joly Robin_, Jolly Robin, a character in a rustic dance; see Troil.
v. 1174, and note.
7456. _Jacobin_, a Jacobin or Dominican friar. They were also called Black
Friars and Friars Preachers (as in l. 7458). Their black robes gave them a
melancholy appearance.
7459. 'They would but wickedly sustain (the fame of) their order, if they
became jolly minstrels.'
7461. _Augustins_, Austin Friars; _Cordileres_, Cordeliers, Franciscan
Friars; _Carmes_, Carmelites, or White Friars; _Sakked Friars_, Friars of
the Sack. The orders of friars were generally counted as _four_; see note
to Prol. A 210. These were the Dominican, Austin, Franciscan, and Carmelite
Friars, all of whom had numerous houses in England. There were also
Croutched Friars and Friars de Penitentia or de Sacco. The last had houses
at Cambridge, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Lynne, Newcastle, Norwich,
Oxford, and Worcester; see Godwin, Archæologist's Handbook, p. 178.
7467. 'But you will never, in any argument, see that a good result can be
concluded from the mere outward appearance, when the inward substance has
wholly failed.' Cf. Hous of Fame, 265-6.
7492. _fisshen_, fish for; see Somn. Ta. D 1820. Cf. Matt. iv. 19.
7520. We are here referred back to ll. 3815-3818, where Wicked-Tongue
reports evil about the author (here called the 'young man') and Bialacoil
(here called Fair-Welcoming).