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When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple 30 Of my dug, and felt it bitter, pretty fool, To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug! "Shake," quoth[E 1] the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow, To bid me trudge. And since that time it is eleven years; 35 For then she could stand high-lone;[C 1][E 2] nay, by the rood, She could have run and waddled all about; For even the day before, she broke her brow: And then my husband—God be with his soul! A' was a merry man—took up the child: 40 "Yea," quoth he, "dost thou fall upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit; Wilt thou not, Jule?" and, by my holidame,[C 2][E 3] The pretty wretch left crying, and said "Ay." To see now how a jest shall come about! 45 I warrant, an[C 3] I should[C 4] live a thousand years,

1. 36. high-lone] Q1, hylone Q, a lone Q3, alone The rest.
2. 43. holidame] Dyce (ed. 1), holydam Q, holy-dam F.
3. 46. an] Pope, and Q, F
4. should] Q1, Q, shall F.

1. 33. quoth] Daniel suggested as possible go'th or goeth; he withdraws the suggestion. He compares "Bounce quoth the guns," Peele, Old Wives' Tale (Dyce's Greene and Peele, p. 454); also in Heywood's Fair Maid of the West (Pearson's reprint, ii. 315): "Rouse quoth the ship," Chettle, Hoffman, I. ii.
2. 36. high-lone] New Eng. Dict.: "An alteration of alone, of obscure origin. High probably expresses degree or intensity"; examples follow from Marston and Middleton. A late example (1760), G. Washington, Diary (MS.), is used of mares. Some early examples are of infants, which leads me to conjecture that it was a favourite nursery word, as nurses nowadays encourage a child to stand loney-proudy. It occurs, however, with no reference to children in Calfhill's Answere to the Treatise of the Crosse (1565), p. 274, Parker Soc., and in Rowley's A Shoemaker a Gentleman (1638).
3. 43. holidame] A different form of halidom (which Dyce ed. 2 reads) induced by the popular error that halidom (sanctity) was = Holy Dame, "our Lady."