30 us’d, vsd; yong, younge.

31 ask’t, askt; I ment as I profest, soothe were my request.

32 onelie ask’t, onely moud.

33 it, yt.

34 com, come; give, giue; Jill, Gill.

35 "Why, Sir.” quoth shee, “if that be your demande," “If that yt be,” quoth she, “that you demaunde.”

36 Com laye me a God’s-pennie, then giue me first a godes peny.  “God’s-pennie, an earnest-pennie.”—­Florio, p. 36.

37 oratorie siccarlie, oratory, siccarly.  “Oratory,” properly a private chapel or closet for prayer; here a canting term for brothel:  cf. abbess = bawd; nun = whore, and so forth.  “Siccarly,” certainly, surely “Thou art here, sykerlye, Thys churche to robb with felonye,” MS. Cantab Ff. ii., 38, f. 240.

38 heere, in; nicarie, deuory.  “Nick,” female pudendum:  hence nickery, copulation.  Deuory may either be Fr. devoir, duty; or devoure, to ravish, to deflower.

39 offertorie, affidavit.

40 wee’le, Ile.

41 hearing hir so ernest, seeing her soe earnest.

42 Gave hir hir, I gaue her her; and she the dore unlocks, and she the doare vnlockes.

43 In am I entered, Nowe I am entered; venus, sweet Venus.

44 where’s this female, where’s the female; do this, do the.

45 By, through; meanders and by crankled, meander and through crooked.

46 Shee leades, Shee leads; Aucthor saies, author sayes.

47 we came within, I came vnto; shadie, shady.

48 bounsing vestalls, bouncing vestures; skirmish, skyrmish; oft, omitted.

49 shee, she; leather chaire, Lether chayre.

50 prettie Trulls, wenches straight.

51 To chuse of them, And bad me choose; myne, my.

52 hir, she; no where espie, noe waye espye.

53 them, her; them her.

54 Yet, But.

55 Bawde, baud; as daintie, soe dainty; bee, be.

56 forth to, vnto.

57 Halliedame, Holy Dame; she, shee; Gods oune, gods one.

58 wylie, wyly.

59 more, better.

60 You’l smell, youle find; nare so, now soe.

61 hir, her.

62 think, look; purse-strings, purse-stringes; abye it deare, abide yt deere.

63 that will eate quailes, whoole feed on quayles; crounes, crownes.

64 Mistris Francis, Mistres Fraunces; veluett gounes, velvett gownes.

65 And ruffs, Her ruffe; perwigs, perriwigge; as, soe; Maye, May.