(25) The meaning here is obscure. The verse is not in Whitaker.
(27) It is probable that by guest is meant an allusion to the spectre dog of Yorkshire (the BARGUEST), to which the sow is compared.
(29) The monastery of Gray Friars at Richmond. - See LELAND, ITIN., vol. iii, p. 109.
(30) This appears to have been a cant saying in the reign of Charles II. It occurs in several novels, jest books and satires of the time, and was probably as unmeaning as such vulgarisms are in general.
(31) A cake composed of oatmeal, caraway-seeds, and treacle. 'Ale and parkin' is a common morning meal in the north of England.
(32) We have heard a Yorkshire yeoman sing a version, which commenced with this line:-
' It was at the time of a high holiday.'
(33) Bell-ringing was formerly a great amusement of the English, and the allusions to it are of frequent occurrence. Numerous payments to bell-ringers are generally to be found in Churchwarden's accounts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. - CHAPPELL.
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