Note 966 — ACT V. SCENE I.
Reading edition
A large, a long] Characters in old music—one large contained two longs, one long two breves.—The editor of 1816 observes, that he does not remember to have seen the name of the first note any where else; it is not, however, a very uncommon word;
“But with a large and a longe,
To kepe iust playne-songe,
Our chaunters shalbe the Cuckoue,” &c.
Skelton’s Phyllyp Sparowe.