v. 805. his pyllyon and his cap]—pyllyon, from Lat. pileus. Compare Barclay;
and Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey; “and upon his head a round pillion, with a noble of black velvet set to the same in the inner side” [where surely we ought to read, “and upon his head a round pillion of black velvet, with a noble set to the same in the inner side”]. p. 105. ed. 1827.
Page 342. v. 811. As wyse as Waltoms calfe] So Heywood;
Ray gives, “As wise as Waltham’s calf, that ran nine miles to suck a bull.” Proverbs, p. 220. ed. 1768.
v. 812. a Goddes halfe] See note, p. 174. v. 501.
v. 817. scole matter] i. e. school-matter.
Page 343. v. 820. elenkes] i. e. elenchs (elenchus—in logic).
v. 822. mell] i. e. meddle.
v. 826. neuen] i. e. name.
v. 831. mo] i. e. more.
v. 836. Lymyters] i. e. Friars licensed to beg within certain districts.
v. 840. Flatterynge, &c.] Compare Barclay;
v. 843. lese] i. e. lose.
Page 344. v. 846. bacon flycke] i. e. flitch of bacon.
v. 849. couent] i. e. convent.
v. 852. theyr tonges fyle]—fyle, i. e. smooth, polish: the expression occurs in earlier and in much later writers.
v. 854.
As we find the name “Mawte” in our author’s Elynour Rummyng, v. 159. vol. i. 100, and as in the second of these lines the MS. (see note ad l.) has “fawte” (i. e. fault), the right reading is probably,
v. 856. prouoke] i. e. incite.
v. 857. Gyll and Jacke at Noke] See note on v. 323. p. 283.
v. 861. In open tyme] i. e. In the time when no fasts are imposed.
v. 864. an olde sayd sawe] “Oulde sayd sawe prouerbe.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. li. (Table of Subst.).
Page 344. v. 866. Some walke aboute in melottes] “Circuierunt in melotis.” Vulgate,—Heb. xi. 37. “Melotes,” as Mr. Albert Way observes to me, “is explained in the Catholicon to be a garment used by the monks during laborious occupation, made of the skin of the badger, and reaching from the neck to the loins,” and according to other early dictionaries, it was made of the hair or skin of other animals. So the original Greek word, μηλωτή, which properly means pellis ovina, signifies also pellis quævis.
v. 867. heery] i. e. hairy.
v. 868. ne] i. e. nor.
v. 869. in remotes] i. e. in retired places.
Page 345. v. 874.
—shryue, assoyle, i. e. confess, absolve.—“On a de Clément V une compilation nouvelle, tant des décrets du concile général de Vienne, que de ses épîtres ou constitutions. C’est ce qu’on appelle les Clémentines.” L’Art de vérifier les Dates, &c. (depuis la naissance de Notre-seigneur), iii. 382. ed. 1818. Skelton alludes here to Clement. lib. iii. tit. vii. cap. ii. which begins, “Dvdum à Bonifacio Papa octauo prædecessore nostro,” &c., and contains the following passages. “Ab olim siquidem inter Prælatos & Rectores, seu Sacerdotes ac Clericos parochialium Ecclesiarum per diuersas Mundi prouincias constitutos ex vna parte, & Prædicatorum & Minorum ordinum fratres ex altera (pacis æmulo, satore zizaniæ procurante), grauis & periculosa discordia extitit, suscitata super prædicationib. fidelium populis faciendis, eorum confessionibus audiendis, pœnitentiis iniungendis eisdem, & tumulandis defunctorum corporibus, qui apud fratrum ipsorum Ecclesias siue loca noscuntur eligere sepulturam.... Statuimus etiam & ordinamus auctoritate prædicta, vt in singulis ciuitatibus & diœcesibus, in quibus loca fratrum ipsorum consistere dignoscuntur, vel in ciuitatibus & diœcesibus locis ipsis vicinis, in quibus loca huiusmodi non habentur, Magistri, Priores prouinciales Prædicatorum, aut eorum Vicarij & Generales, et Prouinciales Ministri & custodes Minorum & ordinum prædictorum ad præsentiam Prælatorum eorundem locorum se conferant per se, vel per fratres, quos ad hoc idoneos fore putauerint, humiliter petituri, vt fratres, qui ad hoc electi fuerint, in eorum ciuitatibus & diœcesibus confessiones subditorum suorum confiteri sibi volentium audire liberè valeant, & huiusmodi confitentibus (prout secundùm Deum expedire cognouerint) pœnitentias imponere salutares, atque eisdem absolutionis beneficium impendere de licentia, gratia, & beneplacito eorundem: Ac deinde præfati Magistri, Priores, Prouinciales, & Ministri ordinum prædictorum eligere studeant personas sufficientes, idoneas, vita probatas, discretas, modestas, atque peritas, ad tam salubre ministerium et officium exequendum: quas sic ab ipsis electas repræsentent, vel faciant præsentari Prælatis, vt de eorum licentia, gratia, & beneplacito in ciuitatib. & dioecesibus eorundem huiusmodi personæ sic electæ confessiones confiteri sibi volentium audiant, imponant pœnitentias salutares, & beneficium absolutionis (in posterum) impendant, prout superiùs est expressum: extra ciuitates & diœceses, in quibus fuerint deputatæ, per quas eas volumus & non per prouincias deputari, confessiones nullatenus audituræ. Numerus autem personarum assumendarum ad huiusmodi officium exercendum esse debet, prout vniuersitas cleri & populi, ac multitudo vel paucitas exigit eorundem. Et si iidem Prælati petitam licentiam confessionum huiusmodi audiendarum concesserint: illam præfati Magistri, Ministri, & alij cum gratiarum recipiant actione, dictæque personæ sic electæ commissum sibi officium exequantur. Quòd si fortè iam dicti Prælati quenquam ex dictis fratribus præsentatis eisdem ad huiusmodi officium nollent habere, vel non ducerent admittendum: eo amoto, vel subtracto loco ipsius similiter eisdem præsentandus Prælatis possit, & debeat alius surrogari. Si verò iidem Prælati præfatis fratribus ad confessiones (vt præmittitur) audiendas electis, huiusmodi exhibere licentiam recusârint, nos ex nunc ipsis, vt confessiones sibi confiteri volentium liberè licitèque audire valeant, & eisdem pœnitentias imponere salutares, atque eisdem beneficium absolutionis impertiri, gratiosè concedimus de plenitudine Apostolicæ potestatis. Per huiusmodi autem concessionem nequaquam intendimus personis, seu fratribus ipsis ad id taliter deputatis, potestatem in hoc impendere ampliorem quàm in eo curatis vel parochialibus Sacerdotib. est à iure concessa: nisi forsan eis Ecclesiarum Prælati vberiorem in hac parte gratiam specialiter ducerent faciendam.” Pp. 184-190. (Decret. tom. iii. ed. 1600.)
Page 345. v. 879.
The name “Cristian Clowte” has occurred before in our author’s Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale, vol. i. 28. The story alluded to in this passage appears to be nearly the same as that which is related in a comparatively modern ballad, entitled,
“The Fryer Well-fitted:
or,
A Pretty Jest that once befel,
How a Maid put a Fryer to cool in the Well.
To a merry new Tune. Licens’d and Enter’d according to Order.”
The Friar wishes to seduce the Maid;
The Maid then tells him that he “shall have his request,” but only on condition that he brings her “an angel of money.” While he is absent, “She hung a Cloth before the Well;” and, when he has returned, and given her the angel,—
The Maid at last helps him out, and bids him be gone; but when he asks her to give him back the angel,—
Page 345. v. 882.
—mo, i. e. more. Some corruption, if not considerable mutilation of the text, may be suspected here. There seems to be an allusion to Clement, lib. v. tit. xi. cap. i., which begins, “Exiui de paradiso, dixi, rigabo hortum plantationum, ait ille cœlestis agricola,” &c. P. 313. (Decret. tom. iii. ed. 1600).
v. 892. abiections] i. e. objections.
Page 346. v. 901. hertes] i. e. hearts.
v. 903. coueytous] i. e. covetise, covetousness.
v. 906. play scylens and glum, &c.] See note on v. 83. p. 278.
v. 911. leuer] i. e. more willingly, rather.
v. 914. Worsshepfully] i. e. According to their honour, or dignity.
Page 347. v. 922. payntes] See note, p. 176. v. 583.
v. 924. them lyke] i. e. please them.
v. 931. crosse] See note, p. 116. v. 363.
v. 932. predyall landes] i. e. farm-lands.
v. 943. palles] See note on v. 312. p. 283.
v. 944. Arras] i. e. tapestry: see note, p. 192. v. 78.
v. 947. lusty] i. e. pleasant, desirable,—beautiful.
Page 348. v. 950. shote] i. e. shoot.
v. 951. tyrly tyrlowe] This passage was strangely misunderstood by the late Mr. Douce, who thought that “tyrly tyrlowe” alluded to the note of the crow, that bird being mentioned in the preceding line! Illust. of Shakespeare, i. 353. The expression has occurred before, in our author’s Elynour Rummyng, v. 292. vol. i. 104: here it is equivalent to the modern fa, la, la, which is often used with a sly or wanton allusion,—as, for instance, at the end of each stanza of Pope’s court-ballad, The Challenge.
Page 348. v. 953. a lege de moy] See note, p. 176. v. 587.
v. 956. With suche storyes bydene]—bydene, that is “by the dozen,” says Warton, erroneously, quoting this passage, Hist. of E. P., ii. 343. ed. 4to (note). The word occurs frequently in our early poetry, with different significations: here it may be explained—together—(with a collection of such stories); so in The Worlde and the Chylde, 1522;
v. 957. Their chambres well besene]—well besene, i. e. of a good appearance,—well-furnished, or adorned: see note, p. 112. v. 283.
v. 962. Nowe all the worlde stares, &c.] “This is still,” as Warton observes (Hist. of E. P., ii. 343. ed. 4to, note), “a description of tapestry.”
v. 963. chares] i. e. chariots.
v. 964. olyphantes] i. e. elephants.
v. 965, garlantes] i. e. garlands.
v. 974. estate] i. e. high rank, dignity.
v. 975. courage] i. e. heart, affections.
v. 977.
—parfetnesse, i. e. perfectness. “We should observe,” says Warton, after citing the passage, “that the satire is here pointed at the subject of these tapestries. The graver ecclesiastics, who did not follow the levities of the world, were contented with religious subjects, or such as were merely historical.” Hist. of E. P., ii. 344. ed. 4to.
Page 349. v. 983. remorde] See note, p. 193. v. 101.
v. 987. mellyng] i. e. meddling.
v. 990. besy] i. e. busy.
v. 991. For one man to rule a kyng] An allusion, I apprehend, to Wolsey’s influence over Henry the Eighth: so again our author speaking of Wolsey, in the Latin lines at the end of Why Come ye nat to Courte, “Qui regnum regemque regit.” Vol. ii. 67. I may observe too in further confirmation of the reading “kyng” instead of “gyng” (see note ad loc.), that we have had in an earlier passage of the present poem,
v. 996. flyt] i. e. remove.
v. 998. quysshon] i. e. cushion.
v. 1000. Cum regibus amicare] “Amico, to be frend.” Medulla Gramatice, MS. (now in the possession of Mr. Rodd).
Page 349. v. 1002. pravare] In Ortus Vocab. fol. ed. W. de. Worde, n. d., is “Prauo ... prauum facere. or to shrewe,” and “Tirannus. shrewe or tyrande.” The meaning therefore of pravare in our text may be—to play the tyrant.
Page 350. v. 1003. vre] “Evr happe or lucke with his compoundes bonevr and malevr,” &c. Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. vi. (Thirde Boke).
v. 1014. played so checkemate] In allusion to the king’s being put in check at the game of chess.
v. 1017. mell] i. e. meddle.
v. 1019. kayser] See note, p. 247. v. 796.
v. 1020. at the playsure of one, &c.] Meaning, surely, Wolsey.
v. 1025. not so hardy on his hede] An elliptical expression; compare v. 1154. In the Morte d’Arthur when Bors is on the point of slaying King Arthur, “Not soo hardy sayd syr launcelot vpon payn of thy hede, &c.” B. xx. c. xiii. vol. ii. 411. ed. Southey.
v. 1026. To loke on God in forme of brede]—loke, i. e. look: brede, i. e. bread. A not unfrequent expression in our early writers.
See too Ritson’s An. Pop. Poetry, p. 84; and Hartshorne’s An. Met. Tales, p. 134.
Page 351. v. 1030. sacryng] “Sacryng of the masse sacrement.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. lx. (Table of Subst.). And see Todd’s Johnson’s Dict. in v.
v. 1041. preas] i. e. press.
v. 1047. ne] i. e. nor.
v. 1050. warke] i. e. work, business.
Page 352. v. 1051. this] Perhaps for—thus; see note, p. 86. v. 38.
v. 1054. vncouthes] i. e. strange matters.
v. 1055. ken] i. e. know.
v. 1070. premenire] i. e. præmunire.
v. 1074. fotyng] i. e. footing.
Page 352. v. 1075. motyng] i. e. mooting. “Certamen ... anglice flytynge chydynge or motynge.” Ortus Vocab. fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d.
v. 1076. totyng] i. e. prying, peeping.
Page 353. v. 1084. hole route] i. e. whole crowd, set.
v. 1098. escrye] i. e. call out against: see notes, p. 145. v. 903. p. 152. v. 1358. p. 283. v. 337.
v. 1102. werke] i. e. work.
Page 354. v. 1106. hynderyng] See note, p. 245. v. 719.
—— dysauaylyng] “I Disauayle one, I hynder his auauntage, Ie luy porte dom̄aige.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. ccxii. (Table of Verbes).
v. 1116. to be gramed] i. e. to be angered: gramed is doubtless the right reading here, though the eds. have “greued” and the MS. “grevyd”—(grame has already occurred in Magnyfycence, v. 1864).
Page 355. v. 1134. depraue] i. e. vilify, defame.
v. 1154. Not so hardy on theyr pates] See note on v. 1025, preceding page.
v. 1155. losell] See note, p. 209. v. 138.
v. 1156. wesaunt] i. e. weasand.
v. 1157. syr Guy of Gaunt] See note, p. 184. v. 70.
v. 1158. lewde] i. e. wicked, vile.
Page 356. v. 1159. doctour Deuyas] See note, p. 95. v. 55.
v. 1162. dawcocke] i. e. simpleton: see note, p. 113. v. 301.
—— mell] i. e. meddle.
v. 1164. Allygate] i. e. Allege.
v. 1170. lurdeyne] See note, p. 242. v. 423.
v. 1171. Lytell Ease] “Little Ease (prison), mala mansio, arcæ robustæ.” Coles’s Dict.—“Little-Ease. A familiar term for a pillory, or stocks; or an engine uniting both purposes, the bilboes.” Nares’s Gloss.
v. 1178. rechelesse] i. e. reckless.
Page 357. v. 1184. Poules Crosse] i. e. Paul’s Cross.
v. 1186. Saynt Mary Spyttell] In Bishopsgate Ward: see Stow’s Survey, B. ii. 97. ed. 1720.
v. 1187. set not by vs a whystell] i. e. value us not at a whistle, care not a whistle for us. Compare Lydgate;
v. 1188. the Austen fryers] In Broad-street Ward: see Stow’s Survey, B. ii. 114, ed. 1720.
Page 357. v. 1190. Saynt Thomas of Akers] Concerning the “Hospital intituled of S. Thomas of Acon or Acars [Acre in the Holy Land], near to the great Conduit in Cheape,” see Stow’s Survey, B. iii. 37. ed. 1720, and Maitland’s Hist. of London, ii. 886. ed. 1756.
v. 1191. carpe vs] Is explained by the various reading of the MS.,—“clacke of us.”
—— crakers] i. e., as the context shews, (not—vaunters, but) noisy talkers.
v. 1193. reason or skyll] See note, p. 238. v. 106.
v. 1196. at a pronge] See note, p. 243. v. 506.
v. 1199. fonge] i. e. take, get.
v. 1201. the ryght of a rambes horne] An expression which our author has again in Speke, Parrot, v. 498. vol. ii. 24. So in a metrical fragment, temp. Edward ii.;
And Lydgate has a copy of verses, the burden of which is,—
See too Ray’s Proverbs, p. 225. ed. 1768.
v. 1206. yawde] i. e. hewed, cut down. “To Yaw, to hew.” Gloss. appended to A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect, 1837.
Page 358. v. 1208. Ezechyas] Ought to be “Isaias;” for, according to a Jewish tradition, Isaiah was cut in two with a wooden saw by order of King Manasseh.
v. 1216. agayne] i. e. against.
v. 1223. cough, rough, or sneuyll]—rough, i. e., perhaps, rout, snore, snort. I may just observe that Palsgrave not only gives “rowte” in that sense, but also “I Rowte I belche as one dothe that voydeth wynde out of his stomacke, Ie roucte.” Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. cccxliiii. (Table of Verbes); and that Coles has “To rout, Crepo, pedo.” Dict.
v. 1224. Renne] i. e. Run.
v. 1227. set not a nut shell] i. e. value not at a nut-shell, care not a nut-shell for.
v. 1229. gyse] i. e. guise, fashion.
Page 359. v. 1232. sayd sayne] A sort of pleonastic expression,—equivalent to—called commonly or proverbially: see note on v. 864. p. 290.
v. 1235. domis day] i. e. doomsday.
Page 359. v. 1239. boke] i. e. book.
v. 1240. By hoke ne by croke] i. e. By hook nor by crook.
v. 1244. nolles] i. e. heads.
v. 1245. noddy polles] i. e. silly heads.
v. 1246. sely] i. e. silly.
v. 1248. great estates] i. e. persons of great estate, or rank.
v. 1255. wawes wod] i. e. waves mad, raging.
v. 1257. Shote] i. e. Shoot, cast.
v. 1258. farre] i. e. farther:
Page 360. v. 1262. the porte salu] i. e. the safe port. Skelton has the term again in his Garlande of Laurell, v. 541. vol. i. 383. Compare Hoccleve;
where the editor observes, “Port salut was a kind of proverbial expression, and so used in the translation of Cicero de senectute printed by Caxton.”
Sheriff-Hutton Castle “is situated in the Wapentake of Bulmer, and is distant ten miles north-east from York ... The slender accounts of it that have reached our times, ascribe its origin to Bertram de Bulmer, an English Baron, who is recorded by Camden to have built it in the reign of King Stephen, A.D. 1140 ... From the Bulmers it descended by marriage to the noble family of the Nevilles, and continued in their possession upwards of 300 years, through a regular series of reigns, until seized by Edward iv. in 1471, who soon after gave the Castle and Manor to his brother the Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard iii. In 1485, in consequence of the death of Richard at the Battle of Bosworth Field, it became the property of King Henry vii., and continued in the hands of the Crown, until James the First granted it to his son, Prince Charles, about 1616. The Castle and Manor were subsequently granted (also by King James, according to Camden, and the original grant confirmed by Prince Charles after he ascended the throne) to the family of the Ingrams, about 1624-5, and are now in possession of their lineal descendant, the present Marchioness of Hertford.” Some Account of Sheriff-Hutton Castle, &c. pp. 3-5, York, 1824.
Leland (who says, erroneously it would seem, that Sheriff-Hutton Castle “was buildid by Rafe Nevill of Raby the fyrst Erl of Westmerland of the Nevilles,”) gives the following description of it. “There is a Base Court with Houses of Office afore the Entering of the Castelle. The Castelle self in the Front is not dichid, but it stondith in loco utcunque edito. I markid yn the fore Front of the first Area of the Castelle self 3. great and high Toures, of the which the Gate House was the Midle. In the secunde Area ther be a 5. or 6. Toures, and the stately Staire up to the Haul is very Magnificent, and so is the Haul it self, and al the residew of the House: in so much that I saw no House in the North so like a Princely Logginges. I lernid ther that the Stone that the Castel was buildid with was fetchid from a Quarre at Terington a 2. Miles of. There is a Park by the Castel. This Castel was wel maintainid, by reason that the late Duke of Northfolk lay ther x. Yers, and sins the Duk of Richemond. From Shirhuten to York vij. Miles, and in the Forest of Galtres, wherof 4. Miles or more was low Medowes and Morisch Ground ful of Carres, the Residew by better Ground but not very high.” Itin. i. 67. ed. 1770.
“Report asserts, that during the civil wars in the time of Charles the First, it [the Castle] was dismantled, and the greater part of its walls taken down, by order of the Parliament. But this is certainly not the fact, as will be seen by reference to the ‘Royal Survey’ made in 1624 ... From this Survey it will appear evident, that the Castle was dismantled and almost in total ruin in the time of James I.,—how long it had been so, previous to the Survey alluded to, is now difficult to say. From the present appearance of the ruins, it is plain that the Castle was purposely demolished and taken down by workmen, (probably under an order from the Crown, in whatever reign it might happen,) and not destroyed by violence of war. However, since this devastation by human hands, the yet more powerful and corroding hand of Time has still further contributed to its destruction.... The Castle stands upon a rising bank or eminence in front of the village, and its ruins may be seen on every side at a great distance.” Some Account, &c. (already cited), pp. 5, 6. The vast forest of Galtres formerly extended nearly all round Sheriff-Hutton.
When Skelton wrote the present poem, Sheriff-Hutton Castle was in possession of the Duke of Norfolk, to whom it had been granted by the crown for life: see note on v. 769.
Page 361. v. 1. Arectyng] i. e. Raising.
Page 361. v. 6. plenarly] i. e. fully—at full.
v. 9. somer flower] i. e. summer-flower.
v. 10. halfe] i. e. side, part.
Page 362. v. 15. dumpe] “I Dumpe I fall in a dumpe or musyng vpon thynges.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. ccxxii. (Table of Verbes).
v. 16. Encraumpysshed] i. e. encramped. Skelton’s fondness for compounds of this kind has been already noticed. The simple word occurs in other writers:
—— conceyte] i. e. conceit, conception.
v. 20. boystors] i. e. boisterous.
v. 22.
—stode, i. e. stood: frytthy, i. e. woody: ensowkid, i. e. ensoaked: sylt, i. e. mud: mose, i. e. moss. The forest of Galtres (which, as already noticed, extended nearly all round Sheriff-Hutton) was, when Camden wrote, “in some places shaded with trees, in others swampy.” Britannia (by Gough), iii. 20.
v. 24. hartis belluyng] In the Book of Saint Albans, Juliana Berners, treating “Of the cryenge of thyse bestys,” says,
—— embosyd] “When he [the hart] is foamy at the mouth, we say that he is embost.” Turbervile’s Noble Art of Venerie, p. 244. ed. 1611.
v. 26. the hynde calfe] “Ceruula. a hynde calfe.” Ortus Vocab. fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. In the Book of Saint Albans we are told;
v. 27. forster] i. e. forester.
—— bate] Does it mean—set on, or train?
v. 28. torne] i. e. turn.
v. 32. superflue] i. e. superfluous.
v. 35. wele] i. e. well.
Page 363. v. 38. disgysede] i. e. decked out in an unusual manner.
Page 363. v. 39. fresshe] “Fresshe, gorgyouse, gay.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. lxxxviii. (Table of Adiect.),—which I ought to have cited earlier for the meaning of this word.
v. 40. Enhachyde with perle, &c.] i. e. Inlaid, adorned with pearl, &c. Our author in his Phyllyp Sparowe tells us that a lady had a wart (or as he also calls it, a scar) “enhached on her fayre skyn,” v. 1078. vol. i. 84. Gifford observes that “literally, to hatch is to inlay [originally, I believe, to cut, engrave, mark with lines]; metaphorically, it is to adorn, to beautify, with silver, gold, &c.” Note on Shirley’s Works, ii. 301. “The ladies apparell was after the fashion of Inde, with kerchifes of pleasance, hatched with fine gold.” Holinshed’s Chron. (Hen. viii.) vol. iii. 849. ed. 1587. “Hatching, is to Silver or gild the Hilt and Pomell of a Sword or Hanger.” R. Holme’s Ac. of Armory, 1688. B. iii. p. 91.
v. 41. The grounde engrosyd and bet with bourne golde]—grounde, i. e. (not floor, but) ground-work; as in Lydgate’s verses entitled For the better abyde;
engrosyd, i. e. thickened, enriched: bet has here the same meaning as in Le Bone Florence of Rome;
who somewhat copiously explains it “beaten, plaited, inlay’d, embroider’d:” bourne, i. e. burnished.
v. 44. abylyment] i. e. habiliment.
v. 45. estates] i. e. persons of estate or rank.
v. 49. supplyed] i. e. supplicated.
v. 50. pusant] i. e. puissant, powerful, mighty.
v. 52. of very congruence] i. e. of very fitness.
v. 54. astate] i. e. estate, rank, dignity.
—— most lenen] i. e. must lean, bend, bow.
v. 55. arrect] i. e. raise.
v. 58. ryall] i. e. royal.
Page 364. v. 65. wele] i. e. well.
v. 66. embesy] i. e. embusy.
—— holl corage] i. e. whole heart.
v. 68. were] i. e. wear.
v. 69. wonder slake] i. e. wonderfully slack.
v. 70. lake] i. e. lack, fault.
v. 71. ne were] i. e. were it not.
v. 72. bokis ... sone ... rase] i. e. books ... soon ... erase.
v. 73. sith] i. e. since.
v. 74. Elyconis] i. e. Helicon’s.
v. 75. endeuour hymselfe] i. e. exert himself (compare v. 936).
v. 77. sittynge] i. e. proper, becoming.
v. 79. to] i. e. too.
v. 80. comprised] Compare our author in Lenuoy to Wolsey;
v. 81. rin] i. e. run.
Page 365. v. 83. pullishe] i. e. polish.
v. 86. remorde] See note, p. 193. v. 101.
v. 94. mo ... enduce] i. e. more ... bring in, adduce.
v. 95. parde for to kyll] i. e. par dieu, verily, for to be killed.
v. 96. enuectyfys] i. e. invectives.
v. 101. the grey] i. e. the badger. Juliana Berners says;