Page 32. v. 166. _ouer shote_] i. e. over-shoot.
v. 167. _scutus_] “_Scutum_, Moneta Regum Francorum, ita appellata quod in ea descripta essent Franciæ insignia in scuto.” Du Cange’s _Gloss._ (Ital. _scudo_, Fr. _écu_).
v. 170. _wonders warke_] i. e. work of wonder.
v. 175. _They shote at him with crownes, &c._] On the immense gifts and annuities which Wolsey received from foreign powers, see Turner’s _Hist. of Reign of Hen. the Eighth_, i. 236. ed. 8vo.
v. 178. _his eyen so dased_]—_dased_, i. e. dazzled, or, according to Skelton’s distinction—dulled; for in his _Garlande of Laurell_ we find “eyn dasild and _dasid_.” v. 1389. vol. i. 416.
v. 185. _the Chambre of Starres_] i. e. the Star-Chamber.
v. 190. _renayenge_] i. e. contradicting.
v. 194. _Good euyn, good Robyn Hood_] “Good even, good Robin Hood,” was, as Ritson observes, a proverbial expression; “the allusion is to _civility_ extorted by _fear_.” _Robin Hood_, i. lxxxvii. Warton mistook the meaning of this line, as is proved by his mode of pointing it: see _Hist. of E. P._, ii. 346. ed. 4to.
Page 33. v. 197. _thwartyng ouer thom_] i. e. overthwarting them, perversely controlling them.
v. 202. _With, trompe vp, alleluya_] i. e., says Warton, “the pomp in which he celebrates divine service.” _Hist. of E. P._, ii. 346 (note), ed. 4to. Compare Wager’s _Mary Magdalene_, 1567;
“Ite Missa est, _with pipe vp Alleluya_.”
v. 203. _Philargerya_] i. e. Φιλαργυρία, argenti amor, pecuniæ cupiditas. She was one of the characters in Skelton’s lost drama, _The Nigramansir_.
v. 206. _Asmodeus_] The name of the evil spirit in the Book of _Tobit_.
“Unto his lemman _Dalida_ he told, That in his heres all his strengthe lay.”
Chaucer’s _Monkes Tale_, v. 14069. ed. Tyr.
See too Gower’s _Conf. Am._, Lib. viii. fol. clxxxix. ed. 1554, and Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. i. leaf xxxiii. ed. Wayland.
Page 33. v. 208. _mell_] i. e. meddle (in sensu obsc.).
v. 213. _Castrimergia_] “The true reading is CASTRIMARGIA, or _Gulæ concupiscentia_, Gluttony. From the Greek, Γαστριμαργία, ingluvies, helluatio. Not an uncommon word in the monkish latinity. Du Cange cites an old Litany of the tenth century, ‘A spiritu CASTRIMARGIÆ _Libera nos_, domine!’ Lat. Gloss. i. p. 398. Carpentier adds, among other examples, from the statutes of the Cistercian order, 1375 [1357], ‘Item, cum propter detestabile CASTRIMARGIÆ vitium in labyrinthum vitiorum descendutur, &c.’ Suppl. tom. i. p. 862.’” Warton’s _Hist. of E. P._, ii. 346 (note), ed. 4to.