v. 291. _Lyacon_] Occurs again in v. 393: is it—Lycaon?
—— _knakkes_] “_Knacke_ or toye _friuolle_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xliii. (Table of Subst.).
v. 295. _hang togedyr as fethyrs in the wynde_] See note, p. 265. v. 1842.
Page 15. v. 296. _lewdlye ar they lettyrd that your lernyng lackys_] i. e. badly, meanly, are they lettered that find fault with your learning.
v. 297. _currys of kynde_] i. e. curs by nature.
v. 298. _lohythe ... warkys_] i. e. looketh ... works.
v. 300. _Agayne all remordes_] i. e. Against all blamings, censures, carpings: see note, p. 193. v. 101: but as in v. 368, where MS. has “remordes,” the sense absolutely requires “remorders,” there is perhaps the same error here.
—— _Morda puros mal desires_] This strange gibberish (which occurs twice afterwards) seems to mean,—To bite the pure, is an evil desire.
v. 304. _sadde_] See note, p. 264. v. 1711.
v. 305. _ower soleyne seigneour Sadoke_]—_soleyne_, i. e. sullen: in applying the name _Sadoke_ to Wolsey, Skelton alludes to the high-priest of Scripture, not to the knight of the Round Table.
v. 306. _nostre dame de Crome_] So in _A Mery Play between Johan the Husbande, Tyb his Wyfe, and Syr Jhan the Preest_, 1533, attributed to Heywood;
“But, by goggis blod, were she come home Unto this my house, by _our lady of Crome_, I wolde bete her or that I drynke.”
v. 308. _to exployte the man owte of the mone_] i. e. to achieve the feat of driving the man out of the moon.
_With porpose and graundepose he may fede hym fatte,_ _Thowghe he pampyr not hys paunche with the grete seall_]
—_porpose and graundepose_, i. e. porpoise and grampus. The pun in the second line is sufficiently plain.
Page 16. v. 319. _nodypollys_] i. e. silly-heads.
v. 320. _To ... sentence_] i. e. Too ... meaning.
v. 326. _sadlye_] See note, p. 267. v. 1966.
—— _Sydrake_] So Wolsey is termed here in allusion to a romance (characterised by Warton as “rather a romance of Arabian philosophy than of chivalry,” _Hist. of E. P._, i. 143. ed. 4to), which was translated from the French by Hugh of Caumpeden, and printed in 1510, under the title of _The Historie of King Boccus and Sydracke_, &c.
v. 331. _a cheryston pytte_] An allusion to a game played with cherry-stones;