v. 466. _turkis and grossolitis_] i. e. turquoises and chrysolites.
Page 380. v. 467. _birrall enbosid_] i. e. beryl embossed.
_Enlosenged with many goodly platis_ _Of golde_]
i. e. Having many goodly plates of gold shaped like lozenges (quadrilateral figures of equal sides, but unequal angles).
—— _entachid with many a precyous stone_]—_entachid_ may be used in the sense of—tacked on; but qy. is the right reading “_enhachid?_” as in v. 40 of the present poem, “_Enhachyde_ with perle,” &c., (and v. 1078 of _Phyllyp Sparowe_,) see note, p. 302.
v. 472. _whalis bone_] In our early poetry “white as whales bone” is a common simile; and there is reason to believe that some of our ancient writers supposed the ivory then in use (which was made from the teeth of the horse-whale, morse, or walrus) to be part of the bones of a whale. Skelton, however, makes a distinction between “whalis bone” and the real ivory (see v. 468). The latter was still scarce in the reign of Henry the Eighth; but, before that period, Caxton had told his readers that “the tooth of an olyfaunt is yuorye.” _Mirrour of the world_, 1480. sig. f i.
v. 474. _The carpettis within and tappettis of pall_]—_tappettis of pall,_ i. e. coverings of rich or fine stuff (perhaps table-covers): that _tappettis_ does not here mean tapestry, is proved by the next line; and compare v. 787,
“With that the _tappettis_ and carpettis were layd, Whereon theis ladys softly myght rest, The saumpler to sow on,” &c.
Page 381. v. 475. _clothes of arace_] See note, p. 192. v. 78.
v. 476. _Enuawtyd ... vawte_] i. e. Envaulted ... vault.
v. 478. _enbulyoned_] i. e. studded; see note on v. 1165.
v. 480. _Iacinctis and smaragdis out of the florthe they grew_]—_Iacinctis_, i. e. Jacinths: _smaragdis_, i. e. emeralds (but see note, p. 102. v. 20): “_Vng planché_, a plancher or a _florthe_ that is boorded.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. iii. (Thirde Boke). “_Florthe_ of a house _astre_.”—“Gyst that gothe ouer the _florthe soliue, giste._” _Id._ fols. xxxiiii. xxxvi. (Table of Subst.). “I Plaster a wall or _florthe_ with plaster ... I wyl plaster the _florthe_ of my chambre to make a gernyer there, _Ie plastreray latre de ma chābre pour en faire vng grenier_.” _Id._ fol. cccxviii. (Table of Verbes).