who somewhat copiously explains it “beaten, plaited, inlay’d, embroider’d:” _bourne_, i. e. burnished.
v. 45. _estates_] i. e. persons of estate or rank.
v. 50. _pusant_] i. e. puissant, powerful, mighty.
v. 52. _of very congruence_] i. e. of very fitness.
“Such ought of duetie and _very congruence_,” &c.
Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, fol. 188. ed. 1570.
v. 54. _astate_] i. e. estate, rank, dignity.
—— _most lenen_] i. e. must lean, bend, bow.
v. 69. _wonder slake_] i. e. wonderfully slack.
v. 72. _bokis ... sone ... rase_] i. e. books ... soon ... erase.
v. 75. _endeuour hymselfe_] i. e. exert himself (compare v. 936).
v. 77. _sittynge_] i. e. proper, becoming.
v. 80. _comprised_] Compare our author in _Lenuoy_ to Wolsey;
“And hym moost lowly pray, In his mynde to _comprise_ Those wordes,” &c.
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. 101. _the grey_] i. e. the badger. Juliana Berners says;
“That beest a bausyn hyght: a brok or a _graye_: Thyse thre names he hath the soth for to saye.”
v. 102. _gose ... oliphaunt_] i. e. goose ... elephant.
Page 366. v. 110. _confecture_] i. e. composition.
v. 111. _diffuse is to expounde_] i. e. is difficult to expound: see note, p. 144. v. 768.
v. 112. _make ... fawt_] i. e. compose ... fault.
v. 114. _motyue_] i. e. motion. So in the next line but one is “promotyue,” i. e. promotion: and so Lydgate has “ymaginatyfe” for—imagination. _Fall of Prynces_, B. v. leaf cxvii. ed. Wayland.
v. 122. _iche man doth hym dres_] i. e. each man doth address, apply, himself.
Page 367. v. 133. _Ageyne_] i. e. Against.
—— _konnyng_] i. e. (not so much—knowledge, learning, as) skill, ability.
“And to pouert she put this _opposayle_.”
Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. iii. leaf lxvi. ed. Wayland.
“Made vnto her this vncouth _apposayle_: Why wepe ye so,” &c.
—— _wele inferrid_] i. e. well brought in.
i. e. it is lively, subtly expressed: compare v. 592 and v. 1161, where the words are applied to visible objects.
—— _debarrid_] See note, p. 237. v. 60; and compare _Gentylnes and Nobylyte_ (attributed without grounds to Heywood) n. d.;