v. 19. _Abyron_] i. e. Abiram: see _Numbers_, ch. xvi.
Page 196. v. 25. _perituræ parcere chartæ_] Juvenal, _Sat._ i. 18.
—— _phagolœdoros_] i. e. (φαγολοιδόρους) _convicia et maledicta devorantes_.
_were_, i. e. wear: concerning this dress, worn, it would seem, by Skelton as Laureat, see _Account of his Life and Writings_.
Page 197. v. 16. _somdele sere_] i. e. somewhat dry, withered.
This piece is a paraphrase of three portions of Brant’s _Ship of Fools_: see the Latin version by Locher, _Stultifera Nauis_, ed. 1497,—_Vxorem ducere propter opes_, fol. lx., _De livore et inuidia_, fol. lxi., and _De voluptate corporali_, fol. lviii.: the same sections will be found accompanying Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, ed. 1570,—fol. 95, fol. 97, and fol. 92.
Page 199. v. 3. _lygnage femynatyfe_] i. e. lineage feminine.
l. 6. _nobles_] i. e. the gold coins so called.
Page 200. l. 9. _for to gather togyther the donge ... grese_] In the Latin of Locher;
“Aruinam multi quærunt sub podice asselli: Et cumulant trullas: stercora vana petunt.”
l. 18. _thoughte_] See note, p. 101. v. 10.
l. 23. _esperaunce_] i. e. hope, expectation.
Page 201. l. 15. _conninge_] i. e. knowledge, learning, attainments.
l. 23. _corrompeth_] i. e. corrupteth,—destroyeth.
Page 202. l. 3. _condycions_] See note, p. 183. v. 12.
l. 4. _dyssypers_] i. e., I suppose, disperser.
l. 6. _sleeth_] i. e. slayeth, (slayest).
l. 7. _traueyleth_] i. e. causeth travail (trouble) to.
l. 16. _courage_] i. e. heart, mind, disposition.
Page 203. l. 6. _glauca_] Properly, I believe, _glaucus_.
—— _eyen beholdinge a trauers_] i. e., I suppose, eyes looking askance.
l. 7. _syntillously_] i. e. so as to emit sparks.
l. 14. _were delybered_] i. e. were advised, were minded.
l. 28. _incontinente_] i. e. immediately.
Page 203. l. 29. _Cayme_] i. e. Cain. So formerly the name was often written:
_Kyng Alisaunder_,—Weber’s _Met. Rom._ i. 84.
l. 32. _Thesius_] Should of course be _Thyestes_, as in Locher’s Latin: yet Barclay in his version of the passage has,
_The Ship of Fooles_, fol. 96 [99], ed. 1570.
—— _theim_] i. e., perhaps, (if it be not a misprint for “_him_”) the guests: but the whole passage is scarcely intelligible.
l. 6. _Ethiocles_] So written in Locher’s Latin for Eteocles; and so Lydgate,—