_goliardum_] Equivalent, probably, to buffoon, or ridiculous rhymer. See Du Cange’s Gloss. in v., Tyrwhitt’s note on Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, v. 562, and Roquefort’s _Gloss._ in v. _Goliard_.
_lusty Garnyshe well beseen Crystofer_] See note on title of the third of these poems, p. 183.
Page 126. v. 1. _gargone_] i. e. _Gorgon_.
v. 3. _Thowthe ye kan skylle of large and longe_] i. e. Though you be skilled in large and long; see note, p. 95. v. 49.
_Ye syng allway the kukkowe songe:_ ... _Your chorlyshe chauntyng ys al o lay_]
“_The cokkowe syng can_ than _but oon lay_.”
_The Chorle and the Bird_,—_MS. Harl._ 116. fol. 151.
v. 12. _Cicero with hys tong of golde_] So Dunbar speaking of Homer and _Tully_;
“Your _aureate tongis_ both bene all to lyte,” &c.
v. 18. _They_] i. e. Thy; as in the preceding poem.
Page 127. v. 23. _lest good kan_] i. e. that knows the least good.
v. 28. _Lothsum as Lucifer_] So in _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4), “_Luciferis_ laid.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 75. ed. Laing.
v. 30. _Syr Pers de Brasy_] i. e. Pierre de Brézé, grand-seneschal of Anjou, Poitou, and Normandy, and a distinguished warrior during the reigns of Charles vii. and Lewis xi.: he fell at the battle of Montlhéry in 1465.
v. 31. _caytyvys carkes_] i. e. caitiff’s carcass.
v. 33. _Gorge Hardyson_] Perhaps the “George Ardeson” who is several times mentioned in the unpublished _Bokis of Kyngis Paymentis Temp. Hen._ vii. _and_ viii., preserved in the Chapter-House, Westminster: one entry concerning him is as follows;
_George Ardeson_ and Domynicke Sall er } bounden in an obligacion to pay for the } lycence of cccl buttes of malvesey viˢ viiiᵈ }cxviˡⁱ xiiiˢ.” for euery but within iii monethes next } after they shalbe layde vpon lande }
Page 127. v. 34. _habarion_] i. e. habergeon. “_Haburion._ Lorica.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499.
v. 35. the _Januay_] i. e. the Genoese. “The _ianuays_ ... Genuenses.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. k iii. ed. 1530.
v. 36. _trysyd hys trowle away_] i. e. (I suppose) enticed away his trull.
v. 37. _paiantes_] See note, p. 189. v. 190.
—— _gaudry_] i. e., perhaps, trickery. In the _Towneley Mysteries_, _gawde_, trick, occurs several times.
v. 41. _Fanchyrche strete_] i. e. Fenchurch Street.