v. 17. _Lusty_] See note on title of the next poem, p. 183.
—— _jet_] i. e. strut; see note, p. 94. v. 43.
v. 19. _that of your chalennge makyth so lytyll fors_] i. e. that maketh (make) so little matter of your challenge.
Page 119. v. 22. _Syr Gy_, _Syr Gawen_, _Syr Cayus_, _for and Syr Olyuere_] Concerning the two first see notes, p. 136. v. 629: _Cayus_, or Kay, was the foster-brother of King Arthur; see the _Morte d’Arthur_, &c. &c.: _for and_ is an expression occasionally found in much later writers; see Middleton’s _Fair Quarrel_, act v. sc. 1., _Works_, iii. 544. ed. Dyce; and Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Knight of the Burning Pestle_,—
“_For and_ the Squire of Damsels, as I take it.”
a passage which the modern editors have most absurdly altered: _Olyuere_ was one of the twelve peers of France.
v. 23. _Priamus_] Perhaps the personage so named, who fought with Gawayne, and was afterwards made a knight of the Round Table; see _Morte d’Arthur_, B. v. ch. x. xii. vol. i. 148 sqq. ed. Southey.
v. 24. _Arturys auncyent actys_] An allusion, perhaps, more particularly to the _Morte d’Arthur_; see its other title in note, p. 137. v. 634.
v. 25. _fysnamy_] i. e. physiognomy. So in _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4.)
—— _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.).
v. 29. _Godfrey_] See note on title of this poem, p. 180.
v. 30. _Syr Olifranke_] Qy. a mistake of the transcriber for _Syr Olifaunte_, the giant mentioned in Chaucer’s _Sire Thopas_?
v. 31. _Baile_] Seems to mean—howl, cry. “I _Balle_ as a curre dogge doth, _Ie hurle_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. clvii. (Table of Verbes).
Page 119. v. 36. _Gup_] See note, p. 99. v. 17.
—— _to fare to seke_] i. e. too far at a loss, inexperienced,—unable.
v. 38. _whypslovens_] A term which I do not understand.
—— _a coke stole_] i. e. a cucking-stool, a chair or stool fixed at the end of a long pole, used for the punishment of scolds and brawlers by plunging them in the water.
v. 39. _mantycore_] See note, p. 127. v. 294.
Page 120.—— _lusty Garnyche welle be seyn Crysteouyr_] Both these epithets allude to his dress: “_Lusty_ or fresshe in apparayle _frisque_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xci. (Table of Adiect.): _welle be seyn_; see note, p. 112. v. 283.—Compare Dunbar;