_Ebria, squalida, sordida fœmina, prodiga verbis,_ _Huc currat, properet, veniat! Sua gesta libellus[543]_ _Iste volutabit: Pæan sua plectra sonando_ _Materiam risus cantabit carmine rauco._ _Finis._ Quod Skelton, Laureat. [474] _Here after foloweth_, &c.] From the ed. by Kynge and Marche of _Certaine bokes compyled by mayster Skelton_, n. d., collated with the same work, ed. Day, n. d., and ed. Lant, n. d., with Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568, and occasionally with the comparatively modern ed. of _Elinovr Rummin_ by Rand, 1624. [475] _Grained_] So eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand). Eds. of Kynge and Marche, and of Lant, “Greuyned.” [476] _huckels_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “buckels.” [477] _Lyke as they were_, &c.] This line not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand). [478] _Legged_] So Rand’s ed. Other eds. “Legges.” [479] _iolly fet_] Lant’s ed. “Joyly _fet_.” Marshe’s ed., (and Rand’s ed.), “_iolly_ set.” [480] _doth it_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “it dothe.” [481] _For_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “And.” [482] _gytes_] Marshe’s ed. “getes.” (Rand’s ed. “geetes.”) [483] _pletes_] Qy. “plytes?” [484] _That wey_] So Lant’s ed., (and Rand’s ed.) Other eds. “_That_ they _way_.” [485] _in_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “_in_ a.” [486] _Capped_] Lant’s ed. “Lapped”—rightly, perhaps. [487] _as a gose_] So eds. of Day, and Marshe. Eds. of Kynge and Marche, and of Lant, “_as_ she _gose_.” [488] _blanket_] So Lant’s ed. (Rand’s ed. “blanked.”) Other eds. “blauket.” [489] _Ouer the falowe_] Not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand.) [490] _dwelt_] Qy. “dwels?” [491] _port sale_] So Lant’s ed. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “pore _sale_.” Day’s ed. “poore _sale_.” Marshe’s ed. “poorte _sale_.” (Rand’s ed. “pot-_sale_.”) See notes. [492] _on_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “of.” [493] _vnlased_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “vnbrased.” [494] _Some huswyues_, &c.] This line not in eds. of Day, and Marshe. (Rand’s ed. “And some all unlaced.”) [495] _It ... it_] Qy. “That ... that?” [496] _My_] Lant’s ed. “Myne.” [497] _hogges_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “dogges.” [498] _His rumpe_, &c.] This line not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand). [499] _Agaynst_] Day’s ed. “Againe.” [500] _dyrt_] So Lant’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.) Other eds. “drit.” [501] _into_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “in.” [502] _mytyng_] Eds. of Kynge and Marche, and of Lant, “nytyng.” Day’s ed. “nittinge.” Marshe’s ed. “nittine.” (Rand’s ed. “mittine.”) See notes. [503] _fonny_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “fanny.” [504] _Instede of coyne_, &c.] In Skelton’s _Workes_, 1736, the passage is thus exhibited: “Some _instede of coine and monny_ Will come and _brynge her a conny_ Or else _a pot with honni_ _Some a_ knife _and some a spone_ _Some_ brynge _their hose, some ther shone_.” [505] _ran_] Rand’s ed. “run,”—rightly, perhaps.