[916] _Churches_] MS. “chyrche.” [917] _solfa_] MS. “solfe.” [918] _to be set_] MS. “_to sett_.” [919] _iurisdictions_] MS. “juridiccion.” [920] _afflictions_] MS. “afflyccion.” [921] _prescriptions_] MS. “prescripcion.” [922] _spirituall_] So MS. Eds. “the _spiritual_.” [923] _contradictions_] MS. “contradiccion.” [924] _fyctions_] MS. “affeccions.” [925] _great_] MS. “the _grete_.” [926] _neuer_] MS. “not.” [927] _thus_] MS. “thys.” [928] _barke_] So MS. Eds. “carke” (are careful, anxious,—which does not well suit the sense of the passage). Perhaps Skelton wrote “carpe” (talk, prate); for in the present poem we find the following similar, imperfect rhymes; “And some of them _barke_, Clatter and _carpe_.”—v. 549. “About churches and _market_: The bysshop on his _carpet_.”—v. 328. [929] _houses wolde_] MS. “howsoldes woll.” [930] _lene_] So MS. Eds. “lame.” [931] _haue full lytell care_] MS. “hathe but _lytell_ cure.” [932] _euyll_] MS. “yll.” [933] _say_] MS. “sathe.” [934] _for_] So MS. Eds. “full” and “ful.” See notes. [935] _Is for, &c._] MS. “_Ys they haue_ lytell _arte_.” [936] _sklender_] MS. “slendyr.” [937] _out of_] MS. “with _owte_.” [938] _As_] MS. “_As_ hyt.” [939] _werryn_] So MS. Eds. “wary.” [940] _theyr_] Not in MS. [941] _the_] MS. “thyse.” [942] _are_] MS. “be.” [943] _deuz decke_] MS. “decke.” [944] _They ar made, &c._] This line only in MS. [945] _Moche ... an_] MS. “Myche ... a.” [946] _Becket them_] MS. “Saynt Thomas of Canterbury.” [947] _they_] MS. “that _they_.” [948] _moche_] MS. “myche.” [949] _nay, nay_] So MS. Eds. “_nay_.” [950] _that_] Not in MS. [951] _But it is not, &c._] This line not in MS. [952] _Churche_] MS. “chyrche.” [953] _For lothe, &c._] This line not in MS. [954] _whan_] MS. “_when_ that.” [955] _Sare_] Other eds. “fare.” MS. “sciire.” (Perhaps Skelton wrote “_Seir_”—and in the next line “appeire.”) See notes. [956] _appare_] MS. “payre.” [957] _in_] Not in MS. [958] _to_] Not in Kytson’s ed. [959] _gose_] So other eds. and MS. Kele’s ed. “gooes.” [960] _ye_] MS. “yow.” [961] _owte_] So MS. Not in eds. [962] _In Lenton season_] MS. “_In_ lente so myche.” [963] _Ye pycke no shrympes nor_] MS. “Thus _pyke_ ne _shrympes_ ne.” [964] _nor_] MS. “ne.” [965] _Lenton_] MS. “lente.” [966] _Ye ... ne_] MS. “They ... nor.” [967] _lose_] So MS. Kele’s ed. “losse.” Other eds. “loose” (having in the next line “goose”). [968] _To a pygge, &c._] This line in MS. thus, “_To_ ete eythyr _pygge or gose_.” [969] _To knowe, &c._] This line found only in MS. [970] _surfled_] MS. “surfuld.” See notes. [971] _And howe whan ye_] MS. “And when they.” [972] _As at Sitientes_] MS. “At _att citientes_.” The editor of 1736 printed “As _Insipientes_.” See notes. [973] _are insufficientes_] MS. “_ad sufficientes_.” [974] _bestiall_] So MS. Eds. “bestyali” and “bestially.” [975] _vntaught_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “vntought.” [976] _take they_] MS. “they take.”