v. 6. _Syr Satrapas_] Neither with this, nor with the personage mentioned in the next line, have I any acquaintance. v. 8. _haue ye kythyd yow a knyght_]—_kythyd_, i. e. made known, shewn. “It _kythit_ be his cognisance _ane knight_ that he wes.” _Golagros and Gawane_, p. 137, _Syr Gawayne_, &c. ed. Bann. Garnesche had the dignity of knighthood; see _Account of Skelton and his Writings_. In the heading, and first line, of this poem, he is called _Master_; but knights were frequently so addressed. In Cavendish’s _Life of Wolsey_ mention is made of “Sir William Fitzwilliams, _a knight_,” who is presently called “_Master_ Fitzwilliams,” pp. 310, 311. ed. 1827, and of “Sir Walter Walshe, _knight_,” who is immediately after termed “_Master_ Walshe,” pp. 339, 340, and of “that worshipful _knight Master_ Kingston,” p. 374. Page 116. v. 8. _Syr Dugles the dowty_] “The high courage of Dowglasse wan him that addition of _Doughty Dowglasse_, which after grew to a Prouerbe.” Marg. Note on the description of the Battle of Shrewsbury, in Drayton’s _Polyolbion_, Song 22. p. 37. ed. 1622. v. 9. _currysly_] i. e. currishly. v. 10. _stowty_] i. e. stout. v. 11. _Barabas_] The robber mentioned in Scripture. —— _Syr Terry of Trace_]—_Trace_, i. e. Thrace: but I do not recollect any romance or history in which a Sir Terry of that country is mentioned. v. 12. _gyrne_] i. e. grin. —— _gomys_] i. e. gums. v. 15. _Syr Ferumbras the ffreke_]—_ffreke_ (common in romance-poetry in the sense of—man, warrior) is here, as the context shews, equivalent to furious fellow: we have had the word before, see p. 109. v. 187. Consult the analysis of the romance of _Sir Ferumbras_ in Ellis’s _Spec. of Met. Rom._ ii. 356, and Caxton’s _Lyf of Charles the Grete_, &c., 1485, for much about this Saracen, called in the latter _Fyerabras_,—“a meruayllous geaunte,”—“whyche was vaynquysshed by Olyuer, and at the laste baptysed, _and was after a Saynt in heuen_.” Sig. b viii. v. 16. _Syr capten of Catywade, catacumbas of Cayre_] _Cayre_ is Cairo; but I am unable to explain the line. In the opening of Heywood’s _Four P. P._, the Palmer says, he has been at “the graet God of Katewade,” alluding, as O. Gilchrist thinks, to Catwade-bridge in Sampford hundred in Suffolk, where there may have been a famous chapel and rood; see Dodsley’s _Old Plays_, i. 61. last ed. v. 17. _Thow_] i. e. Though. —— _Syr Lybyus_] See note, p. 138. v. 649. v. 18. _contenons oncomly_] i. e. countenance uncomely. v. 19. _apayere_] i. e. impair—become less.