Page 117. v. 22. _Of Mantryble the Bryge, Malchus the murryon_]—_murryon_, i. e. Moor; so in the third of these poems, Skelton calls Garnesche “Thou _murrionn_, thou mawment,” v. 170. vol. i. 125; so too in the Scottish Treasurer’s Accounts for 1501, “Peter the _Moryen_,” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 306. ed. Laing; and in a folio broadside, _M. Harry Whobals mon to M. Camell_, &c. (among the “flytings” of Churchyard and Camell), “Some _morryon_ boye to hold ye vp.” If the present passage means that the Bridge was guarded by a Moor called Malchus, I know not what authority Skelton followed. Concerning the Bridge of Mantryble see the analysis of the romance of _Sir Ferumbras_, Ellis’s _Spec. of Met. Rom._ ii. 389; and Caxton’s _Lyf of Charles the Grete_, &c., 1485, “Of the meruayllous bridge of Mantryble, of the trybute there payed for to passe ouer,” &c., sig. e viii., and how “the strong brydge of mantryble was wonne not wythoute grete payne,” sig. h viii.: it was kept by a giant, named Algolufre in the former, and Galafre in the latter, who was slain by the Frenchmen when the Bridge was won. In _The Bruce_ of Barbour, the hero reads to his followers “Romanys off worthi Ferambrace” and how Charlemagne “wan _Mantrybill_ and passit Flagot.” B. ii. v. 832 sqq. ed. Jam. “The tail of _the brig of the mantribil_” is mentioned in _The Complaynt of Scotland_, p. 98. ed. Leyden. Compare also _Don Quixote_; “nor that [history] of Fierabras, with the _Bridge of Mant[r]ible_, which befell in Charlemaines time, and is, I sweare, as true, as that it is day at this instant.” P. i. B. iv. c. xxii. p. 546., Shelton’s trans., 1612. Page 117. v. 23. _blake Baltazar with hys basnet routh as a bere_] Does _blake Baltazar_ mean one of the Magi, or, as they were commonly called, the Three Kings of Cologne? “the third, Balthasar, a black or Moor, with a large spreading beard,” &c. _Festa Anglo-Romana_, p. 7, cited in Brand’s _Pop. Ant._ i. 19 (note), ed. 1813: _with hys basnet routh as a bere_, i. e. with his cap (not helmet, it would seem,) rough as a bear. v. 24. _Lycon, that lothly luske_]—_Lycon_ is probably Lycaon; see note, p. 127. v. 311. “Here is a great knaue i. a great lyther _luske_, or a stout ydell lubbar.” Palsgrave’s _Acolastus_, 1540. sig. X ii. “_Luske_ a vyle parsone _ribavlt, esclaue, lovrdavlt_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xlvi. (Table of Subst.). The word is often used as a term of reproach in general. v. 25. _brymly_] i. e. fiercely, ruggedly. —— _here_] i. e. hair. v. 26. _bake_] i. e. back. —— _gere_] i. e. dress. v. 30. _a camoke_] Is explained—a crooked stick, or tree; a crooked beam, or knee of timber. v. 31. _teggys_] See note, p. 164. v. 151. Page 117. v. 33. _Orwelle hyr hauyn_] By Harwich. v. 36. _Sarson_] i. e. Saracen. So in _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4), “_Sarazene_, syphareit,” &c. Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 75. ed. Laing. —— _ble_] i. e. colour, complexion.