v. 37. _As a glede glowynge_] i. e. glowing like a burning coal:—but qy. did Skelton write “as a glede _glowrynge_?” i. e. staring like a kite. He uses _glede_ in this latter sense in _Magnyfycence_, v. 1059. vol. i. p. 259: and in _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4) we find,— “hungry _gled_.” ... “Lyke to ane stark theif _glowrand_ in ane tedder.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 70, 72. ed. Laing. —— _ien_] i. e. eyne, eyes. v. 39. _passe_] i. e. excel. v. 40. _Howkyd as an hawkys beke, lyke Syr Topyas_] i. e. Hooked, &c. The allusion is to Chaucer’s _Sire Thopas_, who “had a semely nose.” v. 13659. ed. Tyr. v. 41. _buske_] i. e. prepare, or rather, perhaps, hie. v. 42. _fole_] i. e. fool. _Be_] i. e. By. _gorbelyd_] i. e. big-bellied. _Godfrey_] Concerning this person, who assisted Garnesche in his compositions, and is afterwards called his _scribe_, I can give the reader no information. Page 118. v. 2. _[Your] gronynge, ȝour grontynge, your groinynge lyke a swyne_] Skelton has elsewhere; “Hoyning like hogges that _groynis_ and wrotes.” _Against venemous tongues_, vol. i. 132. “The Gruntyng and the _groynninge_ of the gronnyng swyne.” _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 1376. vol. i. 415. To _groin_ is explained to groan, to grunt, to growl; but perhaps our author may have used it like the French “_Groigner_. To nuzle, or to root with the snout.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ v. 3. _alle to peuiche_] See note, p. 100. v. 32. v. 4. _mantycore_] See note, p. 127. v. 294. —— _maltaperte_] i. e. malapert, (perhaps an error of the transcriber). v. 5. _lere_] i. e. complexion, skin. —— _gresyd bote_] i. e. greased boot. Page 118. v. 6. _Ye cappyd Cayface copious, your paltoke on your pate,_ _Thow ye prate lyke prowde Pylate, be ware yet of chek mate_] —_Cayface_, i. e. Caiaphas: _copious_ is perhaps an allusion to some sort of cope, in which that personage might have figured on the stage. The usual explanations of _paltock_ (“_Paltok._ Baltheus,” _Prompt. Parv._; “a short garment of the doublet kind,” Strutt’s _Dress and Habits_, &c. ii. 352) do not seem to suit the present passage. In Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr_., 1530. fol. lii. (Table of Subst.) we find “_Paltocke_ a patche _palleteau_;” and see what immediately follows in this poem: _Thow_, i. e. Though: _chek mate_; see note, p. 96. v. 29. Compare _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4) “Thow irefull attircop, _Pylat_ appostata.” ... ...“_Cayphass_ thy fectour.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 85, 86. ed. Laing. v. 8. _Hole_] i. e. Whole, healed. —— _Deu[ra]ndall_] Was the celebrated sword of Roland: see (among other works which might be referred to) Caxton’s _Lyf of Charles the Grete_, &c., 1485, “How Rolland deyed holyly after many martyres and orysons made to god ful deuoutely, and of the complaynte maad for _hys swerde durandal_.” Sig. m i. —— _awne_] i. e. own.