v. 11. _Ye countyr vmwhyle to capcyously, and ar ye be dysiryd_]—_countyr_; see note, p. 92: _vmwhyle_, i. e. some time: _to_, i. e. too: _ar_, i. e. ere. v. 12. _all to-myryd_] See note, p. 100. v. 32,—meaning, I suppose, all befouled. v. 15. _Gabionyte of Gabyone_] So in his _Replycacion agaynst certayne yong scolers_, &c. Skelton calls them “_Gabaonitæ_,” vol. i. 218. —— _gane_] “I _Gane_ or gape.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccxliii. (Table of Verbes). v. 16. _Huf a galante_] Compare; “_Hof hof hof a frysch galaunt._” _Mary Magdalene,—An. Mysteries from the Digby MSS._ p. 85. ed. Abbotsf. “Make rome syrs and let vs be mery With _huffa galand_ synge tyrll on the bery.” _Interlude of the iiii. Elementes_, n. d. sig. B ii. In some _Glossary_, to which I have lost the reference, is “_Huff_, a gallant.” Page 118. v. 16. _loke_] i. e. look. v. 17. _Lusty_] See note on title of the next poem, p. 183. —— _jet_] i. e. strut; see note, p. 94. v. 43. —— _jaspe_] Does it mean—wasp? v. 19. _that of your chalennge makyth so lytyll fors_] i. e. that maketh (make) so little matter of your challenge. Page 119. v. 22. _Syr Gy_, _Syr Gawen_, _Syr Cayus_, _for and Syr Olyuere_] Concerning the two first see notes, p. 136. v. 629: _Cayus_, or Kay, was the foster-brother of King Arthur; see the _Morte d’Arthur_, &c. &c.: _for and_ is an expression occasionally found in much later writers; see Middleton’s _Fair Quarrel_, act v. sc. 1., _Works_, iii. 544. ed. Dyce; and Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Knight of the Burning Pestle_,— “_For and_ the Squire of Damsels, as I take it.” Act ii. sc. 2. [sc. 3.],— a passage which the modern editors have most absurdly altered: _Olyuere_ was one of the twelve peers of France. v. 23. _Priamus_] Perhaps the personage so named, who fought with Gawayne, and was afterwards made a knight of the Round Table; see _Morte d’Arthur_, B. v. ch. x. xii. vol. i. 148 sqq. ed. Southey. v. 24. _Arturys auncyent actys_] An allusion, perhaps, more particularly to the _Morte d’Arthur_; see its other title in note, p. 137. v. 634. v. 25. _fysnamy_] i. e. physiognomy. So in _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4.) “—— thy frawart phisnomy.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 68. ed. Laing. v. 26. _to hawte_] i. e. too haughty. —— _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.). v. 29. _Godfrey_] See note on title of this poem, p. 180. —— _gargons_] i. e. Gorgon’s. v. 30. _Syr Olifranke_] Qy. a mistake of the transcriber for _Syr Olifaunte_, the giant mentioned in Chaucer’s _Sire Thopas_? —— _splay_] i. e. display. v. 31. _Baile_] Seems to mean—howl, cry. “I _Balle_ as a curre dogge doth, _Ie hurle_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. clvii. (Table of Verbes). —— _folys_] i. e. fools. v. 32. _ȝe_] i. e. ye. Page 119. v. 36. _Gup_] See note, p. 99. v. 17. —— _gorbellyd_] i. e. big-bellied. v. 37. _turney_] i. e. tourney, contend.