v. 42. _lewdly_] i. e. vilely, meanly. —— _gere_] i. e. apparel. v. 46. _dud frese_] i. e. coarse frieze. v. 52. _ȝe_] i. e. ye. v. 53. _warde_] i. e. wardrobe. v. 54. _kyst a shepys ie_] i. e. cast a sheep’s eye. v. 56. _gonge_] i. e. privy. v. 62. _bassyd_] i. e. kissed. Page 122. v. 68. _pyllyd garleke hed_] Palsgrave has both “_Pylled_, as one that wanteth heare,” and “_Pylled_ scalled.” _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xciii. (Table of Adiect.). Compare the next poem _Against Garnesche_; “Thow callyst me _scallyd_, thou callyst me mad: Thow thou be _pyllyd_, thow ar nat sade.” v. 116. vol. i. 130. _Pilled-garlick_ was a term applied to a person whose hair had fallen off by disease; see Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._ in v. v. 69. _hocupy there no stede_] i. e. occupy there no place, stand in no stead,—avail nothing. v. 70. _Syr Gy of Gaunt_] So our author again, in his _Colyn Cloute_; “Auaunt, _syr Guy of Gaunt_.” v. 1157. vol. i. 355. In _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (which, as already shewn, strongly resembles the present pieces _Against Garnesche_ in several minute particulars) we find— “thow _spreit of Gy_.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 72. ed. Laing. and at p. 37 of the same vol., in _The Droichis Part of the Play_, attributed to Dunbar,— “I wait I am _the spreit of Gy_.” So too Sir D. Lyndsay in his _Epistill to the Kingis Grace_ before his _Dreme_,— “And sumtyme, lyke _the grislie gaist of Gy_.” Works, i. 187. ed. Chalmers,— who explains it “the well-known Sir Guy of romance.” But both Dunbar and Lyndsay allude to a story concerning the ghost of a person called Guy, an inhabitant of Alost. There is a Latin tract on the subject, entitled _De spiritu Guuidonis_, of which various translations into English are extant in MS. One of these is now before me, in verse, and consisting of 16 closely written 4to pages: _Here begynnyth a notabyll matere and a gret myracule don be oure lord ihesus cryst and shewyd In the ȝeer of his incarnacion MCCCXXIII._ [printed Latin tract now before me has MCCCXXIIII.] _and in the xvi day of decembyr in the Cete of Aleste. Whiche myracule ys of a certeyn man that was callyd Gy. and deyde and aftyr viii days he apperyd to his wyf aftyr the comaundment of god. of whiche apperyng she was aferd and oftyn tyme rauysshid. Than she toke conseyl and went to the ffreris of the same cete and tolde the Pryor ffrere Iohnn goly of this mater, &c._ As _Gaunt_ is the old name of Ghent, and as Alost is about thirteen miles from that city, perhaps the reader may be inclined to think,—what I should greatly doubt,—that Skelton also alludes to the same story. Page 122. v. 71. _olyfaunt_] i. e. elephant. v. 72. _pykes_] i. e. pickaxe. “_Pykeys._ Ligo. Marra.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499.