Page 126. v. 204. _Jake a thrum_] In his _Magnyfycence_ our author mentions “_Jacke a thrommys_ bybyll,” v. 1444. vol. i. 272 (also in his _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 209. vol. i. 370); and in his _Colyn Cloute_ he uses the expression,— “As wyse as _Tom a thrum_.” v. 284. vol. i. 322,— where the MS. has “_Jacke_ athrum.”—Compare: “And therto acordes too worthi prechers, _Jacke a Throme_ and Ione Brest-Bale.” _Burlesques,—Reliquiæ Antiquæ_ (by Wright and Halliwell), i. 84. _goliardum_] Equivalent, probably, to buffoon, or ridiculous rhymer. See Du Cange’s Gloss. in v., Tyrwhitt’s note on Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, v. 562, and Roquefort’s _Gloss._ in v. _Goliard_. _lusty Garnyshe well beseen Crystofer_] See note on title of the third of these poems, p. 183. Page 126. v. 1. _gargone_] i. e. _Gorgon_. v. 3. _Thowthe ye kan skylle of large and longe_] i. e. Though you be skilled in large and long; see note, p. 95. v. 49. v. 4. _Ye syng allway the kukkowe songe:_ ... _Your chorlyshe chauntyng ys al o lay_] —_o lay_, i. e. one strain. So Lydgate; “_The cokkowe syng can_ than _but oon lay_.” _The Chorle and the Bird_,—_MS. Harl._ 116. fol. 151. v. 12. _Cicero with hys tong of golde_] So Dunbar speaking of Homer and _Tully_; “Your _aureate tongis_ both bene all to lyte,” &c. _Poems_, i. 13. ed. Laing. v. 17. _xalte_] i. e. shalt. —— _warse_] i. e. worse. v. 18. _They_] i. e. Thy; as in the preceding poem. Page 127. v. 23. _lest good kan_] i. e. that knows the least good. v. 25. _wylage_] i. e. village. v. 28. _Lothsum as Lucifer_] So in _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4), “_Luciferis_ laid.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 75. ed. Laing. v. 29. _gasy_] i. e. gaze, look proudly. v. 30. _Syr Pers de Brasy_] i. e. Pierre de Brézé, grand-seneschal of Anjou, Poitou, and Normandy, and a distinguished warrior during the reigns of Charles vii. and Lewis xi.: he fell at the battle of Montlhéry in 1465. v. 31. _caytyvys carkes_] i. e. caitiff’s carcass. v. 32. _blasy_] i. e. blaze, set forth. v. 33. _Gorge Hardyson_] Perhaps the “George Ardeson” who is several times mentioned in the unpublished _Bokis of Kyngis Paymentis Temp. Hen._ vii. _and_ viii., preserved in the Chapter-House, Westminster: one entry concerning him is as follows; “[xxiii. of Hen. vii.] _George Ardeson_ and Domynicke Sall er } bounden in an obligacion to pay for the } lycence of cccl buttes of malvesey viˢ viiiᵈ }cxviˡⁱ xiiiˢ.” for euery but within iii monethes next } after they shalbe layde vpon lande } Page 127. v. 34. _habarion_] i. e. habergeon. “_Haburion._ Lorica.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. v. 35. the _Januay_] i. e. the Genoese. “The _ianuays_ ... Genuenses.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. k iii. ed. 1530. v. 36. _trysyd hys trowle away_] i. e. (I suppose) enticed away his trull. v. 37. _paiantes_] See note, p. 189. v. 190. v. 39. _gate_] i. e. got.