v. 99. _Eliconys_] i. e. Helicon’s. v. 101. _commyth_] i. e. becometh. Page 129. v. 101. _remorde_] Fr. “_Remordre._ To bite again; also, to carpe at, or find fault with.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ The word is frequently used by Skelton (see, for instance, vol. i. 188, where he introduces it with other terms nearly synonymous,—“reprehending” and “rebukynge”). v. 102. _creaunser_] i. e. tutor: see _Account of Skelton and his Writings_.—Erasmus, in his _Paraph. in Epist. Pauli ad Galat._ cap. 4. v. 2,—_Opp._ vii. 956. ed. 1703-6, has these words; “sed metu cohibetur, sed alieno arbitrio ducitur, sub _tutoribus_ et actoribus agens,” &c.: which are thus rendered in _The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testament_, vol. ii. fol. xiii. ed. 1548-9; “but is kept vnder with feare, and ruled as other men wyll, passyng that tyme vnder _creansers_ and gouernours,” &c. (Fr. _creanser_.) v. 105. _primordialle_] i. e. original, earliest. v. 106. _rybawde_] i. e. ribald. —— _reclame_] i. e. tame,—a metaphor from falconry; see note, p. 148. v. 1125. v. 111. _warlde_] i. e. world. v. 114. _bawdy_] i. e. foul; see note, p. 161. v. 90. Page 130. v. 117. _Thow_] i. e. Though. —— _pyllyd_] See note, p. 184. v. 68. —— _sade_] i. e. sad,—sober, discreet,—wise (see the preceding line). v. 120. _Thowth_] i. e. Though. v. 122. _throw_] i. e. little while, moment. v. 125. _thé froo_] i. e. from thee. v. 127. _lewde_] i. e. ignorant. —— _shrow_] i. e. curse. v. 132. _Prickyd_] i. e. Pointed. v. 133. _I wold sum manys bake ink horne_ _Wher thi nose spectacle case_] —_manys_, i. e. man’s: _bake_, i. e. back: _Wher_, i. e. Were. Compare our author’s poem against Dundas, v. 37. vol. i. 194, and Bale’s _Kynge Iohan_, p. 35. Camden ed. v. 135. _wyll_] i. e. well; as before in this poem. v. 136. _ouyrthwarthe_] i. e. overthwart,—cross, perverse, cavillous, captious. v. 144. _steuyn_] i. e. voice. v. 145. _follest_] i. e. foulest. v. 146. _lyddyr_] Or _lither_,—is—sluggish, slothful, idle; but the word is often used in the more general meaning of wicked, evil, depraved. Page 130. v. 146. _lewde_] i. e. ignorant. v. 147. _well thewde_] i. e. well dispositioned, well mannered. Page 131. v. 148. _Besy_] i. e. Busy. v. 149. _Syr Wrig wrag_] A term several times used by Skelton; see note, p. 189. v. 186. v. 151. _slyght_] i. e. trick, contrivance. v. 153. _to mykkylle_] i. e. too much. v. 154. _I xulde but lese_] i. e. I should but lose. v. 155. _tragydese_] i. e. tragedies. Skelton does not mean here dramatic pieces: compare his piece _Against the Scottes_, v. 72. vol. i. 184. So Lydgate’s celebrated poem, _The TRAGEDIES, gathered by Iohn Bochas, of all such Princes as fell from theyr estates_, &c. v. 157. _my proces for to saue_]—_proces_, i. e. story; see notes, p. 143. v. 735. p. 146. v. 969. So our author in his _Why come ye nat to Courte_; “Than, our _processe for to stable_.” v. 533. vol. ii. 43. v. 158. _xall_] i. e. shall.