Page 156. v. 22. _dysgysed_] i. e. guilty of unbecoming conduct: so again in our author’s _Colyn Cloute_; “They mought be better aduysed Then to be so _dysgysed_.” v. 581. vol. i. 333. v. 30. _apostrofacion_] i. e. apostrophe. v. 34. _wrate_] i. e. wrote. v. 35. _lewde_] i. e. ignorant, worthless. v. 42. _Dis_] Of which Skelton was rector; see _Account of his Life and Writings_. v. 43. _fonde_] i. e. foolish. —— _fauconer_] i. e. falconer. v. 44. _pawtenar_] “_Pautner_ [_Pawtenere_, _MS. Harl._ 221.]. Cassidile.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “Will. Brito: _Cassidile_ dicitur pera Aucupis in modum reticuli facta, in quo ponit quos in casse, id est, rete, cepit.” Du Cange’s _Gloss._ in v. “Pera ... anglice a skryppe or a _pawtner_.” _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. v. 48. _hogeous_] i. e. hugeous, huge. v. 49. _auter_] i. e. altar. v. 50. _craked_] i. e. talked vauntingly. Page 157. v. 55. _yede_] i. e. went. v. 56. _pray_] i. e. prey. v. 60. _tyrid_] A term in falconry: the hawk _tired_ on what was thrown to her, when she pulled at and tore it. v. 62. _mutid_] i. e. dunged. —— _a chase_] Compare a passage in that curious tract, by Walter Smith, _xii Mery Jests of the wyddow Edyth_; “Her potage & eke her ale were well poudred With an holsome influence that surgeons call Pouder Sinipari that wil make on cast his gall:” in consequence of which, she is compelled suddenly to quit the supper-table, and, “When that she was vp, she got her foorth apace, And er she had walkt xxx fote, she marked _a chase_ And eftsones another, thrugh the Hal as she yede,” &c. Sig. f iii. ed. 1573. “A _chase_ at tennis is that spot where a ball falls, beyond which the adversary must strike his ball to gain a point or chace. At long tennis, it is the spot where the ball leaves off rolling.” Douce’s _Illust. of Shakespeare_, i. 485. Compare our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 880. vol. ii. 53. Page 157. v. 63. _corporas_] i. e. communion-cloth, the fine linen cloth used to cover the _body_, or consecrated elements. v. 65. _gambawdis_] i. e. gambols, pranks. v. 66. _wexid_] i. e. waxed. —— _gery_] “_Gerysshe_, wylde or lyght heeded _farouche_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxxviii. (Table of Adiect.). “Howe _gery_ fortune furyous and wode.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. iii. leaf lxxvii. ed. Wayland. “And as a swalowe _geryshe_ of her flyghte, Twene slowe and swifte, now croked nowe vpright.” _Ibid._ B. vi. leaf cxxxiiii. Tyrwhitt explains “_gery_—changeable.” _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_. Richardson observes that in the present passage of Skelton “it seems to be _giddy_ (sc.) with turning round.” _Dict._ in v.