v. 69. _the rode loft_] A loft (generally placed just over the passage out of the church into the chancel,) where stood the _rood_,—an image of Christ on the cross, with figures of the Virgin Mary and Saint John on each side of it: compare v. 126 of the present poem; “His hawke then flew vppon _The rode with Mary and John”_. v. 70. _perkyd_] i. e. perched. v. 71. _fauconer_] i. e. falconer. —— _prest_] i. e. ready. v. 72. _dow_] i. e. pigeon. v. 73. _And cryed, Stow, stow, stow!_] So Fansy, in our author’s _Magnyfycence_, exclaims to his hawk, “_Stowe_, byrde, _stowe, stowe_! It is best I fede my hawke now.” v. 980. vol. i. 257. Compare Brathwait’s _Merlin_; “But _stow_, bird, stow, See now the game’s afoote, And white-mail’d Nisus, He is flying to’t.” _Odes_, p. 250, appended to _Natures Embassie_, 1621. “Make them come from it to your fist, eyther much or little, with calling and chirping to them, saying: Towe, Towe, or _Stowe, Stowe_, as Falconers vse.” Turbervile’s _Booke of Falconrie_, &c. p. 182. ed. 1611. Page 157. v. 76. _lure_] See note, p. 147. v. 1100. v. 78. _endude_] “She [the hawk] _Enduyth_ whan her meete in her bowelles falle to dygestyon.” _Book of St. Albans_, by Juliana Barnes, sig. C iii. v. 79. _ensaymed_] i. e. purged from her grease. “_Ensayme_ of an hawke,” says the lady just quoted, “is the greeys.” Sig. A v. See too “How you shall _enseame_ a Hawke,” &c. in Turbervile’s _Booke of Falconrie_, &c. p. 115. ed. 1611. v. 80. _reclaymed_] i. e. tamed; see note, p. 148. v. 1125. v. 81. _fawconer_] i. e. falconer. —— _vnfayned_] Either, unfeignedly (in the next line but six is “not _fayne_ nor forge”) or un-glad, displeased: see note, p. 198. v. 30. Page 158. v. 83. _lyst_] i. e. liking, inclination. v. 85. _loked_] i. e. looked. —— _the frounce_] Is a distemper in which a whitish foam gathers in wrinkles (frounces) about the hawk’s mouth and palate. “The _Frounce_ proceedeth of moist and cold humours, which descend from the hawkes head to their palate and the roote of the tongue. And of that cold is engendred in the tongue the _Frownce_,” &c. Turbervile’s _Booke of Falconrie_, &c. p. 303. ed. 1611. v. 87. _the gorge_] “Is that part of the Hawk which first receiveth the meat, and is called the Craw or Crop in other fowls.” Latham’s _Faulconry_, (Explan. of Words of Art), 1658. v. 89. _clap_] i. e. stroke. v. 91. _sparred_] i. e. fastened, shut (“boltyd and barryd” being in the next line). v. 93. _wyth a prety gyn_]—_gyn_, i. e. contrivance. “And _with a prety_ gynne Gyue her husbande an horne.” _The boke of mayd Emlyn_, &c. n. d. sig. A ii. v. 100. _On Sainct John decollacion_] i. e. On the festival of the beheading of St. John. Page 158. v. 103. _secundum Sarum_] So in Sir D. Lyndsay’s _Complaynt of the Papingo_; “Suppose the geis and hennis suld cry alarum, And we sall serve _secundum usum Sarum_.” _Works_, i. 327. ed. Chal.