v. 129. _daw_] i. e. simpleton; see note, p. 113. v. 301. v. 137. _hawkis bels_] i. e. the bells attached to the feet of the hawk. v. 138. _losels_] i. e. good-for-nothing fellows,—the same as _lorels_, which has several times occurred before (see note, p. 132. v. 488, &c.): “Lorell or _losell_ or lurdeyn.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “Lorrell or _losell_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xlv. (Table of Subst.). v. 142. _snappar_] i. e. stumble; but see note, p. 92. v. 4. v. 144. _loke_] i. e. look. Page 160. v. 146. _bokis_] i. e. books. v. 149. _mayden Meed_] See the allegorical account of Meed in _Pierce Plowman_; where we find, “That is _mede the maid_, quod she, hath noyed me full oft.” Sig. B iv. ed. 1561. and again, “Saue _mede the mayde_,” &c. sig. C iii. “Now is _mede the mayde_,” &c. ibid. v. 158. _toke_] i. e. took. v. 159. _this_] Perhaps for _thus_: compare v. 181. v. 164. _Exodi_] i. e. the book of _Exodus_. “In _Exodi_ ben these mencions.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. i. leaf vii. ed. Wayland. Page 160. v. 166. _Regum_] i. e. _The Third_, now called _The First, Book of Kings_. Page 161. v. 178. _the rode_] See note on v. 69. p. 206. v. 181. _this_] i. e. thus; see note, p. 86. v. 38. v. 183. _dowues donge_] i. e. pigeon’s dung. v. 194. _croked_] i. e. crooked. —— _Cacus_] See extract from _The Recuyel of the Historyes of Troy_, in note, p. 213. v. 23. v. 196. _Nother_] i. e. Neither. —— _Olibrius_] Was “the provost” by whose order Saint Margaret, after being put to sundry tortures, was beheaded at Antioch. _Golden Legende_, fol. ccxiiii. sqq. ed. 1483. See also _The Legend of Seynt Mergrete_, printed from the Auchinleck MS., in Turnbull’s _Legendæ Catholicæ_. Most readers will recollect Mr. Milman’s dramatic poem, _The Martyr of Antioch_. v. 198. —— _Phalary,_ _Rehersed in Valery_] i. e. Phalaris, recorded in Valerius Maximus, lib. iii. cap. iii. (where it is related that the Agrigentines, at the instigation of Zeno Eleates, stoned the tyrant Phalaris to death. “’Tis plain,” says Bentley, “he mistakes Phalaris for Nearchus.” _Diss. upon the Ep. of Phalaris_,—_Works_, i. 241. ed. Dyce), and lib. ix. cap. ii. v. 200. _Sardanapall_] So our early writers often spell his name; “Last of all was _Sardanapall_.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, Boke ii. leaf L. ed. Wayland. Page 162. v. 204. _Egeas_] Is mentioned with various other evil personages in _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_, “Herod thy uthir eme, and grit _Egeass_.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 86. ed. Laing. and in the Second Part of Marlowe’s _Tamburlaine_; “The headstrong jades of Thrace Alcides tamed, That King Egeus fed with humane flesh.” Last sc. of act iv. sig. G 3. ed. 1606. v. 205. _Syr Pherumbras_] See note, p. 178. v. 15. v. 211. _poll by poll_] i. e. head by head,—one by one. “And ye shall here the names _poll by poll_.” _Cocke Lorelles bote_, sig. B ii.