The White Lion was the badge of the Earl of Surrey, derived from his ancestors the Mowbrays. His arms were Gules, on a bend between six cross croslets, fitchy, argent: after the battle of Flodden, the king granted to him “an honourable augmentation of his arms, to bear _on the bend thereof_: _in an escutcheon Or, a demi Lion rampant, pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure flory and counterflory Gules_; which tressure is the same as surrounds the royal arms of Scotland.” Collins’s _Peerage_, i. 77. ed. Brydges. “If Scotlands Coat no marke of Fame can lend, That Lyon plac’d in our bright siluer-bend, Which as a Trophy beautifies our shield, Since Scottish bloud discoloured Floden-Field; When the proud Cheuiot our braue Ensigne bare, As a rich Jewell in a Ladies haire, And did faire Bramstons neighbouring vallies choke With clouds of Canons fire-disgorged smoke.” _Epistle from H. Howard Earle of Surrey to Geraldine_,—Drayton’s _Poems_, p. 86 [88], ed. 8vo. n. d. “George Buchanan reporteth that the Earle of Surrey gaue for his badge a Siluer Lion, which from Antiquitie belonged to that name, tearing in pieces a Lion prostrate Gules; and withall, that this which hee termes insolence, was punished in Him and his Posteritie,” &c. Drayton’s note on the preceding passage. —— _the Red_] The royal arms of Scotland. v. 139. _quyt_] i. e. requited. v. 141. _swete Sainct George, our ladies knyght_] “Our Lady’s knight” is the common designation of St. George: so in a song written about the same time as the present poem, _Cott. MS. Domit._ A. xviii. fol. 248; in _Sir Beues of Hamtoun_, p. 102. Maitl. ed. &c. &c. Page 186. v. 144. _His grace beyng out of the way_] i. e. Henry the Eighth being in France: see note on v. 53. p. 217. v. 148. _ye lost your sworde_] The sword and dagger, worn by James at the battle of Flodden, are preserved in the college of Heralds. An engraving of them is prefixed to Weber’s ed. of the poem, _Flodden Field_. Page 187. v. 149. _buskyd_] i. e. hied. —— _Huntley bankys_] So again in our author’s verses against Dundas; “That prates and prankes On _Huntley bankes_.” v. 57. vol. i. 194. and in his _Why come ye not to Courte_; “They [the Scottes] play their olde pranckes After _Huntley bankes_.” v. 263. vol. ii. 35. and in his poem _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c.; “Of the Scottes ranke Of _Huntley banke_.” v. 18. vol. ii. 68. Here again Skelton uses a Scottish name at random. The _Huntly-bank_, where, according to the charming old poem, Thomas the Rhymer met the Queen of Faery, is situated on one of the Eldoun hills. v. 153. _Of the kyng of Nauerne ye might take heed,_ _Vngraciously how he doth speed:_ _In double delynge so he did dreme,_ _That he is kynge without a reme;_ _And, for example ye would none take_, &c.]