v. 175. _sumner_] See note on v. 51. p. 217. Page 188. v. 177. _to_] i. e. too. _Quod_] i. e. Quoth. _per desertum Sin_] “Profectique sunt de Elim, et venit omnis multitudo filiorum Israel in _desertum Sin_, quod est inter Elim et Sinai,” &c. _Exod._ xvi. l. (_Vulgate_). VNTO DIUERS PEOPLE THAT REMORD THIS RYMYNGE, &c. Page 188. _remord_] See note, p. 193. v. 101. v. 7. _makynge_] i. e. composing, composition. v. 8. _Their males therat shakynge_]—_males_, i. e. bags, wallets: compare our author’s _Colyn Cloute_; “I purpose to _shake oute_ All my _connyng bagge_.” v. 50. vol. i. 313. v. 14. _brother_] See note, p. 219. v. 106. Page 189. v. 21. _pyketh mood_] i. e. grows angry, picks a quarrel. v. 26. _recrayed_] i. e. recreant, false (the idea of _cowardice_ is certainly not implied here). v. 30. _died excomunycate_] See note, p. 222. v. 169. v. 37. _ouerthwartes_] i. e. cross, perverse objections, cavils. CHORUS DE DIS, &c. _Dis_] Of which Skelton was rector; see _Account of his Life and Writings_. Page 190. vv. 17, 18. _Leo Candidus ... Leo tu Rubeus_] See note, p. 220. v. 135. CHORUS DE DIS, &c. SUPER TRIUMPHALI VICTORIA CONTRA GALLOS, &c. These verses (placed immediately after the poems on the Battle of Flodden, in the eds.) relate to an event which happened about the same period. Henry viii. having in person invaded France, in conjunction with the Emperor Maximilian, they proceeded to the siege of Terouenne. An attempt on the part of Louis to relieve the town occasioned the Battle of the Spurs, August 16, 1513, in which the Duke of Longueville, Clermont, &c. were made prisoners. Terouenne surrendered to Henry on the 22d of that month, and its defences were razed to the ground on the 27th. In these dates I follow Lingard. Page 191. v. 13. _Gloria Cappadocis, divæ milesque Mariæ_] i. e. St. George, whom our author has before termed “our Ladies knyght,” see note, p. 220. v. 141. During this war, the Emperor, to flatter Henry’s vanity, wore his badge of the red rose, assumed the cross of St. George, and accepted a hundred crowns daily as the soldier of the English king. VILITISSIMUS SCOTUS DUNDAS, &c. “Georgius Dundas, Græce Latineque doctissimus habitus, Equitum Hierosolymitanorum intra Regnum Scotiæ præfectus, sed prius Aberdoniæ Professor. Scripsit diligenter, et laboriose. _Historiam Equitum Hierosolymitanorum_, lib. ii. Claruit anno MDXX.” Dempsteri _Hist. Eccles. Gentis Scotorum_, &c. 1627, p. 234. This George Dundas was, I apprehend, the person who excited the wrath of Skelton. Page 192. v. 1. _Anglicus a tergo_ _caudam gerit_, &c.] These three hexameters are, it would seem, the composition of Dundas.