v. 60. _Dunde, Dunbar_] See note, p. 219. v. 121. v. 63. _to far_] i. e. too far. ELEGIA IN COMITISSAM DE DERBY. This illustrious and excellent lady, born in 1441, was Margaret, the only child of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Her first husband was Edmund, Earl of Richmond, who died in 1456, a little more than a year after their marriage, the sole issue of which was Henry, afterwards King Henry the Seventh. Her second husband was Sir Henry Stafford, second son of Humphrey, the great Duke of Buckingham. Her third husband was Thomas Lord Stanley, afterwards the first Earl of Derby of his name. Having survived him, as also her son King Henry, she died June 29, 1509, in her 69th year, and was buried in the magnificent chapel then lately erected in Westminster Abbey. Page 195. v. 5. _polyandro_] _Polyandrum_ or _polyandrium_, (properly, _multorum commune sepulchrum_—πολυάνδριον)—“Interdum et sæpius apud ævi inferioris scriptores sumitur pro monumento aut sepulcro unius hominis.” Du Cange’s _Gloss_.—Here it means, of course, the tomb of Henry vii.—Whiting has anglicised the word in a poem appended to his _Albino and Bellama_, 1638; “King Ethelbert’s clos’d in his _Poliander_.” Sig. H 7. v. 7. _Titus hanc, &c._] i. e. Livy, who gives an account of Tanaquil, wife of Tarquinius Priscus: see his _Hist._ i. 34, &c.—“Tanaquilem Sidonius Apollinaris et Ausonius pro egregia uxore.” Cassellii _Var._ lib. i. c. xiii. p. 210 (Gruteri _Lampas_, iii.). v. 19. _Abyron_] i. e. Abiram: see _Numbers_, ch. xvi. Page 196. v. 25. _perituræ parcere chartæ_] Juvenal, _Sat._ i. 18. —— _phagolœdoros_] i. e. (φαγολοιδόρους) _convicia et maledicta devorantes_. WHY WERE YE CALLIOPE, &c. _were_, i. e. wear: concerning this dress, worn, it would seem, by Skelton as Laureat, see _Account of his Life and Writings_. Page 197. v. 16. _somdele sere_] i. e. somewhat dry, withered. v. 17. _fayne_] i. e. glad, willing. THE BOKE OF THREE FOOLES. This piece is a paraphrase of three portions of Brant’s _Ship of Fools_: see the Latin version by Locher, _Stultifera Nauis_, ed. 1497,—_Vxorem ducere propter opes_, fol. lx., _De livore et inuidia_, fol. lxi., and _De voluptate corporali_, fol. lviii.: the same sections will be found accompanying Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, ed. 1570,—fol. 95, fol. 97, and fol. 92. Page 199. v. 3. _lygnage femynatyfe_] i. e. lineage feminine. v. 9. _sythe_] i. e. since. Page 200. l. 1. _boke_] i. e. book. l. 2. _iyen_] i. e. eyes. —— _loke_] i. e. look. l. 3. _folysh_] i. e. foolish. l. 4. _Pecunyous_] i. e. Money-loving. —— _bee_] i. e. by. l. 5. _wyddred_] i. e. withered. l. 6. _nobles_] i. e. the gold coins so called. l. 8. _habandoneth_] i. e. abandoneth. Page 200. l. 9. _for to gather togyther the donge ... grese_] In the Latin of Locher; “Aruinam multi quærunt sub podice asselli: Et cumulant trullas: stercora vana petunt.” fol. lx. ed. 1497. l. 18. _thoughte_] See note, p. 101. v. 10.