l. 26. _pipplyng_] i. e. piping: compare our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 676. vol. i. 388. l. 29. _lusty_] i. e. pleasant, desirable. Page 208. l. 1. _sped_] i. e. versed. l. 2. _connyng_] i. e. knowledge, learning. v. 8. —— _in the Uyntre_ _At the Thre Cranes_] Here the tavern with the sign of the Three Cranes is meant: the _three cranes_ were originally three strong cranes of timber, placed on the Vintry-wharf, for lifting from the ships the vessels of foreign wine which were landed there. Page 208. v. 16. _enflamed_] i. e. burned. last l. _Ouer_] i. e. Besides. —— _processe_] i. e. treatise; see notes, p. 143. v. 735. p. 146. v. 969. p. 195. v. 157; and compare v. 160 of this piece with the heading before v. 343, where “_matter_” and “_processe_” are used as synonymous. Page 209. l. 5. _tetrycall_] i. e. sour, sullen, gloomy. l. 6. _friscaioly_] So in the _Interlude of the iiii Elementes_, n. d.; “Synge _frysha Joly_ with hey troly loly.” Sig. B ii. l. 7. _moche better bayned than brayned_] Does _bayned_ here mean—boned? In (at least Scottish) poetry we frequently find the expression “_bayne_ [bone] and brayne:” see, for instance, Henry’s _Wallace_, B. vii. v. 596. ed. Jam. l. 9. _burblyng_] “I _Burbyll_ or spring vp as water dothe out of a spring.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. clxxix. (Table of Verbes). “And playd with _burbels_ of the water.” _Marie Maudelein_, p. 239,—Turnbull’s _Legendæ Cathol._ (from the Auchinleck MS.) “The _burbly_ wawes in vp boyling.” Lydgate’s _Chorle and the Bird_,—_MS. Harl._ 116. fol. 147,— where a word has dropt out of the line. (The ed. reprinted for the Roxburgh Club has— “The _burbill_ wawes in their vp boyllyng.”) —— _blode_] i. e. blood. l. 11. _rechelesse_] i. e. reckless. l. 15. _perihermeniall principles_] i. e. principles of interpretation. “_Periermeniæ_, Interpretationes; vox Græcæ originis περὶ ἑρμηνείας.” Du Cange’s _Gloss._ l. 17. _leudly_] i. e. ignorantly—or perhaps, wickedly. l. 23. _surcudant_] i. e. presumptuous, arrogant. l. 24. _popholy_] Occurs again several times in our author’s writings, and with the more correct spelling,—_popeholy_. In _Pierce Plowman_ we find, “And none so singuler by him selfe, nor so _pope holy_.” Sig. T ii. ed. 1561. In Chaucer’s _Romaunt of the Rose_ is the following description; “Another thing was doen their [there] write, That seemed like an ipocrite, And it was cleped _pope holy_, That ilke is she that priuily Ne spared neuer a wicked deed When men of her taken none heed, And maketh her outward precious, With pale visage and piteous, And seemeth a simple creature,” &c. _Workes_, fol. 111. ed. 1602. The original French of the preceding passage is,— “Une autre imaige estoit escripte, Qui sembloit bien estre ypocrite, _Papelardie_ est appellée,” &c. _Le Rom. de la Rose_, vol. i. 15. ed. 1735.