Roquefort (_Gloss. de la Langue Romaine_) cites these lines under “_Papelardie_, papelardise: Hypocrisie, tromperie, subtilité, mauvaise foi.” See too Du Cange’s _Gloss._ in vv. _Papelardia_, _Papelardus_. Compare also Lydgate; “And for _popholy_ and uyce loke wel aboute.” _The prohemy of a mariage_, &c.,—_MS. Harl._ 372. fol. 51. and Barclay; “Ouer sad or proude, disceitfull and _pope holy_.” _The Ship of Fooles_, fol. 57. ed. 1570. and the _Interlude of the iiii Elementes_, n. d.; “For rather than I wolde vse suche foly To pray to study or be _pope holy_ I had as lyf be ded.” Sig. B ii. Page 209. l. 33. _orgulyous_] i. e. proud, insolent. Page 210. v. 22. _vnbrent_] i. e. unburnt. v. 23. _content_] As the marginal note has _Convenio_, is it not a misprint for “convent?” v. 24. _leudly_] i. e. badly, wickedly. v. 26. _disable_] i. e. disqualify, degrade, disparage: “_disablinge_ hymself in wordes, though his entent was otherwise.” Hall’s _Chron._ (Hen. _viii._) fol. lvii. ed. 1548. v. 37. _ianglyng_] i. e. babbling, chattering,—noisy. v. 38. _clawes_] i. e. clause. v. 39. _poppyng dawes_] Compare our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_; “_Poppynge_ folysshe _dawes_.” v. 261. vol. ii. 35. and v. 121 of the present piece; “And porisshly _forthe popped_ Your sysmaticate sawes.” “_Popping_, blabbing, like a popinjay or parrot.” _Gloss._ to _Exmoor Scolding_: _dawes_, i. e. simpletons; see note, p. 113. v. 301. Page 210. v. 45. _recrayed_] See note, p. 223. v. 26. v. 48. _baudrie_] i. e. foul language: see note, p. 161. v. 90. v. 50. _to_] i. e. too. Page 211. v. 54. _confettred_] i. e. confederated. v. 61. _attamed_] i. e. tamed. v. 65. _sorte_] i. e. set, company. v. 66. _fayne_] i. e. glad. v. 75. _Te he, &c._] Expressions of laughter; “_Te he_, quod she, and clapt the window to.” Chaucer’s _Milleres Tale_, v. 3738. ed. Tyr. v. 76. _mo_] i. e. more. Page 212. v. 87. _reny_] i. e. renounce, abjure. v. 89. _brende_] i. e. burnt. v. 92. _discured_] i. e. discovered. v. 95. _Ye are vnhappely vred._ _In your dialeticall, &c._] The old (and unique) copy is without punctuation in this passage; but that the first line closes the sense, and that Skelton did not mean that these heretics were _unhappely ured in their dialectical_, &c. would appear from a comparison of other passages: “Agaynst these heretykes, Nowe of late abiured, Most _vnhappely vred_: For be ye wele assured,” &c. v. 403 of the present piece. “But men nowe a dayes so _vnhappely be vryd_, That nothynge than welth may worse be enduryd.” _Magnyfycence_, v. 6. vol. i. 226. “O Scottes pariured, _Vnhaply vred_, Ye may be assured,” &c. _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c. v. 125. vol. ii. 71. In our author’s _Colyn Cloute_ we find, “Wherfore he hath good _vre_,” &c. v. 1003. vol. i. 350.