in the note on which line I have cited various examples of _vre_ in the sense of—hap, luck; and in his poem _Against the Scottes_, “_Male vryd_ was your fals entent,” v. 111. vol. i. 185. which surely means—Ill-fortuned, &c. (Fr. _malheur_). Is _vnhappely vred_ to be considered as nearly synonymous with _male vryd_, or is it to be explained,—unhappily (evilly) _used_, practised, habituated? Page 212. v. 98. _If ye to remembrance call_ _Howe syllogisari_ _Non est ex particulari,_ _Neque negativis,_ _Recte concludere si vis_] “_Nullus syllogismus categoricus communis, vel ex solis particularibus, vel ex solis negativis constare potest._ Hanc [regulam] expresse tradit Aristoteles libro primo Prior. capite 24. numero primo. Hinc metrum hoc natum: Ex _particulari_ non est syllogizari, Neque _negativis_, recte concludere si vis.” Crakanthorp’s _Logicæ Libri Quinque_, 1622. p. 279. v. 107. _Your hertes than were hosed_] i. e. Your hearts were in your hose (breeches): so again our author in his _Why come ye nat to Courte_; “Their _hertes be in thyr_ hose.” v. 286. vol. ii. 35. See too Ray’s _Proverbs_, (Scottish), p. 292. ed. 1768. v. 113. _quosshons_] i. e. cushions. v. 115. _Harpocrates_] The God of Silence. Page 213. v. 120. _folysshly_] i. e. foolishly. —— _fopped_] A singular example of the word as a verb. v. 121. _porisshly_] In our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_ is “_porisshly_ pynk iyde,” v. 626. vol. i. 386 (and Palsgrave has “_Porisshly_, as one loketh that can nat se well”); see note on the passage: but I cannot determine the meaning of the word here. v. 124. _dawes_] i. e. simpletons; see note, p. 113. v. 301. v. 126. _elenkes_] i. e. elenchs (_elenchus_—in logic). v. 132. _prouoke and tyse_] i. e. incite and entice. v. 143. _exhibycion_] i. e. allowance of money. v. 144. _skoles_] i. e. schools. v. 145. _foles_] i. e. fools. v. 147. _founde_] i. e. maintained. Page 214. v. 156. _brute_] i. e. saying, proverb. v. 165. _skyes_] i. e. clouds. v. 168. _dawns_] i. e. dance. v. 169. _ray_] See note, p. 194. v. 170. v. 171. _lau_] i. e. law. v. 172. _shayle_] See note, p. 97. v. 19. Page 214. v. 175. _babyls_] i. e. baubles. Page 215. v. 196. _face_] i. e. face out. v. 199. _to_] i. e. too. v. 204. _lollardy_] i. e. heretical; see note, p. 204. v. 145. v. 206. _predycacion_] i. e. declaration,—or preaching. v. 207. _knowlege_] i. e. acknowledge. v. 212. _muse_] Is properly the opening in a fence or thicket, through which a hare or other beast of sport, is accustomed to pass: see Nares’s _Gloss._ in v. and Moor’s _Suff. Words_, in v. _Mewse_. v. 215. _With blowyng out your hornes,_ ... _With chatyng and rechatyng_]