Page 221. _processe_] See note, p. 230, on last line (prose) of p. 208. v. 359. _For if ye sadly loke,_ _And wesely rede the Boke_ _Of Good Aduertysement,_ _With me ye must consent, &c._] —_sadly loke_, i. e. seriously look, consider. In the _Garlande of Laurell_ Skelton mentions, as one of his own compositions, “Item _Good Aduysement_, that brainles doth blame.” v. 1186. vol. i. 409. Qy. does he allude to it here? Page 222. v. 395. _auaunce_] i. e. advance. Page 223. v. 399. _make_] i. e. compose. v. 405. _vnhappely vred_] See note on v. 95. p. 232. MAGNYFYCENCE. “That this piece was composed subsequently to the year 1515, seems evident from the mention made in one place [v. 283] of ‘Kynge Lewes of Fraunce’ as an example of liberality [and as dead, v. 285]; and this could only mean Louis xii., who died in that year, as his immediate predecessor of that name [who died in 1483] was the most niggardly of wretches.” _MS. note by Ritson on a transcript of_ Magnyfycence. Page 226. v. 4. _probate_] In our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_ mention is made of “Macrobius that did trete Of Scipions dreme what was the treu _probate_.” v. 367. vol. i. 376. where _probate_ is proof, meaning, or, perhaps, interpretation: but in what sense Skelton uses the word here I cannot determine, the greater part of this speech being beyond my comprehension. v. 5. _fole_] i. e. fool. v. 6. _vnhappely be vryd_] See note, p. 232. v. 95. v. 9. _amense_] i. e., perhaps, amends. v. 10. _by_] i. e. buy, acquire. v. 16. _sad_] i. e. grave, serious, sober. v. 17. _lure_] See note, p. 147. v. 1100. v. 22. _wonnys_] i. e. dwells. —— _and a man wolde wyt_] i. e. if a man would know. v. 24. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary. Page 227. v. 33. _Ye, to knackynge ernyst what and it preue_]—i. e. Yea, what if it prove mocking earnest: compare the preceding line, and see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scott. Lang._ in v. _Knack_. v. 35. _in the mew_] i. e. in confinement,—properly, the place in which hawks were kept, or in which fowls were fattened: see note on _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 219. v. 36. _a cue_] Is explained (see Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict_. &c.)—a farthing, as being merely the sound of _q̄_, the abbreviation of _quadrans_. But Minsheu has; “_Cue_, halfe a farthing, so called because they set down in the Battling or Butterie Bookes in Oxford and Cambridge the letter q. for halfe a farthing, and in Oxford when they make that Cue or q. a farthing, they say, Cap my q., and make it a farthing thus qͣ. But in Cambridge,” &c. _Guide into Tongues_, ed. 1617. v. 37. _to_] i. e. too. Page 227. v. 39. _condyssende_] “I _Condescende_ I agre to a mater.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cxciiii. (Table of Verbes). v. 44. _countenaunce_] i. e. continence, restraint. v. 45. _let_] i. e. hinder, restrain. v. 47. _corage_] i. e. inclination, desires. v. 56. _parcell_] i. e. part, portion. v. 57. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.