v. 60. _Somwhat I coulde enferre,_ _Your consayte to debarre_] i. e. I could bring in somewhat to hinder, contravene, your conception of the subject. So again in our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_; “Madame, your apposelle is wele _inferrid_, And at your auauntage quikly it is Towchid, and hard for to be _debarrid_.” v. 141. vol. i. 367. Page 228. v. 65. _fet_] i. e. fetch. v. 72. _the surpluse of my sawe_] i. e. the remainder of my saying. v. 74. _where as_] i. e. where. v. 80. _ryn_] i. e. run. v. 86. _wonder_] I may observe that the Roxburgh reprint, without authority, and against the sense, has “no _wonder_.” v. 89. _ken_] i. e. instruct. v. 90. _wonders_] i. e. wondrous. v. 92. _to_] i. e. too. Page 229. v. 94. _other_] i. e. either. v. 95. _To you I arecte it, and cast_ _Therof the reformacyon_] So Skelton again; “Syth vnto me formest this processe is _erectyd_.” v. 2507 of the present drama. “_Arrectinge_ vnto your wyse examinacion How all that I do is vnder refformation.” _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 410. vol. i. 378. He has also, “_Arectyng_ my syght towarde the zodyake.” _Id._ v. 1. p. 361. “My supplycacyon to you I _arrect_.” _Id._ v. 55. p. 363. _Arect_ in our early writers frequently signifies—impute, a meaning foreign to the present passages: in the two last cited, there can be no doubt that it is used in the sense of—raise: in the others it seems to mean—offer, refer. Page 229. v. 103. _Come of, therfore, let se_] Compare Chaucer; “—— _let see, come off_, and say.” _Court of Loue_,—_Workes_, fol. 331. ed. 1602. and _Reynard the Fox_; “Why tarye ye thus longe, _come of_.” Sig. b 7. ed. 1481: and _Morte d’Arthur_; “_Come of_ thenne sayd they alle, and do hit.” Book xx. cap. iiii. vol. ii. 394. ed. Southey. v. 106. _reason and skyll_] An expression which Skelton has elsewhere; but the words are nearly synonymous. “_Skyll_. Racio.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. v. 113. _chere_] i. e. spirit,—or reception. v. 114. _intere_] i. e. entire. v. 115. _Oracius to recorde_] i. e. Horace to witness. v. 117. _to_] i. e. too. v. 126. _Measure is treasure_] Lydgate mentions this as “an olde prouerbe:” see his verses on Moderation, _MS. Harl._ 2251. fol. 29, and his poem beginning “Men wryte of oold how _mesour is tresour.” Id._ 2255. fol. 143. —— _this_] i. e. thus: see note, p. 86. v. 38. Page 230. v. 131. _Ye_] i. e. Yea. v. 133. _kynde_] i. e. nature. v. 134. _renne_] i. e. run. v. 137. _a rest_] i. e. a wrest—by which the strings of harps and other musical instruments were drawn up. v. 138. _All trebyllys and tenours be rulyd by a meyne_] “Intercentus, a _meane_ of a songe.” _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. In the notes on Shakespeare, in Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._ &c., _mean_ is wrongly explained—tenor: what the _mean_ was, depended entirely on the nature of the composition. v. 139. _beste_] i. e. beast. v. 149. _skyll_] i. e. reason: see note on v. 106.