v. 150. _sad_] i. e. grave, serious, sober. v. 151. _It is no maystery_] “_Maystry_ done by delyuernesse _ung tovr de souplesse, appertise_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xlvi. (Table of Subst.); and see note, p. 113. v. 329. “So me helpe God! queth Beues tho, _Hit were no meistri_ me to slo, For this is the ferthe dai agon Mete ne drinke ne bot I non.” _Sir Beues of Hamtoun_, p. 68. Maitl. ed. “That is _lytel maystry_ sayd syre launcelot to slee myn hors.” _Morte d’Arthur_, B. xix. c. iiii. vol. ii. 369. ed. Southey. Page 230. v. 153. _herdely_] i. e. firmly. Page 231. v. 166. _hyght_] i. e. am called. v. 175. _Conuenyent_] i. e. Fit, suitable. —— _ryall_] i. e. royal. v. 178. _syttynge_] i. e. proper, becoming,—a word very common in our early poetry (altered unnecessarily to “fyttynge” in the Roxburgh reprint of this piece). v. 182. _his large_] i. e. his range. v. 184. _hooly_] i. e. wholly. v. 189. _sawe_] i. e. sow. v. 190. _nother to_] i. e. neither too. —— _lawe_] i. e. low: so again in v. 2541, “nowe hy, nowe _lawe_ degre.” v. 193. _consayte_] i. e. conception. Page 232. v. 202. _losyll so lyther_] i. e. scoundrel so wicked. v. 209. _plenarly_] i. e. fully, entirely. v. 213. _Had I wyste_] See note, p. 86. v. 40. v. 216. _to fer_] i. e. too far. v. 219. _defaute_] i. e. default, want. v. 226. _mone_] i. e. moon. v. 230. _lyghtly_] “_Lightly_ or sone [i. e. soon]. Leuiter.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499: or, easily. Page 233. v. 231. _to moche_] i. e. too much. v. 233. _scole_] i. e. school. v. 234. _a poppynge fole_]—_fole_, i. e. fool. “He is a _popte fole_ or a starke fole for the nones. Homo fatuitate monstrabilis.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. P iii. ed. 1530. And see note, p. 231. v. 39. v. 239. _delyaunce_] i. e. dalliance, delay. v. 249. _endure_] i. e. remain, dwell. v. 256. _Here is none forsyth whether you flete or synke_]—_forsyth_, i. e. regardeth, careth: _flete_, i. e. float, swim. So Chaucer; “Him _recketh neuer whether she flete or sinke_.” _Annel. and Ar._,—_Workes_, fol. 244. ed. 1602. v. 257. _lokyd_] i. e. looked. v. 259. _hafter_] See note, p. 107. v. 138. Page 234. v. 260. _iangelynge Jacke of the vale_] i. e. chattering, &c.; see note, p. 104. v. 6. v. 266. _Mary_] i. e. by the Virgin Mary. v. 267. _largesse_] i. e. bounty, liberality. v. 269. _worshyp_] i. e. honour, dignity. v. 272. _hyght_] i. e. am called. v. 274. _Ye_] i. e. Yea. v. 280. _hardely_] i. e. firmly. Page 234. v. 280. _auaunce_] i. e. advance. v. 283. _reporte me_] i. e. refer. —— _Kynge Lewes_] i. e. King Louis the twelfth: see note on title, p. 236. v. 285. _syth_] i. e. since. v. 290. _Jacke shall haue Gyl_] So Heywood; “Come chat at home, all is well, _Jack shall haue Gill_.” _Dialogue_, sig. F 3.—_Workes_, ed. 1598. Page 235. v. 295. _broder_] i. e. brother. v. 296. _I set not by_] i. e. I value not.