v. 921. _out of harre_] i. e. out of hinge, out of order: see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ and _Suppl._ in v. _Har._ The expression occurs again in v. 2121; and is found in the _Towneley Myst._ and G. Douglas’s Virgil’s _Æn._ v. 923. _warre_] i. e. worse. v. 932. _farly_] i. e. strange. v. 933. _lokys_] i. e. looks. v. 934. _an hawke of the towre_] So again our author in the _Garlande of Laurell_; “Ientill as fawcoun Or _hawke of the towre_.” v. 1006. vol. i. 402. i. e., says Warton, “in the king’s mews in the Tower,” _Hist. of E.P._ ii. 355. ed. 4to: and the following lines occur in a poem called _Armony of Byrdes_, n. d. (attributed without authority to Skelton), reprinted entire in _Typograph. Antiq._ iv. 380. ed. Dibdin; “The Haukes dyd syng Their belles dyd ryng Thei said _they came frō the tower_. _We hold with the kyng_ _And wyll for him syng_ _To God, day, nyght, and hower.”_ p. 383. But I apprehend that by a _hawke of the towre_ Skelton means—a hawk that towers aloft, takes a station high in the air, and thence swoops upon her prey. Juliana Berners mentions certain hawks which “ben _hawkes of the toure_.” _Book of St. Albans_, sig. c. v.: and Turbervile says; “Shee [the hobby] is of the number of those Hawkes that are hie flying and _towre Hawks_.” _Booke of Falconrie_, p. 53. ed. 1611. Page 255. v. 935. _the malarde_] i. e. the wild-drake. v. 936. _becked_] i. e. beaked. v. 938. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary. Page 256. v. 940. _Ye_] i. e. Yea. v. 947. _spere_] i. e. spire, shoot,—stripling. So in our author’s third poem _Against Garnesche_, “But a slendyr _spere_.” v. 41. vol. i. 121. v. 953. _mo_] i. e. more. v. 954. _in the dyuyls date_] See note, p. 116. v. 375. v. 956. _he playeth the state_] i. e. he playeth the person of consequence. v. 957. _pyke out of the gate_] “I _Pycke_ me forth out of a place or I _pycke_ me hence, _Ie me tyre auant_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cccxvi. (Table of Verbes). v. 962. _out of consayte_] i. e. out of good opinion, favour. v. 964. _a praty slyght_] i. e. a pretty trick, contrivance. v. 971. _Cockes harte_] i. e. God’s heart: see note on v. 518. p. 243. v. 973. _poynted after my consayte_] i. e. appointed, equipped according to my fancy. v. 974. _thou iettes it of hyght_] i. e. thou struttest it in high style: see note, p. 94. v. 43. Page 257. v. 975. _let vs be wyse_] Equivalent to—let us understand. v. 977. _come of, it were done_] The expression “come of” has occurred before; see note on v. 103. p. 238. Compare _Mary Magdalene_; “_Cum_ of ȝe harlotts _that yt wer don_.” _An. Mysteries from the Digby MSS._ p. 97. ed. Abbotsf. _Magnus Herodes_; “Hens now go youre way that ye _were_ thore.” _Towneley Mysteries_, p. 147. Still’s _Gammer Gurtons Nedle_; “Sir knaue make hast diccon _were_ here.” Sig. E 3. ed. 1575. See too our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 243. vol. i. 371.