Page 257. v. 979. _sone_] i. e. soon. v. 980. _Stowe_] See note, p. 206. v. 73. v. 982. _There is many euyll faueryd, and thou be foule_] i. e. There is many a one ill-looking, if thou be ugly: see note, p. 130. v. 442. v. 985. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.). v. 987. _Jesse_] i. e. Jesus. v. 992. _bent_] i. e. arched; see note, p. 146. v. 1014. v. 993. _glent_] i. e. glancing, bright. v. 1000. _Barbyd lyke a nonne_]—_nonne_, i. e. nun. “The feders vnder the becke [of a hawk] ben callyd the _Barbe feders_.” _Book of Saint Albans_, sig. a 5. _Barbe_ is explained by Tyrwhitt to mean a hood or muffler, which covered the lower part of the face and the shoulders; _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_: and he refers to Du Cange in v. _Barbuta_. According to Strutt, it was a piece of white plaited linen, and belonged properly to mourning: in an edict concerning “The order and manner of apparell for greate estates of weomen in tyme of mourninge,” made by the mother of Henry vii. in the 8th year of his reign, we find “Everye one not beinge vnder the degree of a Baronesse to weare a _barbe_ aboue [Strutt prints by mistake—”about“] the chinne. And all other: as knightes wyfes, to weare yt vnder theire throtes, and other gentleweomen beneath the throte goyll.” _MS. Harl._ 1354. fol. 12. See _Dress and Habits_, pp. 323, 325, 326, 368, and plate cxxxv. v. 1002. _donne_] i. e. dun. v. 1003. _Well faueryd bonne_] So in our author’s _Elynour Rummyng_, v. 227, “my prety _bonny_;” see note, p. 166. v. 1005. _rowte_] i. e. crowd, assembly. Page 258. v. 1008. _prese_] i. e. press, throng. v. 1009. _a hole mese_] i. e. a whole mess, set. v. 1011. _I rede, we sease_] i. e. I advise that we cease. v. 1012. _farly ... lokys_] i. e. strangely ... looks. v. 1013. _becke ... crokys_] i. e. beak ... crooks. v. 1014. _tenter hokys_] i. e. tenter-hooks. v. 1015. _wokys_] i. e. weeks. v. 1018. _The deuyll spede whyt_] So again in our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_; “For as for wytte, _The deuyll spede whitte!_” v. 1013. vol. ii. 58. Page 258. v. 1020. _to_] i. e. too (as in the next two lines). v. 1023. _solempne_] i. e. solemn. v. 1027. _a pere_] i. e. a pear,—used frequently by our early writers for a thing of no value. “Vayne glory of the world, the whiche is not worth _a pere_.” _Morte d’Arthur_, B. xv. cap. vi. vol. ii. 254. ed. Southey. v. 1028. _lese_] i. e. lose. v. 1030. _And I may tende_] i. e. If I may attend. v. 1032. _halfe_] i. e. side. v. 1035. _Fansy seruyce_] i. e. Fancy-service. —— _hyght_] i. e. am called. v. 1038. _theke_] i. e. thatch. v. 1040. _Make a wyndmyll of a mat_] Compare v. 2 of our author’s third set of verses _Against venemous Tongues_, vol. i. 132. v. 1041. _and I wyst_] i. e. if I knew. Page 259. v. 1049. _blunder_] See note on v. 405. p. 241. —— _blother_] i. e. gabble; as in our author’s _Colyn Cloute_, v. 66. vol. i. 313. v. 1054. _this_] i. e. thus: see note, p. 86. v. 38.