v. 1521. _Basyan the bolde, for all his brybaunce_] _Basyan_ is, I suppose, Antoninus Bassianus Caracalla (he is called “_Basian_” in Robert of Gloucester’s _Chron_. p. 76. sqq.): _brybaunce_ would seem to mean—plundering (properly, pilfering); see note on v. 1242. p. 256. v. 1522. _Alerycus_] i. e. Alaric. —— _the Gothyaunce_] i. e. the Goths. —— _swerd_] i. e. sword. v. 1524. _maysyd_] i. e. bewildered, confounded—stupid. v. 1525. _fole_] i. e. fool. v. 1526. _Galba, whom his galantys garde for agaspe_] i. e. (I suppose) Galba, whom his gallants (soldiers) made to gasp:—they assassinated him:—see _gar_ in v. 1532. v. 1527. _nother set by_] i. e. neither valued, regarded. v. 1528. _Vaspasyan, that bare in his nose a waspe_] This passage is explained by the following lines of a poem never printed, entitled _The Sege of Jerusalem_: “His fader Vaspasiane ferly bytydde A byke of waspes bredde in his nose Hyved vp in his hedde he hadde hem of thoght And Vaspasiane is called by cause of his waspes.” _MS. Cott. Calig. A._ ii. fol. 109. Page 274. v. 1529. _agayne_] i. e. against. Page 275. v. 1531. _crake_] i. e. vaunt, talk bigly. v. 1532. _I shall frounce them on the foretop_] To _frounce_ is—to wrinkle, ruffle up, &c. In our author’s _Phyllyp Sparowe_, v. 1340. vol. i. 92, Charon is described as having a “_frownsid_ fore top;” and in his _Colyn Cloute_, v. 533. vol. i. 331, “foretop” means simply—head, pate. —— _gar_] i. e. make, cause. v. 1538. _auaunce_] i. e. advance. v. 1539. _take it in degre_] Seems equivalent here to—“take it in gre” (which occurs in v. 2005), i. e. take it kindly: see note, p. 95. v. 68. v. 1544. _ferre_] i. e. far. v. 1547. _supprysed_] i. e. overpowered, smitten. v. 1549. _Pullyshyd_] i. e. Polished. —— _ornacy_] i. e. ornate diction. v. 1551. _electe vtteraunce_] i. e. choice expression. v. 1554. _feffyd and seasyd_] i. e. enfeoffed and seised,—law-terms. v. 1556. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary. v. 1557. _comon_] i. e. communing, discourse. v. 1558. _Poynt deuyse_] See note on v. 852. p. 248. Page 276. v. 1561. _pore_] i. e. poor. v. 1564. _semynge_] i. e. beseeming, fitting. v. 1568. _maystresse_] i. e. mistress. v. 1569. _That quyckly is enuyued with rudyes of the rose_] i. e. That is lively envived with hues, or complexion, of the rose. This somewhat pleonastic expression is found again in our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_; “_Enuyuid_ picturis well touchid and _quikly_.” v. 1161. vol. i. 408. v. 1570. _Inpurtured_] i. e. Portrayed, pictured,—adorned. v. 1571. _The streynes of her vaynes_] i. e. The strains, runnings of her veins. “Rills rising out of euery banck, In wilde meanders _strayne_.” Drayton’s _Muses Elizium_, p. 2. ed. 1630. Page 276. v. 1571. _as asure inde blewe_] See note, p. 101. v. 17. v. 1573. _loke_] i. e. look. —— _leyre_] i. e. complexion, skin. v. 1576. _lusty_] i. e. pleasant, desirable.