Percy’s _Rel. of A. E. P._, iii. 43. ed. 1794. Page 291. v. 2035. _mamockes_] “_Mammocks_, leavings, wasted fragments.” Forby’s _Vocab. of East Anglia_. v. 2037. _fayne_] i. e. glad. v. 2038. _pomped_] In our text at least is equivalent to—pampered. “The _pomped_ clerkes with foles [fodes] delicous Erth often fedeth,” &c. Hawes’s _Pastime of Pleasure_, sig. B b iiii. ed. 1555. v. 2040. _to be drawe_] i. e. to be drawn over, covered. v. 2042. _shertes of Raynes_] i. e. shirts made of the delicate species of linen manufactured at Rennes in Brittany. v. 2044. _happed_] i. e. covered. Page 292. v. 2054. _sykernesse_] i. e. security, sureness. v. 2061. _plete_] i. e. plead. v. 2064. _lyther_] i. e. bad,—inactive. v. 2066. _leuer_] i. e. more willingly. v. 2070. _they rynne to in manus tuas queche_]—_rynne_, i. e. run,—they quickly come to be hanged, when they say _In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum_. v. 2072. _mary_] i. e. by the Virgin Mary. —— _mote_] i. e. may. v. 2073. _too_] i. e. toe. v. 2077. _rydlesse_] In v. 2445 is “_redlesse_,” which properly means—devoid of counsel: but Skelton seems to use both forms in the sense of—unavailing. v. 2080. _bloo_] i. e. livid: see note, p. 103. v. 3. Page 293. v. 2093. _I garde her gaspe, I garde her gle_]—_garde_, i. e. made, caused: _gle_, i. e., perhaps, squint; see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ in v. _Gley_. v. 2094. _daunce on the le_] A fragment, it would seem, of some song: _le_, i. e. lea. v. 2095. _bassed_] i. e. kissed. v. 2096. _the bote of all my bale_] i. e. the remedy or help of all my evil or sorrow. “God send every good man _bote of his bale_.” Chaucer’s _Chanones Yemannes Tale_, v. 16949. ed. Tyr. v. 2097. _farre fet_] i. e. far-fetched. v. 2098. _louesome_] i. e. lovely one. Page 293. v. 2098. _let_] i. e. leave, desist. v. 2100. _patlet_]—or _partlet_,—i. e. a sort of ruff, or rather neck-kerchief: see Strutt’s _Dress and Habits_, &c. ii. 368. v. 2104. _lust and lykynge_] See note, p. 98. v. 23. v. 2106. _me lyst_] i. e. pleases me. Page 294. v. 2113. _hardely_] i. e. assuredly. v. 2114. _to moche_] i. e. too much. v. 2115. _not worth an hawe_] A common expression in our early poetry; “Your wo appease which is _not worth an haw_.” Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sig. I iiii. ed. 1555. v. 2116. _to free of the dawe_] Equivalent, I suppose, to—too much fooling: see note, p. 113. v. 301. v. 2117. _sad_] See note on v. 1966. p. 267. v. 2121. _to to out of harre_] See notes on v. 881. p. 249, and v. 921. p. 250. v. 2123. _iettynge_] i. e. strutting: see note, p. 94. v. 43. —— _iapes_] i. e. jests, jokes. v. 2124. _mowynge_] i. e. making mouths, grimacing. —— _iackenapes_] i. e. monkey. v. 2132. _brothell_] Was formerly applied as a term of reproach to the worthless of either sex: “Of this daye gladde was many a _brothell_ That myght haue an ore with Cocke Lorell.” _Cocke Lorelles bote_, n. d. sig. C ii.