v. 2550. _auaunsyd_] i. e. advanced. v. 2557. _lacke_] i. e. fault, blame. v. 2563. _comberyd_] i. e. encumbered, troubled. Page 310. v. 2573. _maysterfest_] i. e. master-fast. v. 2577. _Precely purposyd vnder pretence of play_]—_Precely_, i. e. Pressly, seems to mean here—seriously (rather than—expressly). Page 310. v. 2583. _the terestre rechery_] If “_rechery_” be the right reading, I know not what it means. Qy. “trechery?” as before, v. 2046, “Fye on _this worlde, full of trechery_.” —— _flode_] i. e. flood. v. 2585. _Ensordyd_] Could only, I presume, mean—defiled: but qy., as the context seems to require, “Ensorbyd,” i. e. sucked in, swallowed? —— _wawys_] i. e. waves. —— _wode_] i. e. mad, raging. v. 2586. _brast_] i. e. burst,—break. v. 2588. _hym_] Must be an error of the press for “hymselfe;” compare v. 2581. v. 2590. _syttynge_] i. e. proper, becoming. v. 2591. _ryalte_] i. e. royalty. v. 2593. _indeuer_] i. e. endure, continue, dwell. COLYN CLOUTE. This powerful and original poem must have been circulated in MS., probably for a considerable time, before it was given to the press; for from a passage towards the conclusion, v. 1239, we learn that those against whom its satire was directed would not “suffer it to be printed.” In _Colyn Cloute_ Skelton appears to have commenced his attacks on Wolsey. “I could never conceive, Mr. Warton, to what Drayton alludes, in the preface to his Eclogues, where he says, that ‘the Colin Clout of SCOGAN, under Henry the seventh, is pretty.’ He is speaking of pastoral poetry; and adds, that ‘Barklays ship of fools hath twenty wiser in it.’ You somewhere say [_Hist. of E. P._ iii. 76, note, ed. 4to], ‘he must mean SKELTON;’ but what PASTORAL did HE write?” Ritson’s _Obs. on Warton’s Hist. of E. P._, p. 20 (note); see too his _Bibl. Poet._, p. 99. I believe that Drayton did mean Skelton. _Colyn Cloute_ is surely as much a _pastoral_ as Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_,—as much perhaps as even Barclay’s _Egloges_. —— _Quis consurget mecum, &c._] _Vulg. Psal._ xciii. 16, where “Quis consurget _mihi_,” &c. —— _Nemo, Domine_] _Id. Joan_. viii. 11. Page 311. v. 1. _What can it auayle_ _To dryue forth a snayle_] So in _Gentylnes and Nobylyte_, n. d. (attributed without grounds to Heywood); “In effect it shall no more _auayle_ Than with a whyp _to dryfe a snayle_.” Sig. C ii. Page 311. v. 9. _bokes_] i. e. books. Page 312. v. 20. _He pryeth and he peketh_] See note, p. 244. v. 667. So Gascoigne; “That other _pries and peekes_ in euerie place.” _The Steele Glasse_, fol. 301,—_Workes_, ed. 1587. v. 28. _fole_] i. e. fool. v. 29. _scole_] i. e. school. v. 30. _a thre foted stole_] i. e. a three-footed stool. v. 36. _The deuyll, they say, is dede_] Heywood has six Epigrams on this proverbial expression,—_Workes_, sig. N 2. ed. 1598. Ray gives, “Heigh ho, _the Devil is dead_.” _Proverbs_, p. 55. ed. 1768.