As we find the name “Mawte” in our author’s _Elynour Rummyng_, v. 159. vol. i. 100, and as in the second of these lines the MS. (see note _ad l._) has “fawte” (i. e. fault), the right reading is probably, “To Margery and to _Mawte_, Howe they haue no _fawte_.” v. 856. _prouoke_] i. e. incite. v. 857. _Gyll and Jacke at Noke_] See note on v. 323. p. 283. v. 861. _In open tyme_] i. e. In the time when no fasts are imposed. v. 864. _an olde sayd sawe_] “_Oulde sayd sawe prouerbe_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. li. (Table of Subst.). Page 344. v. 866. _Some walke aboute in melottes_] “Circuierunt in melotis.” _Vulgate_,—_Heb._ xi. 37. “_Melotes_,” as Mr. Albert Way observes to me, “is explained in the _Catholicon_ to be a garment used by the monks during laborious occupation, made of the skin of the badger, and reaching from the neck to the loins,” and according to other early dictionaries, it was made of the hair or skin of other animals. So the original Greek word, μηλωτή, which properly means _pellis ovina_, signifies also _pellis quævis_. v. 867. _heery_] i. e. hairy. v. 868. _ne_] i. e. nor. v. 869. _in remotes_] i. e. in retired places. Page 345. v. 874. _And by Dudum, theyr Clementine,_ _Agaynst curates they repyne;_ _And say propreli they ar sacerdotes,_ _To shryue, assoyle, and reles_ _Dame Margeries soule out of hell_] —_shryue, assoyle_, i. e. confess, absolve.—“On a de Clément V une compilation nouvelle, tant des décrets du concile général de Vienne, que de ses épîtres ou constitutions. C’est ce qu’on appelle les _Clémentines_.” _L’Art de vérifier les Dates, &c. (depuis la naissance de Notre-seigneur_), iii. 382. ed. 1818. Skelton alludes here to _Clement._ lib. iii. tit. vii. cap. ii. which begins, “_Dvdum_ à Bonifacio Papa octauo prædecessore nostro,” &c., and contains the following passages. “Ab olim siquidem inter Prælatos & Rectores, seu Sacerdotes ac Clericos parochialium Ecclesiarum per diuersas Mundi prouincias constitutos ex vna parte, & Prædicatorum & Minorum ordinum fratres ex altera (pacis æmulo, satore zizaniæ procurante), grauis & periculosa discordia extitit, suscitata super prædicationib. fidelium populis faciendis, eorum confessionibus audiendis, pœnitentiis iniungendis eisdem, & tumulandis defunctorum corporibus, qui apud fratrum ipsorum Ecclesias siue loca noscuntur eligere sepulturam.... Statuimus etiam & ordinamus auctoritate prædicta, vt in singulis ciuitatibus & diœcesibus, in quibus loca fratrum ipsorum consistere dignoscuntur, vel in ciuitatibus & diœcesibus locis ipsis vicinis, in quibus loca huiusmodi non habentur, Magistri, Priores prouinciales Prædicatorum, aut eorum Vicarij & Generales, et Prouinciales Ministri & custodes Minorum & ordinum prædictorum ad præsentiam Prælatorum eorundem locorum se conferant per se, vel per fratres, quos ad hoc idoneos fore putauerint, humiliter petituri, vt fratres, qui ad hoc electi fuerint, in eorum ciuitatibus