v. 41. _The grounde engrosyd and bet with bourne golde_]—_grounde_, i. e. (not floor, but) ground-work; as in Lydgate’s verses entitled _For the better abyde_; “I see a rybaun ryche and newe ... The _grownde_ was alle of brent golde bryght.” _MS. Cott. Calig. A_ ii. fol. 65. _engrosyd_, i. e. thickened, enriched: _bet_ has here the same meaning as in _Le Bone Florence of Rome_; “Hur clothys wyth bestes and byrdes wer _bete_.” _Met. Rom_. iii. 9. ed. Ritson, who somewhat copiously explains it “beaten, plaited, inlay’d, embroider’d:” _bourne_, i. e. burnished. v. 44. _abylyment_] i. e. habiliment. v. 45. _estates_] i. e. persons of estate or rank. v. 49. _supplyed_] i. e. supplicated. v. 50. _pusant_] i. e. puissant, powerful, mighty. v. 52. _of very congruence_] i. e. of very fitness. “Such ought of duetie and _very congruence_,” &c. Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, fol. 188. ed. 1570. v. 54. _astate_] i. e. estate, rank, dignity. —— _most lenen_] i. e. must lean, bend, bow. v. 55. _arrect_] i. e. raise. v. 58. _ryall_] i. e. royal. Page 364. v. 65. _wele_] i. e. well. v. 66. _embesy_] i. e. embusy. —— _holl corage_] i. e. whole heart. v. 68. _were_] i. e. wear. v. 69. _wonder slake_] i. e. wonderfully slack. v. 70. _lake] i. e._ lack, fault. v. 71. _ne were_] i. e. were it not. v. 72. _bokis ... sone ... rase_] i. e. books ... soon ... erase. v. 73. _sith_] i. e. since. v. 74. _Elyconis_] i. e. Helicon’s. v. 75. _endeuour hymselfe_] i. e. exert himself (compare v. 936). v. 77. _sittynge_] i. e. proper, becoming. v. 79. _to_] i. e. too. v. 80. _comprised_] Compare our author in _Lenuoy_ to Wolsey; “And hym moost lowly pray, In his mynde to _comprise_ Those wordes,” &c. vol. ii. 84. v. 81. _rin_] i. e. run. Page 365. v. 83. _pullishe_] i. e. polish. v. 86. _remorde_] See note, p. 193. v. 101. v. 94. _mo ... enduce_] i. e. more ... bring in, adduce. v. 95. _parde for to kyll_] i. e. _par dieu_, verily, for to be killed. v. 96. _enuectyfys_] i. e. invectives. v. 101. _the grey_] i. e. the badger. Juliana Berners says; “That beest a bausyn hyght: a brok or a _graye_: Thyse thre names he hath the soth for to saye.” _The Book of St. Albans_, sig. D vi. v. 102. _gose ... oliphaunt_] i. e. goose ... elephant. v. 103. _ageyne_] i. e. against. Page 366. v. 110. _confecture_] i. e. composition. v. 111. _diffuse is to expounde_] i. e. is difficult to expound: see note, p. 144. v. 768. v. 112. _make ... fawt_] i. e. compose ... fault. v. 114. _motyue_] i. e. motion. So in the next line but one is “promotyue,” i. e. promotion: and so Lydgate has “ymaginatyfe” for—imagination. _Fall of Prynces_, B. v. leaf cxvii. ed. Wayland. v. 115. _auaunce_] i. e. advance. v. 116. _rowme_] i. e. room, place. v. 121. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion. v. 122. _iche man doth hym dres_] i. e. each man doth address, apply, himself. v. 124. _bokis_] i. e. books. Page 366. v. 127. _loke_] i. e. look.