v. 129. _mo_] i. e. more. Page 367. v. 133. _Ageyne_] i. e. Against. v. 136. _wele_] i. e. well. v. 137. _rasid_] i. e. erased. v. 140. _Sith_] i. e. Since. —— _defaut_] i. e. default, want. —— _konnyng_] i. e. (not so much—knowledge, learning, as) skill, ability. v. 141. _apposelle_] i. e. question. “And to pouert she put this _opposayle_.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. iii. leaf lxvi. ed. Wayland. “Made vnto her this vncouth _apposayle_: Why wepe ye so,” &c. _Id._ B. v. leaf cxxviii. —— _wele inferrid_] i. e. well brought in. v. 142. _quikly it is_ _Towchid_] i. e. it is lively, subtly expressed: compare v. 592 and v. 1161, where the words are applied to visible objects. —— _debarrid_] See note, p. 237. v. 60; and compare _Gentylnes and Nobylyte_ (attributed without grounds to Heywood) n. d.; “That reason is so grete no man can _debarr_.” Sig. C iii. Page 368. v. 149. _sittyng_] i. e. proper, becoming. v. 152. _corage_] i. e. encourage. v. 153. _fresshely_] i. e. elegantly: see note on v. 39. p. 302. v. 155. _bruitid_] i. e. reported, spoken of. v. 156. _outray_] See note, p. 123. v. 87, where this passage is examined. v. 162. _Ierome, in his preamble Frater Ambrosius, &c._] The Epistle of Jerome to Paulinus, prefixed to the Vulgate, begins, “_Frater Ambrosius_ tua mihi munuscula perferens,” &c., and contains this passage: “Unde et Æschines, cum Rhodi exularet, et legeretur illa Demosthenis oratio, quam adversus eum habuerat, mirantibus cunctis atque laudantibus, suspirans ait, Quid, si ipsam audissetis bestiam sua verba resonantem?” It may be found also in _Hieronymi Opp. I._ 1005. ed. 1609. Page 369. v. 172. _most_] i. e. must. v. 180. _wele ... avaunce_] i. e. well ... advance. v. 183. _thefte and brybery_] See note, p. 256. v. 1242. v. 184. _pyke_] i. e. pick. Page 369. v. 186. _cokwoldes_] i. e. cuckolds. v. 187. _wetewoldis_] i. e. wittols, tame cuckolds. “_Wetewoldis_ that suffre synne in her syghtes.” Lydgate’s _Assemble de dyeus_, sig. c i. n. d. 4to. v. 188. _lidderons_] So before, _lydderyns_; see note, p. 267. v. 1945: but here, it would seem, the word is used in the more confined sense of—sluggish, slothful, idle fellows. —— _losels_] See note, p. 209. v. 138. —— _noughty packis_] See note, p. 203. v. 58.—If Skelton had been required to distinguish exactly between the meanings of these terms of reproach, he would perhaps have been nearly as much at a loss as his editor. v. 189. _Some facers, some bracers, some make great crackis_] See note, p. 216. v. 33. v. 192. _courte rowlis_] i. e. court-rolls.—Warton cites this and the next two verses as “nervous and manly lines.” _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 354. ed. 4to. v. 196. _rinne_] i. e. run. Page 370. v. 198. _cunnyng_] i. e. knowledge, learning. v. 200. _a mummynge_] See note, p. 278. v. 83. v. 201. _sadnesse_] See note, p. 259. v. 1382. v. 203. _faute_] i. e. fault. v. 204. _to_] i. e. too.