v. 205. _can ... scole_] i. e. knows ... school. v. 207. _fole_] i. e. fool. v. 208. _stole_] i. e. stool. v. 209. _Iacke a thrummis bybille_] See note, p. 189. v. 204. v. 211. _agayne_] i. e. against. v. 212. _dwte_] i. e. duty. v. 218. _to_] i. e. too. Page 371. v. 223. _lay_] See note, p. 219. v. 103. —— _werkis_] i. e. works. v. 227. _most_] i. e. must. v. 232. _condiscendid_] See note, p. 237. v. 39. v. 233. _clarionar_] Is used here for—trumpeter: but the words properly are not synonymous; “Of _trumpeters_ and eke of _clarioneres_.” Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. i. sig. C v. ed. 1555. and Skelton himself has afterwards in the present poem, “_trumpettis_ and _clariouns_.” v. 1507. v. 235. _Eolus, your trumpet_] i. e. Æeolus, your trumpeter. “A _trumpet_ stode and proudly gan to blowe, Which slayne was and fro the tre doun throw.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. v. leaf cxxx. ed. Wayland. So Chaucer makes Æolus trumpeter to Fame: see _House of Fame_, B. iii. Page 371. v. 236. _mercyall_] i. e. martial. v. 239. _prease_] i. e. press, throng. v. 240. _hole rowte_] i. e. whole crowd, assembly. v. 243. _this trumpet were founde out_] See note, p. 251. v. 977. v. 244. _hardely_] i. e. assuredly. v. 245. _eyne_] i. e. eyes. Page 372. v. 248. _presid ... to_] i. e. pressed ... too. v. 250. _Some whispred, some rownyd_] See note, p. 120. v. 513. v. 255. _quod_] i. e. quoth. v. 258. _plumpe_] i. e. cluster, mass. “Stode stille as hit had ben a _plompe_ of wood.” _Morte d’Arthur_, B. i. cap. xvi. vol. i. 27. ed. Southey. Dryden has the word; and the first writer perhaps after his time who used it was Sir W. Scott. v. 260. _timorous_] i. e. terrible. v. 264. _rowte_] i. e. crowd, assembly. v. 265. _girnid_] i. e. grinned. v. 266. _peuysshe_] i. e. silly, foolish. —— _masyd_] i. e. bewildered, confounded. v. 267. _whyste_] i. e. still. —— _the nonys_] i. e. the occasion. v. 268. _iche ... stode_] i. e. each ... stood. v. 269. _wonderly_] i. e. wonderfully. v. 270. _A murmur of mynstrels_] So in many of our early English dramas “a noise of musicians” is used for a company or band of musicians. v. 272. _Traciane_] i. e. Thracian. —— _herped meledyously_] i. e. harped melodiously. Page 373. v. 274. _armony_] i. e. harmony. v. 275. _gree_] i. e. agree. v. 278. _gle_] i. e. music. v. 279. _auaunce_] i. e. advance. v. 282. _Sterte ... fote_] i. e. Started ... foot. v. 285. ———— _lake_ _Of_] i. e. lack of,—less than. v. 288. _cronell_] i. e. coronal, garland. Page 373. v. 289. _heris encrisped_] i. e. hairs formed into curls, curling. v. 290. _Daphnes_] i. e. Daphne. So our early poets wrote the name; “A maiden whilom there was one Which _Daphnes_ hight.” Gower’s _Conf. Am._ B. iii. fol. lvi. ed. 1554. “Her name was _Daphnys_ which was deuoyed of loue.” _The Castell of pleasure_, (by Nevil, son of Lord Latimer), sig. A iii. 1518.