v. 504. _lokyd ... a fals quarter_]—_lokyd_, i. e. looked: “The _false quarters_ is a soreness on the inside of the hoofs, which are commonly called quarters, which is as much as to say, crased unsound quarters, which comes from evil Shooing and paring the Hoof.” R. Holme’s _Ac. of Armory_, 1688. B. ii. p. 152. v. 505. _I pray you, a lytyll tyne stande back_] So Heywood; “For when prouender prickt them _a little tine_,” &c. _Dialogue_, &c. sig. D,—_Workes_, ed. 1598. v. 514. _the ballyuis of the v portis_] i. e. the bailiffs of the Cinque Ports. v. 519. _besines_] i. e. business. v. 520. _most_] i. e. must. v. 521. _maystres_] i. e. mistress. v. 523. _sufferayne_] i. e. sovereign. v. 525. _And we shall se you ageyne or it be pryme_] I have my doubts about what hour is here meant by _pryme_. Concerning that word see Du Cange’s _Gloss._ in _Prima_ and _Horæ Canonicæ_, Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, Sibbald’s _Gloss._ to _Chron. of Scot. Poetry_, and Sir F. Madden’s _Gloss._ to _Syr Gawayne_, &c. Page 383. v. 531. _kest ... loke_] i. e. cast ... look. v. 532. _boke_] i. e. book. v. 537. _supprysed_] i. e. overpowered, smitten. v. 541. _the port salu_] See note, p. 299. v. 1262. v. 547. _hertely as herte_] i. e. heartily as heart. v. 548. _hole_] i. e. whole. v. 550. _aquyte_] i. e. discharge, pay. Page 384. v. 554. _moche_] i. e. much. v. 555. _Affyaunsynge her myne hole assuraunce_] i. e. Pledging her my whole, &c. v. 559. _stonde_] i. e. stand. v. 560. _toke ... honde_] i. e. took ... hand. v. 566. _iangelers_] i. e. babblers, chatterers. v. 570. _moche costious_] i. e. much costly. v. 572. _the stones be full glint_]—_glint_ must mean here—slippery: see note, p. 263. v. 1687. v. 574. _yatis_] i. e. gates. Page 385. v. 585. _carectis_] i. e. characters. v. 586. _where as I stode_] i. e. where I stood. v. 590. _a lybbard_] i. e. a leopard.—“There is,” says Warton, who quotes the stanza, “some boldness and animation in the figure and attitude of this ferocious animal.” _Hist. of E. P._, ii. 352. ed. 4to. v. 592. _As quikly towchyd_] i. e. touched, executed, as much to the life. v. 595. _forme foote_] i. e. fore-foot. —— _shoke_] i. e. shook. v. 597. _Unguibus ire parat loca singula livida curvis_ _Quam modo per Phœbes nummos raptura Celæno_] The whole of this “Cacosyntheton ex industria” is beyond my comprehension. Here Skelton has an eye to Juvenal; “Nec per conventus nec cuncta per oppida _curvis_ _Unguibus ire parat nummos raptura Celæno_.” _Sat._ viii. 129. v. 601. _Spreto spineto cedat saliunca roseto_] Here he was thinking of Virgil; “Lenta salix quantum pallenti _cedit_ olivæ, Puniceis humilis quantum _saliunca rosetis_.” _Ecl._ v. 16. v. 602. _loked_] i. e. looked. v. 603. _presed_] i. e. pressed, thronged. v. 604. _Shet_] i. e. Shut. v. 605. _to_] i. e. too. v. 606. _astate_] i. e. estate, condition. v. 607. _quod_] i. e. quoth.