“With subtell slayis, and hir _hedeles_ slee, Riche lenze wobbis naitly weiffit sche.” B. vii. p. 204. 45. ed. Rudd. Page 393. v. 793. _warke_] i. e. work. v. 794. _to enbrowder put them in prese_] i. e. put themselves in press (applied themselves earnestly) to embroider. v. 795. _glowtonn_] Does it mean—ball, clue? or, as Mr. Albert Way suggests,—a sort of needle, a stiletto as it is now called,—something by which the silk was to be inwrought? v. 796. _pirlyng_] “I _Pyrle_ wyer of golde or syluer I wynde it vpon a whele as sylke women do.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cccxvii. (Table of Verbes). v. 798. _tewly sylk_] Richardson in his _Dict._ under the verb _Tew_ places _tewly_, as derived from it, and cites the present passage. But _tewly_ seems to have nothing to do with that verb. “_Tuly_ colowre. Puniceus vel punicus.” _Prompt. Parv. MS. Harl._ 221. In _MS. Sloane_, 73. fol. 214, are directions “for to make bokerham _tuly_ or _tuly_ thred,” where it appears that this colour was “a manere of reed colour as it were of croppe mader,” that is, probably, of the tops or sprouts of the madder, which would give a red less intense or full: the dye was “safflour” (saffron?) and “asches of wyn [whin] ballis ybrent;” and a little red vinegar was to be used to bring the colour up to a fuller red.—For this information I am indebted to Mr. Albert Way. v. 799. _botowme_] “I can make no _bottoms_ of this threde ... _glomera_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. t i. ed 1530. v. 801. _warkis_] i. e. works. Page 394. v. 803. _With burris rowth and bottons surffillyng_]—_burris rowth_, i. e. burrs rough: _bottons_, i. e. buds: _surffillyng_, see note, p. 281. v. 219. v. 804. _nedill wark_] i. e. needle-work. v. 805. _enbesid_] i. e. embusied. v. 814. _conseyt_] i. e. conceit. v. 815. _captacyons of beneuolence_] Todd gives “_Captation_ (old Fr. _captation_, ruse, artifice). The practice of catching favour or applause; courtship; flattery.” _Johnson’s Dict._ Richardson, after noticing the use of the verb _captive_ “with a subaudition of gentle, attractive, persuasive means or qualities,” adds that in the present passage of Skelton _captation_ is used with that subaudition. _Dict._ in v. v. 816. _pullysshid_] i. e. polished. v. 817. _Sith ye must nedis afforce it by pretence_ _Of your professyoun vnto vmanyte_] i. e. Since you must needs attempt, undertake, it by your claim to the profession of humanity,—_humaniores literæ_, polite literature. Page 394. v. 819. _proces_] i. e. discourse; see notes, p. 143. v. 735. p. 230 (first note on prose), p. 276. v. 2506, &c. v. 820. _iche_] i. e. each. v. 821. _sentence ... couenable_] i. e. meaning ... fitting. v. 822. _Auaunsynge_] i. e. Advancing. v. 824. _arrectyng_] i. e. raising. Page 395. v. 825. _ken_] i. e. instruct (pleonastically coupled with “informe,” as in v. 1428). v. 828. _dredfull_] i. e. full of dread, timorous.