v. 830. _bestad_] i. e. bested, circumstanced. v. 833. _gabyll rope_] i. e. cable-rope. “A _Gable_, Rudens.” Coles’s _Dict._ v. 835. _beseke_] i. e. beseech. —— _Countes of Surrey_] See note on v. 769. p. 317. v. 838. _reconusaunce_] i. e. acknowledgment. v. 841. _astate_] i. e. estate, state. v. 842. _honour and worshyp_] Terms nearly synonymous: _worshyp_, i. e. dignity. —— _formar_] i. e. first, highest: see Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._ in v. _Former_. v. 843. _Argyua_] i. e. Argia. v. 844. _Polimites_] i. e. Polynices; “his fellaw dan _Polimites_, Of which the brother dan Ethiocles,” &c. Chaucer’s _Troilus and Creseide_, B. v. fol. 180,—_Workes_, ed. 1602. “Lete _Polymyte_ reioyse his herytage.” Lydgate’s _Storye of Thebes, Pars tert._ sig. i v. ed. 4to. n. d. v. 847. _counterwayng_] i. e. counter-weighing. Page 396. v. 850. _Pamphila_] “Telas araneorum modo texunt ad vestem luxumque fœminarum, quæ bombycina appellatur. Prima eas redordiri, rursusque texere invenit in Ceo mulier _Pamphila_, Latoi filia, non fraudanda gloria excogitatæ rationis ut denudet fœminas vestis.” Plinii _Nat. Hist._ lib. xi. 26. —— _quene of the Grekis londe_]—_londe_, i. e. land: qy. does any writer except Skelton call her a queen? v. 852. _Thamer also wrought with her goodly honde_ _Many diuisis passynge curyously_] It is plain that Skelton, while writing these complimentary stanzas, consulted Boccaccio _De Claris Mulieribus_: there this lady is called _Thamyris_ (see, in that work, “De _Thamyri_ Pictrice,” cap. liiii. ed. 1539). Her name is properly _Timarete_; she was daughter to Mycon the painter; vide Plinii _Nat. Hist.: honde_, i. e. hand: _diuisis_, i. e. devices. Page 396. v. 857. _toke_] i. e. took. v. 860. _corage ... perfight_] i. e. heart, affection ... perfect. —— _lady Elisabeth Howarde_] Was the third daughter of the second Duke of Norfolk by his second wife, Agnes Tylney, daughter of Sir Hugh Tylney, and sister and heir to Sir Philip Tylney of Boston, Lincolnshire, knight (I follow Howard’s _Memorials of the Howard Family_, &c.; Collins says “daughter of Hugh Tilney”). Lady Elizabeth married Henry Ratcliff, Earl of Sussex. v. 865. _Aryna_] i. e. perhaps—Irene. In the work of Boccaccio just referred to is a portion “De _Hyrene_ C[r]atini filia,” cap. lvii.; and Pliny notices her together with the above-mentioned Timarete. v. 866. _konnyng_] i. e. knowledge. v. 867. _wele_] i. e. well. v. 868. _enbewtid_] i. e. beautified. v. 870. _lusty ... loke_] i. e. pleasant ... look. v. 871. _Creisseid_] See Chaucer’s _Troilus and Creseide_. —— _Polexene_] i. e. Polyxena, the daughter of Priam. v. 872. _enuyue_] i. e. envive, enliven, excite. Page 397. v. 874. _hole_] i. e. whole.