v. 1027. _pomaunder_] Was a composition of perfumes, wrought into the shape of a ball, or other form, and worn in the pocket, or about the neck (Fr. _pomme d’ambre_). In the following entry from an unpublished _Boke of Kyngs Paymentis from i to ix of Henry viii_, preserved in the Chapter-House, Westminster, _pomaunder_ means a case for holding the composition; “Item to the frenche quenes seruaunt, that brought } xx. s.” (9th year _a pomaunder of gold_ to the princes, in Re[ward] } of reign). v. 1030. _Wele_] i. e. Well. v. 1033. _corteise_] i. e. courteous. Page 403. v. 1048. _Pasiphe_] Lest the reader should be surprised at finding Skelton compare Mistress Statham to Pasiphae, I cite the following lines from Feylde’s _Contrauersye bytwene a Louer and a Iaye_ (printed by W. de Worde), n. d., in which she and Taurus are mentioned as examples of true love; “Phedra and Theseus Progne and Thereus _Pasyphe and Taurus_ Who lyketh to proue Canace and Machareus Galathea and Pamphylus Was neuer more dolorous _And all for true loue_.” Sig. B iiii. I may add too a passage from Caxton’s _Boke of Eneydos_, &c. (translated from the French), 1490; “The wyffe of kynge Mynos of Crete was named Pasyfa that was a grete lady and a fayr aboue alle other ladyes of the royame.... The quene Pasyfa _was wyth chylde by kynge Mynos_, and whan her tyme was comen she was delyuered of a creature that was halfe a man and halfe a bulle.” Sig. h 6. Page 403. v. 1062. _aquyte_] i. e. requite. Page 404. v. 1068. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion. v. 1074. _warke_] i. e. work. v. 1076. _Galathea, the made well besene, &c._ ... _By Maro_] —_the made well besene_, i. e. the maid of good appearance, fair to see: the expression applied, as here, to personal appearance, independent of dress, is, I apprehend, very unusual; see notes, p. 112. v. 283. p. 295. v. 957. p. 311. v. 483: _By Maro_; vide _Ecl_. i. and iii. v. 1082. _leyser_] i. e. leisure. Page 405. v. 1094. _ich_] i. e. each. v. 1102. _curteisly_] i. e. courteously. v. 1103. _where as_] i. e. where. v. 1109. _Wele was hym_] i. e. He was in good condition. v. 1114. _astate_] i. e. estate,—meaning here—state, raised chair or throne with a canopy: compare v. 484. Page 406. v. 1117. _loked ... a glum_] i. e. looked ... a gloomy, sour look. v. 1118. _There was amonge them no worde then but mum_] See note, p. 278. v. 83. v. 1121. _sith_] i. e. since. v. 1124. _pretence_] i. e. pretension, claim. v. 1128. _princes of astate_] i. e. princess of estate, rank, dignity. v. 1132. _condiscendyng_] See note, p. 237. v. 39. Page 407. v. 1135. _enduce_] i. e. bring in, adduce. v. 1136. _lay_] See note, p. 219. v. 103. v. 1139. _bokis_] i. e. books. v. 1143. _poynted_] i. e. appointed. v. 1144. _presid_] i. e. pressed. v. 1150. _ony_] i. e. any. v. 1154. _wote wele_] i. e. know well. v. 1156. _losende_] i. e. loosened, loosed.