Page 408. v. 1176. _to lerne you to dye when ye wyll_] A version probably of the same piece which was translated and published by Caxton under the title of _A lityll treatise shorte and abredged spekynge of the arte and crafte to knowe well to dye_, 1490, folio. Caxton translated it from the French: the original Latin was a work of great celebrity. v. 1178. _Rosiar_] i. e. Rose-bush. —— _Prince Arturis Creacyoun_] Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry the Seventh, was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, 1st Oct. 1489: see Sandford’s _Geneal. Hist._ p. 475. ed. 1707. Page 409. v. 1183. _Bowche of Courte_] In vol. i. 30. v. 1185. _Of Tullis Familiars the translacyoun_] Is noticed with praise in Caxton’s Preface to _The Boke of Eneydos_, &c. 1490: see the passage cited in _Account of Skelton and his Writings_. v. 1187. _The Recule ageinst Gaguyne of the Frenshe nacyoun_]—_Recule_, Fr. _recueil_, is properly—a collection of several writings: it occurs again in v. 1390; and in _Speke, Parrot_, v. 232. vol. ii. 11. Concerning Gaguin, see _Account of Shelton and his Writings_. v. 1188. _the Popingay, that hath in commendacyoun_ _Ladyes and gentylwomen suche as deseruyd,_ _And suche as be counterfettis they be reseruyd_] —_Popingay_, i. e. Parrot: “_Reserved_ excepte _sauf_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xciiii. (Table of Adiect.).—No part of _Speke, Parrot_ (in vol. ii. 1), answers to this description: but “_the Popingay_” is certainly only another name for _Speke, Parrot_ (see v. 280. vol. ii. 14); and Skelton must allude here to some portion, now lost, of that composition. v. 1192. _Magnyfycence_] In vol. i. 225. v. 1193. _new get_] See note, p. 242. v. 458. v. 1196. _wele_] i. e. well. v. 1198. _Of manerly maistres Margery Mylke and Ale, &c._] In vol. i. 28. is one of the “many maters of myrthe” which Skelton here says that he “wrote to her.” v. 1202. _Lor_] A corruption of _Lord_. v. 1203. _Gingirly, go gingerly_] “_Gyngerly: A pas menus_, as _Allez a pas menu ma fille_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxli. (Table of Aduerb.). Page 410. v. 1206. _This fustiane maistres and this giggisse gase_] _maistres_, i. e. mistress: _giggisse_, i. e. giggish,—which Forby gives, with the sense of—trifling, silly, flighty (_Vocab. of East Anglia_); but here perhaps the word implies something of wantonness: _gase_, i. e. goose. Page 410. v. 1207. _wrenchis_] See note, p. 100. v. 25. v. 1209. _shuld not crase_] i. e. that it should not break. v. 1210. _It may wele ryme, but shroudly it doth accorde_]—_wele_, i. e. well: _shroudly_, i. e. shrewdly, badly. A copy of verses on Inconsistency by Lydgate has for its burden, “_It may wele ryme, but it accordith nought._” _MS. Harl._ 2251. fol. 26. v. 1211. _pyke ... potshorde_] i. e. pick ... potsherd. v. 1218. _mo_] i. e. more. v. 1219.