v. 1239. _the Walshemannys hoos_] See note, p. 289. v. 780. v. 1240. _vmblis_] i. e. parts of the inwards of a deer. “_Noumbles_ of a dere or beest _entrailles_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. 1. (Table of Subst.). And see Sir F. Madden’s note, _Syr Gawayne_, &c. p. 322. ———— _the botell of wyne,_ _To fayre maistres Anne that shuld haue be sent_] Such a present seems to have been not uncommon; “Beddes, brochys, and _botelles of wyen he to the lady sent_.” Lydgate’s _Ballad of A Prioress and her three Wooers_,—_MS. Harl._ 78. fol. 74. The “maistres Anne” here mentioned is doubtless the lady to whom the lines in vol. i. 20 are addressed. v. 1242. _wrate ... praty_] i. e. wrote ... pretty. v. 1246. _longyth_] i. e. belongeth. v. 1247. _Of one Adame all a knaue_ ... _He wrate an Epitaph, &c._] In vol. i. 171. v. 1250. _agerdows_] i. e. eager, keen, severe. v. 1254. _Phillip Sparow_] In vol. i, 51. Page 412. v. 1257. _Yet sum there be therewith that take greuaunce_] See notes, p. 149 sqq., where will be found illustrations of the portion of _Phyllyp Sparowe_ which is inserted in the present poem. Page 415. v. 1376. _The Gruntyng and the groynninge of the gronnyng swyne_] See note, p. 180. v. 2. v. 1377. _the Murnyng of the mapely rote_]—_mapely rote_, i. e. maple-root.—In Ravenscroft’s _Pammelia_, 1609, part of a nonsensical song (No. 31) is as follows; “My Ladies gone to Canterbury, S. Thomas be her boote. Shee met with Kate of Malmsbury, _Why weepst thou maple roote?_” a recollection perhaps of Skelton’s lost ballad. Page 416. v. 1378. _pine_] i. e. pain, grief. v. 1379. _a cote_] i. e. a coot (water-fowl). v. 1380. _birdbolt_] i. e. a blunt arrow used to kill birds; see Nares’s _Gloss._ in v. and in v. _Bolt_. —— _hart rote_] i. e. heart-root. v. 1381. _Moyses hornis_] So Lydgate; “_Moyses_ With _golden hornes_ liche phebus beames bright.” _Process. of Corpus Christi_,—_MS. Harl._ 2251. fol. 251. “Cumque descenderet Moyses de monte Sinai ... ignorabat quod _cornuta_ esset facies sua ex consortio sermonis Domini.” Vulgate,—_Exod._ xxxiv. 29. v. 1382. _merely, medelyd_] i. e. merrily, mingled.