found ‘in what signe he’ (the _moon_, masculine in Anglo-Saxon) ‘sittith and the sunne also, and in what tyme of the day thei arisen, eny of hem, either goone downe, and what it is of the watir, whether it be flood or eb.’ The rule concludes by observing that the wind sometimes alters the time of the tide ‘at Londone brigge.’” Page 422. v. 1533. _quaire_] i. e. quire,—pamphlet, book. v. 1536. _wrate_] i. e. wrote. Page 422. v. 1542. _warkis_] i. e. works. v. 1546. _loke_] i. e. look. v. 1547. _boke_] i. e. book. v. 1552. _brede_] i. e. breadth. Page 423. v. 1556. _harnnes_] i. e. armour. v. 1558. _ageyne_] i. e. against. v. 1563. _derayne_] i. e. contest. v. 1569. _curteisly_] i. e. courteously. v. 1575. _sad_] See note, p. 264. v. 1711. v. 1581. _Any worde defacid_] i. e. Any disfigured, deformed, unseemly word. v. 1582. _rasid_] i. e. erased. Page 424.—— _Lautre Enuoy, &c._] Concerning this curious Envoy, see _Account of Skelton and his Writings_. v. 1597. _sekernes_] i. e. security, sureness. v. 1598. _rede_] i. e. conceive, consider. OWT OF LATYNE INTO ENGLYSSHE. Page 426. v. 5. _kepe_] i. e. heed, regard, care. v. 7. _Gone to seke hallows_]—_hallows_, i. e. saints. “On pilgremage then must they go, To Wilsdon, Barking, or to some _hallowes_.” _The Schole House of Women_, 1572,—Utterson’s _Early Pop. Poetry_, ii. 66. But “to seek hallows” seems to have been a proverbial expression; “O many woman hath caught be in a trayne, By goyng out such _halowes for to seke_.” Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sig. I ii. ed. 1555. Page 427. v. 13. _withholde_] i. e. withheld. v. 14. _sayne_] i. e. say. NOTES TO VOLUME II. SPEKE, PARROT. That the extant portions of this very obscure production were written at intervals, is not to be doubted; and that we do not possess all that Skelton composed under the title of _Speke, Parrot_ is proved by the following passage of the _Garlande of Laurell_, where, enumerating his various works, he mentions “_the Popingay_, that hath in commendacyoun Ladyes and gentylwomen suche as deseruyd, And suche as be counterfettis they be reseruyd.” v. 1188. vol. i. 409. a description which, as it answers to no part of the existing poem (or poems), must apply to some portion which has perished, and which, I apprehend, was of an earlier date. “_The Popingay_” is assuredly only another name for _Speke, Parrot_; “Go, litell quayre, _namyd the Popagay_.” _Speke, Parrot_, v. 280. Page 1. v. 3. _Parrot, a byrd of paradyse_] So Lydgate (in a poem, entitled in the Catalogue, _Advices for people to keep a guard over their tongues_); “_Popyngayes froo paradys_ comyn al grene.” _MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 133. “Than spake _the popynge Jay of paradyse_.” _Parlyament of Byrdes_, sig. A ii. n. d. v. 5. _Dyentely_] i. e. Daintily. v. 6. _flode_] i. e. flood. Page 2. v. 8. _estate_] i. e. state, rank.