v. 178. _Alexander_] i. e. Alexander de Villa Dei, “author of the _Doctrinale Puerorum_, which for some centuries continued to be the most favourite manual of grammar used in schools, and was first printed at Venice in the year 1473 [at Treviso, in 1472: see _Typ. Ant._, ii. 116. ed. Dibdin]. It is compiled from Priscian, and in Leonine verse. See Henr. Gandav. _Scriptor. Eccles._ cap. lix. This admired system has been loaded with glosses and lucubrations; but, on the authority of an ecclesiastical synod, it was superseded by the _Commentarii Grammatici_ of Despauterius, in 1512. It was printed in England as early as the year 1503 by W. de Worde. [The existence of this ed. has been questioned. The work was printed by Pynson in 1505, 1513, 1516: see _Typ. Ant._, ii. 116, 426, 427, ed. Dibdin, and Lowndes’s _Bibliog. Man._, i. 27]. Barklay, in the _Ship of Fooles_, mentions Alexander’s book, which he calls ‘The _olde Doctrinall_ with his diffuse and vnperfite breuitie.’ fol. 53. b [ed. 1570].” Warton’s _Hist. of E. P._, ii. 347 (note), ed. 4to. Page 9. v. 178. _Menanders pole_] See note, p. 130. v. 434: _pole_, i. e. pool. v. 179. _Da Cansales_] “He perhaps means _Concilia_, or the canon law.” Warton’s _Hist. of E. P._, ii. 347 (note), ed. 4to. v. 180. _Da Rationales_] “He seems to intend _Logic_.” _Id. ibid._ v. 183. _Pety Caton_] _Cato Parvus_ (a sort of supplement to _Cato Magnus_, i. e. _Dionysii Catonis Disticha de Moribus_) was written by Daniel Churche, or Ecclesiensis, a domestic in the court of Henry the Second: see Warton’s _Hist. of E. P._, ii. 170, and Dibdin’s ed. of _Typ. Ant._, i. 120. v. 187. _scole maters_] i. e. school-matters. —— _hole sentens_] i. e. whole meaning. v. 188. _gariopholo_] So, I believe, Skelton wrote, though the classical form of the word is _garyophyllo_. v. 189. _pyke_] i. e. pick. v. 190. _synamum styckis_] i. e. cinnamon-sticks. v. 191. _perdurable_] i. e. everlasting. v. 192. _fauorable_] i. e. well-favoured, beautiful. Page 10. v. 195. _tote_] i. e. peep. v. 198. _loke_] i. e. look. v. 199. _freshe humanyte_] i. e. elegant literature: see notes, p. 302. v. 39. p. 319. v. 817. v. 201. _chekmate_] In allusion to the king’s being put in _check_ at the game of chess. v. 205. _processe_] i. e. discourse; see notes, p. 143. v. 735. p. 230 (first note on prose), p. 276. v. 2506, &c. v. 207. _with all_] i. e. withal. v. 208. _pauys_] See note, p. 90. v. 48. v. 209. _flekyd pye_] i. e. spotted, variegated magpie. v. 210. _pendugum, that men call a carlyng_]—“_pendugum_,” says the Rev. J. Mitford, “is penguin;” and he supposes that _carlyng_ has some connexion with the term gair-fowl, which is another name for the penguin. Page 11. v. 219. _Ye ... torne_] i. e. Yea ... turn. v. 222. _moche ... popegay ryall_] i. e. much ... parrot royal. v. 226. _amonge_] i. e. together, at the same time. v. 228. _worldly lust_] i. e. worldly pleasure. v. 232. _recule_] See note, p. 327. v. 1187.