Page 36. v. 287. _The Erle of Northumberlande, &c._] i. e. Henry Algernon Percy, fifth Earl of Northumberland. In 14 Henry viii. he was made warden of the whole Marches, a charge which for some reason or other he soon after resigned: _vide_ Collins’s _Peerage_, ii. 305. ed. Brydges. That he found himself obliged to pay great deference to the Cardinal, is evident from Cavendish’s _Life of Wolsey_, where (pp. 120-128. ed. 1827) see the account of his being summoned from the north, &c. when his son Lord Percy, (who was then, according to the custom of the age, a “servitor” in Wolsey’s house) had become enamoured of Anne Boleyn. This nobleman, who encouraged literature, and appears to have patronised our poet (see _Account of Skelton_, &c.), died in 1527. v. 291. _Rynne_] i. e. Run. v. 292. _mayny of shepe_] i. e. flock of sheep. v. 293. _loke ... dur_] i. e. look ... door. v. 294. _mastyue cur_] } v. 295. _bochers dogge_] } i. e. Wolsey: see note, p. 349. v. 478. v. 296. _wyrry_] i. e. worry. v. 297. _gnar_] i. e. snarl, growl. v. 300. _blode_] i. e. blood. v. 301. _hode_] i. e. hood. v. 308. _astate_] i. e. estate, state, rank, dignity. v. 312. _foles and dawes_] i. e. fools and simpletons; see note, p. 113. v. 301. v. 313. _eke_] i. e. also. v. 315. _pletynge_] i. e. pleading. v. 316. _Commune Place_] i. e. Common Pleas. Page 37. v. 326. _huddypeke_] See note, p. 255. v. 1176. v. 327. _Thy lernynge is to lewde_]—_to lewde_, i. e. too bad, too mean. So in our author’s _Speke, Parrot_ we find “_lewdlye_ ar they _lettyrd_.” v. 296. vol. ii. 15. v. 328. _well thewde_] i. e. well mannered. v. 338. _rowte_] See note, p. 298. v. 1223. v. 343. _the Scottysh kynge_] i. e. James the Fifth. v. 346. _stalworthy_] i. e. strong, stout. v. 347. _whipling_] Perhaps the same as—_pipling_: see note on l. 26 (prose), p. 229. Page 38. v. 352. _calstocke_] “_Calstoke_. Maguderis.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “_Calstocke pie de chov_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxii. (Table of Subst.). v. 353. _There goth many a lye_ _Of the Duke of Albany, &c._] This passage relates to the various rumours which were afloat concerning the Scottish affairs in 1522, during the regency of John Duke of Albany. (The last and disastrous expedition of Albany against England in 1523 had not yet taken place: its failure called forth from Skelton a long and furious invective against the Duke; see vol. ii. 68.) In 1522, when Albany with an army eighty thousand strong had advanced to Carlisle, Lord Dacre by a course of able negotiations prevailed on him to agree to a truce for a month and to disband his forces: see _Hist. of Scot._, v. 156 sqq. by Tytler,—who defends the conduct of Albany on this occasion from the charge of cowardice and weakness. v. 356. _quycke_] i. e. alive. v. 358. _The mountenaunce of two houres_] “_Mowntenaunce._ Quantitas. Estimata mensura.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499.