“And largely _the mountenaunce of an houre_ They gonne on it to reden and to poure.” Chaucer’s _Troil. and Cres._, B. ii. fol. 157. _Workes_, ed. 1602. “Racynge and foynynge to _the mountenaunce of an houre_.” _Morte d’Arthur_, B. vii. cap. iiii. vol. i. 191. ed. Southey. v. 359. _sayne_] i. e. say. v. 367. _Burgonyons_] i. e. Burgundians. v. 373. _God saue my lorde admyrell!_ _What here ye of Mutrell?_] —_Mutrell_ is Montreuil; and the allusion must be to some attack intended or actual on that town, of which I can find no account agreeing with the date of the present poem. To suppose that the reference is to the siege of Montreuil in 1544, would be equivalent to pronouncing that the passage is an interpolation by some writer posterior to the time of Skelton. v. 375. _mell_] i. e. meddle. v. 380. _For drede of the red hat_ _Take peper in the nose_] i. e. For dread that the Cardinal, Wolsey, take offence. “Hee _taketh pepper in the nose_, that I complayne Vpon his faultes.” Heywood’s _Dialogue_, &c. sig. G.,—_Workes_, ed. 1598. Page 38. v. 383. _Of by the harde arse_] Compare the _Interlude of the iiii Elementes_, n. d.; “Ye but yet I seruyd another wors I smot _of_ his legge _by the hard ars_ As sone as I met hym there.” Sig. E i. v. 384. _trauarse_] i. e. thwarting contrivance. Page 39. v. 386. _makys our syre to glum_] i. e. makes our lord (Wolsey) have a gloomy or sour look. v. 391. _go or ryde_] See note, p. 125. v. 186. v. 397. _frayne_] i. e. ask, inquire. v. 401. _Hampton Court_] The palace of Wolsey; which he afterwards, with all its magnificent furniture, presented to the King. v. 407. _Yorkes Place_] The palace of Wolsey, as Archbishop of York, which he had furnished in the most sumptuous manner: after his disgrace, it became a royal residence under the name of Whitehall. v. 409. _To whose magnifycence, &c._ ... _Embassades of all nacyons_] —_Embassades_, i. e. Embassies. “All ambassadors of foreign potentates were always dispatched by his discretion, to whom they had always access for their dispatch. His house was also always resorted and furnished with noblemen, gentlemen, and other persons, with going and coming in and out, feasting and banqueting all ambassadors diverse times, and other strangers right nobly.” Cavendish’s _Life of Wolsey_, p. 112. ed. 1827. Page 40. v. 417. _tancrete_] “_Tancrit_: Transcrit, copié.” Roquefort’s _Gloss. de la Lang. Rom._ v. 418. _obstract_] i. e. abstract. v. 425. _Whan him lyst_] i. e. When it pleases him. v. 434. _vndermynde_] i. e. undermine. v. 435. _sleyghtes_] i. e. artful contrivances. v. 438. _coarted_] i. e. coarcted, confined. v. 440. _nutshales_] i. e. nutshells. v. 444. _taken in gre_] i. e. taken kindly, in good part: see note, p. 95. v. 68. v. 449. _He bereth the kyng on hand,_ _That he must pyll his lande_] —_bereth on hand_, i. e. leads on to a belief, persuades.