“Lordings, right thus, as ye han understond, _Bare_ I stifly min old husbondes _on hond_, That thus they saiden in hir dronkennesse.” Chaucer’s _Wif of Bathes Prol._, 5961. ed. Tyr. “He is my countre man: as he _bereth me an hande_,—vti mihi vult persuasum.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. X viii. ed. 1530. The expression occurs in a somewhat different sense in our author’s _Magnyfycence_, see note, p. 241. v. 357: _pyll_, i. e. strip, spoil. Page 41. v. 463. _a cæciam_] “_Cæcia_, σκοτοδινία [a vertigo with loss of sight].” Du Cange’s _Gloss._ See note _ad loc._ Qy. is “accidiam” the right reading (“_Acedia_, _Accidia_ ... tædium ... tristitia, molestia, anxietas,” &c. (Gr. ἀκηδία): see _Du Cange_)? v. 476. _a Mamelek_] i. e. a Mameluke. Compare _The Image of Ipocrisy_, (a poem in imitation of Skelton, which is appended to the present edition); “And crafty inquisitors, Worse then _Mamalokes_.” Part Four. v. 478. _potshordes_] i. e. potsherds. Page 42. v. 483. _God to recorde_] i. e. God to witness. v. 485. _reason or skyll_] See note, p. 238. v. 106. v. 486. _the primordyall_ _Of his wretched originall_] —_primordyall_, i. e. first beginning. v. 490. _sank_] i. e. blood. v. 491. _bochers_] i. e. butcher’s: see note, p. 349. v. 478. v. 495. _rowme_] i. e. room, place, office. v. 505. _parde_] i. e. _par dieu_, verily. v. 508. _saw_] i. e. saying,—branch of learning. So in our author’s _Colyn Cloute_; “Some lernde in other _sawe_.” v. 734. vol. i. 339. v. 511. _quatriuials_] } v. 512. _triuials_] } See note, p. 343. v. 171. This depreciation of Wolsey’s acquirements is very unjust: his learning, there is reason to believe, was far from contemptible. Page 43. v. 517. _worth a fly_] See note, p. 219. v. 104. v. 518. _Haly_] } v. 519. _Ptholomy_] } v. 520. _Albumasar_] } See notes, p. 133. vv. 501. 503. 505. v. 522. _mobyll_] i. e. moveable. v. 526. _humanyte_] i. e. _humaniores literæ_, polite literature. v. 533. _our processe for to stable_]—_processe_, i. e. story, account; see notes, p. 143. v. 735. p. 146. v. 969, &c. and compare our author’s Fourth Poem _Against Garnesche_, “But now my _proces for to saue_,” v. 157. vol. i. 131. v. 538. _conceyght_] i. e. conceit,—good opinion, favour. v. 540. _exemplyfyenge_] i. e. following the example of. Page 44. v. 550. _A wretched poore man, &c._] i. e. Abdalonimus (or Abdolonimus) whom Alexander made king of Sidon: see Justin, xi. 10. Cowley touches on the story at the commencement of _Plant. Lib. iv._; and in his English version of that commencement, under the title of _The Country Life_, he has greatly improved the passage. v. 557. _occupyed a showell_] i. e. used a shovel: see note, p. 86. v. 52. v. 566. _renowme_] i. e. renown. v. 569. _with lewde condicyons cotyd_] i. e. quoted, noted, marked, with evil qualities: see note, p. 183. v. 12. v. 570. _ben_] i. e. be. v. 573. _Couetys_] i. e. Covetise, covetousness.