v. 798. _Dymingis Dale_] So in _Thersytes_, n. d.; “Mother bryce of oxforde and greate Gyb of hynxey Also mawde of thrutton and mable of chartesey And all other wytches that walke in _dymminges dale_ Clytteringe and clatteringe there youre pottes with ale.” p. 68. Roxb. ed. v. 799. _Portyngale_] i. e. Portugal. v. 806. _calodemonyall_] i. e. consisting of good angels. v. 807. _cacodemonyall_] i. e. consisting of evil angels. v. 808. _puruey_] i. e. provide. Page 52. v. 831. _euerychone_] i. e. every one. v. 838. _rewth_] i. e. pity. v. 845. _recorde_] i. e. witness, evidence. Page 53. v. 856. _set by_] i. e. valued, regarded. v. 867. _askrye_] i. e. a shout. The verb has occurred several times before: see notes, p. 145. v. 903. p. 152. v. 1358. p. 191. v. 66. v. 877. _haute ... base_] i. e. high ... low. v. 880. _Marke me that chase_ _In the tennys play_] See the latter part of note, p. 205. v. 62. “_Marquez bien cette chasse._ Heed well that passage, marke well the point, whereof I have informed you.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ in v. _Chasse_. Page 54. v. 883. _a tall man_] “_Tall_ or semely.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. v. 885. _Hay, the gye and the gan_] In one of his copies of verses _Against Venemous Tongues_, Skelton has, “Nothing to write, but _hay the gy of thre_.” v. 13. vol. i. 134, where there seems to be some allusion to the dance called _heydeguies_. In the present passage probably there is a play on words: _gye_ may mean—goose; and _gan_ gander. v. 886. _gose_] i. e. goose. v. 887. _The waters wax wan_] Horne Tooke in his _Div. of Purley_, Part ii. p. 179. ed. 1805, citing this line from the ed. of Skelton’s _Works_, 1736, thus, “The waters _were_ wan,” considers “wan” as the past participle of the verb “wane,”—_wand_, decreased; and he is followed by Richardson, _Dict._ in v. _Wan_. But “were” is merely a misprint of ed. 1736; and that “wan” is here an adjective expressing the colour of the water, is not to be doubted. So Skelton elsewhere; “For worldly shame I _wax_ bothe _wanne_ and bloo.” _Magnyfycence_, v. 2080. vol. i. 292. “The ryuers rowth, the _waters wan_.” _Balett_, v. 15. vol. i. 22. So too in Henry’s _Wallace_; “Bot rochis heich, and _wattir_ depe and _wan_.” B. vii. 814. ed. Jam. Page 54. v. 888. _ban_] i. e. curse. v. 891. _warke_] i. e. work. v. 896. _Sem ... Cam_] i. e. Shem ... Ham. v. 898. _cupbord_] “_Cupborde of plate_ or to sette plate vpon _buffet_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxviii. (Table of Subst.). It had a succession of “desks” or stages, on which the plate was displayed: see the description of a magnificent entertainment in Cavendish’s _Life of Wolsey_, p. 195. ed. 1827, and the editor’s note. v. 904. _alcumyn_] i. e. a sort of mixed metal. v. 905. _A goldsmyth your mayre_] “A.D. 1522 ... Maior, Sir John Mundy, Goldsmith, Son to William Mundy of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.” Stow’s _Survey_, B. v. 129. ed. 1720.