v. 159. _shake thy dogge, hay_] See note, p. 226. v. 28. v. 161. _We set nat a flye_ _By, &c._] i. e. We value not at a fly, care not a fly for. v. 163. _prane_] i. e. prawn. Page 72. v. 164. _dronken drane_] See note, p. 222. v. 172. Page 73. v. 165. _We set nat a myght_] So Chaucer; “I nolde _setten_ at his sorow _a mite_.” _Troilus and Creseide_, B iii.—_Workes_, fol. 161. ed. 1602. v. 167. _proude palyarde_] See note, p. 348. v. 427. v. 168. _skyrgaliarde_] See note, p. 218. v. 101. v. 171. _coystrowne_] See note on title of poem, p. 92. v. 172. _dagswayne_] See note, p. 270. v. 2195. I know not if the word was ever used as a term of reproach by any writer except Skelton. v. 182. _mell_] i. e. meddle. v. 189. _Right inconuenyently_ _Ye rage and ye raue,_ _And your worshyp depraue_] —_inconuenyently_, i. e. unsuitably, unbecomingly: _your worshyp depraue_, i. e. debase, degrade, lower your dignity. “I am also aduertised that he [Albany] is so passionate that and he bee aparte amongis his familiers and doth here any thing contrarius to his myende and pleasure, his accustumed maner is too take his bonet sodenly of his hed and to throwe it in the fire, and no man dare take it oute but let it to bee brent. My lord Dacre doth affirme that at his last being in Scotland he ded borne aboue a dosyn bonettes aftir that maner.” Letter from Lord Surrey to Wolsey,—_MS. Cott., Calig. B_ vi. fol. 316. v. 192. _Duke Hamylcar_] } v. 195. _Duke Hasdruball_] } —_Duke_, i. e. leader, lord. So Lydgate; “_Duke_ whylom of Cartage Called _Amylchar_.” _Fall of Prynces_, B. v. leaf cxxvi. ed. Wayland. “_Duke Hasdrubal_, whome bokes magnify.” _Ibid._ B. ii. leaf xlv. v. 198. _condicions_] See note, p. 183. v. 12. Page 74. v. 209. _Howe ye wyll beres bynde_]—_beres_, i. e. bears. Compare; “With mede men may _bynde berys_.” _Coventry Mysteries_,—_MS. Cott. Vesp. D viii._ fol. 195. “Som man is strong _berys for to bynde_.” Lydgate’s verses _Against Self-love_, &c.—_MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 10. “That with the strenth of my hand _Beres may bynd_.” _The Droichis Part of the Play_, attributed to Dunbar,—_Poems_, ii. 37. ed. Laing. “Makynge the people to beleve he coulde _bynde bears_.” Bale’s _Kynge Johan_, p. 72. ed. Camd. Page 74. v. 210. _the deuill downe dynge_] See note, p. 270. v. 2210. v. 227. _entrusar_] i. e. intruder. “But an _intrusour_, one called Julyan.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. viii. leaf ii. ed. Wayland. v. 230. _to_] i. e. too. Page 75. v. 237. _lorde amrell_] i. e. lord admiral (Surrey). v. 240. _marciall shoure_] See note, p. 219. v. 133. v. 243. _derayne_] i. e. contest. v. 248. _keteryng_] See note, p. 218. v. 83. v. 250. _hert_] i. e. heart. v. 251. _The fynde of hell mot sterue the_] i. e. May the fiend of hell cause thee to die, destroy thee. (To _sterue_ in our old writers is common in the sense of—die, perish.)