v. 255. _Caried in a cage, &c._] In no historian can I find any allusion to the strange vehicle here mentioned. v. 257. _mawment_] See note, p. 188. v. 170. Page 76. v. 268. _warke_] i. e. work. v. 270. _Therin, lyke a royle,_ _Sir Dunkan, ye dared_] Compare; “By your reuellous riding on euery _royle_, Welny euery day a new mare or a moyle.” Heywood’s _Dialogue_, &c. sig. H 4,—_Workes_, ed. 1598. “_Nulla in tam, magno est corpore mica salis_, There is not one crum or droppe of good fashion in al that great _royls_ bodye. For Catullus ther speaketh of a certaine mayden that was called Quintia,” &c. Udall’s _Flowers, or Eloquent Phrases of the Latine speach_, &c. sig. G 5. ed. 1581. Grose gives “_Roil_ or _royle_, a big ungainly slamakin, a great awkward blowze or hoyden.” _Prov. Gloss._:—_Sir Dunkan_ is a Scottish name used here at random by Skelton, as he elsewhere uses other Scottish names, see note, p. 219. v. 121: _dared_, see note, p. 258. v. 1358; and compare; “_Daren_ or preuyly ben hyd. Latito.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “Vnder freshe floures sote and fayre to se, The serpent _dareth_ with his couert poyson.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. iv. leaf cvii. ed. Wayland. “the snayl goth lowe doun, _Daryth_ in his shelle.” Poem by Lydgate (entitled in the Catalogue, _Advices for people to keep a guard over their tongues_),—_MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 133. Page 76. v. 274. _sely_] i. e. silly, simple, harmless. v. 282. _It made no great fors_] i. e. It was no great matter, it mattered not greatly. v. 285. _a gon stone_] See note, p. 314. v. 629. v. 287. _sir Topias_] See note, p. 180. v. 40. v. 288. _Bas_] The _Bass_ is an island, or rather rock, of immense height in the Firth of Forth, about a mile distant from the south shore. v. 290. _[l]as_] I may just notice, in support of this reading, that “a lusty _lasse_” occurs in our author’s _Magnyfycence_, v. 1577. vol. i. 276. v. 292. _I shrewe_] i. e. I beshrew, curse. —— _lugges_] i. e. ears. v. 293. _munpynnys_] Compare; “Syrs, let us cryb furst for oone thyng or oder, That thise wordes be purst, and let us go foder Our _mompyns_.” _Prima Pastorum_,—_Towneley Mysteries_, p. 89 (a passage which the writer of the _Gloss._ altogether misunderstands), and; “Thy _mone pynnes_ bene lyche olde yuory, Here are stumpes feble and her are none,” &c. Lydgate, _The prohemy of a mariage_, &c.—_MS. Harl._ 372. fol. 45. _Munpynnys_ is, I apprehend, mouth-pins, teeth. Ray gives “The _Munne_, the Mouth.” _Coll. of Engl. Words_, &c.—Preface, p. x. ed. 1768: and Jamieson has “_Munds_. The mouth.”—“_Muns._ The hollow behind the jaw-bone.” _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ and _Suppl._ —— _crag_] i. e. neck, throat. v. 295. _hag_] See note, p. 99. v. 19. v. 296. _sir Wrig wrag_] } v. 297. _sir Dalyrag_] } See note, p. 189. v. 186. Page 77. v. 298. _mellyng_] i. e. meddling. v. 301. _huddypeke_] See note, p. 255. v. 1176.