—— _Eltam_] “K. Edw. iv. repaired this house [Eltham Palace] with much cost, and inclosed Horne-Park,” &c. Hasted’s _Hist. of Kent_, i. 51. Page 4. v. 64. _solas_] i. e. sport, amusement. v. 66. _Lady Bes_] Edward married, May 1st, 1464, the Lady Elizabeth Grey, widow of Sir John Grey, and daughter of Wydevile Lord Rivers by Jacquetta (or Jacqueline) Duchess of Bedford. v. 70. _But Windsore alone, now I haue no mo_]—_mo_, i. e. more.—“He [Edward IV.] lies buried at Windsor, in the new Chappel (whose Foundation himself had laid, being all the Works of Piety by him left) under a Monument of Steel, polish’d and gilt, [iron gilt—see Lysons’s _Berkshire_, p. 210.], representing a Pair of Gates, betwixt Two Towers, all of curious transparent Workmanship after the Gothick Manner, which is placed in the North-Arch, faced through with Touch-Stone, near to the High-Altar.” Sandford’s _Geneal. Hist._ p. 413. ed. 1707. Page 4. v. 73. _Why should a man be proude or presume hye?_ _Sainct Bernard therof nobly doth trete,_ _Seyth a man is but a sacke of stercorry,_ _And shall returne vnto wormis mete._ _Why, what cam of Alexander the greate?_ _Or els of stronge Sampson, who can tell?_ _Were not wormes ordeyned theyr flesh to frete?_ _And of Salomon, that was of wyt the well?_ _Absolon profferyd his heare for to sell,_ _Yet for al his bewte wormys ete him also_] —_stercorry_, i. e. dung: _frete_, i. e. eat, devour: _heare_, i. e. hair.—In cap. iii. of _Meditationes piissimæ de cognitione humanæ conditionis_, a piece attributed to Saint Bernard, we find, “_Nihil aliud est homo, quam_ sperma fœtidum, _saccus stercorum, cibus vermium.... Cur ergo superbis homo.... Quid superbis_ pulvis et cinis,” &c. Bernardi _Opp._ ii. 335-36. ed. 1719. In a _Rythmus de contemptu mundi_, attributed to the same saint, are these lines; “Dic _ubi Salomon_, olim tam nobilis? Vel _ubi Samson_ est, dux invincibilis? Vel _pulcher Absalon, vultu mirabilis?_ ... _O esca vermium_! O massa pulveris! O roris vanitas, _cur sic extolleris?_” _Opp._ ii. 913-14. ed. 1719. (This _Rythmus_ is printed by Mr. Wright among _The Latin Poems attributed to Walter Mapes_, p. 147.) So also Lydgate in a poem on the mutability of human affairs; “And _wher is Salomon_ moost soueryn of konnynge, Richest of bildyng, of tresour incomparable? Face of _Absolon_ moost fair, moost amyable? ... And _wher is Alisaundir_ that conqueryd al?” _MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 4, 5. —_of wyt the well_: so in _Cæsar Augustus_; “_Of witt_ art thou _the welle_.”—_Townely Mysteries_, p. 68. v. 85. _I haue played my pageyond_] i. e. I have played my pageant,—my part on the stage of life. Compare “Theyr _pageandes_ are past And ours wasteth fast Nothynge dothe aye last But the grace of God.” Feylde’s _Contrav. bytwene a louer and a Iaye_, sig. B iii. n. d. 4to. “_Playis heir thair padyanis_, syne gois to graif.”