“Help _feuerous_ folk that tremble in ther _accesse_.” Lydgate’s _Prayer to St. Leonard_,—_MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 114. In some parts of England and Scotland _access_ is still used to denote the ague.—Lest any reader should think this note unnecessarily long, I may observe that in two recently published works the word “_axes_” is erroneously explained,—aches. Page 25. v. 10. _Of thoughtfull hertys plungyd in dystres_] Skelton borrowed this line from Lydgate, whose _Lyf of our Lady_ begins “O _thoughtful herte plungyd in distresse_.” In the _Bibl. Poet._ p. 82, Ritson gives these words as the commencement of a poem by Lydgate, _Cott. Ap._ viii., not knowing that this reference is to a MS. of the _Lyf of our Lady_.—_Thoughtfull_ is anxious, heavy, sad. “For _thought_ and woe pyteously wepynge.” Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. iv. sig. T v. ed. 1555. v. 13. _Herber_] Warton appears to limit the signification of this word in old poetry to “an herbary for furnishing domestic medicines,” which, says he, “always made a part of our ancient gardens;” note on _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 231. ed. 4to. But Jamieson observes, that it would seem to be used for arbour by James I., _Kings Quair_, ii. 12, 13., and in the romance of _Sir Egeir_, v. 356. _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ (in v. _Herbere_). See also _The Flower and the Leaf_, and _The Complaint of the Black Knight_, by Chaucer. v. 14. _lusty somer_] i. e. pleasant summer. v. 16. _ruddys_] i. e. ruddy tints of the cheek, complexion. v. 17. _Saphyre of sadnes_]—_sadnes_, i. e. steadiness, constancy: “For hit is write and seide how _the safere_ _Doth token trowthe_.” _Poems_ by C. Duke of Orleans,—_MS. Harl._ 682. fol. 44. —— _enuayned with indy blew_] _enuayned_, i. e. enveined. “_Inde._ Fr., Azure-coloured.” Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss. to Chaucer’s Cant. Tales_. “Inde, _ynde_: couleur de bleu foncé, d’azur, _indicum_.” Roquefort’s _Gloss. de la Lang. Rom._ So again our author in his _Magnyfycence_; “The streynes of her vaynes as asure _inde blewe_.” v. 1571. vol. i. 276. See too his _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 478. vol. i. 381. Compare Hawes; “Lyke to a lady: for to be moost trewe She ware a fayre: and goodly garment Of moost fyne veluet: al of _Indy blewe_ With armynes powdred: bordred at the vent.” _The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. K iiii. ed. 1555. and Nevil, son of Lord Latimer, in a poem of great rarity; “On the gates two scryptures I aspyed Theym for to rede my mynd than I applyed Wryten in gold and _indye blewe_ for folkes fortheraunce.” _The Castell of pleasure_, sig. A v. 1518. Chaucer has “Of grasse and floures, _Inde_ and Pers.” _Romaunt of the Rose_,—_Workes_, fol. 109. ed. 1602. (monstrously explained in Urry’s ed. “Indian and Persian”): and Lydgate, “Nor stonys al by nature, as I fynde, Be not saphires that shewethe _colour ynde_.” _The Chorle and the Bird_,—_MS. Harl._ 116. fol. 150.