v. 456. _longe_] i. e. belong. v. 457. _lewde_] i. e. wicked. v. 460. _herte brennynge_] i. e. heart-burning. v. 464. _It is a worlde_] Equivalent to—It is a matter of wonder. Page 48. v. 466. _A man can not wote where to be come_] i. e. A man cannot know whither to go: compare v. 228. v. 467. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.). —— _home_] i. e. hum. v. 470. _frere_] i. e. friar. v. 471. _agayne_] i. e. against. v. 476. _shall wene be hanged by the throte_] i. e. (I suppose) shall think themselves hanged, &c. v. 477. _a stoppynge oyster_] Compare Heywood; “Herewithall his wife to make vp my mouth, Not onely her husbands taunting tale auouth, But thereto deuiseth to cast in my teeth Checks and _choking oysters_.” _Dialogue_, sig. E,—_Workes_, ed. 1598. v. 477. _poke_] i. e. pouch. v. 484. _teder_] i. e. toder, t’other. v. 486. _dreuyll_] See note on v. 337, p. 113. Page 48. v. 488. _on flote_] i. e. flowing, full. v. 490. _hode_] i. e. hood. v. 491. _but what this is ynowe_] i. e. but that this is enough. Page 49. v. 502. _Sterte_] i. e. Started. v. 504. _nobles_] i. e. the gold coins so called. v. 508. _His hode all pounsed and garded_]—_hode_, i. e. hood: _pounsed_, i. e. perforated, having small holes stamped or worked in it, by way of ornament—_garded_, i. e. adorned with _gards_, facings. v. 510. _quod_] i. e. quoth. v. 513. _rounde_] i. e. whisper,—or, rather, mutter, for Skelton (_Garlande of Laurell_, v. 250. vol. i. 372) and other poets make a distinction between _whisper_ and _round_: “Me lyste not now. whysper _nether rowne_.” Lydgate’s _Storye of Thebes, Pars Prima_, sig. b vii. ed. 4to. n. d. “Whisper _and rounde_ thinges ymagined falsly.” Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, fol. 208. ed. 1570. “They’re here with me already, whispering, _rounding_.” Shakespeare’s _Winter’s Tale_, act i. sc. 2. v. 521. _hafte_] See note on v. 138. p. 108. v. 522. _payne_] i. e. difficulty. Page 50. v. 525. _shrewes_] i. e. wicked, worthless fellows. v. 527. _confetryd_] i. e. confederated. v. 528. _lewde_] i. e. vile, rascally. v. 529. _slee_] i. e. slay. v. 530. _hente_] i. e. seized. v. 536. _Syth_] i. e. Since. PHYLLYP SPAROWE Must have been written before the end of 1508; for it is mentioned with contempt in the concluding lines of Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, which was finished in that year: see _Account of Skelton and his Writings_.