v. 75. _blo_] i. e. livid: see note, p. 103. v. 3. v. 76. _mare_] i. e. hag.—“_Mare_ or witche.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. v. 77. _fende_] i. e. fiend. v. 78. _edders_] i. e. adders. v. 82. _sowre_] In Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530, is “_Sower_ of smellyng,” fol. xcvi. (Table of Adiect.),—a sense of the word which Skelton has elsewhere (third poem _Against Garnesche_, v. 146. vol. i. 124), and which therefore probably applies to the present passage. But qy. does “sowre” signify here—foul? “_Sowre_ filthe. Fimus. Cenum. Lutum.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “_Sowry_ or defiled in _soure_ or filth,” &c. _Id._ “The riuer cler withouten _sour_.” _Arthour and Merlin_, p. 320. ed. Abbotsf. v. 87. _outraye_] “I _Outray_ a persone (Lydgate) I do some outrage or extreme hurt to hym. _Ie oultrage_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cccxi. (Table of Verbes). “The childe playes hym at the balle, That salle _owttraye_ zow alle.” _The Awntyrs of Arthurs_, p. 110. (_Syr Gawayne, &c._) where Sir F. Madden explains it “injure, destroy.”—In our text, “outraye” is equivalent to—vanquish, overcome; and so in the following passages; “The cause why Demostenes so famously is brutid, Onely procedid for that he did _outray_ Eschines, whiche was not shamefully confutid But of that famous oratour, I say, Whiche passid all other; wherfore I may Among my recordes suffer hym namyd, For though he were _venquesshid_, yet was he not shamyd.” Skelton’s _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 155. vol. i. 368. (Richardson, in his valuable _Dictionary_, v. _Out-rage_, &c., says that, in the stanza just cited, _outray_ “is evidently—to exceed, to excel;” but the last line of the stanza, together with the present passage of _Phyllyp Sparowe_, and the annexed quotations from Lydgate, shew that he is mistaken.) “Whom Hercules most strong and coragious, Sumtime _outraid_, and slewe hym with his hand.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. i. leaf xxvii. ed. Wayland. “Al be that Cresus faught long in hys defence, He finally by Cyrus was _outrayed_, And depriued by knyghtly vyolence, Take in the felde,” &c. _Id._ B. ii. leaf lviii. “But it may fall, a dwerye [i. e. dwarf] in his right, To _outray_ a gyaunt for all his gret might.” _Id._ B. iii. leaf lxvii. Page 54. v. 98. _Zenophontes_] i. e. Xenophon: see note on v. 70, preceding page. v. 107. _thought_] See notes, p. 101. v. 10. p. 104. last line. v. 114. _go_] i. e. gone. v. 115. _fole_] i. e. fool. v. 116. _stole_] i. e. stool. v. 117. _scole_] i. e. school, instruction. v. 118. _For to kepe his cut,_ _With, Phyllyp, kepe your cut!_] Compare Gascoigne in a little poem entitled _The praise of Philip Sparrow_; “As if you say but _fend cut_ phip, Lord how the peat will turne and skip.” _Workes_ (_Weedes_), p. 285. ed. 1587. Sir Philip Sidney in a sonnet;