v. 311. _The wylde wolfe Lycaon_] See Ovid’s _Metam._ i. 163 sqq. for an account of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, being transformed into a wolf. I ought to add, that he figures in a work well known to the readers of Skelton’s time—_The Recuyel of the Historyes of Troy_. v. 313. _brennynge_] i. e. burning. Page 61. v. 325. _gentle of corage_]—_corage_, i. e. heart, mind, disposition. So in our author’s _Magnyfycence_; “Be _gentyll_ then _of corage_.” v. 2511. vol. i. 308. v. 329. _departed_] i. e. parted. So in our old marriage-service; “till death us _depart_.” v. 336. _rew_] i. e. have compassion. v. 345. _And go in at my spayre,_ _And crepe in at my gore_ _Of my gowne before_] “_Cluniculum_, an hole or a _spayre_ of a womans smoke.” _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. (In ed. 1514 of that work—“_spayre_ of a womans kyrtell”). “_Sparre_ of a gowne _fente de la robe_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxvi. (Table of Subst.). “That parte of weemens claiths, sik as of their gowne or petticot, quhilk vnder the belt and before is open, commonly is called the _spare_.” Skene, quoted by Jamieson, _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ in v. _Spare_.——“_Lacinia_ ... anglice a heme of clothe or a _gore_.” _Ortus. Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. (ed. 1514 of that work adds “or a trayne”). “_Goore_ of a smocke _poynte de chemise_.” Palsgrave, _ubi supra_, fol. xxxvii. (Table of Subst.). Jamieson (_ubi supra_), in v. _Gair_, says it was “a stripe or triangular piece of cloth, inserted at the bottom, on each side of a shift or of a robe,”—a description which agrees with that of R. Holme, _Ac. of Armory_, 1688. B. iii. p. 95. Page 61. v. 351. _myne hert it sleth_]—_sleth_, i. e. slayeth.—So Chaucer; “Thise rockes _slee min herte_ for the fere.” _The Frankeleines Tale_, v. 11205. ed. Tyr. Page 62. v. 360. _Phyppes_] See note on v. 7. p. 121. v. 361. _kusse_] i. e. kiss. “And if he maie no more do, Yet woll he stele a _cusse_ or two.” Gower’s _Conf. Am._ lib. v. fol. cxix. ed. 1554. v. 362. _musse_] i. e. muzzle,—mouth. v. 366. _this_] i. e. thus: see note, p. 86. v. 38. v. 375. _Gyb_] See note on v. 27. p. 122. v. 383. _bederolle_] See note on v. 12. p. 122. Page 63. v. 387. _To wepe with me loke that ye come,_ _All maner of byrdes in your kynd, &c._] —_loke_, i. e. look. Compare Ovid (see note on title of this poem, p. 120); “Psittacus, Eois imitatrix ales ab Indis, Occidit: exequias ite frequenter, aves. Ite, piæ volucres, et plangite pectora pennis, Et rigido teneras ungue notate genas. Horrida pro moestis lanictur pluma capillis, Pro longa resonent carmina vestra tuba.” _Amor._ lib. ii. El. vi. 5. 1. v. 396. _ianglynge_] i. e. babbling, chattering—an epithet generally applied to the jay by our old poets. v. 397. _fleckyd_] i. e. spotted, variegated. v. 403. _the red sparow_] i. e. the reed-sparrow. “The _Red-sparrow_, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren.”