and because the following passage occurs in a poem by some imitator of Skelton, which is appended to the present edition; “Wotes not wher to wander, Whether to _Meander_, Or vnto _Menander_.” _The Image of Ipocrisy_, Part Third. v. 437. _wake_] i. e. watching of the dead body during the night. v. 441. _He shall syng the grayle_]—_grayle_, says Warton (correcting an explanation he had formerly given), signifies here “_Graduale_, or the _Responsorium_, or _Antiphonarium_, in the Romish service.... He shall sing that part of the service which is called the _Grayle_, or _graduale_.” _Obs. on the F. Queen_, ii. 244. ed. 1762. See too Du Cange in v. _Gradale_, and Roquefort in v. _Gréel_. v. 442. _The owle, that is so foule_]—_foule_, i. e. ugly. The Houlate, (in the poem so called, by Holland), says, “Thus all the foulis, for my _filth_, hes me at feid.” Pinkerton’s _Scot. Poems_, iii. 149. v. 444. _gaunce_] i. e. gaunt. v. 445. _the cormoraunce_] i. e. the cormorant. v. 447. _the gaglynge gaunte_] In _Prompt. Parv._ is “_Gant_ birde. Bistarda.” ed. 1499. Palsgrave gives “_Gant_ byrde,” without a corresponding French term. _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxxv. (Table of Subst.). Our author in his _Elynour Rummyng_ has— “In came another dant, Wyth a gose and a _gant_.” v. 515. vol. i. 111; where _gant_ is plainly used for gander. In the present passage, however, _gaunte_ must have a different signification (“The gose and the _gander_” being mentioned v. 435), and means, I apprehend,—wild-goose: Du Cange has “_Gantæ_, Anseres silvestres,” &c.; and see Roquefort in v. _Gans._ But Nares, MS. note on Skelton, explains _gaunte_—gannet. Page 64. v. 449. _The route and the kowgh_] The Rev. J. Mitford suggests that the right reading is “The _knout_ and the _rowgh_,”—i. e. the knot and the ruff. v. 450. _The barnacle_] i. e. The goose-barnacle,—concerning the production of which the most absurd fables were told and credited: some asserted that it was originally the shell-fish called barnacle, others that it grew on trees, &c. v. 451. _the wilde mallarde_] i. e. the wild-drake. Page 65. v. 452. _The dyuendop_] i. e. The dabchick or didapper. v. 454. _The puffin_] A water-fowl with a singular bill. v. 455. _Money they shall dele, &c._] According to the ancient custom at funerals. v. 458. _the tytmose_] i. e. the titmouse. v. 460. _The threstyl_] Or _throstle_, is properly the missel-thrush: see note on v. 424. p. 129. v. 461. _brablyng_] i. e. clamour, noise—properly, quarrel, squabble. v. 462. _The roke_] i. e. The rook. —— _the ospraye_ _That putteth fysshes to a fraye_] —_fraye_, i. e. fright. It was said that when the osprey, which feeds on fish, hovered over the water, they became fascinated and turned up their bellies. v. 464. _denty_] i. e. dainty.