“But when _the cocke_, commune _Astrologer_, Gan on his brest to beate,” &c. _Troilus and Creseide_, B. iii. fol. 164.—_Workes_, ed. 1602. See also Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. i. sig. D v. ed. 1555; and his copy of verses (entitled in the Catalogue _Advices for people to keep a guard over their tongues_), _MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 132. v. 499. _cought_] i. e. caught: compare the first of our author’s _Balettys_, v. 19. vol. i. 22. v. 500. _tought_] i. e. taught. “Musyke hath me _tought_.” Hawes’s _Pastime of pleasure_, sig. G iiii. ed. 1555. v. 501. _Albumazer_] A famous Arabian, of the ninth century. v. 503. —— _Ptholomy_ _Prince of astronomy_] The celebrated Claudius Ptolemy, an Egyptian: “Il fleurit vers l’an 125 et jusqu’à l’an 139 de l’ère vulgaire.” _Biog. Univ._—In _The Shepherds Kalendar_ (a work popular in the days of Skelton) a chapter is entitled “To know the fortunes and destinies of man born under the xii signs, after _Ptolomie, prince of astronomy_ [i. e. astrology].” “_Astronomy_, and _Astronomer_, is the Art of, and the foreteller of things done and past, and what shall happen to any person, &c.” R. Holme’s _Ac. of Armory_, 1688. B. ii. p. 438. v. 505. _Haly_] Another famous Arabian: “claruit circa A. C. 1100.” Fabr. _Bibl. Gr._ xiii. 17. v. 507. _tydes_] i. e. times, seasons. v. 509. _Partlot his hen_] So in Chaucer’s _Nonnes Preestes Tale_; Lydgate’s copy of verses (entitled in the Catalogue _Advices for people to keep a guard over their tongues_), _MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 132; and G. Douglas’s Prol. to the xii Booke of his _Eneados_, p. 401. l. 54. ed. Ruddiman, who conjectures that the name was applied to a hen in reference to the ruff (the _partlet_), or ring of feathers about her neck. Page 67. v. 522. _thurifycation_] i. e. burning incense. Page 67. v. 524. _reflary_] As I have already noticed, should probably be “reflayre,”—i. e. odour. See Roquefort’s _Gloss. de la Lang. Rom._ in v. _Flareur_, and _Suppl._ in v. _Fleror;_ and Cotgrave’s _Dict._ in v. _Reflairer_. In _The Garlande of Laurell_ our author calls a lady “_reflaring_ rosabell.” v. 977. vol. i. 401. v. 525. _eyre_] i. e. air, scent. “Strowed wyth floures, of all goodly _ayre_.” Hawes’s _Pastime of pleasure_, sig. D iiii. ed. 1555. See too _The Pistill of Susan_, st. viii.—Laing’s _Early Pop. Poetry of Scot._ v. 534. _bemole_] i. e. in B molle, soft or flat. So in the last stanza of a poem by W. Cornishe, printed in Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568; “I kepe be rounde and he by square The one is _bemole_ and the other bequare.” v. 536. _Plinni sheweth all_ _In his story naturall_] See _Historia Naturalis_, lib. x. sect. 2. v. 540. _incyneracyon_] i. e. burning to ashes. v. 545. _corage_] i. e. heart,—feelings. Page 68. v. 552. _the sedeane_] Does it mean subdean, or subdeacon? v. 553. _The quere to demeane_] i. e. to conduct, direct the choir. v. 555. _ordynall_] i. e. ritual.