So in a poem (attributed, on no authority, to Skelton) entitled _Armony of Byrdes_, n. d., and reprinted entire in _Typogr. Antiq._ iv. 380. ed. Dibdin; “Than sayd _the wren_ I am called _the hen_ _Of our lady_ most cumly.” p. 382. Wilbraham, in his _Cheshire Gloss._, p. 105, gives the following metrical adage as common in that county; “The Robin and _the Wren_ Are _God’s_ cock and _hen_, The Martin and the Swallow Are God’s mate and marrow.” In the _Ballad of Kynd Kittok_, attributed to Dunbar, we are told that after death she “wes _our Ledyis henwyfe_,” _Poems_, ii. 36. ed. Laing.—An Elysium, very different from that described in the somewhat profane passage of our text, is assigned by the delicate fancy of Ovid to the parrot of his mistress, in the poem to which (as I have before observed, p. 120,) Skelton seems to have had an eye; “_Colle sub Elysio nigra nemus illice frondens_,” &c. _Amor._ ii. 6. 49. Page 69. v. 609. _asayde_] i. e. tried—tasted: compare our author’s _Elynour Rummyng_, v. 397. vol. i. 108. v. 610. _Elyconys_] i. e. Helicon’s. Page 70. v. 616. _As Palamon and Arcet,_ _Duke Theseus, and Partelet_] See Chaucer’s _Knightes Tale_, and _Nonnes Preestes Tale_. v. 618. —— _of the Wyfe of Bath_, _That worketh moch scath_, &c.] See Chaucer’s _Wif of Bathes Prologue_.—_scath_, i. e. harm, mischief. v. 629. _Of Gawen_] Son of King Lot and nephew of King Arthur. Concerning him, see the _Morte d’Arthur_ (of which some account is given in note on v. 634),—_Syr Gawayn and the Grene Knyȝt_, in _MS. Cott. Nero_ A. x. fol. 91,—_Ywaine and Gawin_, in Ritson’s _Met. Rom._ vol. i.,—the fragment of _The Marriage of Sir Gawaine_, at the end of Percy’s _Rel. of A. E. P._,—_The Awntyrs of Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn_, in Laing’s _Early Pop. Poetry of Scot._, (the same romance, from a different MS., under the title of _Sir Gawan and Sir Galaron of Galloway_, in Pinkerton’s _Scot. Poems_, vol. iii.),—_The Knightly Tale of Golagrus and Gawane_, reprinted at Edinburgh in 1827 from the ed. of 1508, (the same romance, under the title of _Gawan and Gologras_, in Pinkerton’s _Scot. Poems_, vol. iii.),—and the romance of _Arthour and Merlin_, from the Auchinleck MS., published by the Abbotsford Club, 1838. I had written the above note before the appearance of a valuable volume put forth by the Bannatyne Club, entitled _Syr Gawayne; A collection of Ancient Romance-Poems, by Scotish and English Authors, relating to that celebrated Knight of the Round Table, with an Introduction, &c., by Sir F. Madden_, 1839.