_The prohemy of a mariage_, &c.,—_MS. Harl._ 372. fol. 50. I do not understand the expression. In Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530, besides “_Male_ or wallet to putte geare in,” we find “_Mayle_ that receyueth the claspe of a gowne in to it ... _porte_,” fol. xlvi. (Table of Subst.). v. 702. _The song of louers lay_]—_lay_ seems here to mean—law. “Of _louers lawe_ he toke no cure.” _Harpalus_ (from pieces by uncertain authors printed with the poems of Surrey),—Percy’s _Rel. of A. E. P._ ii. 68. ed. 1794. Page 73. v. 716. _kys the post_] So Barclay; “Yet from beginning absent if thou be, Eyther shalt thou lose thy meat and _kisse the post_,” &c. _Egloge_ ii. sig. B iiii. ed. 1570. The expression is found in much later writers: see, for instance, Heywood’s _Woman Kilde with Kindnesse_, sig. E 2. ed. 1617. v. 717. _Pandara_] So in Chaucer (according to some copies); “Aha (quod _Pandara_) here beginneth game.” _Troilus and Creseide_, B. i. fol. 147,—_Workes_, ed. 1602. Page 73. v. 719. _But lyght for somer grene_] See note, p. 115. v. 355. v. 727. _ne knew_] i. e. knew not. v. 728. _on lyue_] i. e. alive. v. 732. _make_] i. e. mate. v. 735. _proces_] i. e. story, account. So again in this poem “_relation_” and “_prosses”_ are used as synonymous, vv. 961, 969; and in our author’s _Magnyfycence_ we find “Vnto this _processe_ brefly compylyd.” v. 2534. vol. i. 308. and presently after, “This _treatyse_, deuysyd to make you dysporte.” v. 2562. p. 309. The 15th chap. of the first book of Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_ is headed “A _processe_ of Narcissus, Byblis, Myrra,” &c. v. 736.—_of Anteocus_] Whom Chaucer calls “the cursed king Antiochus.” _The Man of Lawes Prol._ v. 4502. ed. Tyr. His story may be found in Gower’s _Confessio Amantis_, lib. viii. fol. clxxv. sqq. ed. 1554. v. 739. —— _of Mardocheus,_ _And of great Assuerus, &c._] “Even scripture-history was turned into romance. The story of Esther and Ahasuerus, or of Amon or Hamon, and Mardocheus or Mordecai, was formed into a fabulous poem.” Warton, note on _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 178. (where some lines of the romance are quoted from a MS.) ed. 4to. v. 741. _Vesca_] i. e. Vashti. v. 742. _teene_] i. e. wrath: see the Book of _Esther_. v. 745. _Of kyng Alexander_] See Weber’s _Introduction_, p. xx. sqq., and the romance of _Kyng Alisaunder_ in his _Met. Rom._ i.; also _The Buik of the most noble and vailȝeand Conquerour Alexander the Great_, reprinted by the Bannatyne Club, 1831. v. 746.—_of kyng Euander_] As the lady declares (v. 756) that she was slightly acquainted with Virgil, we may suppose that her knowledge of this personage was derived from _The Recuyel of the Historyes of Troy_, and Caxton’s _Boke of Eneydos_. Page 74. v. 751. _historious_] i. e. historical. v. 752. _bougets and males_] i. e. budgets and bags. v. 754. _sped_] i. e. versed in. v. 760. _mo_] i. e. more. v. 766. _Phorocides_] i. e. Pherecydes.