v. 767. _auncyente_] i. e. antiquity. Page 74. v. 768. _to diffuse for me_] i. e. too difficult for me to understand. “_Dyffuse_ harde to be vnderstande, _diffuse_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxxvi. (Table of Adiect.). “What quoth Doctryne where is he now That meued this mater straunge and _dyffuse_.” Lydgate’s _Assemble de dyeus_, sig. f ii. n. d. 4to. “Whyche is _defuse_, and right fallacyous.” Hawes’s _Pastime of pleasure_, sig. H i. ed. 1555. “But oft yet by it [logick] a thing playne, bright and pure, Is made _diffuse_, vnknowen, harde and obscure.” Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, fol. 53. ed. 1570. v. 775. _enneude_] “I _Ennewe_ I set the laste and fresshest coloure vpon a thyng as paynters do whan their worke shall remayne to declare their connyng, _Je renouuelle_. Your ymage is in maner done, so sone as I haue _ennewed_ it I wyl sende it you home,” &c. Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccxxvi. (Table of Verbes). “Ylike _enewed_ with quickenes of coloure, Both of the rose and the lyly floure.” Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sig. I ii. ed. 1555. “And the one shylde was _enewed_ with whyte, and the other shelde was reed.” _Morte d’Arthur_, B. iii. c. ix. vol. i. 81. ed. Southey. v. 776. _pullysshed_] i. e. polished. —— _lusty_] i. e. pleasant, beautiful. v. 779. _frowardes_] i. e. frowardness. Page 75. v. 788. _sped_] i. e. versed. v. 791. _Solacious_] i. e. affording amusement. v. 792. _alowed_] i. e. approved. v. 793. _enprowed_] In the Glossary to Fry’s _Pieces of Ancient Poetry_, 1814, where a portion of the present poem is given, _enprowed_ is rendered “profited of:” the whole passage is very obscure. v. 799. _warke_] i. e. work. v. 804. —— _Johnn Lydgate_ _Wryteth after an hyer rate_] Lydgate, however, disclaims all elevation of style: see his _Fall of Prynces_, Prol. sig. A iii. ed. Wayland; his _Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sigs. F ii, K. ii, B. v. sigs. E e i. ii. iii. ed. 1555. v. 806. _dyffuse_] i. e. difficult: see note on v. 768, _supra._ v. 807. _sentence_] i. e. meaning. v. 809. _No man that can amend_, &c.] So Hawes, speaking of the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate; “Whose famous draughtes _no man can amende_.” _The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. G iiii. ed. 1555. Page 75. v. 811. _faute_] i. e. fault. v. 812. _to haute_] i. e. too high, too loftily. Page 76. v. 817. _In worth_] See note, p. 95. v. 68. v. 841. _Joanna_] See note, p. 122. Page 77, v. 860. _If Arethusa wyll send_ _Me enfluence to endyte_] Skelton recollected that Virgil had invoked this nymph as a Muse; “Extremum hunc, _Arethusa_, mihi concede laborem.” _Ecl._ x. 1. v. 869. _lust_] i. e. pleasure. v. 872. _enbybed_] i. e. made wet. v. 873. _aureat_] i. e. golden. v. 875. _Thagus_] i. e. Tagus. Page 78. v. 882. _remes_] i. e. realms. v. 886. _Perce and Mede_] i. e. Persia and Media. v. 896.