_She floryssheth new and new_ _In bewte and vertew_] So Lydgate: “And euer encrecyng _in vertue new and newe_.” _The Temple of Glas._, sig. b vii. n. d. 4to. See also his _Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sig. II i. B. iii. sig. S i. ed. 1555; and Chaucer, _The Pardoneres Tale_, v. 12863. ed. Tyr. v. 903. _askry_] i. e. call out against, raise a shout against: see note on v. 1358, p. 152. v. 905. _odyous Enui, &c._] Here Skelton has an eye to Ovid’s picture of Envy: “Pallor in ore sedet; macies in corpore toto: Nusquam recta acies: livent rubigine dentes: Pectora felle virent: lingua est suffusa veneno. Risus abest, nisi quem visi movere dolores. Nec fruitur somno, vigilacibus excita curis: Sed videt ingratos, intabescitque videndo, Successus hominum: carpitque et carpitur una: Suppliciumque suum est.” _Met._ ii. 775. See too the description of Envy in _Pierce Plowman_, sig. F ii. ed. 1561. v. 908. _ledder_] i. e. leather, leathern. Page 79. v. 912. _crake_] i. e. creak. v. 913. _Leane as a rake_] From Chaucer; “As _lene_ was his hors _as is a rake_.” _Prol. to Cant. Tales_, v. 289. ed. Tyr. Browne has the expression,—_Britannia’s Pastorals_, B. ii. S. 1. p. 18. ed. 1625. Page 79. v. 915. _vnlusty_] i. e. unpleasant, unseemly. v. 919. _wronge_] i. e. wrung. v. 930. _bete_] i. e. agitated; or, perhaps, inflamed (the expression to _bete a fire_, to mend it, to make it burn, is a common one). v. 931. _frete_] i. e. eaten, gnawed. v. 936. _semblaunt_] i. e. semblance, appearance. Page 80. v. 947. _slo_] i. e. slay. v. 963. _agayne_] i. e. against. v. 968. _dres_] i. e. address, apply. v. 969. _prosses_] Equivalent to “_relation_” in v. 961: see note on v. 735, p. 143. v. 970. _ken_] i. e. instruct. v. 973. _As hym best lyst_] i. e. As best pleases him. Page 81. v. 980. _bedell_] i. e., I apprehend, servitor: but Nares, MS. note on Skelton, explains it—beadsman. v. 999. _sort_] i. e. set, assemblage. v. 1002. _fauour_] i. e. appearance, look—or, perhaps, beauty,—in which sense the word occurs v. 1048. v. 1003. _Ennewed_] See note on v. 775, p. 144. Page 82. v. 1014. _Her eyen gray and stepe_ ... _With her browes bent_] “_Gray_ coloured _as ones eyes be vair_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxxviii. (Table of Adiect.):—_bent_, i. e. arched. Compare Hawes; “Her forehead _stepe with_ fayre _browes ybent_ _Her eyen gray_.” _The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. S i. ed. 1555. I may just observe that these passages (and many others which might be cited) shew how unnecessarily Ritson substituted “brent” for “bent” in _The Squyr of Lowe Degre_; see his note, _Met. Rom._ iii. 351. v. 1019. _Polexene_] i. e. Polyxena, the daughter of Priam,—celebrated by Lydgate in his _Warres of Troy_, and by others.