v. 1332. _infernall posty_]—_posty_, i. e. power. So Lydgate; “Of heuene and erthe and _infernal pooste_.” _Testamentum_,—_MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 47. v. 1333. _rosty_] i. e. roast. v. 1335. _wood_] i. e. mad, wild. v. 1340. _frounsid_] i. e. wrinkled. v. 1344. _Primo Regum_] i. e. _The First Book of Kings_, or, as it is now called, _The First Book of Samuel_, chap, xxviii. “_Primo regum_ as ye may playnly reade.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. ii. leaf xxxix. ed. Wayland. v. 1345. _He bad the Phitonesse_ ... _But whether it were so,_ _He were idem in numero,_ _The selfe same Samuell, &c._] —_Phitonesse_, i. e. Pythoness, witch,—the witch of Endor. “And speke as renably, and faire, and wel, As to the _Phitonesse_ did Samuel: And yet wol som men say it was not he,” &c. Chaucer’s _Freres Tale_, v. 7091. ed. Tyr.; and see his _House of Fame_, B. iii. fol. 267, _Workes_, ed. 1602. “And of Phyton that Phebus made thus fine Came _Phetonysses_ that can so deuyne,” &c. Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sig. K vi. ed. 1555. “And secretelye this Saule is forth gone To a woman that should him rede and wisse, In Israell called a _phytonesse_. ... To diuines this matter I commit, ... _Whether it was the soule of Samuell_,” &c. Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. ii. leaf xl. ed. Wayland. See also Gower’s _Conf. Am._ B. iv. fol. lxxiii. ed. 1554; Barbour’s _Bruce_, B. iii. v. 982. ed. Jam.; G. Douglas’s Preface to his Virgil’s _Æneados_, p. 6, 1. 51. ed. Rudd.; and Sir D. Lyndsay’s _Monarchie_, B. iv. _Works_, iii. 151. ed. Chalmers. Page 92. v. 1346. _dresse_] i. e. address, apply. v. 1351. _condityons_] i. e. qualities. But in our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_, where this “adicyon” is given, the passage according to Fake’s ed., and rightly perhaps (compare the preceding lines), stands thus; “And by her supersticiouns _Of_ wonderfull condiciouns.” v. 1343. vol. i. 414. Page 93. v. 1352. _stede_] i. e. place. v. 1358. _ascry_] Has occurred before in this poem, see note on v. 903. p. 145. Palsgrave has “I _Askry_ as fore riders of an armye do their enemyes whan they make reporte where they haue sene them: _Je descouures_.... Whose company dyd _askry_ them first .... _les descouuryt_.” _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cliii. (Table of Verbes). But in the present passage “ascry” seems to mean assail (with a shout). In Langtoft’s _Chronicle_ we find, “Edward was hardie, the Londres gan he _ascrie_.” p. 217. ed. Hearne,— (who in Gloss. renders “_ascrie_”—cry to). The original French has, “Sir Eduuard fiz le rays, les loundrays _escrye_.” _MS. Cott. Jul._ A v. fol. 122. Roquefort gives “_Escrier_: Faire entendre son cri d’armes dans une bataille ... marcher à l’ennemi, l’attaquer,” &c. _Gloss. de la Lang. Rom._ (_Sup._). v. 1360. _my selfe dyscharge_] i. e. unburden myself,—open my mind. v. 1365. _shene_] i. e. shine.