II. sc. 1. p. 27. (reprint.) (part 2 of 2)

II. sc. 1. p. 27. (reprint.) (part 2 of 2)

Vpon.... Of the cruell clergy[?], And the proude prelacy[?], That now do looke so hie, As though that by and by They wold clymbe and fflye Vp to the clowdy skye:[469] Wher all men may espye, By fals hipocrysye Thei long haue blered the eye Of all the world well nye; Comytting apostacie Against that verytye That thei can not denye: In which how shamlessly They do ... and aye Ther concyens testyfye The poppe[?].... Curte[?].... The rest of B ... markes, That be heresyarkes, Which do com[yt?] ther warkes, As one that in the darke ys, And wotes not wher the marke ys, Do take the kites for larkes. Suche be owr primates, Our bisshopps and prelates, Our parsons and curates,[470] With other like estates That were shaven pates; As monkes white and blacke, And channons that cane chatte, Glottons[471] ffayre and fatt, With ffriers of the sacke, And brothers of the bagg, As nymble as a nagg, That cane bothe prate and bragg, To make the pulpett wagge With twenty thousand lyes, Do make the blind eate flyes, And[472] blere our symple eyes, To make vs to beleve God morowe is god eve; For pleynly to be breve, So nye they do vs dreve, That we, to our great greve, Must sey that white is blacke, Or elles they sey we smacke, And smell we wote not what: But then beware the catt; For yf they smell a ratt, They grisely chide and chatt, And, Haue him[473] by the jack, A fagott for his backe, Or, Take[474] him to the racke, And drowne hyme in a sacke, Or burne hyme on a stake! Lo, thus they vndertake The trothe false to make! Alas, for Christ his sake! Is the sonnelight darke, Or ignoraunc[e] a clarke, Bycawse that thei hath powre To send men to the Towre, The simple to devowre? If they lyst to lowre, Ys suger therfor sowre? Dothe[475] five and three make ffour? As well I durst be bolde To sey the ffier were colde. But yet they worke muche worse, When they for blissinge cowrse; For Father Friska jolly, And Pater Pecke a lolly, That be all full of folly, Doo[476] fayne them seem[477] holy, For ther monopoly, And ther private welthe, That they haue take by stelthe; And in the churche they lurke, As ill as any Turke, So proudely they vsurpe, Besyde the spritt of Christ, The office of a pryste In any wise to take, As thoughe it were a iape, To runne in att the rove;[478] For some of them do prove[479] To clyme vpp ere they knowe The doore from the wyndowe; They may not stoope alowe, But backe bend as a bowe; They make an owtwarde showe, And so forthe one a rowe, As dapper as a crowe, And perte as any pye, And lighte as any ffly. At borde and at table They be full servysable, Sober and demure, Acquayntans to allure, Wher they may be sure[480] By any craft or trayne To fyshe for any gayne,[481] Or wayt for any wynnyng,— A prestly begynnynge! For many a hyerlinge, With a wilde fyerlinge, Whan his credyte is most, With mikell brag and bost Shall pryck[482] owt as a post, Chafyng[483] lyke myne hoste, As hott as any toste, And ride from cost to cost, And then[484] shall rule the rost. And some avaunced be For ther auncente, Thoughe[485] ther antiquitye Be all innequitye; Yett be they called To the charge of the fald, Because they be balled, And be for bisshopps stalled. And some kepe ther stations In owtwarde straunge natyons, Lernynge invocatyons, And craftye incantatyons; And so by inchantement Gette theyr avauncement. And some by fayned favour For honour or for havour, By voyses boughte and solde, For sylver and for golde, For lande, for rente or ffee, Or by authoritye Of menn of hye degree, Or for some qualitye, As many of them bee, For ther actyvitee, Ther practyse and industrye, Sleyght, craft, and knavery, In matters of bawdery, Or by helpe of kynne, An easy liffe to wynne. I swere by Saincte Mary, He that thus dothe cary Is a mercenary, Yea, a sangunary, A pastore for to pull Of bothe skynne and wolle. Thoughe Christ be the doer, They force not of his looer, They sett therby no stoore; Ther stody is for moore: And I tell youe therfore That they ther tyme temper With a provisoo semper An other wey to enter, For love of wordely good, Not forcinge of the fflode Of hyme that bledd the roode; It is not for ther moode. They make deambulacyons With great ostentations, And loke for salutations On every mannes face, As in the merkett place To saye, God saue your grace! Thus in churche and chepinge, Wher they may haue metinge With lordes and with ladyes, To be called Rabyes: Nowe God saue these dadyes, And all ther yonge babyes! The holy worde of God Is by these men forbod; Pater noster and Creede They vtterly forbeede To be said or songe In our vulgar tonge. Ohe Lorde, thou hast great wronge Of these that shoulde be trustye, Whiche sey the breade is musty, And with ther lawe vnlusty Make it rusty and dusty! But I do thinke it rustye For lacke of exercyse: Wherfore they be vnwise That will the lawe despise, And daylye newe devyse, So dyvers and so straunge, Which[486] chaunge and rechaunge Of fastinges and of feestes, Of bowes[487] and behestes, With many of ther[488] iestes, As thoughe lay men wer bestes; As many of vs bee, That may and will not see, Nor ones cast vpp an eye, These jugglinges to espye; For this that nowe is vsed Is efte ageyne refused, Chaunged or mysvsed, That we be still abused: The lawe that servethe nowe, Ageyne they disalowe. Thus forthe and backe,[489] With bryve and with bull They dayly plucke and pull, And yett be never ffull; For wher one bull makes, An other bull forsakes; The thyrde yett vndertakes To alter all of newe: Thus none will other sue. Wherfore, by swete Jesu, I thinke they be vntrewe That iuggle tyme and tyme To gett thyne and myne; Yea, thoughe the worlde pynne, No man wyll they spare,[490] So they ther pelfe prefarre, The lawes to make and marre, To bynde vs nere and farre; Wherto may be no barre In peace tyme nor in warre; For none ther is that darre Replye ageyne or speake, This daunce of thers to breake; The trouthe it is so weeke: They make all men cry creake, Or fry them to a steake,— Adieu, Sir Huddypeake! Lo, Peters barge is leake, And redy for to synke! Beware yett least youe drinke; God dothe not slepe nor wynke, But sethe lande and brynke; And yf ye take the chynke, I feare me ye will stynke, And corrupt your vnctyon With an iniunctyon; Your[491] pride and presumption, In[492] abvsing your functyon, Will breade a consumtion, And make a resumption, To bringe youe to compunction; Youre[493] lawes falsely grounded, That hath the world surounded, By trouthe shalbe confounded. Thoughe ye be lordes digne, Ye shoulde no man maligne, But ever be benyngne; And namely in suche case Wher God his gyfte or grace[494] Lyst to plante or place: The poore man, or the riche, Is to his pleasure lyche; For Christ, our derest Lorde, That made the full accorde, As Scripture dothe recorde, Betwyxt God and man, Suppressynge Sattan And all his kingdom, whan[495] Vpon the holy roodd He shadd his blissed bloode, As muche for one as other, Exceptinge not his mother, Made every man his brother, As many as ther bee In faythe and charitee. But nowe by fals abvsyon, The clergy by collution, Without good conclution, Haue broughte vs to confution, And made an illution: By great inyquytie, Avaunt themselfes to be No lesse then godes, yee, Of equall authorytye; Whiche, by ipocrysye, To exalt ther dignytye, Call vs the leudd lay ffee, Men of temporalitee; But they pretend to bee A people eternall, Of powr supernall: I fere me, infernall; For they that be carnall, Idolaters to Baall, And nothinge gostely at all, Be named spirituall; For so we must them calle, As we aye do and shall, What happe soever falle. Ther successyon may not dye, But lyve eternallye; For, without question, Perpetuall succession They haue from one to other, As childer of ther mother; Yea, they kepe all in store That other hadd afore, And daylye gather more. Lo, thus the people rore, As on a fistred sore Of matter most vnpure, That thei ar dryven to indure Tyll God himself send cure! That as you be possessors, So be yee successors Vnto your predecessors: And yet ye be questors, And hoorders vppe of testers; Ye[496] daylye cache and gather Of mother and of father, And of no man rather Then of your poore brother, And of euery other; Yea, all that comes is gayne, You passe of no mans payne, Whiche ye allwey reteyne, Who ever grudge or playne, It may not out agayne; Noughte may be remitted That to youe is commytted; Ye be not so lighte witted. The people thinke it true That ye possession sue To haue an easy life, Without debate or strife, To lyve without a wife, Lordely[497] and at ease, Without payne or disease, Your belly god to please, And worldly welth to haue:[498] Ye do your heeades shave, To make youe sure and save In every wind and wave, That wolde as sone rave As ones to chippe[499] an heare So farre aboue your eare, Or suche an habite weare, With a polled heade, To fayne yourselves deade; But for possessions sake That ye suche rules take, And bynde youe to the brake, That ye maye not forsake Durynge all your lyves: So well is he that thrives. Thus be youe spirituall; And yett ye do vs call But lewde and temporall; And that is for that we So weake and simple be, To put oure possession From oure succession And heires lyniall Or kynne collaterall, That be menn temporall, And so from lyne to lyne; For ech man for his tyme Sayes, While it is myne, I will give while I maye, That, when I am away, They shall both singe and saye, And for my soules helthe pray, Tyll it be domes day: So, after this array, Alake and well away! We oure landes straye, And other goodes decay; Wherat ye laughe and play: And natheles allwey We dayly pay and pay, To haue youe to go gaye With wonderfull araye, As dysardes in a play. God wolde it were imprented, Written and indentyd, What youe haue invented! So great diversyte Nowe in your garmentes be, That wonder is to se; Your triple cappe and crowne, Curtle, cope, and gowne, More worthe then halfe a towne, With golde and perle sett, And stones well iffrett; Ther can be no bett; And for no price ye lett, How far of they be fett. Oh ye kynde of vipers, Ye beestly bellyters, With Raynes and Cipres, That haue so many miters! And yett ye be but mychers. Youe weere littell hattes, Myters, and square capps, Decked with flye flappes, With many prety knackes, Like Turkes of Tartary, Moores, or men of Moscovye, Or lyke bugges of Arraby, With ouches and bosses, With staves and crosses, With pillers and posses, With standers and banners, Without good life or manners: Then haue youe gay gloves, That with your hand moves, Wroughte with true loves, And made well, for the nones, With golde and precious stones: Ye blisse vs with your bones, And with your riche ringes, That quenes and kinges, At your offringes, Shall kisse with knelinges; Which your mynykyns And mynyon babbes, Your closse chambred drabbes, When masse and all is done,[500] Shall were at afternone: Your curtells be of sylke, With rochetes white as mylke; Your bootes of righte sattyne, Or velvett crymosyne; Your shoes wroughte with gold, To tredd vpon the molde; Wandring, as Vandals, In sylke and in sandals, Ye kepe your holy rules, As asses and mules; For on your cloven cules Will ye never sytt But on a rich carpett; And nowe and then a fitt, After the rule of Bennett, With, dythmunia vennett, A gaye a vott gennett, With Gill or with Jennyt, Wyth Cycely or Sare; Yf thei come wher they are, Thei lay one and not spare, And never look behind them, Wher soever they ffynd them; For whan that thei be hett, And Asmodeus grett, They take, as[501] thei can gett, All[502] fyshe that comes to nett, For lust fyndes no lett[503] Tyll hys poyson be spett; Be she fyne or feat, Be she white or[504] jett, Long or short sett, Do she smyle or skowle, Be she ffayr or fowle, Or owgly[505] as an owle; For vnderneth a cowle, A surplyse or an amys, Can no man do amys; Ye halse them from harmes With blessinges and charmes, While the water warmes, In your holy armes, Broging in ther barmes, Devoutly to clipe it, To caste her with a tryppytt, With, lusty Sir John, whip it Vnderneth your tippitt, Prætextu pietatis, Quam contaminatis Sub jugo castitatis, Your burning heate to cease, And expell your disease, Vnder pretens[506] of pease, The paynes to release Of poore sely sowles, That hide be in holes As hote as any coles. Ye cappes haue and capes, With many other iapes, To cover with your pates; As hoodes and cowles, Like horned owles, With skapplers and cootes, Courtbies and copes, White knottyd ropes, With other instrumentes, Straunge habilimentes, And wanton vestementes, And other implementes, As tyrantes haue in tentes: But what therby ment is, Or what they signifye, I cane not tell, not I,[507] Nor you vndowtedlye Can shew no reason whie. Ye make it herisy And treason to the kinge, Yf we speke any thinge That is not to your lykynge; The truth may not be spoken, But ye will be wroken: Yett marke and note this token; Yf Gods worde ones open, Which wyll er long perdye, Then shall we here and se In Cristianitye, Whether youe or we The very traytours be. But, by the Trynite, It wonder is to me To se your charite And hospitalite So littell to the poore; And yet vpon a hoore Ye passe for non expence, As thoughte it non offence Were in the sighte of God; Youe fray not of his rod; Youe loue your bely cod; For them that haue no nede Ye dayly feest and fede: I thinke it be to dreede Lest here you[508] haue your mede. Ye drawe and cast lottes, In hattes and in pottes, For tottes and for quottes, And blere vs with your blottes, And with your mery poppes: Thus youe make vs sottes, And play with vs[509] boopepe, With other gambaldes like, To pill oure Lordes sheepe, Your honour for to kepe, Vsinge great excesse, Which I pray God represse, And soone to sende redresse! For no man can expresse The wo and wretchednesse Youe on oure neckes do lye, By your grett tyrannye, Your pride and surquedrye, That ye do openlye: But that youe secretly Practyse pryvylye, May not be tolde,—and why? Lest it be herysye, And than by and by To make a faggott ffrye. For we can not deny, And treuth[510] doth playne dyscrye, And all wysemen espye That all the falt doth lye[511] Vpon oure owne foly, That ye be so iolye, For with oure owne goodes We fether vppe oure[512] hoodes. Youe sanguinolently, Your mony is so plenty, That youe make no deynty Of twenty pound and twenty, So youe may haue entry; And then youe laughe and skorne To se vs were the horne, Ridinge here and hether, Goinge ther and thether, Lyke cokold foles[513] together, In colde, wynde, and in wether, For woll, for ledd, and lether; And yet do not consydre We wer an oxes fether:[514] This is a prety bob, Oure hedes for to gnob[515] With suche a gentill job: And we oure selves rob Of landes temporall, And jvelles great and smalle, To give youe parte of all In almes perpetuall, To make our heyres thrall For your[516] hye promotyon, Through[517] our blynde devotion And small[518] intellygens, But that our conscyens, Laden with offens, And you vs so incense, When we be going hens, To make soch recompens, By gyvyng[519] yowe[520] our pens, Our land, goodes, and rentes, For that[521] holy pretens, Havyng ffull confydens That be[522] a safe defens: So do we styll dyspens With all remorse and sens Of harty penytens. This cane not be denyed; Your jugglynge is espied, Your mayster is vntyed, Which is the prince of pride; For you on[523] neyther syde Can suffre or abyde[524] To here the troth tryed, Which ye intend to hide With vehement[525] desyre, As hote as any ffire.

Thus endeth the ffirst parte of this present treatyse, called the Image of Ipocrysy.

Alake, for Christes might, These thinges go not arighte! Oure lanterns give no lighte, All bisshopps be not brighte: They be so full of spyte, They care not whom they byte, Both frend and foo they smyte Wyth prison, deth, and flighte; So dayly they do fyght To overturne the ryght: So[526] we be in the plyte, That, losing of oure sight, We[527] know not black from whyght, And be thus[528] blinded quyte, We know not[529] day from nyght. But, by my syres soule, The true Apostell Paule Wrott, as we may see In Tyte and Tymothe, Who should a bisshoppe be: A man of holy liffe, The husbonde of one wiffe; That vseth not to strife, Or strike with sworde or knyff, Nor that at any tyme Suspected is of cryme, But wise and provident, Colde and contynent, But never vynolent; That when he eat[530] or drinke, Slepe, awake,[531] or winke, Doth styll[532] on measure thinke, And therof vse a messe, To put away excesse, Kepe[533] hyme lowe and chast; That he make no wast By prodigalite Or sensualytye, A waster for to be, But, after his degree, With liberallite Kepe hospitallite; He must be sadd and sage, Vsinge non outrage, But soberly with reason To spende in tyme and season, And so to kepe his meason; He may in no wise streke, But suffer and be meke, Shamefast and discrete, Temperat, dulce, and swete, Not speakinge angerly, But soft and manerly; And, in any wise, Beware of covetyse, The rote of all ill vice; He must be liberall, And thanke oure Lorde of all; And, as a heerde his sheepe, His childer must he kepe, And all his family In vertu edyfy, Vnder disciplyne Of holsome doctryne, With dew subiection, That non obiection Be made vnto his heste[534] Of most or of leste; For thus he doth conclude, As by simylitude, Howe he that cane not skill His housholde at his will To governe,[535] rule, and teche, Within his power and reach, Oughte to haue no speache Of cure and diligence, Of suche premynence, Within the churche of God; And eke it is forbode That he no novice be, Lest with superbite He do presume to hye, And consequently Fall vnhappely Into the frenesy Of pride and of evyll,[536] Lyke Lucyfer, the devyll;[537] For he playnly writes, That of these neophites, And pevishe proselites, Springe vpp ipocrites; A bisshoppe eke must haue, His honesty to save, Of all men such a name, That his outwarde fame Be clene from any blame, Impeched with no shame, To draw all people in, They may repent of synne, And so[538] he may them wynne, That thei fall not vnware[539] Into[540] the devils snare. Thus Paule, as ye may se, Taughte Tyte and Tymothe, Who should a bisshoppe be: And Christ oure maister dere, While he lyved here, Full poorly did appere, Mekely borne and bredd; The bare earth was his bedd, For where to hele his headd, Or where to lye and rest, He had no hole nor nest; But in great poverty He lyved soberly, His worde to multyply; And thus did edifye His churche that is so holy, Suppressinge synne and foly: But not with friska ioly, As somme do nowe a dayes, That haue so many wayes All maner[541] gaynes to reape, Ther tresures one a heap To gather and to kepe, By pillinge of his shepe, Not forsyng who do wepe, And to his flocke repayre As it were to a ffayre; To sit in Peters chayer With pride and ambition, Sowyng great sedition; And by superstition Blinde vs with remission, By bulles vnder led, To serve both quicke and dead; And by that way pretend To clyme vpp and ascend That Lucifer did discend. I thinke that suche frykars Be not Christes vickars, But crafty intrycars, And pryvy purse pykars; For they that be sekars Of stores newe and olde, May perceyve and beholde Howe euery thinge is solde For sylver[542] and for golde: The craft[543] can not be told, What is and hath bene done By Antychryst[544] of Rome; For thens[545] the sourdes springe Of every naughty thinge, Hide vnderneth the whynge Of the Sire of Synne; At whom I will begynn Somwhat for to speake, And playnly to intreate Of this farly freake, That sitteth in his seat, Devouringe synne as meatte, Whiche he and his do eate As they may catch and geate:[546] They spare not to devower Cyty, towne, and tower, Wherat no man may lower; For be it swete or sower, Or be it good or yll, We must be muett still, The lustes to fulfill Of that cocodryll, Which at his[547] only will May ech man[548] save or spyll. This wicked man of warr So hault is that he darr, As he lyste,[549] make and marr, His owne lawe to prefarr Aboue the worde of God; It passeth Godes forbod That ever it should be; A man to clyme so hy, By reason of his see, To clayme auctoritye Aboue the Deyte, It is to hy a bost, And synne one of the most Ageynst the Holy Gost, That is not remissable: For as for the Bible, He taketh it for a ridle, Or as a lawles lible, Which, to the hy offence Of his conscience, He dare therwith dispence, And alter the sentence; For wher God do prohibitt, He doth leve exhibite, And at his[550] lust inhybyte; And wher God doth commaunde, Ther he doth countermaunde; After his owne purpose The best text to turne and glose, Like a Welshe manes hose, Or lyke a waxen nose: But wyse[551] men do suppose That truth shall[552] judge and trye, For lyars can but lye. He is so hault and taunt, That he dare hyme avaunt All erthly men to daunt; And faynes to give and graunt, In heaven above or hell,[553] A place wherin to dwell, As all his lyars tell, Which he doth dayly sell, After his devise, If men come to his prise; It is his marchaundyse; For, as ye will demaunde, He can and may commaunde A thowsande, in a bande, Of angells out of heaven, To come throughe the leven, And make all thinge even, His biddinges to obey, Which beares the greatist swaye, Your soules to convey Frome all decaye Out of the fendes wey; But provided alwey, That ye first mony paye; At the appoynted daye Ye present, if it maye; Then,[554] vnder thi petycion, Thou gettest true remyssion,[555] From synnes the absolution, By this his owne commyssion, By bryve or els by bull, To fill his coffers full; Ye may aske what ye wull. Alas, ye be to dull To se this lorde of losse, The fo of Christes crosse, This hoore of Babilon, And seede of Zabulon, The enemy of Christ, The devels holy pryst, And very Antechrist, To revell and to ride, Like the prince of pride, That of euery syde Warres the worlde wyde, Whom no strenghe may abide— The devill be his guyde! For loke in his decrees, And ye shall finde out lyes, As thik as swarme of byes, That throughe the worlde flyes, Making parsemonyes Of Peters patrimonyes, But great mercymonyes Of his seremonyes, To smodder vs with smoke: For, when he wilbe wroke, No man may bere his stroke; So hevy is his yoke, To Christes full vnlike, That saide his yoke is swete, His burthen lighte and meete For all men that be meke, To suffer and to bere, Without drede or fere: But Popes afterwarde, That never[556] had regard Which ende shoulde go forewarde, Haue drawen vs bakwarde, And made the yoke so harde By false invented lawes, As thoughe lay men were dawes, And dome as any stone, With sivile and canon To serve God and Mammon; Righte and wronge is one. Serche his decretalles And bulles papalles, Et, inter alia, Loke in his palia And Bacchanalia,[557] With his extravagantes And wayes vagarantes: His lawes arrogantes Be made by truwantes That frame his finctions Into distinctions, With cloutes of clawses, Questyons and cawses, With Sext and Clementyne, And lawes legantyne: His county pallantyne Haue coustome colubryne, With codes viperyne And sectes serpentyne: Blinde be his stores Of interogatores And declaratores, With lapse and relapse, A wispe and a waspe, A clispe and a claspe, And his after[558] clappes; For his paragraffes Be no cosmograffes, But vnhappy graffes, That wander in the warrayne, Fruteles and barayne, To fede that foule carrayne, And dignite papall; With judges that scrape all, And doctours that take all, By lawes absynthyall And labirynthyall: His tabellions Be rebellions; His laweres and scribes Live only by bribes; His holy advocates And judges diligates Haue robbed all estates, By many inventions Of sundry suspentions, Subtile subventions, Crafty conventions, Prevy preventions, And evell exemptions; So hath his indictions And his interdictions, With croked commyssions, Colde[559] compromyssions, Cursed conditions, Hevy traditions, Elvishe inibitions, And redy remissions: Then hathe he inductions And colde conductions; His expectatyves Many a man vnthrives; By his constitutions And his subtitutions He maketh institutions, And taketh restitutions, Sellinge absolutions, And other like pollutions: His holy actions Be satisfactions Of false compactions: He robbeth all nations With his fulminations, And other like vexations; As with abiurations, Excomunycations, Aggravations, Presentations, Sequestrations, Deprivations, Advocations, Resignations, Dilapidations, Sustentations,[560] Adminystrations, Approbations, Assignations, Alterations, Narrations, Declarations, Locations, Collocations, Revocations, Dispensations, Intimations, Legittimations, Insinuations, Pronunttiations, Demonstrations, Vacations, Convocations, Deputations, Donations, Condonations, Commynations, Excusations,[561] Declamations, Visitations, Acceptations, Arrendations, Publications, Renunttiations, Fatigations, False fundations, And dissimulations, With like abbominations Of a thowsand fasshions: His holy vnions Be no communyons: His trialitees And pluralytyes Be full of qualitees; His tottes and quottes Be full of blottes: With quibes and quaryes Of inventataries, Of testamentaries, And of mortuaries, By sutes of appeales, And by his[562] ofte repeales, He oure mony steales. I speake not of his sessions, Nor of his confessions Olde and avricular, Colde and caniculer; Howe the cubiculer, In the capitular, With his pylde[563] spitler, Playde the knavyculer Vnderneth a[564] wall: I may not tell youe all, In termes speciall, Of pardon nor of pall, Nor of confessionall; For I feare, yf[565] he call The sentence generall, I mighte so take a fall, And haue his bitter curse,[566] And yett be not the wurse, Save only in my purse, Because I shoulde be fayne To by my state agayne Ex leno vel ex lena, Aut pellice obscœna, Res certe inamœna:[567] Papisticorum scena, Malorum semper plena; For all the worlde rounde He falsely doth confounde By lawes made and founde, By thyr devyse vnsownde, With no[568] steadfast grounde, But with fayned visions And develyshe devisions, With basterde religions: Thus this cursed elfe, To avaunce his pelfe, Falsely fayne[s] hymeself To be semideus: No, youe Asmeodeus, Ye are Amoreus, The sonne of Chanaan; O thou monstrous man, And childe of cursed Chan, Arte thou halfe god, halfe man? Gup, leviathan, And sonne of Sattan, The worme letophagus, And sire to Symonde Magus! O porter Cerberus, Thou arte so monstrous, Soo made and myschevous, Proude and surquedrous, And as lecherous As Heliogabalus Or Sardanapalus! Hatefull vnto God, And father of all falsehoode, The poyson of prestoode, And deth of good knighthoode, The robber of riche men, And murderer of meke men, The turment of true men That named be newe men, The prince of periury, And Christes enemy, Vnhappy as Achab, And naughty as Nadab, As crafty as Caball, And dronken as Naball, The hope of Ismaell, And false Achitofell, The blissinge of Bell, And advocate of hell; Thou hunter Nembroth, And Judas Iscarioth,[569] Thou bloody Belyall, And sacrifise of Ball, Thou elvishe ipocrite, And naughty neophite, Thou pevishe proselite, And synefull Sodymite, Thou gredy Gomorrite, And galefull[570] Gabaonite, Tho[u] hermofrodite, Thou arte a wicked sprite, A naughty seismatike, And an heritike, A beestely bogorian,[571] And devill meridian, The patrone of proctors, And dethe of trewe doctours, The founder of faytors, And trust of all traytours, The shender of sawes, And breaker of lawes, The syre of serdoners, And prince of pardoners, The kinge of questors, And rule of regestors, The eater of frogges, And maker of goddes, The brother of brothells, And lorde of all losells, The sturrur of stoores, And keper of hoores With gloriouse gawdes, Amonge trusty bawdes, The father of foles, And ignoraunce of scoles, The helper of harlettes, And captayne of verlettes, The cloke of all vnthriftes, And captayne of all caytifes, The leader of truwantes, And chefe of all tyrauntes, As hinde as an hogge, And kinde as any dogge, The shipwrake of Noye,— Christ saue the and Sainct Loy! Arte thou the hiest pryst, And vicar vnto Christ? No, no, I say, thou lyest: Thou arte a cursed crekar, A crafty vppcrepar; Thou arte the devils vicar, A privye[572] purse pikar, By lawes and by rites For sowles and for sprites: O lorde of ipocrites, Nowe shut vpp your wickettes, And clape to your clickettes,— farewell, kinge of crekettes! For nowe the tyme falles To speake of cardinalles, That[573] kepe ther holy halles With towres and walles: Be they not carnalles, And lordes infernalles? Yea, gredy carmalles, As any carmarante; With ther coppentante They loke adutante: For soth, men say they be Full of iniquite, Lyvinge in habundance Of all worldly substance, Wherin they lodge and ly, And wallowe beasteally, As hogges[574] do in a stye, Servinge ther god, ther belly, With chuettes and with gelly, With venyson and with tartes, With confytes and with fartes,[575] To ease ther holy hartes. They take ther stations, And make dyambulations Into all nations, For ther visitations, Callinge convocations, Sellinge dispensations, Givinge condonasions, Makinge permutations, And of excomunycations Sell they relaxations; For they, in ther progresse, With Katern, Mawde, and Besse, Will vse full great excesse, Withowt any redresse; And all men they oppresse In syty, towne, and village; From olde and yong of age They robbe[576] and make pyllage, Thyr lusts for to aswage, Which they extorte by mighte As in the churches righte; They may not lese a fether: But God, that lyveth ever, Graunt that they never Haue power to come hether! For wher they ones arive, So cleane they do vs shryve, That I swere by my life, The contry ther shall thrive Yeres tenn and ffive After them[577] the worse: Men give them Godes curse To shute within ther purse; Both lernyd and lewde Wolde they were beshrewed, They never mighte come nere For to visitt here, Altho they haue sotch chere As they cann well desyre, And as they will requier; For why, it doth appere, The hartes ar sett on fyer Of[578] chanon, monke, and fryer, That daylye dothe aspyre,[579] By bulles vnder ledd, How they should be fedd; It is therfore great skill That every Jacke and Gyll Performe[580] the Popes will, Hys[581] purse and panch to ffill; For, as I erst haue tolde, There lyves not suche a scolde That dare ons be[582] so bold, From shorne ne yet from polde, Nor[583] monye, meate, nor golde, From soch men[584] to withholde, Ther favour boughte and solde, That take a thowsand ffolde More then that Judas did: The trouth can not be hid; For it is playnly kid Judas for his dispense Sold Christ for thirty pense, And did a foule offence, His Lorde God so to tray; And they in likewise say, After Judas way, What will ye give and pay, As the matter falles, For pardonnes and for palles, And for confessionalles? We may have absolucions Without restytutyons, And at oure owne election Passe without correction, Besydes Christes passion To make satisfaction; We feare for non offence, So they haue recompence: By great audacitees They graunt capacitees; For heaven and for hell They mony take and tell: So thus they by and sell, And take therof no shame, But laughe and haue good game, To all oure souls bane: God helpe, we be to blame Sutch lordes to defame; Yett, by the common fame, Some bisshops vse the same, In Christes holy name Soules to sell and bye: My mynde is not to lye, But to write playnlye Ageynst ipocresye In bisshopp or in other, Yea, thoughe it were my brother, My father or my mother, My syster or my sonne; For, as I haue begonne, I will, as I haue donne, Disclose the great outrage That is in this Image; For[585] he that feles the pricke, And theron groweth sycke, May with the gald horse kike; For, as I erst haue said, Oure bisshops at a brayd Ar growne so sore afrayde, And in[586] the world so wide Do vse sutch pompe and pride, And rule on euery syde, That none may them abide: Of no[587] prince, lord, nor duke, They take will a rebuke; All lay men they surmount, Makinge non accompte, Nor cast no reckonynge Scarcely of a kinge: This is a wonder[588] thinge; They stande so suer and fast, And be nothinge agast;[589] For that blody judge And mighty sanguisuge, The Pope that is so huge, Is ever ther refuge; So be the cardinalles Ther suer defence and walles, With whom they stifly stande By water and by lande, To gett the overhande Of all the world rounde, Wher profitt may be founde: They be so many legions, That they oppresse regions With boke, bell, and candell, Any kinge to handell, As they haue many one: For triall herevpon I take of good Kinge John, Whom by the bitinge Of ther subtill smytinge, First by acytinge, And after interditinge, By fulmynations Of excommunications; For by ther holy poores They stored vpp stoores,[590] And kepte suche stvrre with hores, And shut vpp all churche doores For ther princely pleasure, They lyve so owt of measure, Till they might haue leasure, Ther lieg lorde and kinge So base and lowe to bringe; Which was a pyttevs thyng, That he with wepinge yees, Bowinge backe and thies, And knelinge on his knees, Must render vpp his fees, With kingly dignytees, Septer, crowne, and landes, Into ther holy handes: Alas, howe mighte it be That oure nobilitee Could then no better se? For theyrs was the fault Oure prelates were so haulte; Their strength then was to seke Ther liege lorde to kepe; They durst not fight ne strike, They feared of a gleke, That, no day in the weke, For any good or cattell, Durst they go to battell, Nor entre churche ne chappell In syxe or seven yere, Before Christ to appere, And devine seruice here In any hallowed place, For lacke of ther good grace; Ther was no tyme nor space To do to God seruice, But as they wolde devise; Their lawes be so sinystre, That no man durst minystre The holy sacrementes Till they hadd ther intentes Of landes and of rentes, By lawes and by lyes; To inriche ther sees, The blind men eat vpp flees; For by ther constitutions They toke restitutions Of cyties and of castells, Of townes and bastells, And make ther prince pike wastells, Till they rang out the belles, And did as they wold elles, Like traytours and rebelles, As the story telles. But Jesu Christ hymeself, Nor his appostells twelffe, Vnto that cvrsyd elfe Did never teach hym[591] so In any wise to do, For lucre or advayle,[592] Ageynst thyr kyng to rayle, And[593] lieg lorde to assayle, Within his owne lande To put hym vnder bande, And take brede of his hande: The Lorde saue sutch a flock That so could mowe and mock To make ther kinge a block, And eke ther laughinge stocke! They blered hym with a lurche, And said that he must wurche By counsell of the churche; Wherby they ment nothinge But to wrest and wringe, Only for to bringe Ther liege lorde and kinge To be ther vnderlinge: Alas, who euer sawe A kinge vnder awe, Ageynst all Gods lawe, All righte and consience, For doinge non offence To make sutch recompence? They gave ther lorde a laske, To purge withall his caske, And putt hym to no taske, But as they wold hyme aske: This was a midday maske, A kinge so to enforce With pacyence perforce. Take hede therfore and watche, All ye that knowe this tatche, Ye make not sutch a matche; Loke forth, beware the katche, Ye fall not in the snatche Of that vngratiovs pacthe, Before the rope hym racthe, Or Tyburne dothe hym strache. But who so[594] preache or prate, I warne youe, rathe and late To loke vpp and awake, That ye do never make Your maister nor your mate To sytt withowt your gate; Take hede, for Christes sake, And knowe your owne estate, Or ye be tardy take; Yea, lest it be to late To trust on hadd I wist, Imasked in a myst,— As good to ly bypist; For these his primates, Bysshops and prelates, And popeholy legates, With ther pild pates, Dare conquer[595] all estates: They do but as they will; For, be it good or ill, We must be muett still: Why lay men can not se, It is the more pite.

Thus endeth the Seconde Parte of this present treatyse called the Image of Ipocresy.

Of prechers nowe adayes Be many Fariseyes, That leue the Lordes layes, And preche ther owne wayes; Wherof nowe of late Hathe risen great debate; For some champe and chaffe As hogges do in draffe, And some cry out apase As houndes at a chase, Whiche for lacke of grace The playne truthe wold defase. So busely they barke, An other in the darke, That is a busarde starke, And cane not se the marke, Wondereth at this warke, And therfore taketh carke Bycause he is no clarke. Some be soft and still As clappes in a mill, And some cry and yell As sprites do in hell; Some be here and ther, And some I wote not wher; Some holde vpp, yea and nay, And some forsake ther lay; Some be still and stey, And hope to haue a daye; Some wote not what to say, But dout whether they may Abide or rune away; Ther wittes be so weake, They say they dare not speake, They be afrayd of heate; Some be sycke and sadd, For sorrowe almost madd; I tell youe veryly, Ther wittes be awry, They peyne themselves greatly To haue the trouth go by; Some on bokes dayly prye, And yett perceyve not reason whie; Tho some affirme, some do deny, With nowe a trouth and then a ly, To say one thinge openly, And an other prively;— Here be but youe and I; Say to me your mynd playnlye, Is it not open heresy? Thus say they secretly, Whisperinge with sorrowe That they deny to morowe. Ther tales be so dobble, That many be in trobble, And doubt which way to take, Themselves sure to make: A lorde, it makes me shake! For pyty that I quake. They be so colde and horse. That they haue no forse, So they be prefarred, Tho all the rest were marred. Thus the people smatter, That dayly talke and clatter, Oure preachers do but flatter, To make themselves the fatter, And care not thoughe the matter Were clerely layde a watter. Douse men chatt and chide it, For they may not abid it; The Thomistes wold hide it, For littera occidit. Thus these sysmatickes, And lowsy lunatickes, With spurres and prickes Call true men heretickes. They finger ther fidles, And cry in quinibles, Away these bibles, For they be but ridles! And give them Robyn Whode, To red howe he stode In mery grene wode,[596] When he gathered good, Before Noyes ffloodd! For the Testamentes To them, they sey, sente is, To gather vpp ther rentes, After ther intentes: Wherby it by them ment is, That lay men be but lowtes; They may not knowe the clowtes, Nor dispute of the doubtes, That is in Christes lawe; For why, they never sawe The bagg nor the bottell Of oure Arrestotle, Nor knowe not the toyes Of Doctore Averroyes; It is no play for boyes, Neyther for lay men; But only for schole men, For they be witty men, As wise as any wrenne, And holy as an henne. For Doctoure Bullatus, Though[597] parum literatus, Will brable and prate thus; Howe Doctoure Pomaunder, As wise as a gander, Wotes not wher to wander, Whether to Meander, Or vnto Menander;[598] For of Alexander, Irrefragable Hales, He cane tell many tales, Of many parke pales, Of butgettes and of males, Of Candy and of Cales, And of West Wales. But Doctoure Dorbellous Doth openly tell vs Howe they by and sell vs: And Doctoure Sym Sotus Cann goostely grope vs; For he hathe rad Scotus, And so the dawe dotus Of Doctour Subtyles; Yea, three hundreth myles, With sutch crafty wyles He many men begiles, That never knewe an vnce At full of Master Dunce. Then Doctoure Bonbardus Can skill of Lombardus; He wonnes at Malepardus,[599] With Father Festino, And Doctoure Attamino, Dudum de camino, With ther consobrino, Capite equino Et corde asinino; Hi latent in limo Et in profundo fimo, Cubantes in culino Cum Thoma de Aquino, Tractantes in ima De pelle canina Et lana caprina. Then Doctoure Chekmate Hath his pardoned pate, A man yll educate; His harte is indurate, His heade eke edentate; His wittes be obfuscate, His braynes obumbrate, Oure questions to debate; For thoughe cam but late, His cause is explicate With termes intricate, I note wherof conflate; And therfore must he make His bull and antedate. Then Doctour Tom-to-bold Is neyther whote nor colde, Till his coles be solde; His name may not be tolde For syluer nor for golde; But he is sutch a scolde, That no play may hym holde For anger vnbepyst, Yf his name were wist; Ye may judge as ye liste; He is no Acquiniste, Nor non Occanist,[600] But a mockaniste; This man may not be myste, He is a suer sophiste, And an olde papist. But nowe we haue a knighte[601] That is a man of mighte, All armed for to fighte, To put the trouthe to flighte By Bowbell pollecy, With his poetry And his sophestry; To mocke and make a ly, With quod he and quod I; And his appologye, Made for the prelacy, Ther hugy pompe and pride To coloure and to hide; He maketh no nobbes, But with his diologges To prove oure prelates goddes, And lay men very lobbes, Betinge they[m] with bobbes, And with ther ow[n]e roddes; Thus he taketh payne To fable and to fayne, Ther myscheff to mayntayne, And to haue them rayne Over hill and playne, Yea, over heaven and hell, And wheras sprites dwell, In purgatorye holles, With whote ffier and coles, To singe for sely soules, With a supplication, And a confutation, Without replication, Havinge delectation To make exclamation, By way of declamation, In his Debellation,[602] With a popishe fasshion To subvert oure nation: But this daucok doctoure And purgatory proctoure Waketh nowe for wages, And, as a man that rages Or overcome with ages,[603] Disputith per ambages, To helpe these parasites And naughty ipocrites, With legendes of lyes, Fayned fantasies, And very vanyties, Called veryties, Vnwritten and vnknowen. But as they be blowne From lyer to lyer, Inventyd by a ffryer In magna copia, Brought out of Vtopia Vnto the mayde of Kent,[604] Nowe from the devill sent, A virgyne ffayre and gent, That hath our yees blent: Alas, we be myswent! For yf the false intent Were knowen of this witche, It passeth dogg and bitche: I pray God, do so mutche To fret her on the itche, And open her in tyme! For this manly myne Is a darke devyne, With his poetry, And her iugglery, By conspiracy To helpe our prelacy, She by ypocresye, And he by tyranny, That causeth cruelly The simple men to dye For fayned herisye: He saythe that this nody Shall brenne, soule and body, Or singe his palanody, With feare till he pant, To make hym recreante His sayinges to recante, So as he shalbe skante Able for to loke In writinge or in booke, That treatithe of the rote Or of the base and fote Of ther abhomynation: He vsethe sutche a fasshion, To send a man in station With an evill passion To his egression, Before the procession Slylye for to stalke, And solempeny to walke, To here the preacher talke, Howe he hath made a balke; And so the innocent, For feare to be brent, Must suffer checke and checke, His faccott on his necke, Not for his life to quecke, But stande vpp, like a bosse, In sighte at Paules crosse, To the vtter losse Of his goode name and fame: Thus with great payne and shame He kepethe men in bandes, Confiskinge goods and landes, And then to hete ther handes With faccottes and with brandes, Or make them be abjure: These thinges be in vre; Youe leade vs with the lure Of your persecution And cruell execution, That the fyry fume Oure lyves shall consume By three, by two, and one; Men say ye will spare none Of hye nor lowe degre, That will be eneme To your ipocrese, Or to your god the bele; For who dare speake so felle That clerkes should be simple, Without spott or wrinkell? Yett nathelesse alwey I do protest and saye, And shall do while I may, I never will deny, But confesse openly, That punnysshement should be, In every degre, Done with equite; When any doth offende, Then oughte youe to attende To cause hyme to amend, Awaytinge tyme and place, As God may give youe grace, To haue hyme fase to fase, His fautes to deface, With hope to reconcyle hyme; But not for to begile hym, Or vtterly to revile hyme, As thoughe ye wold excile hyme; For then, the trouth to tell Men thinke ye do not well. Ye call that poore man wretch, As thoughe ye hadd no retche, Or havinge no regarde, Whiche ende should go forwarde: Ye be so sterne and harde, Ye rather drawe backwarde, Your brother so to blinde, To grope and sertche his mynde, As thoughe youe were his frinde, Some worde to pike and finde, Wherby ye may hyme blinde; With your popishe lawe To kepe vs vnder awe, By captious storyes Of interrogatoryes: Thus do ye full vnkindly, To feyne yourselves frindley, And be nothinge but fyndly. I tell youe, men be lothe To se youe wode and wrothe, And then for to be bothe Th’accuser and the judge: Then farewell all refuge, And welcom sanguisuge! When ye be madd and angry, And an expresse enemy, It is ageynst all equitye Ye shoulde be judge and partye: Therfore the kinges grace Your lawes muste deface; For before his face Youe should your playntes bringe, As to your lorde and kinge And judge in euery thinge, That, by Godes worde, Hathe power of the sworde, As kinge and only lorde, So scripture doth recorde; For her within his lande Should be no counterband, But holy at his hande We shoulde all be and stande, Both clerkes spirituall, And lay men temporall: But youe make lawe at will, The poore to plucke and pill, And some that do no yll, Your appetites to ffill, Ye do distroy and kill. Lett Godes worde try them, And then ye shall not frye them; Yea, lett the worde of God Be every mannes rode, And the kinges the lawe To kepe them under awe, To fray the rest with terroure, They may revoke ther erroure: And thus, I say agayne, The people wolde be fayne Ye prelates wolde take payne To preache the gospell playne; For otherwise certayne Your laboure is in vayne; For all your crueltye, I knowe that you and we Shall never well agree: Ye may in no wise se Sutch as disposed be Of ther charitye To preach the verytye; Ye stope them with decrees, And with your veritees, Unwritten, as ye saye; Thus ye make them stay: But God, that all do may, I do desire and pray, To open us the day, Which is the very kaye Of knowledge of his way, That ye have stolen awaye! And then, my lordes, perfay, For all your popishe play, Not all your gold so gay, Nor all your riche araye, Shall serve youe to delaye But some shall go astraye, And lerne to swyme or sinke; For truly I do thinke, Ye may well wake or wynke, For any meat or drinke Ye geitt, without ye swynke. But that wold make youe wrothe; For, I trowe, ye be lothe To do eyther of both, That is, yourself to cloth With laboure and with sweate And faste till youe eate But that youe erne and geate; Like verlettes and pages, To leve your parsonages, Your denns and your cages, And by[605] dayly wages: God blesse us, and Sainct Blase! This were a hevy case, A chaunce of ambesase, To se youe broughte so base, To playe without a place: Now God send better grace! And loke ye lerne apase To tripe in trouthes trace, And seke some better chaunce Yourselves to avaunce, With sise synke or synnes; For he laughe[s] that wynnes, As ye haue hetherto, And may hereafter do; Yf ye the gospell preche, As Christ hymself did teche, And in non other wise But after his devise, Ye may with good advyse Kepe your benefise And all your dignite, Without malignite, In Christes name, for me; I gladely shall agre It ever may so be. But this I say and shall, What happ soeuer fall, I pray and call The Kinge celestiall, Ones to give youe grace To se his worde haue place; And then within shorte space We shall perceyve and se Howe euery degre Hath his auctorite By the lawe of Christ, The lay man and the prest, The poore man and the lorde; For of that monocorde The scripture doth recorde; And then with good accorde, In love and in Concorde We shall together holde; Or elles ye may be bolde, For heate or colde Say ye what ye will, Yt were as good be still; For thoughe ye glose and frase Till your eyes dase, Men holde it but a mase Till Godes worde haue place, That doth include more grace Then all erthly men Could ever knowe or ken.

Thuse endith the thirde parte of this present treatise called the Image of Ypocresye.

Nowe with sondry sectes The world sore infectes, As in Christes dayes Amonge the Pharisees, In clothinge and in names; For some were Rhodyans, And Samaritans, Some were Publicanes, Some were Nazarenes, Bisshops and Essenes, Preestes and Pharisees; And so of Saducees, Prophetes and preachers, Doctours and teachers, Tribunes and tribes, Lawers and scribes, Deacons and levytes, With many ipocrites; And so be nowe also, With twenty tymes[606] mo Then were in Christes dayes Amonge the Pharisees: The Pope, whom first they call Ther lorde and principall, The patriarke withall; And then the Cardinall With tytles all of pride, As legates of the side, And some be cutt and shorne That they be legates borne; Then archebisshops bold, And bisshops for the folde, They metropolitannes, And these diocysanyes, That haue ther suffraganyes To blesse the prophanyes; Then be ther curtisanes As ill as Arrianes Or Domicianes, Riall residentes, And prudent presidentes; So be their sensors, Doughty dispensors, Crafty inventors, And prevy precentors, With chaplaynes of honour That kepe the Popes bower; Then allmoners and deanes, That geit by ther meanes The rule of all reames; Yett be ther subdeanes, With treasorers of trust, And chauncelours iniust, To scoure of scab and rust, With vicars generalls, And ther officialles, Chanons and chaunters, That be great avaunters; So be ther subchaunters, Sextons and archedeakons, Deakons and subdeakons, That be ypodeakons, Parsonnes and vicars, Surveyors and sikers, Prevy pursepikers, Provostes and preachers, Readers and teachers, With bachilers and maysters, Spenders and wasters; So be ther proctors, With many dull doctors, Proude prebendaryes, Colde commissaries, Synfull secundaries, Sturdy stipendaries, With olde ordinaryes, And penytencyaryes, That kepe the sanctuaries; So be ther notaries, And prothonotaries, Lawers and scribes, With many quibibes, Redy regesters, Pardoners and questers, Maskers and mummers, Deanes and sumners, Apparatoryes preste To ride est and weste; Then be ther advocates, And parum litterates, That eate vpp all estates, With wyly visitors, And crafty inquisitors, Worse then Mamalokes, That catche vs with ther crokes, And brenne vs and oure bokes; Then be ther annivolors, And smalle benivolers, With chauntry chapleynes, Oure Ladyes chamberleynes; And some be Jesu Christes, As be oure servinge pristes, And prestes that haue cure Which haue ther lyvinge sure, With clerkes and queresters, And other smale mynisters, As reders and singers, Bedemen and bellringers, That laboure with ther lippes Ther pittaunce out of pittes, With Bennet and Collet, That bere bagg and wallett; These wretches be full wely, They eate and drinke frely, Withe salve, stella cœli,[607] And ther de profundis; They lye with immundis, And walke with vacabundis, At good ale and at wynne As dronke as any swynne; Then be ther grosse abbottes, That observe ther sabbottes, Fayer, ffatt, and ffull, As gredy as a gull, And ranke as any bull, With priors of like place,[608] Some blacke and some white, As channons be and monkes, Great lobyes and lompes, With Bonhomes and brothers, Fathers and mothers, Systers and nonnes, And littell prety bonnes, With lictors and lectors, Mynisters and rectors, Custos and correctors, With papall collectors, And popishe predagoges,[609] Mockinge mystagoges, In straunge array and robes, Within ther sinagoges; With sectes many mo, An hundreth in a throo I thinke to name by roo, As they come to my mynde, Whom, thoughe they be vnkind, The lay mens labor finde; For some be Benedictes With many maledictes; Some be Cluny, And some be Plumy, With Cistercyences, Grandimontences, Camaldulences, Premonstratences, Theutonycences, Clarrivallences, And Easiliences: Some be Paulines, Some be Antonynes, Some be Bernardines, Some be Celestines, Some be Flamynes, Some be Fuligines, Some be Columbines, Some be Gilbertines, Some be Disciplines, Some be Clarines, And many[610] Augustines, Some Clarissites, Some be Accolites, Some be Sklavemytes, Some be Nycolites, Some be Heremytes, Some be Lazarites, Some be Ninivites, Some be Johannytes, Some be Josephites, Some be Jesuytes, Servi and Servytes, And sondry Jacobites; Then be ther Helenytes, Hierosolymites, Magdalynites, Hieronimytes, Anacorites, And Scenobites; So be ther Sophrans, Constantinopolitanes, Holy Hungarians, Purgatorians, Chalomerians, And Ambrosians; Then be ther Indianes, And Escocyanes, Lucifrans, Chartusyanes, Collectanes, Capusianes, Hispanians, Honofrianes, Gregorianes, Vnprosianes, Winceslanes, With Ruffianes, And with Rhodianes; Some be Templers, And Exemplers, Some be Spitlers, And some be Vitlers, Some be Scapelers, And some Cubiculers, Some be Tercyaris, And some be of St. Marys, Some be Hostiaris, And of St. Johns frarys, Some be Stellifers, And some be Ensefers, Some Lucifers, And some be Crucyfers, Some haue signe of sheres, And some were shurtes of heres, Some be of the spone, And some be crossed to Rome, Some daunte and daly In Sophathes valley, And in the blak alley Wheras it ever darke is, And some be of St Markis Mo then be good clarkes, Some be Mysiricordes, Mighty men and lordes, And some of Godes house That kepe the poore souse, Minimi and Mymes, And other blak devines, With Virgins and Vestalles, Monkes and Monyalles, That be conventualles, Like frogges and todes; And some be of the Rhodes, Swordemen and knightes, That for the [faith] fightes With sise, sinke, and quatter. But nowe never the latter I intend to clatter Of a mangye matter, That smelles of the smatter, Openly to tell What they do in hell, Wheras oure ffryers dwell Everich in his sell, The phane and the prophane, The croked and the lame, The mad, the wild, and tame, Every one by name: The formest of them all Is ther Generall; And the next they call Ther hie Provincyall, With Cvstos and Wardyn That lye next the gardeyn; Then oure father Prior, With his Subprior That with the covent comes To gather vpp the cromes; Then oure fryer Douche Goeth by a crouche, And slouthfull ffryer Slouche That bereth Judas pouche; Then ffryer Domynike And ffryer Demonyke, Fryer Cordiler And ffryer Bordiler, Fryer Jacobine, Fryer Augustyne, And ffryer Incubyne And ffryer Succubine, Fryer Carmelyte And ffryer Hermelite, Fryer Mynorite And ffryer Ipocrite, Frier ffranciscane And ffrier Damiane, Frier Precher And ffrier Lecher, Frier Crusifer And ffrier Lusifer, Frier Purcifer And ffrier Furcifer, Frier Ferdifer And ffrier Merdifer, Fryer Sacheler And ffryer Bacheler, Fryer Cloysterer And ffrier Floysterer, Frier Pallax And ffrier Fallax, Frier Fugax And ffrier Nugax, Frier Rapax And ffrier Capax, Frier Lendax And ffrier Mendax, Frier Vorax And ffrier Nycticorax,[611] Fryer Japax, Frier Furderer And ffrier Murderer, Frier Tottiface And ffrier Sottiface, Frier Pottiface And frier Pockyface, Frier Trottapace And ffrier Topiace, Frier Futton And ffrier Glotton, Frier Galiard And ffrier Paliard, Frier Goliard And ffrier Foliard, Frier Goddard And ffrier Foddard, Frier Ballard And ffrier Skallard, Frier Crowsy And ffrier Lowsy, Frier Sloboll And ffrier Bloboll, Frier Toddypoll And ffrier Noddypoll, Frier fflaphole And ffrier Claphole, Frier Kispott And ffrier Pispott, Frier Chipchop And ffrier Likpott, Frier Clatterer And ffrier fflatterer, Frier Bib, ffrier Bob, Frier Lib, ffrier Lob, Frier Fear, ffrier Fonde, Frier Beare, ffrier Bonde, Frier Rooke, ffrier Py, Frier Flooke, ffrier Flye, Frier Spitt, ffrier Spy, Frier Lik, ffrier Ly, With ffrier We-he Found by the Trinytye, And frier Fandigo, With an hundred mo Could I name by ro, Ne were for losse of tyme, To make to longe a ryme: O squalidi laudati, Fœdi[612] effeminati, Falsi falsati, Fuci fucati, Culi cacati,[613] Balbi braccati, Mimi merdati,[614] Larvi larvati,[615] Crassi cathaphi,[616] Calvi cucullati, Curvi curvati, Skurvi knavati, Spurci spoliati, Hirci armati, Vagi devastati, Devii debellati, Surdi sustentati, Squalidi laudati, Tardi terminati, Mali subligati, Inpii conjurati, Profusi profugi, Lapsi lubrici, Et parum pudici! Oth ye drane bees, Ye bloody flesheflees, Ye spitefull spittle spyes, And grounde of herisees, That dayly without sweat Do but drinke and eate, And murther meat and meat, Ut fures et latrones! Ye be incubiones,[617] But no spadones, Ye haue your culiones; Ye be histriones, Beastely balatrones,[618] Grandes thrasones,[619] Magni nebulones, And cacodæmones,[620] That [eat] vs fleshe and bones With teeth more harde then stones; Youe make hevy mones, As it were for the nones, With great and grevous grones, By sightes and by sobbes To blinde vs with bobbes; Oh ye false faytours, Youe theves be and tratours, The devils dayly wayters! Oh mesell Mendicantes, And mangy Obseruauntes, Ye be vagarantes! As persers penitrantes, Of mischef ministrantes,[621] In pillinge postulantes, In preachinge petulantes, Of many sycophantes,[622] That gather, as do antes, In places wher ye go, With in principio Runnynge to and ffro, Ye cause mikle woo With hie and with loo; Wher youe do resorte, Ye fayne and make reporte Of that youe never harde, To make foles aferde With visions and dremes,[623] Howe they do in hevens, And in other remes Beyonde the great stremes Of Tyger and of Gange, Where tame devils range, And in the black grange, Thre myle out of hell, Where sely sowles dwell, In paynes wher they lye, Howe they lament and cry Vnto youe, holy lyars, And false fflatteringe ffriers, For Dirige and masses; Wherwith, like very asses, We maynteyn youe and your lasses; But in especiall Ye say, the sowles call For the great trentall; For some sely sowles So depe ly in holes Of ffier and brennyng coles, That top and tayle is hid; For whom to pray and bid Thens to haue them rid, Ye thinke it but a foly; Althoughe the masse be holy, The fendes be wyly; Till masse of scala cœli,[624] At Bathe or at Ely, Be by a ffrier saide That is a virgine mayde, These sowles may not away, As all yow ffriers say; So trowe I without doubte These sowles shall never out; For it is rara avis, Ye be so many knaves; I swere by crosses ten, That fewe be honest men; So many of youe be Full of skurrilite, That throughly to be sought The multitude is noughte: Ye be nothinge denty; Ye come among vs plenty By coples in a peire, As sprites in the heire, Or dogges in the ffayre; Where yow do repayre, Ye ever ride and rune, As swifte as any gune, With nowe to go and come, As motes in the sonne, To shrive my lady nonne, With humlery hum, Dominus vobiscum! God knoweth all and some, What is and hath bene done, Syns the world begone, Of russett, gray, and white, That sett ther hole delighte In lust and lechery, In thefte and trecherey, In lowsy lewdenes, In synne and shrodenes, In crokednes acurst, Of all people the worste, Marmosettes and apes, That with your pild pates Mock vs with your iapes: Ye holy caterpillers, Ye helpe your wellwillers With prayers and psalmes, To devoure the almes That Christians should give To meynteyne and releve The people poore and nedy; But youe be gredy, And so great a number, That, like the ffier of thunder, The worlde ye incomber: But hereof do I wonder, Howe ye preache in prose, And shape therto a glose, Like a shipmans hose, To fayne yourse[l]ves ded, Whiche nathelesse be fed, And dayly eate oure bred, That ye amonge vs beg, And gett it spite of oure hede: It wonder is to me, Howe ye maye fathers be Your sede to multiply, But yf yow be incubi,[625] That gender gobolynes: Be we not bobolynes, Sutch lesinges to beleve, Whiche ye amonge vs dry[ve]? Because ye do vs shrive, Ye[626] say we must youe call Fathers seraphicall And angelicall, That be fantasticall, Brute and bestiall, Yea, diabolicall, The babes of Beliall, The sacrifise of Ball, The dregges of all durte, Fast bounde and girte Vnder the devils skyrte; For pater Priapus, And frater Polpatus, With doctor Dulpatus, Suffultus fullatus,[627] Pappus paralyticus,[628] And pastor improvidus, Be false and frivolus, Proude and pestiferous, Pold and pediculous, Ranke and ridiculous, Madd and meticulous, Ever invidious, Never religious, In preachinge prestigious, In walkinge prodigious, In talkinge sedicious, In doctrine parnicious, Haute and ambicious, Fonde and supersticious, In lodginge prostibulus, In beddinge promiscuous, In councells myschevous, In musters monstrous, In skulkinge insidicious, Vnchast and lecherous, In excesse outragious, As sicknesse contagious,[629] The wurst kind of edders, And stronge sturdy beggers: Wher one stande and teaches, An other prate and preches, Like holy horseleches: So this rusty rable At bourd and at table Shall fayne and fable, With bible and with bable, To make all thinge stable, By lowringe and by lokinge, By powrynge and by potinge, By standinge and by stopinge, By handinge and by ffotinge, By corsy and by crokinge, With their owne pelf promotinge, With ther eyes alweyes totinge Wher they may haue shotinge Ther and here ageyne: Thus the people seyne,[630] With wordes true and playne, Howe they jest and ioll With ther nody poll, With rownynge and rollinge, With bowsinge and bollinge, With lillinge and lollinge, With knyllinge and knollinge, With tillinge and tollinge, With shavinge and pollinge, With snyppinge and snatchinge, With itchinge and cratchinge, With kepinge and katchinge, With wepinge and watchinge, With takinge and catchinge, With peltinge and patchinge, With findinge and fatchinge, With scriblinge and scratchinge, With ynkinge and blatchinge; That no man can matche them, Till the devill fatche them, And so to go together Vnto their denne for ever, Wher hens as they never Hereafter shall dissever, But dy eternally, That lyve so carnally; For that wilbe ther ende, But yf God them sende His grace here to amend: And thus I make an ende.

Thus endeth the ffourthe and laste parte of this treatise called the Image of Ypocresy.

The grudge of ypocrites conceyved ageynst the auctor of this treatise.

These be as knappishe knackes As ever man made, For javells and for iackes, A jymiam for a iade.

Well were we, yf we wist What a wight he were That starred vpp this myst, To do vs all this dere:

Oh, yf we could attayne hym, He mighte be fast and sure We should not spare to payne hym, While we mighte indure!

The awnswer of the auctor.

Ego sum qui sum, My name may not be told; But where ye go or come, Ye may not be to bold:

For I am, is, and was, And ever truste to be, Neyther more nor las Then asketh charite.

This longe tale to tell Hathe made me almost horse: I trowe and knowe right well That God is full of force,

And able make the dome And defe men heare and speake, And stronge men overcome By feble men and weke:

So thus I say my name is; Ye geit no more of me, Because I wilbe blameles, And live in charite.

Thuse endith this boke called the Image of Ypocresye.

[468] The Image of Ipocrysy] Is now printed from MS. Lansdown 794. The original has very considerable alterations and additions by a different hand: the first page is here and there illegible, partly from the paleness of the ink, and partly from the notes which Peter Le Neve (the possessor of the MS. in 1724) has unmercifully scribbled over it. I give the title here as it stands at the end of the First Part.

Hearne and others have attributed this remarkable production to Skelton. The poem, however, contains decisive evidence that he was not its author: to say nothing of other passages,—the mention of certain writings of Sir Thomas More and of “the mayde of Kent” (Elizabeth Barton), which occurs in the Third Part, would alone be sufficient to prove that it was the composition of some writer posterior to his time.

[469] Vp to the clowdy skye] Originally “Vp into the skye.”

[470] Our parsons and curates] This line (now pasted over in the MS.) has been obtained from a transcript of the poem made by Thomas Martin of Palgrave.

[471] Glottons] Originally “Prelates.”

[472] And] Substituted for “To,” when the preceding line was added.

[473] him] Originally “vs.”

[474] Take] Originally “haue.”

[475] Dothe] Originally “Or.”

[476] Doo] Originally “That.”

[477] seem] Is the substitution of a somewhat later hand, the original word being faded: qy. “self?”

[478] runne in att the rove] Originally “runnynge at the masse.”

[479] prove] Originally “presse.”

[480] Wher they may be sure] Followed by a deleted line, now partly illegible,—

“ ... wayte to haue wynnynge.”

[481] To fyshe for any gayne] Followed by a deleted line which seems to have been,—

“With shotinge or with singinge.”

[482] Shall pryck, &c.] The position of this line, and of the next but one, was originally different.

[483] Chafyng] Which seems to be the reading intended, was originally preceded by “Wyll.”

[484] And then] Originally “At lenghe.”

[485] Thoughe] MS. “Throughe”

[486] Which] Qy. “With?”

[487] bowes] Qy. “vowes?”

[488] of ther] Qy. “other?”

[489] backe] Something wanting here.

[490] No man wyll they spare] Originally,—

“They passe not of a sparre.”

[491] Your] Originally “For.”

[492] In] Originally “And.”

[493] Youre] Originally “And.”

[494] Wher God his gyfte or grace] Originally,

“Wher god of his grace.”

[495] And all his kingdom, whan] Originally,

“At the good tyme whan.”

[496] Ye] Originally “That.”

[497] Lordely, &c.] On the outer margin of the MS., opposite this verse, are the following lines, partly cut off by the binder;

“Thes be the knavysh knackes that ever w ... o ... ffor Javelles and for J[ackes].”

[498] And worldly welth to haue] Originally “And possession to haue.”

[499] chippe] Qy. “clippe?”

[500] When masse and all is done] Followed by a deleted line;

“The paynes to release.”

[501] as] Originally “that.”

[502] All] Originally “All ys.”

[503] For lust fyndes no lett] Occupies the place of the following three deleted lines;

“be she ffayre or fowle for vnderneth an amys alyke ther hart is.”

[504] or] MS. “as.”

[505] Or owgly] Over this is the deleted word “blobcheked.”

[506] pretens] Originally “the bande.”

[507] not I] Originally “for why.”

[508] Lest here you] Originally “Here lest youe.”

[509] with vs] Originally “your.”

[510] treuth] Originally “the treuth.”

[511] That all the falt doth lye] Originally “But all the falt do lye.”

[512] oure] Qy. “youre?” but compare 6th line of next column. In the following line, “sanguinolently” should perhaps be printed as Latin,—“sanguinolenti.”

[513] cokold foles] Originally “loutes and knaves.”

[514] We wer an oxes fether] Originally “And in oure hoode a fether.”

[515] Oure hedes for to gnob] Followed by two deleted lines;

“And make vs soch a lob To vse one lyke a lob.”

[516] For your] Originally “With.”

[517] Through] Originally “With.”

[518]

And small, &c. ... To make soch recompens

This passage is substituted for two deleted lines;

“To your possessyon Without discretion.”

[519]

By gyvyng, &c. ... Of harty penytens

This passage is substituted for three deleted lines;

“S ... fonde affection To oure correccion Without protection.”

[520] yowe] Originally “them.”

[521] that] Originally “an.”

[522] be] Originally “to be.”

[523] For you on] Originally “For on.”

[524] Can suffre or abyde] Originally “Ye cane here abide.”

[525] vehement] Originally “diligent.”

[526] So] Originally “That.”

[527] We] Originally “And.”

[528] And be thus] Originally “That we be.”

[529] We know not] Originally “Not knowing.”—After this line is one cut off by the binder.

[530] That when he eat] Originally “When he shall eat.”

[531] Slepe, awake] Originally “Slepe or wake.”

[532] Doth styll] Originally “He must.”

[533] Kepe] Before this word stood originally “And,” afterwards altered to “To,” which is also deleted.

[534] Be made vnto his heste] Originally,

“Be made to his heste;”

for which, was first substituted,

“Made be to his hest.”

[535] To governe] Originally “Wisely to.”

[536] evyll] Originally “ill.”

[537] Lyke Lucyfer, the devyll] Originally,

“In Judgement of the devill.”

[538] And so] Originally “For.”

[539] That thei fall not vnware] Originally,

“Or elles may vnware.”

[540] Into] Originally “Fall in.”

[541]

All maner, &c. ... To gather and to kepe

These three lines substituted for two deleted lines;

“To gather and to kepe Treasure in a hepe.”

[542] sylver] Originally “mony.”

[543] The craft, &c.] Originally,

“Yf all the chraft were tolde.”

[544] Antychryst] Originally “the courte.”

[545] For thens, &c.] Originally,

“For ther sourdes the springe.”

[546] geate] Followed by a deleted line;

“Be it by colde or heate.”

[547] Which at his] Originally “That his.”

[548] May ech man, &c.] Originally,

“May bothe saue and spill.”

[549] As he lyste] Originally “At will to.”

[550] And at his, &c.] Originally,

“And wyll it clere enhibyte.”

[551] wyse] Originally “true.”

[552] shall] Originally “must.”

[553] above or hell] Originally “or in hell.”

[554] Then] Originally “But.”

[555] Thou gettest true remyssion] Originally,

“To haue remission.”

[556] That never, &c.] Originally “That haue hadd no regarde.”

[557] palia ... Bacchanalia] It would seem from the context that the right reading is “Palilia.” The MS. has “Bacchanallia.”

[558] after] Originally “_after_warde.”

[559] Colde] Originally “Olde.”

[560] Sustentations] MS. “Sustentions,” and originally “Substentions.”

[561] Excusations] Substituted for a word now illegible.

[562] his] Originally “oure.”

[563] pylde] Originally “pylde and.”

[564] a] Originally “the.”

[565] yf] Originally “leste.”

[566] curse] Originally “course.”

[567] inamœna] MS. “In amena” the latter word being substituted for one now illegible.

[568] no] Originally “out.”

[569]Iscarioth] Originally “Scarioth.”

[570] galefull] Originally “gale.”

[571] bogorian] Originally “bogorane.”

[572] A privye] Originally “And a.”

[573] That] Originally “And.”

[574] As hogges, &c.] Originally,

“As any pigge in stye.”

[575] With confytes, &c.] Originally,

“And portingale fartes.”

[576] They robbe, &c.] Originally “Wher they take pillage.”

[577] them] Originally “that.”

[578] Of] Originally “By.”

[579] aspyre] Followed by a deleted line (inserted above with a slight variation);

“Thyr hartes ar so on fyer.”

[580] Performe] Originally “We do,” the preceding line being an addition.

[581] Hys] Originally “Ther.”

[582] That dare ons be] Originally “No man dare be,” the preceding line being an addition.

[583] Nor] Originally “For.”

[584] soch men] Originally “them.” This line is followed by three deleted lines (inserted above,—the first two slightly altered);

“Mony meat or golde But be they shorne or polde Ther lyves not suche a scolde.”

[585] For] Originally “And.”

[586] And in, &c.] Originally,

“In all the all the world wide Vse such pompe,” &c.

[587] Of no, &c.] Originally “Of no prince nor of duke.”

[588] wonder] Originally “wonderfull.”

[589] agast] Followed by a deleted line;

“But fede whilst they do brast.”

[590] vpp stoores] Originally “vpp ther stoores.”

[591] hym] Originally “them.”

[592] or advayle] Originally “or for avayle.”

[593] And] Originally “Their.”

[594] But who so] Originally “But who euer.”

[595] conquer] Originally “subdue.”

[596] grene wode] Is obviously the right reading. MS. has merely “grenes.”

[597] Though, &c.] This line is added by a comparatively modern hand.

[598] Menander] See note, p, 130.

[599] Malepardus] The abode of Reynard according to the famous old romance: “reynart had many a dwellyng place, but the castel of maleperduys was the beste and the fastest burgh that he had, ther laye he inne whan he had nede and was in ony drede or fere.” Sig. a 8. ed. 1481.

[600] Occanist] So written, it would seem, for the rhyme; properly “Occamist.”

[601] a knighte] i. e. Sir Thomas More.

[602] his Debellation] i. e. Sir Thomas More’s Debellacyon of Salem vnd Byzance.

[603] ages] i. e. age is.

[604] the mayde of Kent] i. e. Elizabeth Barton.

[605] by] i. e. buy,—acquire, earn.

[606] tymes] MS. “tynes.”

[607] cœli] MS. “cely.”

[608] place] Should perhaps be “plite”—or there may be some omission in the MS. after this line.

[609] predagoges] Qy. “pædagoges?”

[610] And many] Originally “Some be.”

[611] Nycticorax] MS. “Necticorax.”

[612] Fœdi] MS. “Fedi.”

[613] cacati] MS. “caccati.”

[614] merdati] MS. “mardati.”

[615] Larvi larvati] MS. “Lerui leruati.” The line ought properly to be “Larvæ larvatæ.”

[616] cathaphi] Qy. “cataphagi” (voraces)?

[617] incubiones] Properly “incubones.”

[618] balatrones] MS. “ballatrones.”

[619] thrasones] MS. “thrassones.”

[620] cacodæmones] MS. “cacademones.”

[621]

penitrantes ] } ministrantes] }

MS. “pennytrantes” and “mynistrantes.”

[622] Of many sycophantes] Perhaps “many” should be “mony.” MS. “sicophantes:” the proper form is “sycophantæ.”

[623] dremes] I suspect the author wrote “sweuens,” and that “dremes,” a gloss on the word, crept by mistake into the text.

[624] cœli] MS. “cely.”

[625] incubi] MS. “incuby.”

[626] Ye] MS. “We.”

[627] fullatus] Qy. “fulcratus?”

[628] paralyticus] MS. “paraliticus.”

[629] contagious] MS. “contragious.”

[630] seyne] Originally “sey.”

CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA.

VOL. I.

DYUERS BALETTYS, &c.

Page 22. v. 13.

“He trusted her payment, and lost all hys pray.”

Dele the foot-note “Qy. pay?”—pray (as I have mentioned in note, vol. ii. 98) being doubtless the right reading.

—— v. 15.

“The ryuers rowth, the waters wan; She sparyd not to wete her fete.”

The proper punctuation seems to be,

“The ryuers rowth, the waters wan, She sparyd not, to wete her fete.”

THE BOWGE OF COURTE.

Page 38. v. 215. In some copies the semicolon at the end of the line has dropt out—

“To you oonly, me thynke, I durste shryue me;”

Page 44. v. 368.

“What reuell route! quod he, and gan to rayle.”

Point,

“What, reuell route! quod he,” &c.

Here (as in the line cited from the Digby Mysteries, Notes, vol. ii. 116) “route” is of course a verb—What, let revel roar! I might have added to the note on this passage, that the compound substantive revel-rout is used by Rowe;

“for this his minion, The revel-rout is done.”

Jane Shore, act i. sc. 1.

PHYLLYP SPAROWE.

Page 58. v. 245.

“Ma gni fi cat.”

In some copies the line stands erroneously,

“Mag gni fi cat.”

ELYNOUR RUMMYNG.

Page 101. v. 185.

“God gyue it yll preuynge, Clenly as yuell cheuynge!”

Dele the comma after “preuynge.” Clenly, i. e. Wholly.

POEMS AGAINST GARNESCHE.

Page 119. v. 40.

“Wranglynge, waywyrde, wytles, wraw, and nothyng meke.”

wraw, i. e. peevish, angry: see Tyrwhitt’s Gloss. to Chaucer’s Cant. Tales.

Page 120. v. 3. For “shryke” read “skrybe.”

AGAINST VENEMOUS TONGUES.

Page 133. v. 2.

“In Romaine letters I neuer founde lack:”

Put a semicolon at the end of this line.

THE MANER OF THE WORLD NOW A DAYES.

Page 148.

This piece (see Notes, vol. ii. 199) ought, I believe, to have been inserted among the Poems attributed to Skelton,—not among his undoubted productions.

TETRASTICHON VERITATIS.

Page 181.

The indentation of the second and fourth lines has been retained by mistake from the old ed.

AGAINST THE SCOTTES.

Page 185. v. 103.

“Your lege ye layd and your aly Your frantick fable,” &c.

Put a comma after “aly.”

ELEGIA IN COMITISSAM DE DERBY.

Page 196. The last line in this page,

“Quo regnas rutilans rex sine fine manens,”

as it is a pentameter, ought to have been indented.

MAGNYFYCENCE.

Page 234. v. 281.

“Magn. Largesse is laudable, so it in measure be.”

The rhyme seems to require,

“Magn. Largesse is laudable, so it be in measure.”

Page 243. v. 540.

“Cr. Con. By God, had not I it conuayed, Yet Fansy had ben dysceyued.”

Qy. “dyscryued?” In v. 2398 of this drama, Skelton appears to employ “dyscryue” in the (unusual) sense of—discover, search, try; and in the present passage a word equivalent to discovered seems necessary.

Page 247. v. 681.

“Fan. Ye, my Fansy was out of owle flyght”

would perhaps stand more properly,

“Fan. Ye, my fansy,” &c.

Page 249. v. 746.

“I muster, I medle amonge these grete estates, I sowe sedycyous sedes of dyscorde and debates”

ought probably to be pointed thus,

“I muster, I medle; amonge these grete estates I sowe sedycyous sedes of dyscorde and debates.”

Page 258. v. 1033.

“That I wote not where I may rest. Fyrst to tell you what were best, Frantyke Fansy seruyce I hyght;”

Perhaps there should be a comma after “rest” and a full-point after “best.” In the last line, for “Fansy seruyce” read “Fansy-seruyce.”

Page 261. v. 1128.

“For Goddes cope thou wyll spende.”

Point,

“For, Goddes cope, thou wyll spende.”

Page 272. v. 1442.

“Magn. What can ye agree thus and appose?”

Point,

“Magn. What, can ye agree thus and appose?”

—— v. 1444.

“Lyb. Ye, of Jacke a thrommys bybyll can ye make a glose?”

is not a question: put a full-point at the end of the line.

Page 272. v. 1446.

“What sholde a man do with you, loke you vnder kay.”

Point,

“What sholde a man do with you? loke you vnder kay?”

Page 293. v. 2090.

“ye mary.”

Put a comma between these words.

Page 295. v. 2166.

“And some fall prechynge at the Toure Hyll.”

Qy.

“And some fall to prechynge,” &c.?

compare the preceding line.

COLYN CLOUTE.

Page 328. v. 460.

“Iche wot what eche other thynk.”

The reading of Kele’s ed. “yehe” ought not to have been rejected, as the earlier part of the line seems to mean—Each knows (not, I know), &c.

Page 332. v. 562.

“And qualyfyed qualytes”

ought perhaps to be followed by a semicolon: but the passage is very obscure.

Page 358. v. 1208.

“As noble Ezechyas.”

Read “Isaias” (MS. has “Isay,” vide foot-note). See Notes, vol. ii. 298.

GARLANDE OF LAURELL.

Page 381. v. 477.

“Thus passid we forth walkynge vnto the pretory”—

insert a comma after “forth” and at the end of the line.

Page 384. v. 581.

“And seryously she shewyd me ther denominacyons.”

seryously, i. e. seriatim. So in a letter from Tuke to Wolsey; “Thus preceding to the letters, to shewe Your Grace summarily, for rehersing every thing seriously I shal over long moleste Your Grace,” &c. State Papers (1830), i. 299.

Page 393. v. 790.

“To weue in the stoule sume were full preste, With slaiis, with tauellis, with hedellis well drest; The frame was browght forth with his weuyng pin,” &c.

Perhaps the right punctuation may be,

“To weue in the stoule sume were full preste; With slaiis, with tauellis, with hedellis well drest, The frame was browght forth with his weuyng pin,” &c.

Page 417. v. 1418.

“With, Wofully arayd, and shamefully betrayd; Of his makyng deuoute medytacyons.”

Two pieces seem to be mentioned here; and therefore the passage ought to stand,

“With, Wofully arayd, and Shamefully betrayd, Of his makyng deuoute medytacyons.”

The sacred poem Wofully arayd occurs in vol. i. 141.

VOL. II.

SPEKE, PARROT.

Page 22. v. 441.

“Sette asyde all sophysms,” &c.

I ought to have altered the reading of the MS. “sophyns” to “sophyms” (not to “sophysms”): see “sophime” (i. e. sophism) in Tyrwhitt’s Gloss. to Chaucer’s Cant. Tales.

WHY COME YE NAT TO COURTE?

Page 36. v. 290.

“Into a mouse hole they wolde Rynne away and crepe, Lyke a mayny of shepe; Dare nat loke out at dur,” &c.

The proper punctuation is,

“Into a mouse hole they wolde Rynne away and crepe; Lyke a mayny of shepe, Dare nat loke out at dur,” &c.

NOTES.

Page 110.—“Page 40. v. 252. Heue and how rombelow]” I might have added, that “heaue and hoe Rumbelo” occurs in a nonsensical song (No. 31) in Ravenscroft’s Pammelia, 1609.

Page 124.—“Page 54. v. 118. For to kepe his cut, &c.]” So in the Coventry Mysteries, the Pharisee says to the woman taken in adultery;

“We xal the teche with carys colde A lytyl bettyr to kepe thi kutte.”

MS. Cott. Vesp. D viii. fol. 123.

Page 132.—“Page 66. v. 485. at a brayde]” This expression is used here in connexion with singing: and in one of the Christmas Carols printed for the Percy Society, p. 51, we find,

“Wherefor syng we alle atte a brayde, nowell.”

Page 147.—“Page 84. v. 1078. Enhached] i. e. Inlaid,” &c. I ought to have observed that, though in the preceding line Skelton calls this beauty-spot a “sker” (scar), he means the wart already mentioned;

“Her beautye to augment, Dame Nature hath her lent A warte vpon her cheke, Who so lyst to seke In her vysage a skar,” &c.

v. 1041.

and see too v. 1064.

Page 148.—“Page 86. v. 1151.

She is playnly expresse Egeria, the goddesse, And lyke to her image, Emportured with corage, A louers pilgrimage]

I must leave the reader to form his own idea of the meaning of the last two lines,” &c. The following lines of Lydgate may be cited as somewhat resembling the present passage;

“To hym appered a monstruous ymage Parted on twayne of colour and corage,” &c.

Fall of Prynces, B. vi. leaf cxxxiiii. ed. Wayland.

Page 157. last line but one. “The gist or point of this satire had a noble origin, or there must be an extraordinary coincidence of thought in the Beoni, or Topers, a ludicrous effusion of the great Lorenzo de Medici, when a young man.” Dallaway was led to this remark by the following passage in Spence’s Anecdotes, &c.; “Skelton’s poems are all low and bad: there’s nothing in them that’s worth reading.—P. [Mr. Cleland, who was by, added, that the Tunning of Ellinor Rummin, in that author’s works, was taken from a poem of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s].” p. 173. ed. 18-20.—I Beoni, observes Mr. D’Israeli (referring to Roscoe’s Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici, i. 290), “was printed by the Giunti in 1568, and therefore this burlesque piece could never have been known to Skelton.” Amen. of Lit. ii. 79.

Page 166.—“Page 102. v. 229.... fonny is, I suppose, foolishly amorous,” &c. I ought to have said “fonny, i. e. to fon, to be foolishly amorous,” &c.

Page 172. line 3. for “v. 490,” read “v. 400.”

Page 176.—“Page 113. v. 560. mote I hoppy] i. e. may I have good hap.” Rather, I believe—may I hop. “Hoppy, to hop or caper. Exm.” Grose’s Prov. Gloss. ed. 1839.

Page 184.—“Page 121. v. 46. dud frese] i. e. coarse frieze.” But in Prompt. Parv. we find “Dudde clothe. Amphibolus. Burrus.” ed. 1499.

Page 188.—“Page 125. v. 178. Soche pelfry thou hast pachchyd.” Add to note on this line,—Dekker, describing “The Blacke Arte” (or “Picking of Lockes”), tells us that “The gaines gotten is Pelfry.” The Belman of London, &c. sig. F 4. ed. 1608.

Page 190. “—— goliardum].” “Goliardeis, one who gains his living by following rich men’s tables, and telling tales and making sport for the guests. See on this word the Introduction to the Poems of Walter Mapes.” Wright’s Gloss, to Piers Ploughman.

Page 195.—“Page 133. v. 3. In your crosse rowe nor Christ crosse you spede]” Add to note on this line that—in The Boke of Curtasye we find;

“Yff that thou be a ȝong enfaunt, And thenke tho scoles for to haunt, This lessoun schulle thy maister the merke, Cros Crist the spede in alle thi werke.”

The sec. Boke, p. 7. (printed for the Percy Society.)

Page 206.—“Page 157. v. 73 ... So Fansy, in our author’s Magnyfycence, exclaims to his hawk,” &c. But, though Fansy calls his bird a hawk, it appears to have been an owl.

Page 207.—“Page 157. v. 78 ... Juliana Barnes.” Read “Juliana Berners.”

Page 244.—“Page 246. v. 658. a pystell of a postyke]” Cotgrave has “Postiquer. To play the vagrant Impostor,” &c.: “Postiqueries. Cousening sleights,” &c.: “Postiqueur. A wandering impostor,” &c.

Page 271.—“Page 297. v. 2211. rede] i. e. advice.” Read “i. e. advise.”

—— “Page 298. v. 2233. rode] i. e. road, cross.” Read “i. e. rood, cross.”

Page 284.—“Page 326, v. 397 ... Cole’s Dict.” Read “Coles’s Dict.”

Page 311.—“Page 380. v. 474. The carpettis within and tappettis of pall].” I may just notice that in an unpublished book of Kings Payments, in the Chapter-House, we find, under the first year of Henry 8;

“Item to Corneles Vanderstrete opon his waraunt for } xv Tappettes made for Wyndowes at the towre } ix s.”

Page 328.—“Page 410. v. 1219 ... but, though Skelton was in all probability an author as early as 1583,” &c. Read “1483.”

Page 345.—“Page 14. v. 280.” Latter part of the note—“if ‘33ᵒ’ and ‘34’” &c. I ought to have mentioned that at the end of Why come ye nat to Courte (vol. ii. 67) we find (what is equally puzzling) “xxxiiii.”

INDEX TO THE NOTES.

[The figures indicate the pages of the Second Volume only, all the Notes being contained in that Volume.]

a, 245.

abbay, make a graunge of an, 285.

a tyd, 194.

abandune, 260.

abasshe, 106.

Abdalonimus, 362.

abiections, 294.

abolete, 366.

abused, 205.

abylyment, 275, 302.

Abyron, 227.

Acherontes, 123.

acomberyd, 271.

accompte, 275.

Acon, 366.

acquyte, 265 (see aquyte).

adnychell, 228.

adres, 218; adresse, 276.

aduysed, 248 (see auyse).

aduysement, 275.

adyment, 307.

affyaunce, 276.

affyaunsynge, 312.

aforce, 105; aforse, 276.

after none, 240.

again, 90 (see agayn, gayne, and geyne).

Agarenæ, gentis, 199.

agaspe, 260.

agayn, 226; agayne, 112, 119, &c.; agayng, 278; ageyne, 303, 304 (see again, gayne, and geyne).

agerdows, 329.

agryse, 118.

Akers, Saynt Thomas of, 298.

alamyre, 279.

Albany, John Duke of, 359.

——, his invasion of the borders in 1523, 375.

——, said to have aimed at the destruction of James V., 377.

——, his passionate temper, 378.

Albertus de modo significandi, 343.

Albons, Saint, abbacy of, held by Wolsey in commendam, 371.

Albumazer, 133, 333, 361.

alcumyn, 369.

alderbest, 374.

ale, newe, in cornes, 171, 247.

ale pole, 175, 314.

ale stake, 282.

Alerycus, 260.

Alexander, kyng, 143.

Alexander de Villa Dei, 343.

algife, 92.

all and some, 109.

all hallow, 168.

all one, 271.

alle sellers, 203.

allectuary, 100 (see lectuary).

allygate, 297.

almesse, 258.

almon for parrot, 339.

alowde, 244; alowed, 144, 195.

alumbek sodyldym syllorym ben, 93.

amense, 236.

amicare, 295.

ammas, 383 (see amysse).

amonge, 344.

amrell, 377, 379.

Amund, Quater Fylz, 138.

amysse, 134 (see ammas).

animosite, 382.

anker, 283.

Anteocus, 143.

antetyme, 241.

apayd, 367; apayed, 113, 196, 275.

apayere, 178 (see appare).

apostata, 212; apostataas, 284.

apostrofacion, 205.

appall, 352.

appare, 280; appayre, 343 (see apayere).

appose, apposed, 282.

apposelle, 304.

aquyte, 194, 325 (see acquyte).

ar, 181.

arace, clothes of, 311 (see Arras).

araid, 197 (see raist).

aray, 164.

Arcet, 136.

arecte, 237; arrect, 302; arectyng, 300; arrectinge, 310; arrectyng, 320; arrectyd, 100 (and see erectyd).

Arethusa, 145.

Argyua, 320.

Armony, 126.

armony, 218, 235, 306.

Arras, 294; Arres, clothe of, 192 (see arace).

Arturis Creacyoun, Prince, 327.

Arturs rounde table, &c., 137.

—— auncyent actys, 182.

Aryna, 321.

Arystobell, 210.

as who sayth, 86.

ascry, 152, 377; ascrye, 283 (see askry and escrye).

Ashrige, 334.

askry, 145, 191 (see ascry and escrye).

askrye, 368.

Asmodeus, 355.

asprely, 229.

aspy, 316; aspyed, 333; aspyid, 314.

assawte, 113.

assay, 171; assaye, 112; asayde, 136, 318.

assayes, at all, 242, 274.

assoyle, 291.

Assuerus, 143.

assurded, 307.

astate, 90, 302, 311, 313, &c. (see estate).

astrologys, 286.

astronomy, 133.

at nale, 117.

atame, 195; attamed, 232.

athrust, 167.

auale, 147.

auaunce, 106, 108, 235, 240, &c.; auaunced, 310; auaunsid, 192; auaunsyd, 276; auaunsynge, 320.

auauns, 381.

auayle, 97; avayles, 204.

avent, 104.

auenture, 113.

auenture, 118.

auncetry, 191.

auncyente, 143.

Aungell, Castell, 331.

Aungey, 254.

auowe, 109, 110, 116, &c.; for God auowe, 265.

aureat, 91, 145.

aurum musicum, 326.

Austen fryers, 297.

auter, 205.

Auycen, 332.

auyse, 109.

auyse, 106; auysed, 247; auysid, 309; auysynge, 105 (see aduysed).

away the mare, 162, 258.

awne, 176, 181, 183.

awtentyke, 288.

axes, 307; axys, 100.

ba, 97 (see bas).

babell, 171.

babyls, 234; babylles, 348.

babyone, 188.

baile, 91 (see bale).

baile, 182.

bake, 179.

balas, 347; balassis, 326.

Baldock, the iebet of, 340, 370.

bale, 96, 245, 268, 309 (see first baile).

bale of dyce, 117.

balke, 176.

Baltazar, blake, 179.

Balthasor (see Guercis).

Balue, Cardinal, 366.

banketyng, 350; banketynge, 352.

ban, 369; banne, 272.

Barabas, 178.

baratows, 316.

barbican, 331.

barbyd, 252.

bare in hande, 241 (see bereth on hand).

barlyhood, 171.

barnacle, 131.

Barton, Elizabeth, 436.

bas, 97, 166, &c.; basse, 262, 352; bassed, 268; bassyd, 184 (see ba).

Bas, 380.

basnet, 179.

Basyan, 260.

batowe, 247.

Bath, Wyfe of, 136.

baudeth, 161.

baudrie, 232.

baudy, 203; bawdy, 184, 188, 193.

bawmys, 316.

Bayarde Mountalbon, 138.

bayarde, bolde, 186.

bayardys bun, 93.

bayned, 230.

be, 103, 104, 180, &c.; bee, 227.

be come, 109, 119.

beade rolles, 285 (see bederolle).

becke, 252, 339.

becke, 280.

becked, 251.

bedawyd, 189.

bedell, 146.

bederolle, 128; bederolles, 122; bederoule, 126 (see beade rolles).

Bedford, Jasper Duke of, 388.

bedleme, 364.

begared, 283.

beholde, 240.

beholdinge a trauers, 228.

befole, 253, 265; befoule, 250.

Bele Isold, 137.

belluyng, 301.

belymmed, 112.

Beme, 340.

bemole, 134.

ben, 278, 362, 372.

bende, 248.

bended, 371.

bene, 107.

bent, 146, 252.

bere coles, 356.

bereth on hand, 360 (see bare in hande).

Bernard, Saint, 88.

Bes, Lady, 87.

beseke, 320.

besene, 112, 295, &c.; beseen, 190; be seyn, 183.

besherewe, 103; beshrew, 175; beshrewde, all, 97, 192, 279, 350; beshrowe, 244, 254.

best, 213, 374; beste, 238.

bestad, 320.

besy, 94, 109, 194, &c.

betake, 242.

bet, 302.

bet, 315; bete, 146.

betell, 247.

beyte, 113; beyght, 377.

bil, 196 (see byl).

birdbolt, 330.

birrall, 311.

bitter 130 (see bytter).

blasy, 190.

ble, 165, 180, 332.

Blenner-Haiset, maystres Iane, 323.

blennes, 165.

bleryd thyne I, 98.

blo, 103, 123, &c.; bloo, 197, &c.; blow, 198.

blode, 230, 271, 358.

blommer, 172.

blother, 253, 278, 289.

blow at the cole, 313, 353.

blowboll, 98.

blunder, 253.

blunderyng, 241.

blysse, 270; blyst, 263.

bobbe, 112; bobbid, 198.

Bochas, his Latin works, 309.

bode, 90.

boke, 208, 211, &c.; bokes, 278, &c.; bokis, 209, &c.

bole, 104.

bole, 247; bolle, 165, 264.

bolte, 240.

Bonam, Johnn a, 256.

bonde, 203.

Bonehoms of Ashrige, 334.

bones, 114.

bonet, 195.

bonne, 252; bonny, 166.

borde, 367, 381.

Bordews, 118.

bordowre, 203.

borowe, Sainct George to, 383.

boskage, 352.

botchment, 254.

bote, 268, 309.

bote, 180; botes, 244.

bote, 112, 127.

boteles, 96.

Bothombar, 354.

botowme, 319.

bottes, 222.

bougets, 143 (see bowget).

bourne, 302.

bowge of courte, 105.

bowget, 272 (see bougets).

bowgȝt, 198.

Bowgy row, 191.

bowsy, 159.

bowyers, 203.

Boyce, 308.

boystors, 301.

brablyng, 131.

brace, 216, 258, 266; bracyd, 271.

brace, 262.

bracers, 305.

brag, 189.

brake, 169, 221, 371.

Branxton more, 216.

brast, 270, 277.

Brasy, Pers de, 190.

brayde, 109, 132 [Corr. and Add. p. 454].

brayne pan, 161; braynpannys, 100.

brayne seke, 258.

brede, 337.

breke, 173.

bremely, 234 (see brymly).

brende, 232; brennest, 228; brenneth, 228; brennyng, 286; brennynge, 127, 267; brynnyng, 96; brent, 151, 235, 353 (see byrne).

brere, 315.

bresyth, 100 (see broisid and brose).

brode gatus, the, 289.

broder, 240, 254, 266.

broisid, 314 (see bresyth and brose).

broisiours, 316.

broke, 191.

broke, 165, 289.

broken, 262.

bronde, 245, 274.

brose, 370 (see bresyth and broisid).

brothell, 269; brothells, 191.

brute, 233.

bruted, 286; bruitid, 304; brutid, 310.

brybaunce, 260.

brybery, 258, 304, 314; bryboury, 256.

brybors, 204.

brydelynge caste, 117.

brym, 221; brymme, 260.

brymly, 179, 257 (see bremely).

Brystow red, 161.

budge furre, 253.

bull vnder lead, 368.

bullyfant, 175.

bullyons, 326.

bumpe, 130.

burblyng, 230.

burde, 117.

Burgonyons, 359, 369.

burris, 319.

bushment, 91.

buske, 180; buskt, 90; buskyd, 221.

busynesse, 235.

buttyng, 191.

by, 236, 254.

bybyll, 175.

bydene, 295.

byes, 112.

byl, 375; byll, 333, 353; bylles, 141 (see bil).

bylles, 219; byllys, 216.

bynde, 188.

bynde beres, 378.

byrle, 167.

byrne, 377 (see brende).

byrsa, 340.

byrnston, 314.

byse, 325.

bytter, 266 (see bitter).

cabagyd, 350.

cache, 260.

cacodemonyall, 368.

Cacus, 210, 213.

Cæsar, ave, 341.

Cales, 352.

callet, 173; callettes, 170.

calodemonyall, 368.

calstocke, 359.

Calyce, the armes of, 118, 244.

Cam, 126, 369.

camoke, 179; cammocke, 353.

camously croked, 159.

can, 119, 217, 242, &c.; canest, 255 (see kan).

cane, 260.

Cane, 369.

cantell, 173.

captacyons, 319.

carbuckyls, 266.

carde of ten, outface with a, 113.

carders, 204, 313.

Cardynall Hat, the sygne of the, 356.

carectes, 366; carectis, 313.

carle, 265; carlys, 250 (see karlis).

carlyng, 344.

carlyshe, 126.

Carowe, 121, 126.

carp, 93; carpe, 286, 298.

casseth, 107.

cast, 377.

cast, 264, 270; caste, 183.

Castrimergia, 356.

cat wynke, let the, 168, 286.

catacumbas, 178.

catell, 255.

Caton, Pety, 344.

cattes necke, hang the bell aboute, 279.

Catywade, 178.

cauell, 271.

cautellous, 229.

cawdels, 267.

cawry mawry, 163.

Cayface, 181.

Cayme, 229.

Cayre, 178.

cayser, 247, 256 (see kayser).

caytyvys, 190.

Cayus, 182.

Cesar, Julious, romance of, 140.

chafer, 242; chaffer, 168, 342; chaffre, 106.

chalys, 212, 284.

Chambre of Starres, 355.

chare, 334; chares, 295.

Charlemagne, story concerning, from Petrarch, 364.

chase, 205, 368.

checke, 240.

checke, 259.

checkmate, 219; checke mate, 240, 296, 362; chekmate, 344, 382.

cheked at the fyst, 367.

chekmatyd, 96.

chepers, 203.

chere, 92, 159, 199, 238, &c.

chermed, 114.

cheryfayre, 85.

cheryston pytte, 347.

cheseth, 229.

cheuynge, 165.

cheuysaunce, 107, 272.

Christ crosse you spede, 195 [Corr. and Add. p. 455].

Christian Clowte, 104, 292.

chydder, 265.

chyncherde, 276.

Cidippes, 322.

clap, 207, 222; clappys, 100.

clarionar, 305.

clauycordys, payre of, 94.

clawes, 231.

Clementine, 291, 294.

clepe, 265.

clergy, 282.

clerke, 119.

clokys, 266.

clubbed, 173.

coarte, 195; coarted, 360.

cocke wat, 256 (see cok wat).

Cockes armes, 258, 262, 264, 269.

Cockes blode, 112.

Cockes bones, 270, 272.

Cockes woundes, 244.

cockly fose, 357.

Cockys body, 245.

Cockys harte, 243, 247, 251, 254, 265.

coe, 131.

cofer kay, 244.

cognisaunce, 195 (see conusaunce).

coistronus, 341 (see coystrowne).

Cok wat, 195; cok wattes, 108 (see cocke wat).

coke stole, 183 (see cooke stole).

cokwolde, 333; cokwoldes, 305.

cole rake, 370.

coleth, 176.

Colation, 366; collacion, 229.

colostrum, 341.

comberyd, 276; combred, 274, 280.

come of, 238, 251.

comerous, 113.

commaunde, 109 (see comonynye).

commaunde, 195, 240.

Commune Place, 358.

commy, 164.

commyth, 192 (see cumys).

comon, 261.

comonynge, 264 (see first commaunde).

complayne, 92.

comprised, 303.

conceyte, 113, 301; conceyght, 361 (see consayte).

concha, 212.

condicions, 378 (see condityons)

condiscendid, 305; condiscendyng, 325 (see condyscended).

condityons, 152; condycions, 228; condycyons, 271, 314; condycyonns, 183 (see condicions).

condyscended, 371; condyssende, 237 (see condiscendid).

confecture, 303.

confetered, 90; confetryd, 120; confettred, 232.

confyrmable, 275.

congruence, very, 302.

coniect, 317; coniecte, 346.

conninge, 228; conyng, 322; connyng, 229, &c.; connynge, 105, &c. (see cunnyng and konnyng).

connynge, 119.

conquinate, 288.

consayte, 237, 239, &c.; conseyt, 319, 341 (see conceyte).

contemplacyon, at the, 263, 328; contemplationem, ad, 214, 229.

contenons, 178 (see countenaunce).

content, 231.

contribute, 86.

contynewe, 275.

conuenable, 317.

conuenyent, 239, 269, 374; convenient, 204.

conuenyently, 147.

conueyauns, 329.

conusaunce, 100 (see cognisaunce).

cooke stole, 349 (see coke stole).

coost, 119.

copious, 181.

corage, 98, 99, 100, 127, &c. (see courage).

cordylar, 381.

cormoraunce, 130.

cornede, 203.

corporas, 206.

corrompeth, 228.

corteise, 322, 324 (see curteyse).

corum, 284.

coryed, 263.

coryously, 315.

costious, 312.

cote, 330 (see kote).

coted, 289; cotyd, 362.

couenable, 96, 196, 320.

couent, 290.

couertowre, 338.

covetous, 204; couetys, 362; coueytous, 294.

coughe me a dawe, 254.

coughe me a fole, 254.

cought, 98, 133.

coundight, 315.

counsell, 100.

countenaunce, 113 (see contenons).

counter, 116; countyr, 181 (see cowntred).

counteryng, 316; countrynge, 131, 352.

courage, 228, 295 (see corage).

courte rowlis, 305.

cousshons, 183 (see quosshons).

cowche quale, 348.

cowntred, 92 (see counter).

coystrowne 92, 378 (see coistronus).

crabes, 113.

crafte, 322.

craftely, 309.

crag, 380.

crakar, 186; crakers, 203, 298, 357.

crake, 145, 198, 216, 248, &c.; craked, 205.

crackis, 305.

crakynge, 371.

Cranes, the Thre, in the Vyntre, 230.

cranys, 149.

crase, 328; crased, 147.

craw, 174; crawes, 187.

craynge, 250.

creaunser, 193; creauncer, 328.

Creisseid, 321.

croke, 299.

croked, 210; crokid, 211.

crokys, 252.

Crome, nostre dame de, 346.

crommes, 168.

cronell, 306, 318.

croppy, 176.

cros, the, 100.

crose, 283.

crosse, 118, 294.

Crosse in Chepe, the, 170.

crosse rowe, 195.

crowche, 116.

Croydon by Crowland in the Clay, 95.

cue, 236 (see kues).

cule, 354.

culerage, 284.

cultyng, 203.

cumys, 192 (see commyth).

cunnyng, 305 (see conninge and konnyng).

cupbord, 369.

cure, 109, 228, 322, 357.

currysly, 178.

curteisly, 325, 337.

curtel, 118; curtoyl, 99.

curteyse, 321 (see corteise).

custrell, 243.

Cutberdes banner, Sainct, 377.

cuttys, 240.

Da Cansales, 344.

Da Rationales, 344.

dagged,163; daggid, 314.

daggeswane, 270; dagswayne, 378.

Dakers, Lorde, of Gillesland, 357.

Dakers of the Sowth, Lady Anne, 322.

Dalyda, 355.

Dalyrag, 189, 380 (see Delarag).

Dane, 309.

dant, 175.

Daphnes, 307.

dare, 258; dared, 379.

dased, 147, 355; dasid, 317, 331; dasyng, 315.

daucockes, 381 (see dawcock).

daungerous, 363.

daw, 205, 209, &c.; dawe, 119, 254, &c.; dawes, 113, 231, &c.; dawis, 371; dawys, 257.

dawcock, 375; dawcocke, 211, 266, 297; dawcokkis, 314 (see daucockes).

dawpate, 186.

daynnously, 106.

deale, 372; deall, 346 (see dele).

debarre, 237; debarrid, 304.

debylyte, 228.

decollacion, 207.

defacid, 337.

defaut, 304; defaute, 239, 248, 271, &c.

defende, 228.

defoyle, 381; defoyled, 176.

Delarag, 341 (see Dalyrag).

dele, 270; dell, 257 (see deale).

delyaunce, 239.

delybered, were, 228.

demeane, 134.

demenour, 266.

demensy, 364.

demoraunce, 228.

dempte, 118.

demye, 115.

denayd, 147.

denty, 131.

departed, 127.

depraue, 150, 226, 286, 297, &c.; deprauyd, 212.

derayne, 337, 379.

Derby, Margaret, countess of, 226.

dese, 164.

despyghtyng, 187.

desyrous, 103.

Deurandall, 181.

Deuyas, docter, 95, 297.

deuyll, the, is dede, 278.

deuyll, dynge the, 270, 379.

deuyll spede whyt, the, 252, 371.

deuyll way, in the, 287, 381; deuyl way, a, 315.

devyll, the date of the, 349; deuylles date, in the, 116, 119, 251, 270.

deuz decke, 280.

deynte, 108, 114.

deynyd, 198.

Dialetica, 211.

dictes, 339.

diffuse, 144, 303, 308 (see dyffuse).

disable, 231.

discured, 232, 377; discurid, 317 (see dyscure).

discust, 321 (see dyscust).

disgysede, 301 (see dysgysed).

dissolate, 228.

dites, 90.

do, 254 (see done).

doddypatis, 364.

domage, 228, 382.

dome, 125, 335.

Donatus, 313.

done, 117; doone, 199 (see do).

dong, 199 (see dynge).

donne, 252.

donny, 172.

donnyshe, 254.

dosen browne, 117.

doterell, 129; doteryll, 255; dotrellis, 315.

doute, 97.

doute, 264; doutted, 91.

Douer, 86.

dow, 206.

dowse, 339.

dowsypere, 363.

dowues donge, 210.

draffe, 96, 164.

drane, 378; dranes, 222.

drawttys of deth, 86.

drede, 118.

dredfull, 320.

dres, 105, 146, 303; dresse, 152, 382; dreste, 105.

dreuyll, 113, 119 (see dryvyll).

dribbis, 315.

dronken as a mouse, 289.

dronny, 166.

dryvyll, 184 (see dreuyll).

dud frese, 184 [Corr. and Add. p. 455.]

Dugles the dowty, 178.

duke, 141, 378, 382.

dulia, 234.

dumpe, 301; dumpis, 317; dumpys, 95.

Dun is in the myre, 333.

Dunbar, 219, 226, 376.

Dundas, George, 224.

Dunde, 219, 226, 376.

Dunkan, 379, 381.

dur, 226, 333, 358.

dyce, for the armys of the, 247.

dyentely, 338.

dyffuse, 144 (see diffuse).

dykes, 287.

Dymingis Dale, 368.

dyne, 96.

dynge, 270, 379 (see dong).

dynt, 260, 266; dyntes, 100, 265.

dysauaylyng, 297.

dyscharge, 152.

dyscryue, 275.

dyscure, 103, 105, 109 (see discured).

dyscust, 367 (see discust).

dysdanous, 314.

dysdayneslye, 350.

dysease, 275.

dyser, 255; dysour, 315.

dysers, 313.

dysgysed, 115, 205, 287 (see disgysede).

dyssypers, 228.

dyuendop, 131.

Ecates, 150.

echone, 234, 371, 377.

edders, 123.

edefyed, 228.

Edward, the Fourth, 85, 86, 87.

eestryche fedder, 116.

egally, 228.

Egeas, 210.

Egyptian, 161.

eke, 358.

ela, 132.

eldyr steke, 186.

electe, 261.

elenkes, 233, 290.

Eliconys, 192 (see Elyconys).

ellumynynge, 91 (see illumyne).

Eltam, 87.

Elyconys, 90, 136 (see Eliconys).

embesy, 303 (see enbesid).

embosyd, 301 (see enbosed).

emrawde, 339.

enbesid, 319 (see embesy).

enbewtid, 321.

enbolned, 229.

enbosed, 381, 382; enbosid, 311 (see embosyd).

enbrowder, 319; enbrowdred, 322.

enbulyoned, 311.

enbybe, 218; enbybed, 115; enbybid, 316.

encheson, 197.

encraumpysshed, 301.

encrisped, 307.

endeuour, 303; endeuoure, 323.

enduce, 303, 325.

endude, 207; endewed, 281.

enferre, 237 (see inferrid).

enflamed, 230.

enflorid, 326.

enforce, 229.

engolerid, 310.

engrosyd, 302, 308.

enhached, 147; enhachyde, 302.

enharpit, 91.

enkankered, 91.

enlosenged, 311.

ennew, 146; ennewed, 146, 309; enneude, 144; ennewde, 382 (see enuwyd).

enplement, 310.

enprowed, 144.

ensaymed, 207.

ensembyll, 348.

ensilured, 315.

ensordyd, 277.

ensowkid, 301.

entachid, 311.

ententifly, 323.

enterly, 198.

entrusar, 379.

enuawtyd, 311.

enuectyfys, 303.

Enui, 145; enuy, 267.

enuwyd, 323 (see ennew).

enuyrowne, 312.

enuyue, 321; enuyued, 261; enuyuid, 326.

enwered, 105.

equipolens, 372.

erectyd, 276 (see arecte).

erstrych, 340 (see estryge).

escrye, 297 (see ascry and askry).

esperaunce, 228.

estate, 106, 150, 240, &c.; estates, 90, 241, 245, &c. (see astate).

estryge, 132 (see erstrych).

eterminable, 92.

Ethiocles, 229.

Euander, 143.

euerychone, 253, 286, 368; everichone, 204.

exhibycion, 233.

Exodi, 209.

exployte, 346.

eyen, 228; eyn, 331; eyne, 306 (see ien and iyen).

eylythe, 192.

eyndye, 347 (see inde blewe).

eyre, 134.

eysell, 199, 285.

Ezechyas, 298 [Corr. and Add. p. 452].

fabell, 171.

face, 216, 234, 258, 202, 287; facyd, 271.

facers, 305.

faitours, 195 (see faytors).

falabilite, 195.

fall, 174, 219.

fals poynt, 103.

fals quarter, 312.

falyre, 166.

famine, 243.

Fanchyrche strete, 191.

fange, 373.

fare, 106.

farle, 255; farly, 97, 250, 252, 283, 381.

farre, 299 (see fer).

fauconer, 205, 206 (see fawconer).

fauell, 107, 245, 353.

faught, 91.

fauorable, 99, 344.

fauour, 146, 147 (see fauyr).

faute, 145, 195, 259, 278, &c. (see fawt).

fauyr, 183 (see fauour).

fawchyn, 271.

fawcon, the noble, 134; fawcoun, ientill, 324.

fawconer, 207, 209 (see fauconer).

fawt, 303; fawte, 113, 284 (see faute).

fay, 103, 274.

fayne, 95, 110.

fayne, 227, 232, 247, 268, &c.

faynty, 176.

faytes, 382.

faytors, 91; faytour, 382 (see faitours).

fe, 267.

feders, 173; federis, 212.

feffyd, 261.

felashyp, 112.

fell, 96, 103.

femynatyfe, 227.

fende, 123, 381, 382; fendys, 92, 370 (see fynde).

fenestrall, 331.

fer, 239, 274; ferre, 242, &c. (see farre).

Ferumbras, 178 (see Pherumbras).

fet, 160.

fet, 135, 170, 208, 237, &c.

fete, 339.

fetewse, 116.

fidasso de cosso, 339.

finaunce, 92.

fista, 211; fisty, 212.

fflusshe, 348.

flagrant, 323; flagraunt, 315.

flambe, 228.

fleckyd, 128; flekyd, 344.

flery, 245, 377.

fletchers, 203.

flete, 239, 254.

flingande, 381.

flocket, 160.

flode, 277, 338.

Flodden, battle of, 215.

florthe, 311.

flotis, 308.

fly, not worth a, 219, 243, 354.

flycke, 170, 290.

flyt, 276, 295, 363.

flytynge, 371.

fode, 104.

fode, 264.

foggy, 174.

foisty bawdias, 315 (see fusty bawdyas).

fole, 124, 180, &c.; foles, 233, 235; folys, 182, 211, &c.

follest, 193 (see foule).

folysh, 227; folysshe, 254.

folysshly, 233.

fon, 209, 249, 255; fonne, 184.

fonde, 186, 194, 205, &c.; fonne, 250.

fondnesse, 266.

fonge, 298.

fonny, 166 [Corr. and Add. p. 455].

fonnysshe, 244, 253.

fopped, 233.

for, 106.

for and, 182.

force, 113, 264 (see fors).

force, 264, 317 (see forsed).

fordrede, 141.

foretop, 261, 286.

forfende, 254, 276.

forica, 211.

forked cap, 279.

formar, 320.

forme, 313.

fors, 182, 380 (see first force).

forsed, 91; forseth, 255; forsyth, 239 (see second force).

forster, 301, 332.

fote, 148, 173, 199, &c.

fote ball, 213.

foted, 160.

fotyng, 296.

fotid, 316; fotys, 247; fotyth, 258.

foule, 130, 173, 252 (see follest).

founde, 233.

foxe, 110.

foy, 382.

franesy, 267.

Fraunce, fashions brought from, 250.

fraye, 131.

frayne, 360.

freare fell in the well, when the, 292.

freat, 132 (see frete and to-fret).

freers, 243, 270 (see frere).

freke, 109, 244, 255, 381; ffreke, 178.

frere, 119, 288, 309 (see freers).

fresche, 189; fresshe, 149, 242, 302, &c.

fresshely, 116, 304, 309.

fret, 147.

frete, 88, 123, 146, 262 (see freat and to-fret).

fretid, 197.

friscaioly, 230.

Frollo de Franko, 177.

froo, 193.

froslynges, 173.

froty, 274.

frounce, 207.

frounce, 261; frounsid, 151.

frowardes, 144.

frytthy, 301.

fucke sayles, 284.

fumously, 276.

furst, 100.

fusty bawdyas, 192 (see foisty bawdias).

fuyson, 91.

fyer drake, 370.

fyest, 170.

fyle, 290.

fylythe, 189.

fyll, 90, 171, 322.

fynd, 362; fynde, 126, 377, 379 (see fende).

fyngered, 160.

fysgygge, 175.

fysnamy, 182.

Gabionyte, 181.

gabyll rope, 320.

gadde, 258.

Gaguine, 366; Gaguyne, 327; Gagwyne, 309.

galantys, 260.

Galba, 260.

Gales, 170; Galis, 212.

Galiene, 332.

Galtres, forest of, 301.

gambaudynge, 352.

gambawdis, 206, 313.

gambone, 169.

gane, 181.

gant, 175 (see gaunte).

gar, 261; garde, 200, 268 (see garre).

garded, 115, 120, 203.

gardes, 203.

gardeuyaunce, 271.

gardynge, 316.

gargone, 190; gargons, 182.

garlantes, 295.

garre, 266 (see gar).

gase, 328 (see gose).

gaspy, 169.

gasy, 190.

gat, 175; gate, 191, 254; gatte, 255 (see gete and gotted).

gande, 265.

gaudry, 191.

gaunce, 130.

gaunte, 130 (see gant).

gaure, 272.

Gawen, 136, 182.

gayne, 102 (see again and geyne).

Gaynour, 137.

ge hame, 354; ge heme, 381.

geales, 204.

gelt, 176.

George, Saint, our Lady’s knight, 220, 223.

gere, 115, 149, 179, &c.

gerfawcon, 134 (see iarfawcon).

gery, 206.

geson, 187, 371.

gest, 177.

gest, 167, 254; geste, 245.

get, 327 (see first iet).

gete, 112, 118 (see gat and gotted).

geyne, 102 (see again and gayne).

giggisse, 328.

gingirly, 327.

girnid, 306 (see gyrne).

glauca, 228.

glaymy, 188.

glayre, 159.

gle, 306.

gle, 268.

glede, 180.

glede, 253.

glent, 263.

glent, 252.

glint, 312.

glome, 106 (see glum).

glommynge, 278.

glose, 259.

glose, 90.

glowtonn, 319.

glum, 294, 325 (see glome).

gnar, 358.

go, 124.

go bet, 169.

go or ryde, 360 (see ryde and go).

gode, 91, 382.

godely, 310, 323.

God in forme of brede, 296.

Goddes brede, 264.

Gog, 317.

golde and hole, 314.

goliardum, 190 [Corr. and Add. p. 455].

gommes, 275.

gommes, 168; gomys, 178 (see gummys).

gon stone, 380 (see gun stone).

gonge, 184.

Good euyn, good Robyn Hood, 355.

goodlyhede, 322; goodlyhod, most, 103.

goostly, 275.

gorbelyd, 180; gorbellyd, 183.

gore, 128.

gorge, 207, 263, 281.

gose, 161, 175, 184, 240, &c. (see gase).

gose, to sho the, 280.

gospellers, 209.

Gothyaunce, 260.

gotted, 270 (see gat and gete).

gowndy, 159.

gramatolys, 346.

grame, 266; gramed, 297.

graundepose, 346.

gray, 354 (see grey).

grayle, 130.

gree, 306 (see greyth).

gresly, 188.

gresse, 307.

gressop, 125; gressoppes, 326.

grey, 303 (see gray).

greyth, 217 (see gree).

groinynge, 180 (see groynninge).

gronde, 189.

grossolitis, 310.

grouchyng, 353.

groynninge, 330; groynis, 194 (see groinynge).

gryll, 159.

grypes, 127.

Guercis, Balthasar de, 373.

gumbed, 160.

gummys, 187 (see second gommes).

gun stone, 314 (see gon stone).

gup, 99, 104, 171, 183, &c.

Guy, 136; Gy, 182.

Guy of Gaunt, 297; Gy of Gaunt, 184.

Gyb, 122, 128; gyb, 162.

gydynge, 209.

gygawis, 371.

gyll, 159.

gylly, 171.

gyn, 207.

gyn, 272.

Gynys, 184.

gyrne, 178 (see girnid).

gyse, 149, 161, 242, 248, &c.

gytes, 161.

habandoneth, 227.

habarion, 191.

hach, 100 (see hecke).

Had I wyst, 86, 239, 259.

hafte, 120 (see haftynge).

hafter, 239; hafters, 276; Hafter, Haruy, 107, 194, 353.

haftynge, 184, 245, 264 (see hafte).

hag, 380; hagge, 278; haggys, 99.

hake, 282.

halfe, 253, 301; halfe, on Gods, 174, 191, 290.

halfe strete, the, 272.

halow, 208.

hallows, to seke, 337.

halse, 265; halsyd, 98.

Haly, 133, 242, 361.

Hampton Court, 360.

hange togyder as fethers in the wynde, 265, 345.

hankin bouy, 208.

happed, 268.

hardely, 97, 104, 106, 109, &c. (see herdely).

hardnes, 199.

hardy on his hede, not so, 296; hardy on theyr pates, not so, 297.

Hardyson, Gorge, 190.

hare away, there went the, 353.

Hare, Jacke, 247 (see Harys, Jacke).

harnnes, 337.

haroldis, 191 (see harrold).

harow, 150; harowe, 262.

harowe, 274.

Harpocrates, 233.

harre, out of, 250, 269.

harres, 192.

harrold, 218 (see haroldis).

hart rote, 197, 330, 364 (see hert rote).

haruest gyrdle, 167.

Harys, Jacke, 211 (see Hare, Jacke).

haskardis, 313.

hast, in all the, 168.

hastarddis, 90.

hauell, 353, 362.

haut, 278; haute, 94, 145, 195, &c. (see hawte).

hawe, not worth an, 269, 349.

hawke of the towre, 250, 324.

hawkis bels, 209.

hawte, 112, 182, 248 (see haut).

hay, 194.

hay the gy of thre, 195.

Hay, the gye and the gan, 368.

hayle, 176, 195, 272 (see heale and hele).

hayne, 113.

haynyarde, 264.

he so, 105.

heale, 367 (see hayle and hele).

hear, 126, 288; heare, 88 (see here and heyre).

hecke, 377 (see hach).

Hector, 141.

hede, 262; hedes, 175; heedes, 279.

hedellis, 318.

heery, 279, 291 (see herey).

hekell, 167.

hele, 240 (see hayle and heale).

Henry the Seventh, his tomb, 214, 215.

Henry the Eighth, his letter to James the Fourth, 221.

hente, 120.

herber, 101, 315; herbers, 371.

Hercules, 150.

here, 114, 159, &c.; heris, 307 (see hear and heyre).

herdely, 239 (see hardely).

herelace, 163.

herey, 191 (see heery).

hermoniake, 283.

hert, 198, 228; herte, 275, 307, &c.; hertes, 233, 294.

hert rote, 148 (see hart rote).

herte brennynge, 119.

herted, 280.

hertely, 312.

heue and how rombelow, 110; hey, howe, rumbelowe, 213 [Corr. and Add. p. 453].

heuery, 187.

hey, troly, loly, 93.

heyre, 248 (see hear and here).

heyre parent, 243.

hight, 196, 317 (see hyght).

Hipocentaures, 150.

historious, 143.

Hob Lobbyn of Lowdean, 217 (see Hop, &c.).

hoby, 258; hobby, 135, 280.

hobby, 262.

hocupy, 184.

hode, 112, 118, 119, 120, &c.

hoder moder, 278.

hoddypeke, 255 (see huddypeke).

hoddypoule, 364.

hofte, 246.

hogeous, 205.

hoke, 299.

hoked, 159 (see howkyd).

hokes, 259.

holde, 271.

hole, 147, 181, 188, &c.; holl, 91, 303, 310 (see hooll).

holy, 91 (see hooly).

holy water clarke, 94, 135.

home, 119.

honde, 312, 329.

honge, 274.

hooll, 310 (see hole).

hooly, 239 (see holy).

Hop Lobyn of Lowdeon, 340 (see Hob, &c.).

hoppy, 176 [Corr. and Add. p. 455].

horne keke, 381.

horshowe, 132.

hose, 115, 203, 226, &c.

hosed, 233.

hostryes, 203.

hothyr, 347.

houres, 282.

houyr wachyd, 188.

Howarde, Lady Elisabeth, 321.

Howarde, Lady Mirriell, 321.

how, 341, 342; howe, 167, 257, &c.

howgye, 350.

howkyd, 180 (see hoked).

hoyning, 194.

huckels, 160.

huddypeke, 358, 381 (see hoddypeke).

huf a galante, 181.

huffa, 245.

huke, 160.

humanyte, 344, 361 (see vmanyte).

Huntley banke, 376; Huntley bankys, 221, 226, 357.

hyght, 126, 149, &c.; hyghte, 106, 113 (see hight).

hyll, 274.

hynde calfe, 301.

hynder, 245; hynderyng, 297.

hyperdulia, 234.

hytt, 198.

hyȝt, 198.

iacinctis, 311 (see jacounce).

Jacke a thrommys bybyll, 259, 305; Jake a thrum, 189.

Jacke breehe, 362.

Jacke of the Noke, 283; Jacke at Noke, 290.

Jacke of the vale, 239; Jak of the vale, 104.

Jacke shall haue Gyl, 240.

iack napis, 364; iackenapes, 269.

jackes, 204.

jacounce, 347 (see iacinctis).

jagged, 203, 278; jagging, 203 (see to-iagged).

Jak wold be a jentylman, 93.

James the Third, his murder, 219.

James the Fourth, his arms, 215.

—— his body how treated, 216.

—— his letter to Henry the Eighth, 217.

—— his appearing in arms against his father, 219.

—— his taking the Castle of Norham, 219.

—— his sword and dagger, 221.

—— his beard, 221.

—— his artillery, 221.

—— excommunicated, 222, 223.

Jamys foder, 104.

Jamys, Saint, 149, 170.

iangle, 234, 244, 283; iangelynge, 239; ianglyng, 231; ianglynge, 128, 149.

iangelers, 312.

Januay, 191.

iape, 278; iapes, 244, 254, 266, &c.

iape, 95, 112, 308; japed bodely, 104.

iarfawcon, 265 (see gerfawcon).

Jason, 137.

jaspe, 182.

iast, 171, 183, 356; jayst, 99.

iauell, 271, 287, 353, 362.

ich, 165, 342; iche, 271.

ich, 325; iche, 303, 306, 320.

I chyll, 159.

iconomicar, 308.

ien, 180 (see eyen and iyen).

ielofer, 147; ieloffer, 323, 331, 333.

Jerome, Saint, his Ep. ad Paulinum, 235, 304.

Jesse, 252.

iet, 242, 250 (see get).

jet, 94, 160, 182, 242; iettes, 251; iettynge, 269.

ietter, 247.

jetty, 159.

I faith, dikkon thou crue, 213; In fayth, decon thou crewe, 115; In faythe, dycken, thou krew, 352.

illumyne, 105; illumynyd, 102 (see ellumynynge).

importe, 126.

impurtured, 261.

incontinente, 228.

inconuenyently, 378.

incyneracyon, 134.

inde blewe, 262; indy blew, 101, 311 (see eyndye).

indeuer, 277.

inferrid, 304 (see enferre).

ingrosed, 275.

inhateth, 275.

intentyfe, 323.

Inter didascolos, 343.

intere, 238.

intoxicate, 288.

intreted, 262.

Iobab, 340.

Jocky my jo, 218.

ioforth, 329.

ioly rutterkyn, heyda, 245.

Iopas, 316.

ioust, 165.

Ioyows Garde, 330.

Ipocras, 332.

ipostacis, 286.

Irysh, 218.

isagogicall, 366.

Isaphill, 324.

isprode, 199.

Judas Machabeus, 140.

Judicum, 341.

Iue, Iohnn, 329.

I wus, 114, 323; I wys, 98, 104, 119, 170, &c.

iyen, 227 (see eyen and ien).

kan, 190 (see can).

karlis, 90 (see carle).

kay, 259; kayes, 242.

kayser, 287, 296, 362 (see cayser).

keke, 173, 280.

ken, 90, 146, 237, 286, &c.

kepe, 97, 240, 337.

kepe his cut, 124 [Corr. and Add. p. 453].

kest, 122, 126, 312 (see kyst).

kestrell, 135; kesteryll, 255.

keteringes, 218; keteryng, 379.

keylyth, 100.

kit, 91 (see kyt).

klycked, 116.

knackes, 203; knakkes, 345.

knackynge, 236; knak, 93.

knauate, 213.

knokylbonyarde, 243.

knowlege, 234.

konnyng, 304, 321, 329 (see conninge and cunnyng).

Koppynge, kynge, 217.

kote, 364 (see cote).

kowgh, 131.

kownnage, 314.

kowththyd, 187 (see kythyd).

koy, make it, 257.

kues, 356 (see cue).

kus, 345; kusse, 128.

kybe, 174.

kyby, 312.

kynde, 126, 186, 238, 257, &c.

Kyrkeby Kendall, 115.

kyrtell, 149, 161, 172; kyrtelles, 163.

kyry, 289.

kys the post, 142.

kyst, 114, 184; kyste, 106, 118 (see kest).

kyt, 189 (see kit).

kythyd, 177 (see kowththyd).

lack, 195, 375; lacke, 196, 245, &c.; lake, 303.

lackys, 346.

lakyn, by, 240, 243; lakyn, by our, 265, 271.

lampatrams, 175.

Lanam, 369.

lanners, 135.

Laodomi, 323.

large, 95, 129, 190.

large, 239.

large, 243, 352.

largesse, 239, 241, 259, 264, &c.

latria, 234.

laughe and lay downe, 369.

Launcelote de Lake, 137.

lawe, 239, 276.

lay, 142, 233.

lay fee, 285, 286; lay fee, the people of, 234; lay fee people, 284.

lay, 305, 325; layd, 219.

layne, 113.

layser, 287, 362.

le, 268.

leane as a rake, 145.

leche, 173.

lectryne, 208.

lectuary, 275 (see allectuary).

lede sterre, 323.

Lederhede, 162.

ledder, 145.

lefe, 98.

lege, 118.

lege de moy, 176, 295.

leke, the vertue of an vnset, 173.

leke, not worth a, 280.

lemman, 118; lemmanns, 191.

lene, 107; leneth, 103.

lenen, 302.

lenger, 135, 229, 335.

lepe the hach, 100.

lere, 147, 159, 180 (see leyre).

lere, 257 (see lyerd).

lesard, 103.

lese, 194, 253, 257, 290; leseth, 228.

lesinges, 196.

let, 149, 208, 237, &c.; lete, 109.

leudly, 230, 231 (see lewdely).

leue, 276; leuer, 268, 294.

leuell suse, 354.

lewd, 279; lewde, 94, 108, 119, &c.

lewdely, 183, 287; lewdly, 184, 195, &c.; lewdlye, 346 (see leudly).

lewdenes, 194; lewdnesse, 138.

leyre, 262 (see lere).

leyser, 325.

leysshe, 244.

lidderons, 305 (see lydderyns).

liddrous, 195.

liddyrnes, 317.

lista, 211 (see first lyst).

Locrian, 217; Locryan, 376.

lode, 106.

loke, 312; lokes, 287, 350; lokis, 322.

loke, 165, 172, &c.; loked, 207, 313; loketh, 244, 248; lokyd, 239, 346; lokys, 250, 266.

loke, 259.

lollardy, 234.

lollers, 204.

Lomelyn, Domyngo, 374.

londe, 203, 320.

London, wall of, 87.

long, 95; longe, 129, 190.

longe, 119; longyth, 329.

Lor, 327.

lore, 267.

lorell, 132, 192; lorelle, 183.

los, 100.

lose, 281.

losell, 265, 266, &c.; losels, 209, 305, &c.; loselles, 287, 350; losyll, 239.

loselry, 364.

louesome, 268.

Louis the Twelfth, 236, 240.

loute, 263; lowte, 260, 264; lowted, 90.

Lowdean, 217; Lowdeon, 340; Lowdyan, 376.

lucerne, 333.

luge, 275.

luggard, 98.

lugges, 380.

lurdayne, 242, 381; lurden, 264, 265, &c.; lurdeyne, 297.

lure, 147, 207, 236, 357.

luske, 179.

lust, 91, 100, 266, &c.; luste, 107.

lust and lykyng, 98, 165, 262, 269.

lusty, 101, 129, 144, 147, &c.

Lyacon, 345, 347.

Lybany, 127.

lybbard, 313.

Lybius, 138; Lybyus, 178.

Lycaon, 127; Lycon, 179.

lydder, 234; lyddyr, 193 (see lyther).

lydderyns, 267 (see lidderons).

Lydgate, Johnn, 144, 309.

lyerd (see second lere).

lygnage, 227, 228.

lyghtly, 239.

lykes, 199.

lykynge, 85.

Lyle, Sir William, 376.

lylse wulse, 354.

Lymyters, 290.

Lyncole grene, 160.

lynde, 109.

lynkes, 173.

lyppers, 266.

lyppes hange in thine eye, thy, 253.

lyst, 146, 196, 263, 269, &c. (see lista).

lyst, 207.

lyste, 256.

Lytell Ease, 297.

lythe and lystyn, 192.

lyther, 239, 257, 268; lythers, 257 (see lydder).

lytherly, 245.

Machareus and Canace, 322.

Mackemurre, 253.

made it straunge, 310.

Mahounde, 362.

maistres, 328 (see mastres and maystres).

make, 143, 282, 332, 344.

make, 186, 235, 303, 329.

make to the call, 262.

maker, 186, 342.

making, 332, 349; makynge, 223.

malarde, 251; mallarde, 131.

Malchus, 178.

male, 108, 117, 272; males, 143, 203, 223.

male to wryng, 142; male dothe wrye, 288; males, wrang vs on the, 353.

male vryd, 219.

Malepardus, 435.

maltaperte, 180.

Mamelek, 361.

mamockes, 268, 287.

man, 260.

Mantryble the Bryge, 178.

mantycore, 180, 183, 188; mantycors, 127.

Mapely rote, The murnyng of the, 330.

Marche harum, 208.

Mardocheus, 143.

mare, 123.

marees, 123.

margerain ientyll, 322.

Margery Mylkeducke, 172, 242.

maris lupus, 375.

Marke, kynge, 137.

marke, 254, 288.

marlyons, 135.

marmoll, 266.

marmoset, 183, 188; marmosete, 254 (see mermoset).

Marock, the streytes of, 370.

mary, 236, 239, 241, 244, &c.

Mary Gipcy, by, 333.

Mary Spyttell, Saynt, 297.

mase, 245; mased, 106, 235, 255; masid, 315; masyd, 212, 306 (see maysyd).

mastres, 103 (see maistres and maystres).

mastris, 309; mastryes, 256 (see maysters).

mated, 355.

maumet, 371 (see mawment).

maunchet, 93.

mauys, 129.

mawment, 188, 379; mawmett, 347 (see maumet).

Maxymyane, 308.

mayny, 90, 357, 358.

maysterfest, 276.

maysters, 113; maystery, 238; maystryes, 264 (see mastris).

maystres, 312, &c.; maystresse, 261 (see maistres and mastres).

maysyd, 260 (see mase).

Measure is treasure, 238.

Mede, mesteres, 408 (see Meed, mayden).

Mede, 145.

medelyd, 330; meddelyd, 307.

Meed, mayden, 209 (see Mede, mesteres).

mekyll, 242 (see mykel).

Melanchates, 127.

meledyously, 306.

mell, 96, 260, 279, 285, &c.; melle, 192; melles, 284; mellis, 346; mellyng, 295.

melottes, 291.

Menander, 130, 344.

mene, 260 (see meyne).

mengith, 308.

Menolope, 99.

menys, 259.

mercyall, 306, 308.

meritory, 310.

mermoset, 242 (see marmoset).

mery pyne, 117.

mese, 252.

messe, 270.

mesure is a mery mene, 241.

met, 170.

metely, 270, 312.

meuyd, 113.

mew, 236.

mew, 352; mewed, 356.

Mewtas, John, 367.

meyne, 238 (see mene).

miscreantys, 211.

mo, 87, 143, 232, 234, &c.

mobyll, 361.

moche, 239, 241, 257, 259, &c. (see myche and mytche).

mockysshe, 280.

mode, 275, 362 (see moode).

moght, 256.

Mok there loste her sho, 331, 353.

mondayne, 229.

mone, 117, 239, 316, 346.

Monon calon agaton, 342.

moode, 113 (see mode).

More, Sir Thomas, his Debellation, 436.

morell, 93, 99; morelle, 183.

morowes mylke, 283.

mose, 301.

mot, 90, 379; mote, 176, 268 (see mought and mowte).

motyng, 297.

motyue, 303.

motton, 273.

mought, 287 (see mot and mowte).

moughte eaten, 278.

mountenaunce, 359.

mow, 191.

mowid, 197; mowynge, 269.

mowte, 310 (see mot and mought).

moyles, 283.

Moyses hornis, 330.

mullyng, 165.

mulum de asino pingere, 214.

mummynge, 177, 278, 305.

Mundy, Sir John, 369.

munpynnys, 380.

mur, 129; murre, 272.

murmur of mynstrels, 306.

murrionn, 188; murryon, 178.

mus, 345 (see musse).

muscull, 175.

muse, 234, 331.

muskette, 135.

musse, 128 (see mus).

mute, 339.

mutid, 205.

Mutrell, 359.

my, 94.

myche, 347, 349 (see moche and mytche).

myday sprettes, 350.

myden agan, 340.

mykel, 286; mykyll, 257, 258; mykkylle, 194 (see mekyll).

mys, 199.

myscheue, 119.

mysdempte, 107.

mysuryd, 91.

mytche, 177 (see moche and myche).

myteyng, 187; mytyng, 165.

myȝt, 198.

naid, 197 (see nayd).

Naman Sirus, 373.

Nanphant, Sir John, 363.

nay, no, 275.

nayd, 198, 199 (see naid).

ne, 95, 105, 115, 119, &c.

nebbis, 348.

neder, 374.

negarship, 276.

nepte, 323.

nere, 363.

Nestorianus, 212.

neuen, 290.

neuer a dele, 100.

new and new, 145.

nobbes, 166.

noble, 269; nobles, 120, 227, 369.

nobles, 90, 382.

nody polle, 186; nodypollys, 346; noddy polles, 299.

noll, 112; nolle, 186; nolles, 282, 299.

none, 117.

nones, the, 126; nonys, the, 306.

nones, 122; nonne, 252; nonnes, 270, 284.

no nother, 267.

noppe, 242.

noppy, 162, 176.

Northumberland, fourth Earl of, 89, 90.

Northumberland, fifth Earl of, 91, 358.

Norwich, fires at, 214.

nother, 210, 239, 247, &c.

Notingam, 87.

nutshales, 360; nut shalis, 196.

nyfyls, 255.

nys, 103, 107.

nyse, 103, 125.

nysot, 256.

o, 190.

Obseruaunce, order called, 288.

obstract, 360.

occupy, 86, 242, 243; occupye, 260; occupyed, 187, 259, &c.

oder, 241.

odyfferaunt, 228.

Olibrius, 210.

Olifranke, 182.

olyfant, 175; olyfaunt, 185; olyphantes, 295.

Olyuere, 182.

on, 163, 174.

on flote, 120.

on lyue, 143.

oncomly, 178.

onfayned, 198.

Onocentaures, 150.

ony, 106, 108, 112, 116, &c.

ordynall, 134.

orgulyous, 231.

ornacy, 261.

Orwelle, 180.

ospraye, 131.

other, 237.

ouche, 141.

ouer, 230, 283, 288.

Ouer in a whinny meg, 340.

ouerage, 352, 382.

ouerse, 234, 374.

ouerthrow, 276.

ouerthwart, 103, 217, 373; ouerthwhart, 307; ouerwharte, 244 (see ouyrthwarthe).

ouerthwarted, 211, 284.

ouerthwartes, 223.

out yles, 222.

outray, 304; outraye, 123.

ouyrthwarthe, 193 (see ouerthwart).

pachchyd, 188.

packes, naughty, 203; packis, noughty, 305.

packing, 90.

pagent, 243; pageyond, 88; paiantes, 191; paiauntis, 330; pajauntes, pelory, 349; paiaunttis, 189.

Palamon, 136.

palettes, 170.

pall, 311; palles, 294.

paltoke, 181.

palyard, 348; palyarde, 378.

Pamphila, 320.

Pamphylus and Galathea, 344.

Pandaer, 141; Pandara, 142.

panys, 198 (see first payne).

papers weryng, 349.

parbrake, 381.

parcele, 192; parcell, 237.

parde, 264, 303, &c.; pardy, 219 (see perde).

paregall, 91, 322 (see peregall).

parfetnesse, 295.

Pargame, 125.

Paris and Vyene, 140.

parker, 331.

Partelet, 136; Partlot, 133.

partlettes, 204 (see patlet).

party, 109.

pas, 117, 125; passe, 180; passid, 316.

Pasiphe, 324.

pastaunce, 98, 147.

patch, 165.

patlet, 269 (see partlettes).

paues, 90; pauys, 344.

Pawbe une aruer, 341.

pawtenar, 205.

pay, 171.

payne, 110, 120 (see panys).

payne, 199.

paynte, 245; payntes, 294; paynty, 176; payntyd, 266.

peace, the, 170.

peason, 281, 371 (see peson).

pecunyous, 227.

pek, 129; pekes, 282.

peke, 244.

pekysh, 211.

pelfry, 188 [Corr. and Add. p. 455].

pendugims, 347; pendugum, 344.

peper in the nose, take, 359.

Perce, 145.

perde, 125, 258 (see parde).

perdurable, 344.

peregall, 348 (see paregall).

perihermeniall, 230.

perke, 187.

perkyd, 206.

persons, 287.

perspectyue, 102.

peson, 187 (see peason).

pestels, 172.

peuisshenes, 315.

peuysshe, 306, 314, 362 (see to-peuiche).

phagolœdoros, 227.

Phalary, 210.

Pharaotis, 195.

Pherumbras, 210 (see Ferumbras).

Philargerya, 355.

Philip Sparowe, 121, 262.

Phitonesse, 151.

Phorocides, 143.

Phyp, 125; Phyppes, 128.

piggesnye, 104 (see pyggysny).

pill, 229.

pine, 330 (see pyne).

pinkers, 203.

piplyng, 316; pipplyng, 229.

pirlyng, 319.

Pisandros, 309.

placke, 117.

playne songe, 95, 129, 130.

playnesse, 244.

plenarely, 109; plenarly, 239, 301.

plete, 268; pletynge, 358.

pletes, 161.

plumpe, 306.

pode, 104.

podynges, 173 (see puddynges).

poddynge prycke, 269.

poetis laureat, 307.

Poggeus, his tales, 309.

pohen, 94.

pointyd, 192 (see poynt).

poke, 119.

pole, 240, 344 (see polys).

Polexene, 146, 321.

Polimites, 320.

poll, 210.

Pollegians, 286.

pollers, 204.

polleynge, 184; pollyng, 189, 350; pollynge, 264, 353 (see poollynge).

polyandro, 227.

polys, 318 (see pole).

pomaunder, 324.

pomegarnet, 339.

pomped, 268.

poollynge, 284 (see polleynge).

popagay, 104, 347; popagey, 339; popegay, 344 (see popigay).

popeholy, 234, 242, 314; popholy, 230.

Popering, 340.

popigay, 341; popingay, 327; popyngay, 129 (see popagay).

poppyng, 231; poppynge, 239, 357.

pore, 203, 228, 249, 261, &c.

porisshly, 233, 314.

porpose, 346.

port sale, 162.

porte salu, 299, 312.

Portyngale, 368.

Portyngales, 170.

pose, 171, 248, 272, 374.

postell, 289; postyll, 347.

posty, 151.

postyke, 244 [Corr. and Add. p. 455].

potestate, 371.

potestolate, 371.

potsharde, 269; potshorde, 329; potshordes, 361; potshordis, 369.

Poules, 283.

Poules Crosse, 297.

pounsed, 120.

Pountes, 275; Pountesse, 240.

powle hachet, 98; powle hatchettis, 314.

Poyle, 312.

poynt, 189, 310; poynted, 251, 310, 325 (see pointyd).

poynte deuyse, 248, 261.

poyntmentys, 258.

practyue, 366.

prane, 260, 377; pranes, 281; pranys, 149.

pranked, 161.

praty, 103, 104, 191, 242, &c.

pratyer, 271.

pravare, 296.

preas, 296; prece, 244, 262 (see second prese).

prease, 196, 306; prece, 106 (see first prese).

precely, 276.

predyall, 294.

predycacion, 234.

premenire, 296; premenyre, 279.

prendergest, 93.

preposytour, 267.

prese, 164, 252, 310, &c. (see prease).

prese, 106; presed, 91, 308, &c.; presid, 306, 312, &c. (see preas).

prest, 125, 126, 206; preste, 318.

prestes, 284.

pretence, 245, 325 (see pretens).

pretende, 125.

pretendynge, 286.

pretens, 372 (see pretence).

pretory, 311.

preue, 119, 236, 250; preves, 203.

preuentid, 310.

preuynge, 165.

Priamus, 182.

prickyd, 193.

primordialle, 193.

probate, 236, 309.

proces, 143, 194, 211, &c.; processe, 230, 235, &c. (see prosses).

pronge, 243, 298.

proper, 339; propire, 345; propre, 125, 323, &c.; propyr, 347.

prosses, 146, 347 (see proces).

prothonatory, 310.

prouoke, 233, 290; prouoked, 87.

prycke songe, 95.

pryckemedenty, 176.

pryme, 312.

prymes, 282.

prymordyall, 361.

prynces aquilonis, 284.

Prynces of yougthe, 111.

pryste, 186.

Ptholome, 286; Ptholomy, 133, 361 (see Tholomye).

puaunt, 377.

puauntely, 187.

puddynges, 254 (see podynges).

puffin, 131.

pullishe, 303; pullisshyd, 310; pullyshyd, 261; pullysshed, 144, 149.

pultre, 255.

punyete, 173.

purple and paule, 283.

purueaunce, 250.

puruey, 368.

pusant, 302.

puscull, 175.

puskylde, 374.

put the stone, 242.

puwyt, 130.

py, 100; pye, 218, 344, 362.

pyggysny, 97 (see piggesnye).

pyke, 251.

pyke, 304, 328, 341, 344.

pykes, 185.

pyketh mood, 223.

pykynge, 110.

pylche, 172.

pylde, 253; pyll, 353, 357; pyllyd, 192, 193; pyllyd garleke hed, 184; pyllyng, 350.

pyllyon, 289.

pyne, 199 (see pine).

pynk iyde, 314.

pyrdewy, 94.

pystell, 129, 244; pystle, 282; pystels, 234.

pystillers, 209.

Qd, 96, 100, 103 (see quod).

quaire, 336 (see quayre).

quatriuials, 361; quatryuyals, 343.

quayre, 217, 345, 383 (see quaire.)

quecke, 268.

queed, 212.

quere, 91, 134, 284.

quest, 332.

questes, 203.

queysy, 273.

quibyble, 382.

quikly, 304, 313, 326 (see quyckely).

quight, 196 (see quyt).

quitte, 203 (see quyte).

quod, 97, 100, 106, &c. (see Qd).

quoke, 109.

quosshons, 233 (see cousshons and quysshon).

quycke, 125, 173, 359.

quyckely, 148; quyckly, 261 (see quikly).

quysshon, 295 (see cousshons and quosshons).

quyt, 220; quyte, 97, 266 (see quight).

quyte, 245 (see quitte).

race, 198 (see rase).

rachchyd, 188.

rage, 352.

ragman rollis, 335.

raist, 307 (see araid).

Raker, Jake, 186, 342; Rakers, Jacke, 357.

rammysshe, 265.

rankis, 226.

rase, 303, 335; rasid, 304, 337; rasyd, 103 (see race).

ratches, 244.

ray, 194, 233, 376; raye, 348.

Raynes, 268, 283.

reame, 226, 317, 364 (see reme).

rebads, 362 (see rebawde and rybaude).

rebaudrye, 116.

rebawde, 192; rebawdis, 313 (see rebads and rybaude).

reboke, 109.

rechate, 270; rechatyng, 234.

recheles, 96, 331, &c.; rechelesse, 229, 230, &c. (see retchlesse).

rechery, 277.

reckys, 255 (see reke).

reclame, 193; reclaymed, 148, 207, 345.

reclaymeth, 228.

reconusaunce, 320.

recorde, 238, 240, 361, 368.

recounfortyd, 308.

recrayd, 377; recrayed, 223, 229, 232, &c.

recule, 327, 331, 344.

reculed, 377.

red sparow, 128.

rede, 274.

rede, 103, 105, 252, 271, &c.

redlesse, 275 (see rydlesse).

redouted, 90.

redres, 100.

reflaring, 323.

reflary, 134.

refrayne, 276.

regiment, 348.

regraciatory, 310.

Regum, 151, 210.

rehayted, 263.

rehers, 211; reherse, 110; rehersse, 260.

reiagged, 362.

reke, 109 (see reckys).

reme, 221, 381; remes, 145 (see reame).

remord, 223; remorde, 193, 295, 303; remorded, 235; remordyng, 229; remordynge, 371.

remorders, 347.

remordes, 346.

remorse, 103.

ren, 196, 342; renne, 118, 167, &c.; renneth, 256; renning, 195; rennynge, 275 (see rin, ron, and ryn).

renayenge, 355.

renowme, 362.

reny, 232; renyed, 90.

replycable, 235.

reporte me, 91, 240, 285.

repryuable, 259.

requiem æternam groweth forth of his nose, 272.

reserued, 264, 327.

rest, 238.

rest, 263.

rested, 229 (see rosty).

resty, 169.

resydeuacyon, 286.

retchlesse, 269 (see recheles).

reue, 265.

reuell route, 116 [Corr. and Add. p. 449].

reuynge, 353.

rew, 96, 127; rewed, 122.

rin, 303, 333, 335; rinne, 305 (see ren, ron, and ryn).

robbid, 198.

rocke, 167.

rocket, 160.

rode, 167, 209, 210, 213, &c.

rode loft, 206.

roke, 131.

role, 135.

rome, 243, 244, &c. (see rowme).

ron, 165; ronnes, 284 (see ren, rin, and ryn).

ronner, 265.

rosabell, 323.

rosary, 323.

Rose, Lorde, 357.

rosers, 315 (see rosiar).

roset, 119.

rosiar, 327 (see rosers).

rost a stone, 353.

rosty, 151 (see rested).

rote, 367 (see rotys).

Roty bully joyse, 94 (see Rutty bully).

rotys, 196 (see rote).

rough, 298.

roughe foted, 222, 226.

rounde, 120 (see rowne).

rounses, 150.

rout, 166 (see rowtyth).

route, 131.

route, 107, 171, 248, &c. (see rowte).

routh, 179 (see row, rowth, and rughe).

royals, 369.

royle, 379.

row the bote, Norman, rowe, 111.

row, 187 (see routh, rowth, and rughe).

rowllys, 189.

rowme, 303, 361 (see rome).

rowne, 263; rownyd, 306 (see rounde).

rowte, 252, 306, 358 (see route).

rowth, 98, 319 (see routh, row, and rughe).

rowtyth, 98 (see rout).

ruddes, 147; ruddys, 101; rudyes, 261.

rughe, 242 (see routh, row, and rowth).

rughly, 266.

Rukshaw, Magister, 92.

ruly, 341; rulye, 347.

Rummyng, Elynour, 157, 158 [Corr. and Add. p. 454].

rusty, 114, 247.

rutter, 246; rutters, 257.

rutterkyn, 246.

Rutty bully, 245 (see Roty bully joyse).

ruttyngly, 248.

ryall, 239, 241, 260, 302, &c.

ryally, 311.

ryalte, 277.

rybaude, 118; rybawde, 193 (see rebads and rebawde).

rybibe, 174.

rybskyn, 168.

ryd, 274.

ryde and go, 125; ryde or go, 258; rydes or goos, 382 (see go or ryde).

rydlesse, 268 (see redlesse).

ryght of a rambes horne, 298, 350, 353.

ryn, 237, 270, &c.; rynne, 247, 270, &c. (see ren, rin, and ron).

rynne to in manus tuas, 268.

sacre, 135.

sacryng, 296.

sad, 147, 196, &c.; sade, 193; sadde, 110, 118, &c.

sadly, 149, 235, 267, &c.; sadlye, 346.

sadnes, 101, 332; sadnesse, 242, 245, &c.

Sadoke, 346.

Sadylgose, 266.

Saint Ionis towne, 218.

salfecundight, 312.

salt, 166.

same, in, 244.

sank, 334, 361.

Sardanapall, 210.

Sarson, 180.

Sarum, secundum, 208.

satirray, 308.

Satrapas, 177.

saught, 92.

sautes, 275 (see sawte).

saw, 361; sawe, 237, 288 (see sawis).

sawe, 239.

sawis, 371 (see saw).

sawlys, 198.

sawte, 262, 332 (see sautes).

sayd sayne, 298.

sayne, 159, 170, 337, 359.

Scalis Malis, 195.

scarce, 352.

Scarpary, 342, 347.

scholys, 211 (see scole and skoles).

Scipiades, 382; Scipione, 219.

scole, 124, 187, &c.; scoles, 235, 256; scolys, 257 (see scholys and skoles).

scornnys, 112.

scrat, 258.

Scroupe, Jane or Joanna, 122, 145, 149, 152.

scryue, 192.

scut, 315.

scutus, 355.

seasyd, 261.

sedeane, 134.

seke, 172.

seke, to, 183, 322.

sekernes, 337; sekernesse, 276 (see sykernesse).

sely, 278, 284, 287, 299, &c.

Sem, 126, 369.

semblaunt, 146, 256.

semynge, 261.

semyth, 192.

senaws, 123.

sence, 218.

sennet, 171.

sentens, 344; sentence, 144, 211, 276, &c.

sere, 227.

Serenus, 235.

sergeaunt ferrour, 99.

serpentins, 188.

[seryously, Corr. and Add. p. 452].

set by, 99, 240, 242, 260, &c.

Seuen Systers, cannons so called, 221.

seymy, 188.

seynty, 176.

shales, 284 (see shayle).

Shall I sayle wyth you, 112.

shap, 175.

shayle, 97, 233, 341 (see shales).

shene, 152.

shene, 371.

shent, 219.

Sheriff-Hutton Castle, 299.

shet, 313; shett, 335 (see shyt).

shilde, 90.

sho clout, 163.

shoder, 278.

shoke, 91, 313, 335.

shone, 161, 166.

shote, 240, 294, 299.

shoure, 379; shower, 219.

shreud, 164; shrewd, 284.

shrewdenes, 245.

shrewdly, 314, 362, 369 (see shrewlye and shroudly).

shrewe, 380 (see shrow).

shrewes, 120.

shrewlye, 349 (see shrewdly and shroudly).

shroudly, 257, 328 (see shrewdly and shrewlye).

shrow, 193 (see shrewe).

shryue, 109, 291.

shule, 287.

shuruy, 187.

shyderyd, 96.

shyll, 353.

shyne, 148.

shyre shakyng nought, 174, 258.

shyt, 256, 356 (see shet).

silogisme in phrisesomorum, 342.

Simonia, 356.

Sin, desertum, 222.

sith, 197, 229, &c.; sithe, 177 (see syth).

Sitientes, 282.

sittyng, 304; sittynge, 303 (see syttynge).

skellet, 166.

skelpe, 270.

sker, 147.

skewed, 163.

skoles, 233 (see scholys and scole).

skommer, 172.

skommeth, 165.

skyes, 233.

skyl, 375; skyll, 262, 270.

skyll, 238, 259, 279, &c.; skylle, 350.

skyregalyard, 348; skyrgaliarde, 378; skyrgalyard, 218.

skyt, 219.

slaiis, 318.

slaty, 167.

sle, 267; slee, 90, 120, &c.; sleeth, 228, 274 (see sley and slo).

sleue, 119 (see slyue).

sleue, wyde, 248.

sley, 163 (see sle and slo).

sleyght, 242; sleyghtes, 360; sleyte, 113 (see slyght).

sliddyr, 347 (see slyder).

slo, 90, 125, 146; sloo, 274 (see sle and sley).

slvfferd, 184.

slyce, 172.

slyder, 167; slydder, 265 (see sliddyr).

slyght, 194, 244, &c. (see sleyght).

slyue, 250 (see sleue).

smaragd, 102; smaragdis, 311.

smerke, 317.

snappar, 209; snapper, 92, 234.

snurre, 334.

snyte, 129, 266.

solace, 96, 108, 265 (see solas).

solacious, 144; solacyous, 97, 316.

solas, 87, 126, 315, 341 (see solace).

solayne, 95 (see soleyne).

solempne, 253.

soleyne, 109, 346 (see solayne).

solfa, 279; solfe, 132; solfyth, 94.

somdele, 172, 227, 335 (see sumdele).

Some, 332.

somer, 101, 115, &c.

sonalia, 212.

sonde, 275.

sone, 219, 240, &c.; soner, 275.

song, 204.

soppy, 176.

sort, 91, 146; sorte, 163, 164, &c.

Sothray, 162.

sottys, 216.

sounde, 122.

Sowden, 211.

sowllys, 189.

sowre, 123.

sowre dowe, 167.

sowse, 184.

sowter, 265; sowtters, 186.

spar, 333; sparred, 207.

spayre, 127.

sped, 94, 143, 144, &c.; spedde, 244.

spence, 176.

spence, 269.

spere, 184, 251, 316.

sperycall, 335.

splay, 182; splayd, 199.

spone, 119, 166.

spores, 244.

Sprynge of Lanam, 369.

Spurs, Battle of the, 223.

spycke, 170.

spyll, 260, 270; spylt, 91, 199.

spynke, 129.

spynt, 194.

stale, 168.

stalworthy, 358.

stede, 118, 152, 162, 184, &c.

stellyfye, 323.

stercorry, 88.

sterrys, 347.

stert, 175; sterte, 120, 172, &c.

sterue, 379.

steuyn, 193.

stode, 306, 312, &c. (see stonde).

stole, 124, 278, 305.

stonde, 247, 259, &c.; stondythe, 349 (see stode).

stoppynge oyster, 119.

storke, 131.

stounde, 122, 362 (see stownde).

stoutty, 377 (see stowty).

stow, 206, 250; stowe, 252.

stownde, 381 (see stounde).

stowre, 216.

stowty, 178 (see stoutty).

straught, 195.

strawry, 163.

streynes, 261.

stubbed, 172.

Sturbrydge fayre, 342.

stut, 170.

stylla, 282.

styreth, 107.

styth, 212.

sufferayne, 312.

Sulpicia, 125.

sumdele, 93 (see somdele).

sumner, 217, 222.

superflue, 301.

supple, 339; suppleyng, 335; supply, 347; supplye, 248; supplyed, 263, 302.

supprised, 91; supprysed, 261, 312.

surcudant, 230.

surfillyng, 319; surfled, 281.

surmountinge,91; surmountyng, 100;

surmountynge, 108, 322.

surpluse, 237.

Surrey, Earl of, his badge, 215, 220.

—— ——, his arms, 220.

Surrey, Earl of (son of the preceding), sent against France, 354.

Surrey, Cowntes of, 317.

swap, 247.

Swart, Martin, 93, 94.

swarue, 323.

swerd, 260; swerde, 362, 381.

sweters, 162.

swyllynge tubbe, 164.

swynkers, 162.

syar, 260 (see syer).

syb, 162.

syde, 119.

Sydrake, 346.

syer, 371 (see syar).

syght, 217.

syke, 254, 265.

sykernesse, 268 (see sekernes).

sylt, 301.

symper the cocket, 160.

syn, 347.

syntillously, 228.

syth, 120, 199, &c.; sythe, 227 (see sith).

Sythe I am no thynge playne, 110.

syttynge, 239, 277 (see sittyng).

tabers, 310; tabertes, 283.

tails, Englishmen said to have, 224.

take in degre, 261.

take in gre, 267, 335, 360.

take in worth, 95, 145, 259.

taken, 241, 264.

tall, 368; talle, 177 (see tawle).

talwod, 353.

Tanaquil, 227.

tancrete, 360.

tangyd, 272.

tappett, 192; tappet, 257; tappettis, 311, 318.

tappyster, 242.

tarsell gentyll, 134.

tauellis, 318; tauellys, 94.

taumpinnis, 315.

tawle, 248 (see tall).

tax, 370.

tayle, 176.

teder, 119.

tegges, 164; teggys, 179.

te he, 232, 243.

Temmys strete, 97.

tende, 247, 253.

tene, 90; teene, 143.

tenter hokys, 252.

Terry of Trace, 178.

Testalis, 316.

Tetersall, 86.

tetrycall, 230.

tewly, 319.

Thagus, 145.

Thamer, 320.

thee, 243, 244, 249.

thees, 199.

theke, 253.

theologys, 286.

Theseus, 136.

thewde, 194, 358.

they, 188, 190.

this, 86, 128, 166, 209, &c.

tho, 228.

Tholomye, 342 (see Ptholome).

Thomas, St., of Kente, 114.

thought, 104, 124, 267; thoughte, 228, 229.

thoughtfull, 101, 307.

thow, 178, 187, &c.; thowth, 193; thowthe, 190.

threstyl, 131.

thronge, 107.

throte bole, 274.

throw, 193.

thrust, 168.

thumbed, 160.

thurifycation, 133.

thwartyng ouer, 355.

timorous, 306.

tirikkis, 335; tirykis, 342.

titiuyllis, 315 (see tytyuelles).

to, 129 (see too).

to, 94, 144, 145, &c.; to to, 249, 269.

to-brokyn, 100.

to-fret, 333 (see freat and frete).

to-iagged, 163; to-iaggid, 314 (see jagged).

to-mangle, 283.

to-myryd, 181.

to-ragged, 114.

to-rente, 114.

to-peuiche, 180 (see peuysshe).

to-torne, 203, 353.

toke, 209, 312, 321, &c.

tole, 187.

tollers, 204.

tolman, 226.

Tom a thrum, 282.

tone, 254, 278.

tonge, 274.

tonge tayde, 284.

tonnysh, 162.

tonsan, 345.

tonsors, 288.

too, 125, 268, 341 (see first to).

toote, 129, 339 (see tote).

Topias, 380; Topyas, 180.

tot quot, 354; tot quottes, 287.

tote, 148, 344; toteth, 129 (see toote).

totyng, 297.

tough, made it, 196.

tought, 133.

towchis, 317.

towchid, 326; towchyd, 313.

Tower, the, 86.

tragedy, 218; tragydese, 194.

Trace, 312.

Traciane, 306.

tratlande, 375 (see tratlynge).

tratlers, 195.

tratlynge, 215 (see tratlande).

trauarse, 360.

trauell, 196.

traues, 106.

traueyleth, 228.

trentale, 212.

Trestram, 369 (see Trystram).

trete, 348.

tretory, 91.

trew, 259.

triuials, 361 (see tryuyals).

trone, 106, 260, 286, &c.; trones, 284.

trotters, 369.

trowle, 191.

trumpet, 305, 306.

tryalytes, 287.

trym tram, 161, 342.

Trystram, 137 (see Trestram).

trysyd, 191.

tryuyals, 343 (see triuials).

tuche, 203.

Tucke, Freer, 241.

tucking hookes, 204.

tully valy, 104.

tumrelle, 192.

tunnyng, 158; tunnynge, 163.

turkis, 310.

turney, 183 (see tyrnyd).

twybyll, 185.

twynklyng, 316.

twynkyng, 286.

twyst, 109.

Tyborne checke, 250.

tyde, 164; tydes, 133.

Tylney, Mastres Margaret, 322.

tyne, 312.

tyned, 245.

tyrid, 205.

tyrly tyrlowe, 167, 294.

Tyrmagant, 177.

tyrnyd, 177 (see turney).

tyse, 233.

tytmose, 131.

tytyuelles, 284 (see titiuyllis).

vacabounde, 203; vagabundus, 282.

vagys, 267.

vale, 195.

Valerius Maximus, 309; Valery, 210.

varry, 381.

Vaspasyan that bare in his nose a waspe, 260.

vaunteperler, 348.

vawte, 311.

vayleth, 353.

vayned, 148.

vaynes, 261; vaynys, 103, 198.

velyarde, 266.

vere, 196.

vergesse, 264.

versynge boxe, 110.

vertibilite, 195.

Vesca, 143.

Vexilla regis prodeunt, 199.

Vincencius in Speculo, 309.

vmanyte, 319 (see humanyte).

vmblis, 329.

vmwhyle, 181.

vnbrent, 231.

vncouthes, 296.

vndermynde, 360.

vnethes, 278 (see vnneth).

vnhappy, 195, 259.

vnfayned, 207.

vnlust, 163.

vnlusty, 146.

vnlykynge, 267.

vnneth, 112, 122, 148 (see vnethes).

vnpropyce, 228.

vnsowndy, 159.

vntayde, 195.

vntwynde, 126, 287, 333.

vntydy, 164.

voluell, 336, 342.

voyde, 240.

vrcheons, 355.

vre, 296.

vred, 232, 235, 377; vryd, 236.

vtter, 175, 247.

vtteraunce, 261.

vycaryes, 287.

vyse, 235.

wake, 130.

wake, 117, 141.

walk, and be nought, 95.

Walshmans hose, 289, 329.

Waltoms calfe, as wyse as, 290.

walter, 267.

wambleth, 263.

wan, 98, 369.

wane, 369.

wanhope, 275.

warde, 184.

ware, 283.

Warham, archbishop, 372.

wark, 97; warke, 135, 137, &c.; warkes, 203, &c.; warkis, 309, &c.; warkys, 276, &c.

warke, 100, 144, 257, &c.

warlde, 193.

warne, 265 (see werne).

warre, 250; warse, 190, 354.

wary, 186, 272.

waspy, 169.

watchynge, 115.

waterlag, 341.

wawes, 299; wawys, 277.

wed, to, 270.

wedder, 333.

wele, 301, 303, 304, &c.

wele was, 325; wele were, 317; well were, 265.

weltyth, 259.

wende, 113; wene, 119.

wengaunce, 272.

Wentworthe, Mastres Margery, 322.

were, 149, 227, 303.

werke, 288, 297; werkes, 234, 279; werkis, 305 (see wark).

werne, 107 (see warne and werryn).

werre, 105.

werryn, 279 (see warne and werne).

weryed on, 262.

wesant, 175; wesaunt, 297.

wete, 118, 125, 263.

wetewoldis, 305.

wetynge, 112.

weue in the stoule, 318.

wexid, 206.

whalis bone, 311.

wharrowe, 168.

wheled, 374.

wher, 193.

where as, 228, 237, &c.; whereas, 165, 228, &c.

wherfore and why, 121.

wheywormed, 175.

whilom, 342.

whipling, 358.

whom, 109.

whose, 91.

whylest, 240, 258, 202; whylyst, 245.

whym wham, 161.

whynarde, 115.

whypslouens, 183.

whyste, 306.

whytyng, 165.

wist, 317 (see wyse).

withhold, 150; withholde, 337.

wod, 299; wode, 91, 277, 362 (see wood).

woke, 264; wokys, 252.

woll, 161.

Wolsey, Cardinal, the son of a butcher, 349, 358, 361.

—— his poleaxes, pillars, and mule, 350.

—— his gifts and annuities from foreign powers, 355.

—— his luxurious living, 356.

—— his palaces, 360.

—— difficulty of access to him, 362.

—— chaplain to Sir John Nanphant, 364.

—— his tearing of the king’s letters, 364.

—— his holding the abbacy of St. Albans in commendam, 371.

—— made chancellor, without having employed any unfair means to supersede Warham, 372.

Wolsey, said to have had the pox, 373.

wonder, 263; wonders, 237.

wonderly, 112, 306.

wonne, 244, 250, 258; wonnes, 97; wonnyng, 279; wonnys, 236.

wonnynge, 162.

wood, 148, 151; woode, 113 (see wod).

woodhacke, 129.

worlde, it is a, 119.

worshiply, 91.

worshyp, 90, 239, 243, 259, &c.

worsshepfully, 294.

wortes, 254.

wot, 342; wote, 173; wotith, 333; wotte, 189 (see wyt).

woundis fyue, 196.

wrate, 196, 205, 308, &c. (see wrete).

[wraw, Corr. and Add. p. 450.]

wren, our Ladyes hen, 135.

wrenche, 100; wrenchis, 328.

wrest vp, 286.

wretchockes, 173.

wrete, 119 (see wrate).

Wrig wrag, 194, 341, 380.

wring, 91.

wroken, 174, 262, 287.

wronge, 146.

wrotes, 194.

wrouȝt, 198.

wrynge thy be in a brake, 271.

wull, 278.

wyddred, 227.

wyl, 192; wyll, 86, 193.

wylage, 190.

wylla, 282.

wynche, 280.

Wyndsore, 87.

wyrry, 358.

wyse, 187; wyst, 94, 189, 253; wyste, 112 (see wist).

wyt, 236 (see wot).

wyte, 274.

xall, 187, 188, 194; xalte, 190.

xulde, 184, 187, 191, 194; xulddst, 188.

yane, 169.

yarke, 243.

yatis, 312.

yaue, 192.

yawde, 298.

ydder, 265.

ye, 109, 237, 238, &c.

yede, 205.

yeld, 89.

yerne, 332.

yl ticers, 204.

ylke, 377.

ymet, 242.

ynowe, 120.

Yorkes Place, 360.

ypocras, 285, 356.

ȝe, 182, 183, 184.

Zenophontes, 124.

ȝeris, 86.

ȝytt, 198.

ADDITIONAL NOTES.

The last line of the Decastichon, &c. vol. ii. 66,—

“Asperius nihil est misero quum surget in altum,”

is from Claudian,

“Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum.”

In Eutrop. I. 181.

Add to note on the line,

Whome fortune and fate playnly haue discust,

vol. ii. 321.

that discust is used in the same sense by Drayton;

“Neuer did death so terrible appeare, Since first their Armes the English learnt to weeld, Who would see slaughter, might behold it heere In the true shape vpon this fatall field; In vaine was valour, and in vaine was feare, In vaine to fight, in vaine it was to yeeld, In vaine to fly; for destiny discust, By their owne hands or others’ dye they must.”

The Miseries of Queene Margarite, p. 115. ed. 1627.

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VOL. I.

ACCOUNT OF SKELTON AND HIS WRITINGS.

Page xviii. line 17.

“Ora lepore fluunt, sicuti dives fagus auro.”

For “fagus” read “Tagus.” This obvious error, which unaccountably had escaped my notice, was pointed out in Quart. Rev. lxxiii. 513.

P. xx. The following verses are transcribed from a MS. (in the collection of the late Mr. B. H. Bright) consisting of Hymni, &c. by Picus Mirandula:

“Pici Mirandulæ Carmen Extemporale.

Quid tibi facundum nostra in præconia fontem Solvere collibuit, Æterna vates, Skelton, dignissime lauro, Castalidumque decus? Nos neque Pieridum celebramus antra sororum, Fonte nec Aonio Ebibimus vatum ditantes ora liquores. At tibi Apollo chelym [sic] Auratam dedit, et vocalia plectra sorores; Inque tuis labiis Dulcior Hyblæo residet suadela liquore; Se tibi Calliope Infudit totam: tu carmine vincis olorem; Cedit et ipse tibi Ultro porrecta cithara Rhodopeius Orpheus: Tu modulante lyra Et mulcere feras et duras ducere quercus, Tu potes et rapidos Flexanimis fidibus fluviorum sistere cursus; Flectere saxa potes. Græcia Mæonio quantum debebat Homero, Mantua Virgilio, Tantum Skeltoni jam se debere fatetur Terra Britanna suo: Primus in hanc Latio deduxit ab orbe Camenas; Primus hic edocuit Exculte pureque loqui: te principe, Skelton, Anglia nil metuat Vel cum Romanis versu certare poetis. Vive valeque diu!”

P. xxxiv. To my notices of Garnesche add the following (collected by Mr. D. E. Davy) from Gent. Mag. for Sept. 1844, p. 229:

“Sir Christopher Garneys, knt., whom I suppose to be the person who was the object of Skelton’s satire, was the second son of Edmund Garneys, esq. of Beccles, who was the second son of Peter Garneys, esq. of Beccles, whose eldest son, Thomas, was of Kenton. He, ‘Sir Christopher,’ was janitor of Caleys, and often employed in the wars temp. H. viii....

In a window of the chapel in the north aisle of St. Peter’s Mancroft Church, Norfolk, was the following inscription: ‘ ... anda ... a ... Dei, pro animabus Thome Elys tercia vice hujus civitatis Norwici Majoris et Margarete consortis sue.—Orandumque est pro animabus Edmundi Garnysh armigeri, et Matilde ejus consortis, filie predictorum Thome Elis et Margarete, ac pro longevo statu Christopheri Garnysh militis, dicti serenissimi Principis ville sue Calisie Janitoris.’ See Blomf. Norf. vol. iv. p. 199. [vol. ii. 628. ed. fol.]

‘A description of the Standards borne in the field by Peers and Knights in the reign of Hen. Eighth, from a MS. in the College of Arms marked I. 2. Compiled between the years 1510 and 1525.’—Syr Christoffer Garnys. ‘A on a wreath, Argent and Gules, an arm erased below the elbow, and erect proper, holding a falchion Argent, pomel and hilt Or, the blade imbrued in 3 places Gules. (Imperfect.)—Arms. Argent a chevron Azure between 3 escallops Sable.’ Excerpta Historica, p. 317.

‘Standards, temp. H. viii. Harl. MS. 4632. Syr Xr’ofer Garneyshe. Blue. The device, on a wreath Argent and Gules, an arm erased, grasping a scymitar, Proper.—Motto, ‘Oublere ne dois.’’ Collect. Topog. vol. iii. p. 64.

‘The names of the Inglishmen which were sent in Ambassade to the French King, before the Qwenes Landing, and oder Gentilmen in their Compaigne.’—‘Sir Christopher Garneys’ (inter al.).—Leland’s Collect, vol. ii. p. 704.

In the Athenæum for July 18, 1840, p. 572, there is a long letter, dated ‘at Morpeth, the xxviij day of Decembre,’ and signed ‘C. Garneys,’ whom the editor supposes to have been one of the medical attendants sent by the King, upon the illness of Queen Margaret: it was more probably [certainly, see Account of Skelton and his Writings, p. xxxii.] Sir Christ. Garneys, knt.

Sir Christopher was knighted at Touraine, 25 Dec. 5 H. viii. 1513, and married Jane, daughter of.... She died 27th March, 1552. Her will was dated 27th Aug. 1550, and proved 12th May, 1552; she was buried at Greenwich. Her husband was dead when she made her will. She names her son Arthur Dymoke, esq. Bequeaths most of her personal estate for charitable purposes.”

EXAMPLES OF THE METRE CALLED SKELTONICAL.

P. cxxiii.

“O quam venenosa pestis.”

The reviewer in Gent. Mag. p. 243, thinks that no line has been omitted here, and would read for the rhyme “pecus.”

POEMS.

P. 106.

“Jone sayne she had eaten a fyest.”

“Foist,” says the reviewer in G. M. p. 243, “is a toadstool in Suffolk language:” but qy. is that the meaning of “fyest” in our text? see my note.

P. 117.

“your semely snowte doth passe.”

Because the MS., as I have stated, appears at first sight to have “scriuely,” the reviewer in G. M. p. 243, says “the proper word is snively” and compares an expression in another poem Against Garnesche, p. 120, “In the pott your nose dedde sneuyll,” and one in Magnyfy ence, p. 286, “The snyte snyueled in the snowte.” But I still think that “semely” is right: Skelton afterwards (p. 130) tells Garnesche that he has “A semly nose and a stowte;” and the line now in question is immediately followed by

“Howkyd as an hawkys beke, lyke Syr Topyas,”

i. e. the Sire Thopas of Chaucer; and the said Sire Thopas (_Cant. Tales_, v. 13659, ed. Tyr.) “had a semeley nose.”

P. 133.

“Hic notat purpuraria arte intextas literas Romanas in amictibus post ambulonum ante et retro.”

The reviewer in G. M. p. 244, takes “post” to be an abridgement of “positas:” which is a very probable conjecture.

P. 134.

“Such tunges vnhappy hath made great diuision In realmes, in cities, by suche fals abusion,” &c.

The reviewer in G. M. p. 244, says “Should not diuision be delusion?” I answer,—certainly not.

P. 139.

“Mary the mother.”

I have queried “thy mother”? to which the reviewer in G. M. p. 244 (rightly, I believe) objects—“the mother, mater, being an epitheton commune, an usual predicate of the Virgin.”

P. 163.

“Hos rapiet numeros non homo, sed mala bos. Ex parte rem chartæ adverte aperte, pone Musam Arethusam hanc.”

The reviewer in G. M. p. 244, would read

“Hos rapiet numeros, non homo sed mulus aut bos,”

comparing (p. 170) “Asinus, mulus velut, et bos.” But why alter what Skelton intended for a pentameter? In what follows, the reviewer says that “‘hanc’ should be placed in hooks [hanc], as we think it is only a misprint for ‘aut’.” Would not “aut” stand oddly at the end of a sentence?

P. 170.

“Et cines socios.”

“Should it not be ‘cives’?” says the reviewer in G. M. p. 244. No,—as the preceding “Carpens vitales auras” shews.

P. 218.

“Qui caterisatis categorias cacodæmoniorum.”

“Mr. Dyce,” says the reviewer in G. M. p. 244, “conjectures catarrhizatis, which we do not exactly understand. We should read ‘cæteris datis;’” and he compares “enduced a secte” at p. 216, and two other similar passages. I still think that “caterisatis” is probably the old spelling of “catarrhizatis.”

P. 259. “Hic ingrediatur FOLY, quatiendo crema et faciendo multum, feriendo tabulas et similia.”

The reviewer in G. M. p. 245, supposes that “crema” is the Greek word χρημα Latinised, and that it here means “his thing or bauble.” I greatly doubt it.

P. 263.

“Howe rode he by you? howe put he to you?”

As a rhyme is wanting to “vyser” and “dyser,” I conjectured “you there.”—“We,” says the reviewer in G. M. p. 245, “would rather break the line into two short verses,—

‘How rode he by you? Howe put he to you?’

as v. 1132, with the same cadence and accent,

‘Fan. What callest thou thy dogge?

Fol. Tusshe, his name is Gryme?’”

But the reviewer ought to have seen that the two SPEECHES last cited make up one line.

P. 278.

“Call for a candell and cast vp your gorge.”

The reviewer in G. M. p. 245, observes, “Mr. Dyce proposes caudell; but is there any authority for caudell as an emetic? We think not, and that the text is right.” I now think so too.

P. 306.

“Sad Cyr. Then ye repent you of foly in tymes past?

Magn. Sothely, to repent me I haue grete cause: Howe be it from you I receyued a letter, Whiche conteyned in it a specyall clause,” &c.

The reviewer in G. M. p. 245, to restore the rhyme, would read—

“Sad Cyr. Then of foly in tymes past ye repent?

Magn. Sothely, to repent me I haue grete cause: Howe be it from you I receyued a letter sent, Whiche conteyned in it a specyall clause,” &c.

Against which I have nothing to object except the violence of the alteration.

P. 357.

“And Saynt Mary Spyttell, They set not by vs a whystell.”

“Perhaps ‘whyttle,’” says the reviewer in G. M. p. 245.—I had originally proposed the latter reading, but afterwards rejected it, having found in Lydgate (see my note on the passage, vol. ii. 297),

“For he set not by his wrethe a whistel.”

P. 360. “Colinus Cloutus, quanquam mea carmina multis,” &c.

The reviewer in G. M. p. 246, would cure this corrupted passage as follows;

“Colinus Cloutus, quanquam mea carmina multis Sordescunt stultis; sed paucis sunt data cultis, Paucis ante alios divino flamine flatis.”

VOL. II.

POEMS.

P. 12. “In ista cantilena ore stilla plena abjectis frangibulis et aperit.”

The reviewer in G. M. p. 246, would read “Ista cantilena, in ore est illa plena,” &c.

P. 18.

“Psittacus hi notus seu Persius est puto notus, Nec reor est nec erit licet est erit,”

is thus corrected by the reviewer in G. M. p. 246,—

“Psittacus hic notus seu Persius est puto notus, Nec reor est, nec erit, nec licet est, nec erit.”

P. 21.

“Patet per versus, quod ex vi bolte harvi.”

The reviewer in G. M. p. 246, at least ingeniously conjectures,—

“Patet per versus quos excogitavit.”

P. 29.

“Iack Trauell and Cole Crafter.”

Among payments made in the year 1428 (in the reign of Hen. vi.), Jack Travel occurs as the name of a real person; “Et a Iakke Travaill et ses compaignons, feisans diverses Jeues et Enterludes, dedeins le Feste de Noell, devant nostre dit Sire le Roi,” &c. Rymer’s Fœd. T. iv. P. iv. p. 133.

P. 86.

“Emportured with corage, A louers pylgrimage.”