v. 903. _askry_] i. e. call out against, raise a shout against: see note on v. 1358, p. 152.
v. 905. _odyous Enui, &c._] Here Skelton has an eye to Ovid’s picture of Envy:
“Pallor in ore sedet; macies in corpore toto: Nusquam recta acies: livent rubigine dentes: Pectora felle virent: lingua est suffusa veneno. Risus abest, nisi quem visi movere dolores. Nec fruitur somno, vigilacibus excita curis: Sed videt ingratos, intabescitque videndo, Successus hominum: carpitque et carpitur una: Suppliciumque suum est.”
See too the description of Envy in _Pierce Plowman_, sig. F ii. ed. 1561.
v. 908. _ledder_] i. e. leather, leathern.
Browne has the expression,—_Britannia’s Pastorals_, B. ii. S. 1. p. 18. ed. 1625.
Page 79. v. 915. _vnlusty_] i. e. unpleasant, unseemly.
v. 930. _bete_] i. e. agitated; or, perhaps, inflamed (the expression to _bete a fire_, to mend it, to make it burn, is a common one).
v. 936. _semblaunt_] i. e. semblance, appearance.
v. 969. _prosses_] Equivalent to “_relation_” in v. 961: see note on v. 735, p. 143.
v. 973. _As hym best lyst_] i. e. As best pleases him.
Page 81. v. 980. _bedell_] i. e., I apprehend, servitor: but Nares, MS. note on Skelton, explains it—beadsman.
v. 1002. _fauour_] i. e. appearance, look—or, perhaps, beauty,—in which sense the word occurs v. 1048.
v. 1003. _Ennewed_] See note on v. 775, p. 144.
_Her eyen gray and stepe_ ... _With her browes bent_]
“_Gray_ coloured _as ones eyes be vair_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxxviii. (Table of Adiect.):—_bent_, i. e. arched. Compare Hawes;
“Her forehead _stepe with_ fayre _browes ybent_ _Her eyen gray_.”
_The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. S i. ed. 1555.
I may just observe that these passages (and many others which might be cited) shew how unnecessarily Ritson substituted “brent” for “bent” in _The Squyr of Lowe Degre_; see his note, _Met. Rom._ iii. 351.
v. 1019. _Polexene_] i. e. Polyxena, the daughter of Priam,—celebrated by Lydgate in his _Warres of Troy_, and by others.
v. 1031. _The Indy saphyre blew_] _Indy_ may perhaps be used here for—Indian; but I believe the expression is equivalent to—the azure blue sapphire (Skelton in his _Garlande of Laurell_ has “_saphiris indy blew_,” v. 478, vol. i. 381); see note, p. 101. v. 17.