“What quoth Doctryne where is he now That meued this mater straunge and _dyffuse_.”
Lydgate’s _Assemble de dyeus_, sig. f ii. n. d. 4to.
“Whyche is _defuse_, and right fallacyous.”
Hawes’s _Pastime of pleasure_, sig. H i. ed. 1555.
“But oft yet by it [logick] a thing playne, bright and pure, Is made _diffuse_, vnknowen, harde and obscure.”
Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, fol. 53. ed. 1570.
v. 775. _enneude_] “I _Ennewe_ I set the laste and fresshest coloure vpon a thyng as paynters do whan their worke shall remayne to declare their connyng, _Je renouuelle_. Your ymage is in maner done, so sone as I haue _ennewed_ it I wyl sende it you home,” &c. Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccxxvi. (Table of Verbes).
“Ylike _enewed_ with quickenes of coloure, Both of the rose and the lyly floure.”
Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sig. I ii. ed. 1555.
“And the one shylde was _enewed_ with whyte, and the other shelde was reed.” _Morte d’Arthur_, B. iii. c. ix. vol. i. 81. ed. Southey.
v. 791. _Solacious_] i. e. affording amusement.
v. 793. _enprowed_] In the Glossary to Fry’s _Pieces of Ancient Poetry_, 1814, where a portion of the present poem is given, _enprowed_ is rendered “profited of:” the whole passage is very obscure.
—— _Johnn Lydgate_ _Wryteth after an hyer rate_]
Lydgate, however, disclaims all elevation of style: see his _Fall of Prynces_, Prol. sig. A iii. ed. Wayland; his _Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sigs. F ii, K. ii, B. v. sigs. E e i. ii. iii. ed. 1555.
v. 806. _dyffuse_] i. e. difficult: see note on v. 768, _supra._
v. 809. _No man that can amend_, &c.] So Hawes, speaking of the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate;
“Whose famous draughtes _no man can amende_.”
_The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. G iiii. ed. 1555.
v. 812. _to haute_] i. e. too high, too loftily.
Page 76. v. 817. _In worth_] See note, p. 95. v. 68.
_If Arethusa wyll send_ _Me enfluence to endyte_]
Skelton recollected that Virgil had invoked this nymph as a Muse;
“Extremum hunc, _Arethusa_, mihi concede laborem.”
v. 886. _Perce and Mede_] i. e. Persia and Media.
_She floryssheth new and new_ _In bewte and vertew_]
“And euer encrecyng _in vertue new and newe_.”
_The Temple of Glas._, sig. b vii. n. d. 4to.
See also his _Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sig. II i. B. iii. sig. S i. ed. 1555; and Chaucer, _The Pardoneres Tale_, v. 12863. ed. Tyr.