v. 505. _Haly_] Another famous Arabian: “claruit circa A. C. 1100.” Fabr. _Bibl. Gr._ xiii. 17.
v. 509. _Partlot his hen_] So in Chaucer’s _Nonnes Preestes Tale_; Lydgate’s copy of verses (entitled in the Catalogue _Advices for people to keep a guard over their tongues_), _MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 132; and G. Douglas’s Prol. to the xii Booke of his _Eneados_, p. 401. l. 54. ed. Ruddiman, who conjectures that the name was applied to a hen in reference to the ruff (the _partlet_), or ring of feathers about her neck.
Page 67. v. 522. _thurifycation_] i. e. burning incense.
Page 67. v. 524. _reflary_] As I have already noticed, should probably be “reflayre,”—i. e. odour. See Roquefort’s _Gloss. de la Lang. Rom._ in v. _Flareur_, and _Suppl._ in v. _Fleror;_ and Cotgrave’s _Dict._ in v. _Reflairer_. In _The Garlande of Laurell_ our author calls a lady “_reflaring_ rosabell.” v. 977. vol. i. 401.
“Strowed wyth floures, of all goodly _ayre_.”
Hawes’s _Pastime of pleasure_, sig. D iiii. ed. 1555.
See too _The Pistill of Susan_, st. viii.—Laing’s _Early Pop. Poetry of Scot._
v. 534. _bemole_] i. e. in B molle, soft or flat. So in the last stanza of a poem by W. Cornishe, printed in Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568;
“I kepe be rounde and he by square The one is _bemole_ and the other bequare.”
_Plinni sheweth all_ _In his story naturall_]
See _Historia Naturalis_, lib. x. sect. 2.
v. 540. _incyneracyon_] i. e. burning to ashes.
Page 68. v. 552. _the sedeane_] Does it mean subdean, or subdeacon?
v. 553. _The quere to demeane_] i. e. to conduct, direct the choir.
v. 556. _the noble fawcon_] “There are seuen kinds of Falcons, and among them all for her _noblenesse_ and hardy courage, and withal the francknes of her mettell, I may, and doe meane to place the Falcon gentle in chiefe,” Turbervile’s _Booke of Falconrie_, &c. p. 25. ed. 1611.
v. 557. _the gerfawcon_] “Is a gallant Hawke to behold, more huge then any other kinde of Falcon, &c.” _Id._ p. 42.
v. 558. _The tarsell gentyll_] Is properly the male of the gosshawk; but Skelton probably did not use the term in its exact meaning, for in the fifth line after this he mentions “the goshauke.” It is commonly said (see Steevens’s note on _Romeo and Juliet_, act ii. sc. 2.) to be called _tiercel_ because it is a _tierce_ or third less than the female. But, according to Turbervile, “he is termed a _Tyercelet_, for that there are most commonly disclosed three birds in one selfe eyree, two Hawkes and one Tiercell.” _Booke of Falconrie_, &c. p. 59. ed. 1611.