“What grownd may this be? _Noe. The hyllys of Armonye._”
See also Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. i. leaf iiii. ed. Wayland, and Heywood’s _Foure P. P._, sig. A i. ed. n. d.
_Wherfore the birdes yet cry_ _Of your fathers bote_]
The reading of Kele’s ed., “bordes,” (as I have already observed _ad loc._) is perhaps the true one;—(compare _Pierce Plowman_;
“And [God] came to Noe anone, and bad him not let Swyth go shape a shype of shydes and of _bordes_.”
Page 59. v. 264. _prest_] See note on v. 127, preceding page.
v. 273. _vengeaunce I aske and crye_] Compare _Magnus Herodes_;
v. 281. _Carowe_] See note on v. 8. p. 121.
v. 282. _carlyshe kynde_] i. e. churlish nature.
Page 59. v. 284. _vntwynde_] i. e. tore to pieces, destroyed: so again in our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_;
“This goodly flowre with stormis was _vntwynde_.”
v. 294. _mantycors_] “Another maner of bestes ther is in ynde that ben callyd _manticora_, and hath visage of a man, and thre huge grete teeth in his throte, he hath eyen lyke a ghoot and body of a lyon, tayll of a Scorpyon and voys of a serpente in suche wyse that by his swete songe he draweth to hym the peple and deuoureth them And is more delyuerer to goo than is a fowle to flee.” Caxton’s _Mirrour of the world_, 1480. sig. e vii. See also R. Holme’s _Ac. of Armory_, 1688. B. ii. p. 212.—This fabulous account is derived from Pliny.
v. 296. _Melanchates, that hounde, &c._] See the story of Actæon in Ovid’s _Metam._;
“Prima _Melanchætes_ in tergo vulnera fecit.” iii. 232.
_That his owne lord bote,_ _Myght byte asondre thy throte!_]
—_bote_, i. e. bit.—So in _Syr Tryamoure_;
“He toke the stuarde by the _throte_, And _asonder_ he it _botte_.”
_Early Pop. Poetry_ (by Utterson), i. 28.
v. 311. _The wylde wolfe Lycaon_] See Ovid’s _Metam._ i. 163 sqq. for an account of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, being transformed into a wolf. I ought to add, that he figures in a work well known to the readers of Skelton’s time—_The Recuyel of the Historyes of Troy_.
Page 61. v. 325. _gentle of corage_]—_corage_, i. e. heart, mind, disposition. So in our author’s _Magnyfycence_; “Be _gentyll_ then _of corage_.” v. 2511. vol. i. 308.
v. 329. _departed_] i. e. parted. So in our old marriage-service; “till death us _depart_.”