_Poems_ by C. Duke of Orleans,—_MS. Harl._ 682. fol. 44.
—— _enuayned with indy blew_] _enuayned_, i. e. enveined. “_Inde._ Fr., Azure-coloured.” Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss. to Chaucer’s Cant. Tales_. “Inde, _ynde_: couleur de bleu foncé, d’azur, _indicum_.” Roquefort’s _Gloss. de la Lang. Rom._ So again our author in his _Magnyfycence_;
“The streynes of her vaynes as asure _inde blewe_.”
See too his _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 478. vol. i. 381. Compare Hawes;
“Lyke to a lady: for to be moost trewe She ware a fayre: and goodly garment Of moost fyne veluet: al of _Indy blewe_ With armynes powdred: bordred at the vent.”
_The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. K iiii. ed. 1555.
and Nevil, son of Lord Latimer, in a poem of great rarity;
“On the gates two scryptures I aspyed Theym for to rede my mynd than I applyed Wryten in gold and _indye blewe_ for folkes fortheraunce.”
_The Castell of pleasure_, sig. A v. 1518.
“Of grasse and floures, _Inde_ and Pers.”
_Romaunt of the Rose_,—_Workes_, fol. 109. ed. 1602.
(monstrously explained in Urry’s ed. “Indian and Persian”): and Lydgate,
“Nor stonys al by nature, as I fynde, Be not saphires that shewethe _colour ynde_.”
_The Chorle and the Bird_,—_MS. Harl._ 116. fol. 150.
Sir John Mandeville says that the beak of the Phœnix “is coloured blew as _ynde_.” _Voiage and Travaile_, &c., p. 58. ed. 1725.
———— _the emeraud comendable;_ _Relucent smaragd_]
_Emeraud_ (emerald) and _smaragd_ are generally considered as synonymous; but here Skelton makes a distinction between them. So too Drayton in his _Muses Elizium_, 1630. p. 78; and Chamberlayne in his _Pharonnida_, 1659. B. ii. c. 4. p. 150. And so R. Holme: “The _Emrauld_ is green.”—“The _Smaradge_ is of an excellent fresh green, far passing any Leaf.” _Ac. of Armory_, 1688. B. ii. pp. 39, 41. James I. in his _Quair_ mentions
“The _panther_ like unto the _smaragdyne_.”
Chalmers’s _Poet. Rem. of Scot. Kings_, p. 85.
v. 22. _perspectyue_] Which generally signifies a glass to look through, seems here, from the context, to mean some sort of reflecting glass.
Page 25. v. 29. _Remorse_] Means commonly in early writers,—pity; but that sense is unsuited to the present passage: it seems to be used here for—remembrance, recollection.