3466. _qui manet, &c._ Epist. Joan. iv, 16.
3545. _Signes of Synay, | and shelles of Galice ... keyes of Rome._ It is perhaps hardly necessary to remark that the articles mentioned here were borne by the pilgrim to indicate the particular holy sites which he had visited. The reader will readily call to mind the lines of a modern poet:--
The summon'd Palmer came in place, His sable cowl o'erhung his face; In his black mantle was he clad, With _Peter's keys_ in cloth of red On his broad shoulders wrought; The _scallop shell_ his cap did deck; The crucifix around his neck Was from Loretto brought.
3622. _Seint Thomas shryne._ St. Thomas of Canterbury. It may not perhaps be generally known that an interesting description of this shrine, when in its glory, is given by Erasmus, Colloq. _Peregrinatio Religionis ergo._
3713. _eten apples un-rosted._ One of the many specimens of the burlesque manner in which scripture was frequently quoted in these times. A very singular passage (but in a tract professedly burlesque) occurs in the Reliquiæ Antiquæ, vol. i, p. 83:--"Peter askud Adam a full greyt dowtfull question, and seyd, 'Adam, Adam, why ete thu the appull unpard?' 'For sothe,' quod he, 'for y had no wardyns fryde.'"
3997. _the rode of Lukes._ The second Trin. Col. MS. has _be the rode of Chestre._ There was a famous cross at Lucca, but whether a part of the real cross, I have not ascertained. Calvin, in his most able and entertaining _Admonitio de Reliquiis_, declines undertaking a list of all the places where pieces of the real cross were shown. "Denique si congesta in acervum essent omnia quæ reperiri possent, integrum navis onus efficerent: cum tamen evangelium testificetur ab unico homine ferri potuisse. Quantæ igitur audaciæ fuit, ligneis frustis sic totum implere orbem, quibus ferendis ne trecenti quidem homines sufficiant?" _Calvini_, _Opusc._ p. 277. There was also at Lucca one of the impressions of our Saviour's face on the handkerchief of Veronica. The peculiar oath of William Rufus was by the holy face at Lucca.
4027. _with hey trolly lolly._ MS. Trin. Col. 2.
4154. In the second Trin. Col. MS. the passage stands as follows:--
Ne hadde Peris but a pese lof, Thei preyede hym beleve, And with a bene batte He hadde betwene, And hitte hunger therwith Amydde hise lippes, And blodde in it the bodyward A bolle ful of growel, Ne hadde the fisician ferst Defendite him watir, To abate the barly bred, And the benis y-grounde, Thei hadde be ded be this day, And dolven al warm. Faitours for fer, etc.