v. 1418. _Wofully arayd_] In vol. i. 141.
v. 1420. _Vexilla regis_] In vol. i. 144.
v. 1421. _Sacris solemniis_] As the still-extant piece mentioned in the preceding line, and headed _Vexilla regis_, &c., is not a translation of that hymn, so we may with probability conclude that this was not a version of the hymn beginning “_Sacris solemniis_ juncta sint gaudia,” which may be found in _Hymni Ecclesiæ e Breviario Parisiensi_, 1838. p. 94.
Chaucer’s _Prol. to Cant. Tales_, v. 433. ed. Tyr.
_Poems_ by C. Duke of Orleans,—_MS. Harl._ 682. fol. 103.
—— _Auycen_] An Arabian physician of the tenth century.
Page 418. v. 1428. _Albumasar_] See note, p. 133. v. 501.
—— _ken_] i. e. instruct (pleonastically coupled with “enforme,” as in v. 825).
v. 1433. _Dun is in the myre_] A proverbial expression, which occurs in Chaucer’s _Manciples Prol._ v. 16954. ed. Tyrwhitt (who conjectured that _Dun_ was a nickname given to the ass from his colour), and is common in writers long after the time of Skelton. Gifford was the first to shew that the allusion is to a Christmas gambol, in which _Dun_ (the cart-horse) is supposed to be stuck _in the mire_; see his note on Jonson’s _Works_, vii. 283.
v. 1435. _spar the stable dur_] i. e. fasten, shut the stable-door; see note, p. 207. v. 91.
v. 1437. _sone aspyed_] i. e. soon espied.
v. 1438. _wele wotith_] i. e. well knoweth.
v. 1439. _lucerne_] i. e. lamp. So in the _Lenvoye_ to Chaucer’s _Cuckow and Nightingale_;
“Aurore of gladnesse, and day of lustinesse, _Lucerne_ a night with heauenly influence Illumined.”
v. 1445. _vntwynde_] See note, p. 127. v. 284.
v. 1446. _ieloffer_] See note, p. 147. v. 1052.
v. 1450. _all to-fret_] i. e. altogether eaten up, consumed: see note, p. 100. v. 32.
_But who may haue a more vngracyous lyfe_ _Than a chyldis birds and a knauis wyfe_]
This proverbial expression occurs in Lydgate;
“Vnto purpos this prouerd is full ryfe Rade and reported by olde remembraunce _A childes birdde and a knavis wyfe_ Haue often sieth gret sorowe and myschaunce.”
_The Chorle and the Bird_,—_MS. Harl._ 116. fol. 151.
v. 1455. _By Mary Gipcy_] In much later writers we find, as an interjection, _marry gep_, _marry gip_, _marry guep_, _marry gup_. v. 1456. _Quod scripsi, scripsi_] From the Vulgate, _Joan._ xix. 22.