v. 1211. _pyke ... potshorde_] i. e. pick ... potsherd.
_Of my ladys grace at the contemplacyoun,_ _Owt of Frenshe into Englysshe prose,_ _Of Mannes Lyfe the Peregrynacioun,_ _He did translate, enterprete, and disclose_]
—_at the contemplacyoun_; see note on heading of Epitaph, p. 214: _my ladys grace_ means perhaps the mother of Henry the Seventh, the Countess of Derby; see note on title of Elegy, p. 226. Warton says that this piece was “from the French, perhaps, of Guillaume [de Guilleville] prior of Chalis. But it should be observed that Pynson printed _Peregrinatio humani generis_, 1508. 4to.” _Hist, of E. P._, ii. 337 (note), ed. 4to. _The Pylgremage of the Soule translatid oute of Frensshe in to Englysshe with somwhat of additions, the yere of our lord M.CCCC & thyrten, and endeth in the Vigyle of seynt Bartholomew Emprynted at Westmestre by William Caxton, And fynysshed the sixth day of Juyn, the yere of our lord, M.CCCC.LXXXIII And the first yere of the regne of kynge Edward the fyfthe_. fol., was taken from the French of Guillaume de Guilleville (see _Biog. Univ._ xix. 169); but, though Skelton was in all probability an author as early as 1583, there is no reason for supposing that the volume just described had received any revision from him. _Peregrinatio Humani Generis_, printed by Pynson in 4to., 1508, is, according to Herbert (_Typ. Ant._ ii. 430. ed. Dibdin), “in ballad verse, or stanzas of seven lines:” it cannot therefore be the piece mentioned here by Skelton, which he expressly tells us was in “_prose_.”
v. 1226. _creauncer_] See note, p. 193. v. 102.
Page 411. v. 1229. _Speculum Principis_] A piece by Skelton entitled _Methodos Skeltonidis Laureati_, sc. _Præcepta quædam moralia Henrico principi, postea Hen. viii. missa. Dat. apud Eltham. A.D. MDI._ was once among the MSS. in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, but is now marked as missing in the Catalogue of that collection, and has been sought for in vain. Whether it was the same work as that mentioned in the present passage, I am unable to determine.
v. 1233. _the Tunnynge of Elinour Rummyng_] In vol. i. 95.
—— _Iohnn Iue, with Ioforth Iack_] In 1511, a woman being indicted for heresy, “her husband deposed, that in the end of the reign of King Edward the Fourth, one _John Ive_ had persuaded her into these opinions, in which she had persisted ever since.” Burnet’s _Hist. of the Reform._ i. 51. ed. 1816. The words “with _Ioforth, Iack_,” were perhaps a portion of Skelton’s poem concerning this John Ive: _ioforth_ is an exclamation used in driving horses;