_Cidippes, the mayd,_ _That of Aconcyus whan she founde the byll, &c._]
—_Cidippes_, i. e. Cydippe; see note on v. 290. p. 307: _the byll_; i. e. the writing,—the verses which Acontius had written on the apple.
—— _lady Anne Dakers of the Sowth_] The wife of Thomas Lord Dacre, was daughter of Sir Humphrey Bourchier, son of John Lord Berners and of Elizabeth Tylney, who (see note on v. 399) afterwards became the first wife of the second Duke of Norfolk.
v. 893. _his crafte were to seke_] i. e. his skill were at a loss.
Page 398. v. 897. _Princes_] i. e. Princess.
v. 899. _Paregall_] i. e. Equal (thoroughly equal).
v. 901. _surmountynge_] i. e. surpassing.
v. 902. _sad_] See note, p. 264. v. 1711.
v. 903. _lusty lokis_] i. e. pleasant looks.
—— _mastres Margery Wentworthe_] Perhaps the second daughter of Sir Richard Wentworth, afterwards married to Christopher Glemham of Glemham in Suffolk.
v. 906. _margerain ientyll_] “Marierome is called ... in English, Sweet Marierome, Fine Marierome, and _Marierome gentle_; of the best sort Marjerane.” Gerard’s _Herball_, p. 664. ed. 1633.
Page 399.—— _mastres Margaret Tylney_] A sister-in-law, most probably, of the second Duke of Norfolk. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Frederick Tylney of Ashwell-Thorpe, Norfolk, knight, and widow of Sir Humphrey Bourchier, son of John Lord Berners: his second wife was Agnes, daughter of Sir Hugh Tylney, and sister and heir to Sir Philip Tylney of Boston, Lincolnshire, knight; see third note, preceding page.
Their tale is told in the _Conf. Am._ by Gower; he expresses no horror at their incestuous passion, but remarks on the cruelty of their father, who
“for he was to loue strange, He wolde not his herte change To be benigne and fauourable To loue, but vnmerciable!”
(and see the lines cited in note on v. 1048. p. 324). Lydgate (_Fall of Prynces_, B. i. leaf xxxv. ed. Wayland) relates the story with a somewhat better moral feeling.
Page 399. v. 935. _iwus_] Or _i-wis_ (adv.),—i. e. truly, certainly.
v. 936. _Endeuoure me_] i. e. Exert myself.
v. 942. _Intentyfe_] “_Intentyfe_ hedefull.”—“_Ententyfe_, busy to do a thynge or to take hede to a thyng.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fols. lxxxx. lxxxvii. (where both are rendered by the Fr. _ententif_).