v. 126. _elenkes_] i. e. elenchs (_elenchus_—in logic).
v. 132. _prouoke and tyse_] i. e. incite and entice.
v. 143. _exhibycion_] i. e. allowance of money.
Page 214. v. 156. _brute_] i. e. saying, proverb.
v. 172. _shayle_] See note, p. 97. v. 19.
Page 214. v. 175. _babyls_] i. e. baubles.
Page 215. v. 196. _face_] i. e. face out.
v. 204. _lollardy_] i. e. heretical; see note, p. 204. v. 145.
v. 206. _predycacion_] i. e. declaration,—or preaching.
v. 212. _muse_] Is properly the opening in a fence or thicket, through which a hare or other beast of sport, is accustomed to pass: see Nares’s _Gloss._ in v. and Moor’s _Suff. Words_, in v. _Mewse_.
_With blowyng out your hornes,_ ... _With chatyng and rechatyng_]
Whatever Skelton may have meant by “chatyng,”—(perhaps he uses it for _chatting_,—in the next line we have “pratyng”),—_rechatyng_ is properly a hunting-term, and signifies sounding the _rechate_ or _recheat_ (Fr.), a certain set of notes blown with the horn to recal the dogs.
Page 216. v. 220. _bremely_] i. e. fiercely, roughly.
v. 247. _popeholy_] See note on prose of this piece, l. 24. p. 230.
Page 217. v. 260. _echone_] i. e. each one.
v. 267. _the people of lay fee_] i. e. the laity; as again in our author’s _Colyn Cloute_;
v. 403. (where MS. omits “fee”) vol. i. 326:
_fee_, i. e. possessions; see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._, and Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._ in v.
v. 274. _snapper_] i. e. stumble; but see note, p. 92. v. 4.
v. 281. _latria_] “Le culte que nous déférons à Dieu seul, nous l’appellons _Latrie_ [λατρεία].” _Perroniana_, p. 312. ed. 1740.
_But, I trowe, your selfe ye ouerse_ _What longeth to Christes humanyte._ _If ye haue reed de hyperdulia,_ _Than ye knowe what betokeneth dulia_]
—_ouerse_, i. e. overlook: _longeth_, i. e. belongeth. “L’adoration de _Superdulie_ est celle qui se défère à la Vierge, et elle est plus eminente pour la grace qu’elle a reçu de Dieu, plus particuliere que les autres Saints, pour avoir porté le Fils de Dieu en ses entrailles.” _Perroniana_, p. 71. “Aux Saints nous déférons l’honneur qu’on appelle _Dulie_.” _Id._ p. 312. ed. 1740. “_Dulia_ [δουλεία] enim adoratio est, quæ etiam creaturæ exhibetur, quæ duas species habet, unam quæ hominibus indifferenter, alteram quæ soli humanitati Christi exhibetur.” Gaufridus Abbas in Epist. ad Albinum Cardinalem,—cited by Du Cange, _Gloss._ in v.