Page 162. v. 214. _miscreantys_] i. e. infidels. “These thre kynges were the fyrst of _myscreauntes_ that byleued on cryst.” _The three kynges of Coleyne_, sig. C ii. ed. 1526.
v. 225. _pekysh_] See note, p. 129. v. 409.
v. 230. _this_] i. e. thus; as before, see v. 181.
—— _ouerthwarted_] i. e. cavilled, wrangled. “To hafte or _ouerthwarte_ in a matter, to wrangle.” Baret’s _Alvearie_ in v.
v. 231. _proces_] i. e. subject-matter; see notes, p. 143. v. 735. p. 146. v. 969. p. 194. v. 157.
v. 244. _Dawcocke_] See note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 264. _forica_] Is Latin for a public jakes; and compare vv. 62, 183: but I cannot determine the meaning of it here.
v. 270. _Jacke Harys_] Must not be mistaken for the name of the person who called forth this piece; we have been already told that he “shall be nameless,” v. 38. So in our author’s _Magnyfycence_, Courtly Abusyon terms Cloked Colusyon “cankard _Jacke Hare_.” v. 768. vol. i. 250. There is a poem by Lydgate (at least attributed to him) concerning a personage called _Jak Hare_, of which the first stanza is as follows:
“A froward knave plainly to discryve And a sluggard plainly to declare A precious knave that cast hym never to thryve His mowth wele wet his slevis right thredebare A tourne broche a boy for wat of ware With louryng face noddyng and slombryng Of newe cristened called _Jak Hare_ Whiche of a bolle can pluk out the lyneng.”
Since the above note was written, the ballad on Jack Hare has been edited from _MS. Lansd._ 699. fol. 88. by Mr. Halliwell, among Lydgate’s _Minor Poems_, p. 52 (printed for the _Percy Society_). “The original of this,” says Mr. H. (p. 267), “is an Anglo-Norman poem of the 13th century, in MS. Digb. Oxon. 86. fol. 94, entitled ‘De Maimound mal esquier.’”
Page 164. v. 274. _federis_] i. e. feathers.
v. 290. _Apostata_] This form, as an English word, continued in use long after the time of Skelton.
v. 291. _Nestorianus_] “_Nestoriani_ quidam heretici qui beatam mariam non dei, sed hominis dicunt genitricem.” _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d.: but here _Nestorianus_ seems to be put for Nestorius, the founder of the sect.
v. 300. _This_] i. e. Thus; as before, see v. 181.
v. 301. _Dys church ye thus deprauyd_] To _deprave_ generally means—to vilify in words (as in our author’s _Colyn Cloute_, “_The Churche to depraue_,” v. 515. vol. i. 330); but (and see the poem _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c. v. 191. vol. ii. 73) here _deprauyd_ must be equivalent to—defiled.