“Who was wyth loue: more _wofully arayed_ Than were these twayne.”
Hawes’s _Pastime of pleasure_, sig. I iiii. ed. 1555.
“I am fowle _arayed_ with a chyne cowgh. _Laceor_ pertussi.”—“He was sore _arayed_ with sycknesse. Morbo atrociter _conflictus est_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sigs. II iii. I ii. ed. 1530.
v. 5. _bloo_] i. e. livid; see note, p. 103. v. 3.
v. 14. _mowid_] i. e. made mouths at, mocked.
_Entretid thus in most cruell wyse,_ _Was like a lombe offerd in sacrifice_]
_Entretid_, i. e. Treated. So in a “litel dite” by Lydgate, appended to his _Testamentum_;
“Drawen as a felon _in moost cruel wyse_ ... _Was lik a lamb offryd in sacrifise_.”
v. 29. _bobbid_] i. e. struck. So Lydgate in the piece just cited;
and in the _Coventry Mysteries_, Nichodemus seeing Christ on the cross, says
“Why haue ȝe _bobbyd_ and thus betyn owth All his blyssyd blood?”
v. 30. _Onfayned_] Generally means un-glad, displeased, which even in the forced sense of—to my sorrow, is against the intention of the passage: it seems to be used here for—Unfeignedly: and see note, p. 207. v. 81.
“Youth _dayneth_ counsell, scorning discretion.”
Barclay’s _Fifth Egloge_, sig. D ii. ed. 1570.
v. 48. _Butt gyve me thyne hert_]—_hert_, i. e. heart. With this and v. 41 compare Lydgate’s “litel dite” already cited;
“_Gyff me thyn herte_, and be no mor _vnkynde_.”
Page 143. v. 49. _wrouȝt_] i. e. wrought, formed.
v. 60. _blow_] i. e. livid; see note, p. 103. v. 3.
This piece is mentioned by Skelton as his own composition in the _Garlands of Laurell_, v. 1420. vol. i. 417.
_Now synge we as we were wont,_ _Vexilla regis prodeunt_]
“Wherefore _I synge as I was wont_ _Vexilla regis prodeunt_.”
_Poem about various birds singing praises to God_,—_MS. Harl._ 2251. fol. 38.
The hymn _Vexilla regis prodeunt_, &c. may be seen in _Hymni Ecclesiæ e Breviario Parisiensi_, 1838, p. 71. I ought to add that the present poem is not a translation of it.
v. 3. _onfelde is [s]playd_] i. e. is displayed on field.
v. 14. _spylt_] i. e. destroyed, put to death.
v. 33. _chere_] i. e. spirit,—or reception.
Page 146. v. 60. _isprode_] i. e. spread.
v. 72. _Withouten nay_] i. e. Without contradiction, assuredly.
Page 147. v. 7. _gentis Agarenæ_] i. e. of the race of Hagar.