MS. Cott. Tit. B i. fol. 365.
[Page 63.] v. 1182. wheled] i. e. whealed, wealed, or waled.
v. 1185. It was nat heled alderbest]—alderbest, i. e. best of all,—thoroughly.
v. 1187. Domyngo Lomelyn, &c.] In The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry the Eighth are several entries, relating to payments of money won by this Lombard from the King at cards and dice, amounting, in less than three years, to above 620 l.: see pp. 17, 32, 33, 37, 190, 204, 205, 267, 270 of that work, edited by Sir H. Nicolas, who observes (p. 316) that Domingo “was, like Palmer and others, one of Henry’s ‘diverting vagabonds,’ and seems to have accompanied His Majesty wherever he went, for we find that he was with him at Calais in October, 1532.”
v. 1192. puskylde pocky pose]—puskylde, i. e. pustuled: pose, i. e. defluxion.
v. 1197. neder] i. e. nether, lower.
v. 1201. toke ... warke] i. e. took ... work.
[Page 64.] v. 1209. To wryght of this glorious gest, &c.] If the text be right, gest must mean—guest: so in Magnyfycence; “thou art a fonde gest.” v. 1109. vol. i. 261. But perhaps the true reading of the passage is,
“To wryght this glorious gest
Of this vayne gloryous best,”