[Page 79.] v. 375. cordylar] i. e. cordelier,—a Franciscan friar, whose cincture is a cord.
v. 377. to] i. e. too.
v. 380. daucockes] i. e. simpletons: see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 381. reme] i. e. realm.
v. 382. Ge heme] Scottice for—Go home (as before in Why come ye nat to Courte, v. 123. vol. ii. 30).
v. 383. fonde] i. e. foolish.
[Page 79.] v. 386. mate you with chekmate] In allusion to the king’s being put in check at the game of chess. And see note, p. 355. v. 158.
v. 389. pype in a quibyble] The word quibyble, as far as I am aware, occurs only in Skelton. Chaucer has a well-known passage,
“And playen songes on a small ribible;