“We xal the teche with carys colde
A lytyl bettyr to kepe thi kutte.”
MS. Cott. Vesp. D viii. fol. 123.
[Page 132.]—“Page 66. v. 485. at a brayde]” This expression is used here in connexion with singing: and in one of the Christmas Carols printed for the Percy Society, p. 51, we find,
“Wherefor syng we alle atte a brayde, nowell.”
[Page 147.]—“Page 84. v. 1078. Enhached] i. e. Inlaid,” &c. I ought to have observed that, though in the preceding line Skelton calls this beauty-spot a “sker” (scar), he means the wart already mentioned;
“Her beautye to augment,
Dame Nature hath her lent
A warte vpon her cheke,
Who so lyst to seke