“I purpose to shake oute

All my connyng bagge,

Lyke a clerkely hagge.”

v. 50. vol. i. 313.

and in his poem Howe the douty Duke of Albany, &c.;

“For thou can not but brag,

Lyke a Scottyshe hag.”

v. 294. vol. ii. 76.

v. 20. Haue in sergeaunt ferrour] i. e. Bring in sergeant farrier. “Ferrour. Ferrarius. Ferrator.” Prompt. Parv. ed. 1499. The title sergeant belongs properly to certain of the king’s servants: so in an unpublished Liber Excerpt. Temp. Hen. vii. et Hen. viii. in the Chapter-house, Westminster;

(xix. of Hen. vii.)“Item payd to the sergeant plummer and bartram opon their indentures for grenewichexxli.”