Page 31. v. 39. kyste] i. e. cast.
v. 40. what she had lode] i. e. what she had been freighted with.
Page 32. v. 44. prece] i. e. press,—the throng.
v. 49. hyghte] i. e. is called.
v. 50. estate] i. e. high rank, dignity.
v. 54. chaffre] i. e. merchandise.
v. 58. traues] Means here a sort of low curtain or screen.—Hall, describing the preparations for combat between the Dukes of Hereford and Norfolk, tells us that the former, having entered the lists, “set hym doune in a chayer of grene veluet whiche was set in a trauers of grene and blewe veluet,” &c.; and that the latter “satte doune in his chayer whiche was Crimosen Veluet, cortened [curtained] aboute with white and redde Damaske.” Chron. (Henry IV.) fol. iii. ed. 1548.—At a later period, curtains, which were used on the stage as substitutes for scenes, were called traverses. See also Singer’s note on Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey, p. 167. ed. 1827, and Sir H. Nicolas’s note on Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York, p. 259.
v. 60. trone] i. e. throne.
v. 61. spere] i. e. sphere.
v. 63. connynge] i. e. knowledge,—skill.