“Bycause that he hath ioye and great deintye
To reade in bokes of olde antiquitye.”
Lydgate’s Warres of Troy (Prologue), sig. B i. ed. 1555.
“Adew, dolour, adew! my daynte now begynis.”
Dunbar’s tale of The Tua Maryit Wemen and the Wedo,—Poems, i. 76. ed. Laing.
v. 154. it is surmountynge] i. e. it is surpassing, it excels.
v. 155. ony i. e. any.
Page 37. v. 173. lewde cok wattes]—lewde, i. e. ignorant, vile. Compare our author’s third copy of verses Against venemous tongues;
“Than ye may commaunde me to gentil Cok wat.”—vol. i. 132.
and his Magnyfycence;