v. 285. scornnys] i. e. scorns.
v. 286. hode] i. e. hood.
v. 287. by Cockes blode] i. e. by God’s blood (Cock a corruption of God). “The Host’s oath in Lydgate,” says Warton, note on Hist. of E. P., ii. 349. ed. 4to. It occurs often in other writers.
v. 288. bote] i. e. bit.
v. 289. His face was belymmed, as byes had him stounge] i. e. His face was disfigured, as if bees had stung him.—In a fragment of Lydgate’s Fall of Prynces, MS. Harl. 2251. fol. 97, we find
“So that a by myght close hem both two
Vnder his wynges;”
where Wayland’s ed. (B. ii. leaf li.) has “a Bee.”
v. 290. jape] i. e. jest, joke.