Townley Myst. p. 149.
v. 281. Carowe] See note on v. 8. p. 121.
v. 282. carlyshe kynde] i. e. churlish nature.
v. 283. fynde] i. e. fiend.
Page 59. v. 284. vntwynde] i. e. tore to pieces, destroyed: so again in our author’s Garlande of Laurell;
“This goodly flowre with stormis was vntwynde.”
v. 1445. vol. i. 418.
Page 60. v. 290. Lybany] i. e. Libya.
v. 294. mantycors] “Another maner of bestes ther is in ynde that ben callyd manticora, and hath visage of a man, and thre huge grete teeth in his throte, he hath eyen lyke a ghoot and body of a lyon, tayll of a Scorpyon and voys of a serpente in suche wyse that by his swete songe he draweth to hym the peple and deuoureth them And is more delyuerer to goo than is a fowle to flee.” Caxton’s Mirrour of the world, 1480. sig. e vii. See also R. Holme’s Ac. of Armory, 1688. B. ii. p. 212.—This fabulous account is derived from Pliny.