—brent, i. e. burned. A somewhat profane allusion to the scriptural expression “the worm dieth not;”—(worm and serpent were formerly synonymous).
v. 1332. infernall posty]—posty, i. e. power. So Lydgate;
“Of heuene and erthe and infernal pooste.”
Testamentum,—MS. Harl. 2255. fol. 47.
v. 1333. rosty] i. e. roast.
v. 1335. wood] i. e. mad, wild.
v. 1340. frounsid] i. e. wrinkled.
v. 1344. Primo Regum] i. e. The First Book of Kings, or, as it is now called, The First Book of Samuel, chap, xxviii.
“Primo regum as ye may playnly reade.”
Lydgate’s Fall of Prynces, B. ii. leaf xxxix. ed. Wayland.