v. 90. your scrybys nolle] i. e. your scribe’s head,—Godfrey’s; see note on title of the preceding poem, p. 180.
v. 91. fonde] i. e. foolish.
v. 93. make] i. e. compose verses.
v. 94. dawpate] i. e. simple pate, simpleton; see note, p. 113. v. 301.
Page 123. v. 101. Bolde bayarde] The proverbial expression, “as bold as blind bayard,”—(bayard, properly a bay horse, but used for a horse in general),—is very ancient, and of very frequent occurrence in our early literature; its origin is not known:
“For blynde bayarde caste peryll of nothynge,
Tyll that he stumblyng fall amydde the lake.”
Lydgate’s Warres of Troy, B. v. sig. E e ii. ed. 1555.
v. 102. kynde] i. e. nature.
v. 108.