“Your aureate tongis both bene all to lyte,” &c.
Poems, i. 13. ed. Laing.
v. 17. xalte] i. e. shalt.
—— warse] i. e. worse.
v. 18. They] i. e. Thy; as in the preceding poem.
Page 127. v. 23. lest good kan] i. e. that knows the least good.
v. 25. wylage] i. e. village.
v. 28. Lothsum as Lucifer] So in The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy (see note, p. 177. v. 4), “Luciferis laid.” Dunbar’s Poems, ii. 75. ed. Laing.
v. 29. gasy] i. e. gaze, look proudly.
v. 30. Syr Pers de Brasy] i. e. Pierre de Brézé, grand-seneschal of Anjou, Poitou, and Normandy, and a distinguished warrior during the reigns of Charles vii. and Lewis xi.: he fell at the battle of Montlhéry in 1465.