Page 195. v. 5. polyandro] Polyandrum or polyandrium, (properly, multorum commune sepulchrum—πολυάνδριον)—“Interdum et sæpius apud ævi inferioris scriptores sumitur pro monumento aut sepulcro unius hominis.” Du Cange’s Gloss.—Here it means, of course, the tomb of Henry vii.—Whiting has anglicised the word in a poem appended to his Albino and Bellama, 1638;
“King Ethelbert’s clos’d in his Poliander.”
Sig. H 7.
v. 7. Titus hanc, &c.] i. e. Livy, who gives an account of Tanaquil, wife of Tarquinius Priscus: see his Hist. i. 34, &c.—“Tanaquilem Sidonius Apollinaris et Ausonius pro egregia uxore.” Cassellii Var. lib. i. c. xiii. p. 210 (Gruteri Lampas, iii.).
v. 19. Abyron] i. e. Abiram: see Numbers, ch. xvi.
Page 196. v. 25. perituræ parcere chartæ] Juvenal, Sat. i. 18.
—— phagolœdoros] i. e. (φαγολοιδόρους) convicia et maledicta devorantes.
WHY WERE YE CALLIOPE, &c.
were, i. e. wear: concerning this dress, worn, it would seem, by Skelton as Laureat, see Account of his Life and Writings.
Page 197. v. 16. somdele sere] i. e. somewhat dry, withered.