“Atreus storye and Theseus cruel.”
The Ship of Fooles, fol. 96 [99], ed. 1570.
Page 204. l. 4. rested] i. e. roasted.
—— theim] i. e., perhaps, (if it be not a misprint for “him”) the guests: but the whole passage is scarcely intelligible.
l. 6. Ethiocles] So written in Locher’s Latin for Eteocles; and so Lydgate,—
“But make youre myrroure of Ethyocles.”
Storye of Thebes, Pars Prima, sig. C v. ed. 4to. n. d.
l. 12. collacion] Equivalent here, I believe, to comparison.
l. 17. cautellous] i. e. crafty, wily.
l. 25. pill] i. e. strip.