l. 15. perihermeniall principles] i. e. principles of interpretation. “Periermeniæ, Interpretationes; vox Græcæ originis περὶ ἑρμηνείας.” Du Cange’s Gloss.
l. 17. leudly] i. e. ignorantly—or perhaps, wickedly.
l. 23. surcudant] i. e. presumptuous, arrogant.
l. 24. popholy] Occurs again several times in our author’s writings, and with the more correct spelling,—popeholy. In Pierce Plowman we find,
“And none so singuler by him selfe, nor so pope holy.”
Sig. T ii. ed. 1561.
In Chaucer’s Romaunt of the Rose is the following description;
“Another thing was doen their [there] write,
That seemed like an ipocrite,