Page 254. v. 885. I befoule his pate] i. e. I befool, &c. (not befoul), as it would seem from v. 1057, “I befole thy face;” and v. 1829, “I befole thy brayne pan.”
v. 886. fonne iet] i. e. foolish fashion (see note on v. 458. p. 242).
v. 887. From out of Fraunce] So Barclay;
“Reduce courtiers clerely vnto your remembraunce,
From whence this disguising was brought wherin ye go,
As I remember it was brought out of France.”
The Ship of Fooles, fol. 9. ed. 1570.
Borde, in his Boke of knowledge, introduces a Frenchman saying,
“I am ful of new inuencions