v. 1521. Basyan the bolde, for all his brybaunce] Basyan is, I suppose, Antoninus Bassianus Caracalla (he is called “Basian” in Robert of Gloucester’s Chron. p. 76. sqq.): brybaunce would seem to mean—plundering (properly, pilfering); see note on v. 1242. p. 256.
v. 1522. Alerycus] i. e. Alaric.
—— the Gothyaunce] i. e. the Goths.
—— swerd] i. e. sword.
v. 1524. maysyd] i. e. bewildered, confounded—stupid.
v. 1525. fole] i. e. fool.
v. 1526. Galba, whom his galantys garde for agaspe] i. e. (I suppose) Galba, whom his gallants (soldiers) made to gasp:—they assassinated him:—see gar in v. 1532.
v. 1527. nother set by] i. e. neither valued, regarded.
v. 1528. Vaspasyan, that bare in his nose a waspe] This passage is explained by the following lines of a poem never printed, entitled The Sege of Jerusalem:
“His fader Vaspasiane ferly bytydde