“But wayte his death & his fatall eure.”
Id. sig. A a i.
“And fortune which hath the such vre y sent.”
Poems by C. Duke of Orleans,—MS. Harl. 682, fol. 24.
v. 1014. played so checkemate] In allusion to the king’s being put in check at the game of chess.
v. 1017. mell] i. e. meddle.
v. 1019. kayser] See note, p. 247. v. 796.
v. 1020. at the playsure of one, &c.] Meaning, surely, Wolsey.
v. 1025. not so hardy on his hede] An elliptical expression; compare v. 1154. In the Morte d’Arthur when Bors is on the point of slaying King Arthur, “Not soo hardy sayd syr launcelot vpon payn of thy hede, &c.” B. xx. c. xiii. vol. ii. 411. ed. Southey.
v. 1026. To loke on God in forme of brede]—loke, i. e. look: brede, i. e. bread. A not unfrequent expression in our early writers.