v. 1248. great estates] i. e. persons of great estate, or rank.

v. 1255. wawes wod] i. e. waves mad, raging.

v. 1257. Shote] i. e. Shoot, cast.

v. 1258. farre] i. e. farther:

“I wyl no farr mell.”

Gentylnes and Nobylyte, n. d. (attributed without grounds to Heywood), sig. C ii.

Page 360. v. 1262. the porte salu] i. e. the safe port. Skelton has the term again in his Garlande of Laurell, v. 541. vol. i. 383. Compare Hoccleve;

“whether our taill

Shall soone make us with our shippes saill

To port salu.”