and Skelton himself has afterwards in the present poem, “trumpettis and clariouns.” v. 1507.
v. 235. Eolus, your trumpet] i. e. Æeolus, your trumpeter.
“A trumpet stode and proudly gan to blowe,
Which slayne was and fro the tre doun throw.”
Lydgate’s Fall of Prynces, B. v. leaf cxxx. ed. Wayland.
So Chaucer makes Æolus trumpeter to Fame: see House of Fame, B. iii.
Page 371. v. 236. mercyall] i. e. martial.
v. 239. prease] i. e. press, throng.
v. 240. hole rowte] i. e. whole crowd, assembly.