v. 774. warhe] i. e. work.
v. 775. asayde] i. e. tried, proved.
Page 393. v. 776. cronell] i. e. coronal, garland.
v. 786. of there lewdnesse] May mean (as Nott explains it, Surrey’s Works, i.—Append. p. ix.)—of their ignorance, ignorantly; but I rather think the expression is here equivalent to,—evilly, impudently.
v. 787. tappettis and carpettis] See note on v. 474. p. 311.
v. 790. To weue in the stoule] So Chaucer;
“And weauen in stole the radevore.”
Leg. of Philomene, fol. 195.—Workes, ed. 1602.
and Hall; “On their heades bonets of Damaske syluer flatte wouen in the stole, and therupon wrought with gold,” &c. Chron. (Hen. viii.) fol. vii. ed. 1548.—Mr. Albert Way observes to me that in Prompt. Parv. MS. Harl. 221, is “Lyncent werkynge instrument for sylke women. Liniarium,” while the ed. of 1499 has “Lyncet workinge stole;” and he supposes the stole (i. e. stool) to have been a kind of frame, much like what is still used for worsted work, but, instead of being arranged like a cheval glass, that it was made like a stool,—the top being merely a frame or stretcher for the work.
—— preste] i. e. ready.