v. 871. Creisseid] See Chaucer’s Troilus and Creseide.
—— Polexene] i. e. Polyxena, the daughter of Priam.
v. 872. enuyue] i. e. envive, enliven, excite.
Page 397. v. 874. hole] i. e. whole.
—— lady Mirriell Howarde] Could not have been Muriel, daughter of the second Duke of Norfolk; for she, after having been twice married, died in 1512, anterior to the composition of the present poem. Qy. was the Muriel here celebrated the Duke’s grandchild,—one of those children of the Earl and Countess of Surrey, whose names, as they died early, have not been recorded? Though Skelton compares her to Cidippe, and terms her “madame,” he begins by calling her “mi litell lady.”
v. 880. curteyse] i. e. courteous.
v. 881. Whome fortune and fate playnly haue discust]—discust, i. e. determined. So again our author in Why come ye nat to Courte;
“Allmyghty God, I trust,
Hath for him dyscust,” &c.
v. 747. vol. ii. 50.