v. 1196. wele] i. e. well.
v. 1198. Of manerly maistres Margery Mylke and Ale, &c.] In vol. i. 28. is one of the “many maters of myrthe” which Skelton here says that he “wrote to her.”
v. 1202. Lor] A corruption of Lord.
v. 1203. Gingirly, go gingerly] “Gyngerly: A pas menus, as Allez a pas menu ma fille.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. ccccxli. (Table of Aduerb.).
Page 410. v. 1206. This fustiane maistres and this giggisse gase] maistres, i. e. mistress: giggisse, i. e. giggish,—which Forby gives, with the sense of—trifling, silly, flighty (Vocab. of East Anglia); but here perhaps the word implies something of wantonness: gase, i. e. goose.
Page 410. v. 1207. wrenchis] See note, p. 100. v. 25.
v. 1209. shuld not crase] i. e. that it should not break.
v. 1210. It may wele ryme, but shroudly it doth accorde]—wele, i. e. well: shroudly, i. e. shrewdly, badly. A copy of verses on Inconsistency by Lydgate has for its burden,
“It may wele ryme, but it accordith nought.”
MS. Harl. 2251. fol. 26.