Out of fresshe Latine, &c.]
—fresshe, i. e. elegant: see note, p. 302. v. 39. This translation from the Latin of Poggio is mentioned with praise in Caxton’s Preface to The Boke of Eneydos, &c. 1490, and is still preserved in MS. among Parker’s Collection, in Corpus Ch. College, Cambridge: see Account of Skelton and his Writings, and Appendix ii.
Page 421. v. 1505. dome] i. e. judgment, thinking.
v. 1507. the noyse went to Rome] So Chaucer;
“And there came out so great a noyse,
That had it stonde vpon Oyse,
Men might haue heard it easely
To Rome, I trowe sikerly.”
House of Fame, B. iii.—Workes, fol. 270. ed. 1602.
v. 1508. shoke] i. e. shook.