v. 304. sadde] See note, p. 264. v. 1711.
v. 305. ower soleyne seigneour Sadoke]—soleyne, i. e. sullen: in applying the name Sadoke to Wolsey, Skelton alludes to the high-priest of Scripture, not to the knight of the Round Table.
v. 306. nostre dame de Crome] So in A Mery Play between Johan the Husbande, Tyb his Wyfe, and Syr Jhan the Preest, 1533, attributed to Heywood;
“But, by goggis blod, were she come home
Unto this my house, by our lady of Crome,
I wolde bete her or that I drynke.”
p. 1. reprint.
v. 307. assone] i. e. as soon.
v. 308. to exployte the man owte of the mone] i. e. to achieve the feat of driving the man out of the moon.
v. 309.