With porpose and graundepose he may fede hym fatte,
Thowghe he pampyr not hys paunche with the grete seall]
—porpose and graundepose, i. e. porpoise and grampus. The pun in the second line is sufficiently plain.
v. 311. lokyd] i. e. looked.
v. 313. every deall] i. e. every part.
[Page 16.] v. 319. nodypollys] i. e. silly-heads.
—— gramatolys] i. e. smatterers.
v. 320. To ... sentence] i. e. Too ... meaning.
v. 326. sadlye] See note, p. 267. v. 1966.
—— Sydrake] So Wolsey is termed here in allusion to a romance (characterised by Warton as “rather a romance of Arabian philosophy than of chivalry,” Hist. of E. P., i. 143. ed. 4to), which was translated from the French by Hugh of Caumpeden, and printed in 1510, under the title of The Historie of King Boccus and Sydracke, &c.