[ [660] Ibid.
[ [661] That is, they were frighted, expecting to be drowned by the rising of the water.
[ [662] Froissart's Chronicle by lord Berners, vol. iii. chap. 392, fol. 272.
[ [663] Dæmonologie.
[ [664] See "The Conjuror Unveiled," a small pamphlet translated from the French; which gives a full account of these curious pieces of mechanism, and of several others equally surprising.
[ [665] Mr. Tyrwhitt, in his excellent edition of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," vol. iii. p. 299.
[ [666] "The Daunce of Macabre," translated, or rather paraphrased, from the French. In this Daunce, Death is represented addressing himself to persons of all ranks and ages. John Lydgate was a monk of St. Edmondsbury Abbey. MS. Harl. No. 116.
[ [667] The meaning is, that Death will come shortly, and not be deceived by any false appearances.
[ [668] Schevid, for achieved, that is to say, performed.
[ [669] Or any astrological judgment derived from the stars or their influence; for the jugglers usually pretended to be astrologers and soothsayers. See the Essay on Ancient Minstrels, prefixed to the Reliques of Ancient Poetry, by the bishop of Dromore.