Botte lette ne wordes, whiche droorie mote ne heare,
Bee placed in the same ——.
The only sense that I know of druerie is courtship, gallantry, which will not suit with this passage.
17. FONNES. E. II. 14. Æ 421. FONS. T. 4.
Decorn wyth fonnes rare ——
On of the fonnis whych the clerche have made.
Quayntyssed fons depictedd on eche sheelde.
A fonne in Chaucer signifies a fool, and fonnes—fools; and Spenser uses fon in the same sense; nor do I believe that it ever had any other meaning.
18. KNOPPED. M. 14.
Theyre myghte ys knopped ynne the froste of fere.
Knopped is used by Chaucer to signifie fastened with a button, from knoppe, a button; but what poet, that knew the meaning of his words, would say that any thing was buttoned with frost?
19. LECTURN. Le. 46.
An onlist lecturn and a songe adygne.