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Kene) sharpe.

Gride) perced: an olde word much vsed of Lidgate, but not found (that I know of) in Chaucer.

Ronts) young bullockes.

Wracke) ruine or Violence, whence commeth shipwracke: and not wreake, that is vengeaunce or wrath.

Foeman) a foe.

Thenot) the name of a shepheard in Marot his Æglogues.

The soueraigne of Seas) is Neptune the God of the seas. The saying is borowed of Mimus Publianus, which vsed this prouerb in a verse.}} Improbè Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit.

Heardgromes.) Chaucers verse almost whole.

Fond Flyes) He compareth carelesse sluggardes or ill husbandmen to flyes, that so soone as the sunne shineth, or yt wexeth any thing warme, begin to flye abroade when sodeinly they be ouertaken with cold:

But eft when) A verye excellent and liuely description of Winter, so as may bee indifferently taken, eyther for old Age, or for Winter season.

Breme) chill, bitter.

Chamfred) chapt, or wrinckled.

Accoied) plucked downe and daunted.

Surque drie) pryde.

Elde) olde age.

Sicker) sure.

Tottie) wauering.

Corbe) crooked.

Herie) worshippe.

Phyllis) the name of some mayde vnknowen, whom Cuddie, whose person is secrete, loued. The name is vsuall in Theocritus, Virgile, and Mantuane.

Belte) a girdle or wast band.

A fon) a foole.

lythe) soft & gentile.

Venteth) snuffeth in the wind.

Thy flocks Father) the Ramme.

Crags) neckes