[Footnote 24:  to keep off.]

[Footnote 25:  ever, always.]

[Footnote 26:  meadows.]

[Footnote 27:  grafted trees.]

[Footnote 28:  thick, stout.]

[Footnote 29:  liberty of pasture given to the Parker.]

[Footnote 30:  tender.]

[Footnote 31:  cows.]

[Footnote 32:  strong.]

[Footnote 33:  garden.]

[Footnote 34:  whitened.]

[Footnote 35:  cumfrey, a favourite dish at that time.]

[Footnote 36:  marygold.]

[Footnote 37:  hardened.]

[Footnote 38:  accustomed.]

[Footnote 39:  abide.  This line is also wrote, “Here wyll I obaie untill dethe appere,” but this is modernized.]

[Footnote 40:  deadly.]

[Footnote 41:  destroyeth, killeth.]

[Footnote 42:  grow.]

[Footnote 43:  lament.]

[Footnote 44:  much-loved, beloved.]

[Footnote 45:  cast out, ejected.]

[Footnote 46:  alluding to the portcullis, which guarded the gate, on which often depended the castle.]

[Footnote 47:  fate.]

[Footnote 48:  my only son.]

[Footnote 49:  dead.]

[Footnote 50:  cottages.]

[Footnote 51:  happiness.]

[Footnote 52:  monasterys.]

[Footnote 53:  only.]

[Footnote 54:  holy.]

[Footnote 55:  complexion.]

ECLOGUE THE SECOND.

  Sprytes[1] of the bleste, the pious Nygelle sed,
  Poure owte yer pleasaunce[2] onn mie fadres hedde.

    Rycharde of Lyons harte to fyghte is gon,
    Uponne the brede[3] sea doe the banners gleme[4];
    The amenused[5] nationnes be aston[6], 5
    To ken[7] syke[8] large a flete, syke fyne, syke breme[9]. 
    The barkis heafods[10] coupe[11] the lymed[12] streme;
    Oundes[13] synkeynge oundes upon the hard ake[14] riese;
    The water slughornes[15] wythe a swotye[16] cleme[17]
    Conteke[18] the dynnynge[19] ayre, and reche the skies. 10
  Sprytes of the bleste, on gouldyn trones[20] astedde[21],
  Poure owte yer pleasaunce onn mie fadres hedde.

    The gule[22] depeyncted[23] oares from the black tyde,
    Decorn[24] wyth fonnes[25] rare, doe shemrynge[26] ryse;
    Upswalynge[27] doe heie[28] shewe ynne drierie pryde, 15
    Lyche gore-red estells[29] in the eve[30]-merk[31] skyes;
    The nome-depeyncted[32] shields, the speres aryse,
    Alyche[33] talle roshes on the water syde;
    Alenge[34] from bark to bark the bryghte sheene[35] flyes;
    Sweft-kerv’d[36] delyghtes doe on the water glyde. 20
  Sprites of the bleste, and everich Seyncte ydedde,
  Poure owte youre pleasaunce on mie fadres hedde.