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410 J^OTES.that he was now called upon to do so.at any time within the first year, but not afterwards.A novice might leave the orderStanza I. This hindir nycht, this night past ; answering to our modernphrase 'the other night.'It is evident that the woxdhindir has been omittedby accident, as it is not the only poem by Dunbar which begins withthis expression. The habit of St. Francis was gray, and the Franciscanswere called Gray Friars. See p. 357.2. Skarrit, felt scared.With hiin I skarrii, I shrank from him in terror, was frightened at him.3. Hes long done teiche, hast long been engaged in teaching.Mon, must. But dreid, w'ithout fear.4. Lovitig, praise. The till, to thee. Mot, mayest.5. Sic sevin; probably a corrupt passage. The word sic would bebetter omitted ; then be sevtJi would mean by seven, i. e. by seven times.Mr. Wright quotes a paraphrase of this stanza m the Somnium ofGeorge Buchanan, which ends thus :—'Quod si tanta meae tangit te cura salutis,Vis mihi, vis animae consuluisse meae ?Quilibet hac alius mendicet veste superbus,At mihi da mitram purpureamque togam.'7; Kalice, Calais, which was in England in the sense that it belongedto the English.8. Derntoun ; possibly Dirrington, neai Greenlaw, in Berwickshire.9. As wy that wes in weir, like a man that was in distress.XII.STEPHEN HAWES.I have corrected a few errors in Mr. Wright's edition by Waley'sedition of 1555, a copy of which is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.There are also two other copies in the same library, of the same date,with the imprint of R. Tottell in the colophon. There is no appreciabledifference between Waley's and Tottell's editions of the above year. Oneof the latter is in the Douce collection, and contains the following MS.notes by Douce. 'Tht first edition of this book was printed by W. deWorde, 151 7, 4to. ; the second by Wayland, 1554, 410. . . This is the thirdedition. . . See some account of Hawes, the author, in Wood's AthenoeOxonienses, i. col. 5, and in Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, ii. 219. SeeBridges' Censura Literaria, iii. 225, and iv. 7. The first edition wassold at the Duke of Roxburgh's sale for £87.'For a notice of Stephen Hawes and his writings see Warton, Hist.