Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

44.'>NOTES,XXII.SIR DAVID LYXDESAY.Line 4499.Popis ryngis, popes reign. The ending -is is used in LowlandScotch for the plurals both of nouns, and of verbs in the presentindicative.4502. In-!o. The use of into for in is ver}' common indeed in Low-Innd Scotch.'4506. Carton, Cario. Cario's Chronicle was originally composedibout the beginning of the sixteenth century, by Ludovicus Cario, aneminent mathematician, and improved or written anew by Melancthon.'—Wart on, Hist. Eng. Poetr)-, ii. 471 ; where much information is given\lx)ut Lyndesay. The reader should notice how% in Early English, wordsind names borrowed from Latin follow the form of the accusa'ive case.Ihus Carton is from Lat. Carionem, not Cario;so in Surrey's Virgil (seethe Extract from Surrey) we find the island of Tenedon, from Lat. Tenedon,not Tenedos. This is a most important principle, because it is of almostuniversal application throughout the French, Italian, Spanish, and otherRomance languages.4510. A.D. 1 156 is the date which Lyndesay here gives, and theevent to which he alludes occurred either in this year or the year beforeHut he has not got hold of quite the right story. Alexander III wasnot made pope till the year 1 ; 1 59 it was his predecessor, Adrian IV,who should have been mentioned. The usual account is that Frederick I,-urnamed Barbarossa, at a meeting with Pope Adrian IV (who was noother than Nicholas Brakespeare, the only Englishman who ever waspope), consented to prostrate himself before him, to kiss his foot, tohold his stirrup, and to lead the white palfrey on which he rode. SeeHaydn, Book of Dates, under Pope Adrian IV.4520. Tbir, these ; still in common use in Scotland.4521. :— Psalm xc. 13 in the Vulgate, xci. 13 m the Authorised EnglishVersion' Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder ; the young lionand the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.'45 2 S. Pure, poor. See John xiii. 5,4531. Toddii, foxes. See Matt. viii. 20.4533- Penny-breid, breadth of a penny. It means a space of groundof the size of a penny.4536. Hes, for bos ; used in the plural, for have, two lines lower.4550. Poulderit, powdered, powdered over, i. e. ornamented withgems laid on as thick as dust. An allusion to the Papal triple tiara.