No More Learning

Virgynne and hallie Seyncte, who sitte yn gloure[52], 90
Or give the mittee[53] will, or give the gode man power.

[Footnote 1: Thomas Rowley, the author, was born at Norton Mal-reward
in Somersetshire, educated at the Convent of St. Kenna at Keynesham,
and died at Westbury in Gloucestershire. ]

[Footnote 2: meads. ]

[Footnote 3: reddened, ripened. ]

[Footnote 4: soft. ]

[Footnote 5: pied goldfinch. ]

[Footnote 6: drest, arrayed. ]

[Footnote 7: neat, ornamental. ]

[Footnote 8: a loose robe or mantle. ]

[Footnote 9: the sky, the atmosphere. ]

[Footnote 10: Arose. ]

[Footnote 11: hiding, shrouding. ]

[Footnote 12: at once. ]

[Footnote 13: beauteous.
]

[Footnote 14: It would have been _charitable_, if the author had not
pointed at personal characters in this Ballad of Charity. The Abbot
of St. Godwin's at the time of the writing of this was Ralph de
Bellomont, a great stickler for the Lancastrian family. Rowley was a
Yorkist. ]

[Footnote 15: beggarly. ]

[Footnote 16: filled with. ]

[Footnote 17: beggar. ]

[Footnote 18: clouded, dejected. A person of some note in the literary
world is of opinion, that _glum_ and _glom_ are modern cant words;
and from this circumstance doubts the authenticity of Rowley's
Manuscripts. Glum-mong in the Saxon signifies twilight, a dark or
dubious light; and the modern word _gloomy_ is derived from the Saxon
_glum_. ]

[Footnote 19: dry, sapless. ]

[Footnote 20: The grave. ]

[Footnote 21: accursed, unfortunate. ]

[Footnote 22: coffin. ]

[Footnote 23: a sleeping room. ]

[Footnote 24: sun-burnt.