Note 928 — COLYN CLOUTE.[875] HERE AFTER FOLOWETH A LITEL BOKE CALLED COLYN CLOUTE, COMPYLED BY MAYSTER SKELTON, POETE LAUREATE.
Reading edition
barke] So MS. Eds. “carke” (are careful, anxious,—which does not well suit the sense of the passage). Perhaps Skelton wrote “carpe” (talk, prate); for in the present poem we find the following similar, imperfect rhymes;
“And some of them barke, Clatter and carpe.”—v. 549. “About churches and market: The bysshop on his carpet.”—v. 328.