“Thow irefull attircop, _Pylat_ appostata.”
...
...“_Cayphass_ thy fectour.”
Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 85, 86. ed. Laing.
v. 8. _Hole_] i. e. Whole, healed.
—— _Deu[ra]ndall_] Was the celebrated sword of Roland: see (among other
works which might be referred to) Caxton’s _Lyf of Charles the Grete_,
&c., 1485, “How Rolland deyed holyly after many martyres and orysons
made to god ful deuoutely, and of the complaynte maad for _hys swerde
durandal_.” Sig. m i.
—— _awne_] i. e. own.
v. 11. _Ye countyr vmwhyle to capcyously, and ar ye be
dysiryd_]—_countyr_; see note, p. 92: _vmwhyle_, i. e. some time: _to_,
i. e. too: _ar_, i. e. ere.
v. 12. _all to-myryd_] See note, p. 100. v. 32,—meaning, I suppose, all
befouled.
v. 15. _Gabionyte of Gabyone_] So in his _Replycacion agaynst certayne
yong scolers_, &c. Skelton calls them “_Gabaonitæ_,” vol. i. 218.
—— _gane_] “I _Gane_ or gape.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._,
1530. fol. ccxliii. (Table of Verbes).
v. 16. _Huf a galante_] Compare;
“_Hof hof hof a frysch galaunt._”
_Mary Magdalene,—An. Mysteries from the Digby MSS._ p. 85. ed. Abbotsf.
“Make rome syrs and let vs be mery
With _huffa galand_ synge tyrll on the bery.”
_Interlude of the iiii. Elementes_, n. d. sig. B ii.
In some _Glossary_, to which I have lost the reference, is “_Huff_, a
gallant.”
Page 118. v. 16. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 17. _Lusty_] See note on title of the next poem, p. 183.
—— _jet_] i. e. strut; see note, p. 94. v. 43.
—— _jaspe_] Does it mean—wasp?
v. 19. _that of your chalennge makyth so lytyll fors_] i. e. that maketh
(make) so little matter of your challenge.
Page 119. v. 22. _Syr Gy_, _Syr Gawen_, _Syr Cayus_, _for and Syr
Olyuere_] Concerning the two first see notes, p. 136. v. 629: _Cayus_, or
Kay, was the foster-brother of King Arthur; see the _Morte d’Arthur_, &c.
&c.: _for and_ is an expression occasionally found in much later writers;
see Middleton’s _Fair Quarrel_, act v. sc. 1., _Works_, iii. 544. ed.
Dyce; and Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Knight of the Burning Pestle_,—
“_For and_ the Squire of Damsels, as I take it.”