Is mentioned by our author as one of his compositions in the _Garlande of
Laurell_, v. 1418. vol. i. 417.
With the opening of this piece compare Hawes’s _Conuercyon of Swerers_,
where Christ is made to exclaim,
“They newe agayne do hange me on the rode,
They tere my sydes, and are nothynge dysmayde,
My woundes they do open, and deuoure my blode:
I, god and man, moost _wofully arayde_,
To you complayne, _it maye not be denayde_;
Ye nowe to lugge me, ye tere me at the roote,
Yet I to you am chefe refuyte and bote.”
and a little after,
“Why arte thou _harde herted_,” &c.
Sig. A iii. ed. n. d. 4to.
Barclay too has,
“Some sweareth armes, nayles, heart, and body,
Tearing our Lorde worse then the Jewes him _arayde_.”
_The Ship of Fooles_, fol. 33. ed. 1570.
_Woffully araid_ is, I believe, equivalent to—wofully disposed of or
treated, in a woful condition. “_Araye_ condicion or case _poynt_.”
Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xviii. (Table of
Subst.)—(and see note, p. 164. v. 163).
“_Isaac._ What have I done, fader, what have I saide?
_Abraham._ Truly, no kyns ille to me.
_Isaac._ And thus gyltles shalle be _arayde_.”
_Abraham_,—_Towneley Mysteries_, p. 40.
—“His [Tybert’s] body was al to beten, and blynde on the one eye. Whan
the kynge wyste this, that tybert was thus _arayed_, he was sore angry,
&c.” _Reynard the Fox_, sig. b 8. ed. 1481. Again in the same romance,
when Isegrym the wolf has received a kick on the head from a mare, he
says to Reynard, “I am so foule _arayed_ and sore hurte, that an herte of
stone myght haue pyte of me.” Sig. f 4.
“Who was wyth loue: more _wofully arayed_
Than were these twayne.”
Hawes’s _Pastime of pleasure_, sig. I iiii. ed. 1555.
“I am fowle _arayed_ with a chyne cowgh. _Laceor_ pertussi.”—“He was sore
_arayed_ with sycknesse. Morbo atrociter _conflictus est_.” Hormanni
_Vulgaria_, sigs. II iii. I ii. ed. 1530.
Page 141. v. 4. _naid_] i. e. denied.
v. 5. _bloo_] i. e. livid; see note, p. 103. v. 3.
v. 8. _encheson_] i. e. cause.
v. 9. _Sith_] i. e. Since.
v. 12. _fretid_] Equivalent to—galled.
v. 14. _mowid_] i. e. made mouths at, mocked.
v. 19. _hart rote_] i. e. heart-root.
Page 141. v. 20. _panys_] i. e. pains.
—— _vaynys_] i. e. veins.
—— _crake_] i. e. crack.
Page 142. v. 24.
_Entretid thus in most cruell wyse,_
_Was like a lombe offerd in sacrifice_]
_Entretid_, i. e. Treated. So in a “litel dite” by Lydgate, appended to
his _Testamentum_;
“Drawen as a felon _in moost cruel wyse_
...
_Was lik a lamb offryd in sacrifise_.”
_MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 64.
v. 29. _bobbid_] i. e. struck. So Lydgate in the piece just cited;
“Bete and eke _bobbid_.”
_Ibid._
and in the _Coventry Mysteries_, Nichodemus seeing Christ on the cross,
says
“Why haue ȝe _bobbyd_ and thus betyn owth
All his blyssyd blood?”
_MS. Cott. Vesp._ D viii. fol. 186.
—— _robbid_] i. e. (I suppose) robed.
v. 30. _Onfayned_] Generally means un-glad, displeased, which even in the
forced sense of—to my sorrow, is against the intention of the passage: it
seems to be used here for—Unfeignedly: and see note, p. 207. v. 81.
—— _deynyd_] i. e. disdained;
“Youth _dayneth_ counsell, scorning discretion.”
Barclay’s _Fifth Egloge_, sig. D ii. ed. 1570.
v. 33. _myȝt_] i. e. might.
v. 39. _enterly_] i. e. entirely.
v. 43. _ȝytt_] i. e. yet.
v. 45. _race_] i. e. tear, wound.
v. 48. _Butt gyve me thyne hert_]—_hert_, i. e. heart. With this and v.
41 compare Lydgate’s “litel dite” already cited;
“_Gyff me thyn herte_, and be no mor _vnkynde_.”
_MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 66.
Page 143. v. 49. _wrouȝt_] i. e. wrought, formed.
—— _bowgȝt_] i. e. bought, redeemed.
v. 50. _hyȝt_] i. e. high.
v. 55. _sawlys_] i. e. soul’s.
v. 59. _Hytt_] i. e. It.
—— _nayd_] i. e. denied.
v. 60. _blow_] i. e. livid; see note, p. 103. v. 3.
NOW SYNGE WE, &c.
This piece is mentioned by Skelton as his own composition in the
_Garlands of Laurell_, v. 1420. vol. i. 417.
Page 144. v. 1.
_Now synge we as we were wont,_
_Vexilla regis prodeunt_]
Compare Lydgate;
“Wherefore _I synge as I was wont_
_Vexilla regis prodeunt_.”
_Poem about various birds singing praises to God_,—_MS. Harl._
2251. fol. 38.
The hymn _Vexilla regis prodeunt_, &c. may be seen in _Hymni Ecclesiæ e
Breviario Parisiensi_, 1838, p. 71. I ought to add that the present poem
is not a translation of it.
v. 3. _onfelde is [s]playd_] i. e. is displayed on field.
v. 4. _nayd_] i. e. denied.
v. 11. _thees_] i. e. thighs.
v. 13. _pyne_] i. e. pain.
v. 14. _spylt_] i. e. destroyed, put to death.
v. 17. _dong_] i. e. dung, struck.
Page 145. v. 25. _fote_] i. e. foot.
v. 31. _Syth_] i. e. Since.
v. 33. _chere_] i. e. spirit,—or reception.
v. 35. _lykes_] i. e. pleases.
v. 40. _eysell_] i. e. vinegar.
v. 51. _doone_] i. e. done.
Page 146. v. 60. _isprode_] i. e. spread.
v. 68. _payne_] i. e. labour, strive.
v. 71. _mys_] i. e. miss, fail.
v. 72. _Withouten nay_] i. e. Without contradiction, assuredly.
v. 74. _hardnes_] i. e. cruelty.