This piece is a paraphrase of three portions of Brant’s _Ship of Fools_:
see the Latin version by Locher, _Stultifera Nauis_, ed. 1497,—_Vxorem
ducere propter opes_, fol. lx., _De livore et inuidia_, fol. lxi., and
_De voluptate corporali_, fol. lviii.: the same sections will be found
accompanying Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, ed. 1570,—fol. 95, fol. 97, and
fol. 92.
Page 199. v. 3. _lygnage femynatyfe_] i. e. lineage feminine.
v. 9. _sythe_] i. e. since.
Page 200. l. 1. _boke_] i. e. book.
l. 2. _iyen_] i. e. eyes.
—— _loke_] i. e. look.
l. 3. _folysh_] i. e. foolish.
l. 4. _Pecunyous_] i. e. Money-loving.
—— _bee_] i. e. by.
l. 5. _wyddred_] i. e. withered.
l. 6. _nobles_] i. e. the gold coins so called.
l. 8. _habandoneth_] i. e. abandoneth.
Page 200. l. 9. _for to gather togyther the donge ... grese_] In the
Latin of Locher;
“Aruinam multi quærunt sub podice asselli:
Et cumulant trullas: stercora vana petunt.”
fol. lx. ed. 1497.
l. 18. _thoughte_] See note, p. 101. v. 10.
l. 20. _debylyte_] i. e. debilitated.
l. 21. _vnpropyce_] i. e. unpropitious.
l. 23. _esperaunce_] i. e. hope, expectation.
—— _lygnage_] i. e. lineage.
l. 25. _demoraunce_] i. e. abiding.
l. 26. _leseth_] i. e. loseth.
l. 29. _hert_] i. e. heart.
l. 32. _cure_] i. e. care.
Page 201. l. 15. _conninge_] i. e. knowledge, learning, attainments.
l. 20. _whereas_] i. e. where.
l. 22. _pore_] i. e. poor.
l. 23. _corrompeth_] i. e. corrupteth,—destroyeth.
l. 30. _defende_] i. e. forbid.
Page 202. l. 3. _condycions_] See note, p. 183. v. 12.
l. 4. _dyssypers_] i. e., I suppose, disperser.
l. 5. _brennest_] i. e. inflamest.
l. 6. _sleeth_] i. e. slayeth, (slayest).
l. 7. _traueyleth_] i. e. causeth travail (trouble) to.
l. 15. _reclaymeth_] i. e. proclaimeth.
l. 16. _courage_] i. e. heart, mind, disposition.
l. 17. _adnychell_] i. e. annihilate.
l. 22. _flambe_] i. e. flame.
l. 24. _where as_] i. e. where.
l. 25. _odyfferaunt_] i. e. odoriferous.
l. 27. _tho_] i. e. those.
l. 29. _dissolate_] i. e. dissolute.
Page 203. l. 6. _glauca_] Properly, I believe, _glaucus_.
—— _eyen beholdinge a trauers_] i. e., I suppose, eyes looking askance.
l. 7. _syntillously_] i. e. so as to emit sparks.
l. 14. _were delybered_] i. e. were advised, were minded.
l. 16. _domage_] i. e. damage, loss.
l. 20. _brenneth_] i. e. burneth.
l. 21. _edefyed_] i. e. built.
l. 24. _egally_] i. e. equally, justly.
l. 28. _incontinente_] i. e. immediately.
Page 203. l. 29. _Cayme_] i. e. Cain. So formerly the name was often
written:
“He was of _Kaymes_ kunrede.”
_Kyng Alisaunder_,—Weber’s _Met. Rom._ i. 84.
l. 32. _Thesius_] Should of course be _Thyestes_, as in Locher’s Latin:
yet Barclay in his version of the passage has,
“Atreus storye and _Theseus_ cruel.”
_The Ship of Fooles_, fol. 96 [99], ed. 1570.
Page 204. l. 4. _rested_] i. e. roasted.
—— _theim_] i. e., perhaps, (if it be not a misprint for “_him_”) the
guests: but the whole passage is scarcely intelligible.
l. 6. _Ethiocles_] So written in Locher’s Latin for Eteocles; and so
Lydgate,—
“But make youre myrroure of _Ethyocles_.”
_Storye of Thebes, Pars Prima_, sig. C v. ed. 4to. n. d.
l. 12. _collacion_] Equivalent here, I believe, to comparison.
l. 17. _cautellous_] i. e. crafty, wily.
l. 25. _pill_] i. e. strip.
l. 26. _mondayne_] i. e. worldly, gross.
l. 27. _cheseth_] i. e. chooseth.
Page 205. l. 7. _thoughte_] See note, p. 101. v. 10.
l. 8. _lenger_] i. e. longer.
l. 17. _sith_] i. e. since.
l. 18. _asprely_] i. e. roughly, severely.
—— _enforce_] i. e. exert.
A REPLYCACION, &c.
Concerning the “yong scolers” against whom this piece was composed, I can
give no information.
Page 206. l. 9. _contemplationem_] See note, p. 214, title of Epitaph.
Page 207. l. 4. _remordyng_] See note, p. 193. v. 101.
—— _recrayed_] See note, p. 223. v. 26.
l. 5. _rechelesse_] i. e. reckless.
l. 25. _enbolned_] i. e. swollen, puffed up.
l. 26. _pipplyng_] i. e. piping: compare our author’s _Garlande of
Laurell_, v. 676. vol. i. 388.
l. 29. _lusty_] i. e. pleasant, desirable.
Page 208. l. 1. _sped_] i. e. versed.
l. 2. _connyng_] i. e. knowledge, learning.
v. 8.
—— _in the Uyntre_
_At the Thre Cranes_]
Here the tavern with the sign of the Three Cranes is meant: the _three
cranes_ were originally three strong cranes of timber, placed on the
Vintry-wharf, for lifting from the ships the vessels of foreign wine
which were landed there.
Page 208. v. 16. _enflamed_] i. e. burned.
last l. _Ouer_] i. e. Besides.
—— _processe_] i. e. treatise; see notes, p. 143. v. 735. p. 146. v. 969.
p. 195. v. 157; and compare v. 160 of this piece with the heading before
v. 343, where “_matter_” and “_processe_” are used as synonymous.
Page 209. l. 5. _tetrycall_] i. e. sour, sullen, gloomy.
l. 6. _friscaioly_] So in the _Interlude of the iiii Elementes_, n. d.;
“Synge _frysha Joly_ with hey troly loly.”
Sig. B ii.
l. 7. _moche better bayned than brayned_] Does _bayned_ here mean—boned?
In (at least Scottish) poetry we frequently find the expression “_bayne_
[bone] and brayne:” see, for instance, Henry’s _Wallace_, B. vii. v. 596.
ed. Jam.
l. 9. _burblyng_] “I _Burbyll_ or spring vp as water dothe out of a
spring.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. clxxix.
(Table of Verbes).
“And playd with _burbels_ of the water.”
_Marie Maudelein_, p. 239,—Turnbull’s _Legendæ Cathol._ (from the
Auchinleck MS.)
“The _burbly_ wawes in vp boyling.”