“Une autre imaige estoit escripte,
Qui sembloit bien estre ypocrite,
_Papelardie_ est appellée,” &c.
_Le Rom. de la Rose_, vol. i. 15. ed. 1735.
Roquefort (_Gloss. de la Langue Romaine_) cites these lines under
“_Papelardie_, papelardise: Hypocrisie, tromperie, subtilité, mauvaise
foi.” See too Du Cange’s _Gloss._ in vv. _Papelardia_, _Papelardus_.
Compare also Lydgate;
“And for _popholy_ and uyce loke wel aboute.”
_The prohemy of a mariage_, &c.,—_MS. Harl._ 372. fol. 51.
and Barclay;
“Ouer sad or proude, disceitfull and _pope holy_.”
_The Ship of Fooles_, fol. 57. ed. 1570.
and the _Interlude of the iiii Elementes_, n. d.;
“For rather than I wolde vse suche foly
To pray to study or be _pope holy_
I had as lyf be ded.”
Sig. B ii.
Page 209. l. 33. _orgulyous_] i. e. proud, insolent.
Page 210. v. 22. _vnbrent_] i. e. unburnt.
v. 23. _content_] As the marginal note has _Convenio_, is it not a
misprint for “convent?”
v. 24. _leudly_] i. e. badly, wickedly.
v. 26. _disable_] i. e. disqualify, degrade, disparage: “_disablinge_
hymself in wordes, though his entent was otherwise.” Hall’s _Chron._
(Hen. _viii._) fol. lvii. ed. 1548.
v. 37. _ianglyng_] i. e. babbling, chattering,—noisy.
v. 38. _clawes_] i. e. clause.
v. 39. _poppyng dawes_] Compare our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_;
“_Poppynge_ folysshe _dawes_.”
v. 261. vol. ii. 35.
and v. 121 of the present piece;
“And porisshly _forthe popped_
Your sysmaticate sawes.”
“_Popping_, blabbing, like a popinjay or parrot.” _Gloss._ to _Exmoor
Scolding_: _dawes_, i. e. simpletons; see note, p. 113. v. 301.
Page 210. v. 45. _recrayed_] See note, p. 223. v. 26.
v. 48. _baudrie_] i. e. foul language: see note, p. 161. v. 90.
v. 50. _to_] i. e. too.
Page 211. v. 54. _confettred_] i. e. confederated.
v. 61. _attamed_] i. e. tamed.
v. 65. _sorte_] i. e. set, company.
v. 66. _fayne_] i. e. glad.
v. 75. _Te he, &c._] Expressions of laughter;
“_Te he_, quod she, and clapt the window to.”
Chaucer’s _Milleres Tale_, v. 3738. ed. Tyr.
v. 76. _mo_] i. e. more.
Page 212. v. 87. _reny_] i. e. renounce, abjure.
v. 89. _brende_] i. e. burnt.
v. 92. _discured_] i. e. discovered.
v. 95.
_Ye are vnhappely vred._
_In your dialeticall, &c._]
The old (and unique) copy is without punctuation in this passage; but
that the first line closes the sense, and that Skelton did not mean that
these heretics were _unhappely ured in their dialectical_, &c. would
appear from a comparison of other passages:
“Agaynst these heretykes,
Nowe of late abiured,
Most _vnhappely vred_:
For be ye wele assured,” &c.
v. 403 of the present piece.
“But men nowe a dayes so _vnhappely be vryd_,
That nothynge than welth may worse be enduryd.”
_Magnyfycence_, v. 6. vol. i. 226.
“O Scottes pariured,
_Vnhaply vred_,
Ye may be assured,” &c.
_Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c. v. 125. vol. ii. 71.
In our author’s _Colyn Cloute_ we find,
“Wherfore he hath good _vre_,” &c.
v. 1003. vol. i. 350.
in the note on which line I have cited various examples of _vre_ in the
sense of—hap, luck; and in his poem _Against the Scottes_,
“_Male vryd_ was your fals entent,”
v. 111. vol. i. 185.
which surely means—Ill-fortuned, &c. (Fr. _malheur_). Is _vnhappely
vred_ to be considered as nearly synonymous with _male vryd_, or is it to
be explained,—unhappily (evilly) _used_, practised, habituated?
Page 212. v. 98.
_If ye to remembrance call_
_Howe syllogisari_
_Non est ex particulari,_
_Neque negativis,_
_Recte concludere si vis_]
“_Nullus syllogismus categoricus communis, vel ex solis particularibus,
vel ex solis negativis constare potest._ Hanc [regulam] expresse tradit
Aristoteles libro primo Prior. capite 24. numero primo. Hinc metrum hoc
natum:
Ex _particulari_ non est syllogizari,
Neque _negativis_, recte concludere si vis.”
Crakanthorp’s _Logicæ Libri Quinque_, 1622. p. 279.
v. 107. _Your hertes than were hosed_] i. e. Your hearts were in your
hose (breeches): so again our author in his _Why come ye nat to Courte_;
“Their _hertes be in thyr_ hose.”
v. 286. vol. ii. 35.
See too Ray’s _Proverbs_, (Scottish), p. 292. ed. 1768.
v. 113. _quosshons_] i. e. cushions.
v. 115. _Harpocrates_] The God of Silence.
Page 213. v. 120. _folysshly_] i. e. foolishly.
—— _fopped_] A singular example of the word as a verb.
v. 121. _porisshly_] In our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_ is
“_porisshly_ pynk iyde,” v. 626. vol. i. 386 (and Palsgrave has
“_Porisshly_, as one loketh that can nat se well”); see note on the
passage: but I cannot determine the meaning of the word here.
v. 124. _dawes_] i. e. simpletons; see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 126. _elenkes_] i. e. elenchs (_elenchus_—in logic).
v. 132. _prouoke and tyse_] i. e. incite and entice.
v. 143. _exhibycion_] i. e. allowance of money.
v. 144. _skoles_] i. e. schools.
v. 145. _foles_] i. e. fools.
v. 147. _founde_] i. e. maintained.
Page 214. v. 156. _brute_] i. e. saying, proverb.
v. 165. _skyes_] i. e. clouds.
v. 168. _dawns_] i. e. dance.
v. 169. _ray_] See note, p. 194. v. 170.
v. 171. _lau_] i. e. law.
v. 172. _shayle_] See note, p. 97. v. 19.
Page 214. v. 175. _babyls_] i. e. baubles.
Page 215. v. 196. _face_] i. e. face out.
v. 199. _to_] i. e. too.
v. 204. _lollardy_] i. e. heretical; see note, p. 204. v. 145.
v. 206. _predycacion_] i. e. declaration,—or preaching.
v. 207. _knowlege_] i. e. acknowledge.
v. 212. _muse_] Is properly the opening in a fence or thicket, through
which a hare or other beast of sport, is accustomed to pass: see Nares’s
_Gloss._ in v. and Moor’s _Suff. Words_, in v. _Mewse_.
v. 215.
_With blowyng out your hornes,_
...
_With chatyng and rechatyng_]
Whatever Skelton may have meant by “chatyng,”—(perhaps he uses it for
_chatting_,—in the next line we have “pratyng”),—_rechatyng_ is properly
a hunting-term, and signifies sounding the _rechate_ or _recheat_ (Fr.),
a certain set of notes blown with the horn to recal the dogs.
v. 219. _pystels_] i. e. epistles.
Page 216. v. 220. _bremely_] i. e. fiercely, roughly.
v. 234. _lydder_] i. e. bad.
v. 247. _popeholy_] See note on prose of this piece, l. 24. p. 230.
Page 217. v. 260. _echone_] i. e. each one.
v. 264. _iangle_] i. e. babble, chatter.
v. 267. _the people of lay fee_] i. e. the laity; as again in our
author’s _Colyn Cloute_;
“_The lay fee people_ rayles.”
v. 403. (where MS. omits “fee”) vol. i. 326:
_fee_, i. e. possessions; see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant.
Tales_, Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._, and Todd’s _Johnson’s
Dict._ in v.
v. 274. _snapper_] i. e. stumble; but see note, p. 92. v. 4.
—— _werkes_] i. e. works.
v. 280. _mo_] i. e. more.
v. 281. _latria_] “Le culte que nous déférons à Dieu seul, nous
l’appellons _Latrie_ [λατρεία].” _Perroniana_, p. 312. ed. 1740.
v. 285.
_But, I trowe, your selfe ye ouerse_
_What longeth to Christes humanyte._
_If ye haue reed de hyperdulia,_
_Than ye knowe what betokeneth dulia_]
—_ouerse_, i. e. overlook: _longeth_, i. e. belongeth. “L’adoration
de _Superdulie_ est celle qui se défère à la Vierge, et elle est plus
eminente pour la grace qu’elle a reçu de Dieu, plus particuliere que les
autres Saints, pour avoir porté le Fils de Dieu en ses entrailles.”
_Perroniana_, p. 71. “Aux Saints nous déférons l’honneur qu’on appelle
_Dulie_.” _Id._ p. 312. ed. 1740. “_Dulia_ [δουλεία] enim adoratio est,
quæ etiam creaturæ exhibetur, quæ duas species habet, unam quæ hominibus
indifferenter, alteram quæ soli humanitati Christi exhibetur.” Gaufridus
Abbas in Epist. ad Albinum Cardinalem,—cited by Du Cange, _Gloss._ in v.
Page 218. v. 293. _mased_] i. e. bewildered, confounded.
v. 295. _brent_] i. e. burnt.
v. 296. _bvsynesse_] i. e. trouble.
v. 297. _vyse_] i. e. advise.
v. 298. _scoles_] i. e. schools.
v. 299. _foles_] i. e. fools.
Page 219. v. 303. _replycable_] i. e. such as can be replied to.
Page 220. v. 323. _remorded_] See note, p. 193. v. 101.
v. 225. _his pystell ad Paulinum_] i. e. his Epistle _ad Paulinum
presbyterum de omnibus divinæ historiæ libris_, prefixed to the Vulgate:
the passage quoted by Skelton is also to be found in Hieronymi _Opera_,
I. 1011. ed. 1609.
—— _Serenus_] The Scholium on this name in Hieronymi _Opera_ is: “Aulus
Serenus lyricus ipse etiam fuit, et, ut Terentianus est auctor, eleganti
ac facili ingenio, et ad jocos amoresque describendos accommodato:
Martianus Capella ac Nonius sæpius ejus carmina citant.” I. 1017. ed.
1609.—See also an account of Serenus, prefixed to his extant pieces, in
Wernsdorf’s _Poetæ Latini Minores_, tom. ii.
v. 337. _armony_] i. e. harmony.
Page 221. _processe_] See note, p. 230, on last line (prose) of p. 208.
v. 359.
_For if ye sadly loke,_
_And wesely rede the Boke_
_Of Good Aduertysement,_
_With me ye must consent, &c._]
—_sadly loke_, i. e. seriously look, consider. In the _Garlande of
Laurell_ Skelton mentions, as one of his own compositions,
“Item _Good Aduysement_, that brainles doth blame.”
v. 1186. vol. i. 409.
Qy. does he allude to it here?
Page 222. v. 395. _auaunce_] i. e. advance.
Page 223. v. 399. _make_] i. e. compose.
v. 405. _vnhappely vred_] See note on v. 95. p. 232.