v. 763. _rome_] i. e. room, place.
—— _stonde vtter_] i. e. stand out, back.
v. 765. _a betell or a batowe, or a buskyn lacyd_] In _Ortus Vocab._
fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d., besides “Feritorium. anglice a battynge
staffe a batyll dur or _a betyll_,” we find “Porticulus. anglice a lytell
handstaff or a _betyll_.” For “batowe” I have proposed in a note below
the text “_batone_” (baton), a conjecture which is somewhat supported by
the preceding word; but it seems more probable that the right reading is
“_botowe_,” i. e. boot, for the work above cited has “Ocree ... anglice
botis or _botwes_ [ed. 1514—_botowes_],” and _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499
gives “_Botewe_. Coturnus.”
Page 250. v. 768. _Jacke Hare_] See note, p. 211. v. 270.
—— _loke thou be not rusty_] i. e. look that thou be not cankered,
uncivil.
v. 769. _nother_] i. e. neither.
v. 770. _lusty_] See note, p. 183, heading of poem.
v. 773. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 775. _swap_] i. e. swop: see Richardson’s _Dict._ in v. “I _Swappe_
I stryke.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccclxxxi.
(Table of Verbes).
—— _fotys_] i. e. foots, footest.
v. 776. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
—— _gere_] i. e. apparel.
v. 780. _mo_] i. e. more.
v. 782. _a bole of newe ale in cornys_] i. e. a bowl, &c.: see note, p.
171. v. 378.
v. 784. _auysed_] i. e. purposed on consideration.
v. 786. _rome_] i. e. room, place, office.
Page 251. v. 789. _Cockys harte_] i. e. God’s heart: see note on v. 518.
p. 243.
v. 790. _for the armys of the dyce_] Some cant exclamation.
v. 793. _fayne_] i. e. glad.
v. 795. _rynne_] i. e. run.
v. 796. _cayser_] i. e. Cæsar, or, as it is generally explained, emperor:
in the _Coventry Mysteries_, however, a distinction is made between these
terms;
“Bothe kynge and _caysere_ and grett _empere_.”
_MS. Cott. Vesp._ D viii. fol. 113.
v. 798. _quod_] i. e. quoth.
v. 799. _tende_] i. e. attend.
v. 805. _ietter_] i. e. strutter,—gallant: see note, p. 94. v. 43, and
note on v. 757. p. 246.
Page 251. v. 806. _supplye_] i. e. supplicate.
v. 810. _I ne tell can_] i. e. I cannot tell.
Page 252. v. 818. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion.
v. 819. _we wyll be aduysed twyse_] i. e. we will consider of it twice.
v. 821. _crake_] i. e. speak vauntingly.
v. 827. _bende_] i. e. band.
v. 830. _tawle_] i. e. brave, bold.
v. 832. _defaute_] i. e. default, defect.
v. 833. _hawte_] i. e. haughty.
v. 834. _pose_] i. e. rheum in the head.
v. 839. _loketh_] i. e. looketh.
Page 253. v. 843. _gere_] i. e. apparel.
v. 844. _My heyre bussheth_]—_heyre_, i. e. hair. So Barclay, alluding to
the “newe fassions and disguised garmentes” of the time;
“To Ship, galants, come nere I say agayne,
With your set _bushes_ curling as men of Inde.”
_The Ship of Fooles_, fol. 8. ed. 1570.
v. 847. _ruttyngly_] i. e. dashingly, gallantly: see note on v. 757. p.
246.
v. 850. _To daunce delyght_] So afterwards, Magnyfycence, exulting in his
prosperity, says, “I dawnce all in delyte,” v. 1510.
v. 852. _poynte deuyse_] i. e. perfectly exact: see Gifford’s note on B.
Jonson’s _Works_, iv. 169.
v. 855. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion.
v. 857. _route_] i. e. crowd, assembly.
v. 859. _My sleue is wyde_] So Barclay describes the young gallants of
the time with “Their _sleues_ blasing like to a Cranes winges.” _The
Ship of Fooles_, fol. 8. ed. 1570. Wide sleeves are also mentioned in
the following curious passage of Medwall’s _Interlude of Nature_, n. d.
(written before the year 1500); the speaker is Pride:
“Behold the bonet vppon my hed
a staryng colour of scarlet red
I promyse you a fyne threde
and a soft wull
It cost me a noble at one pyche
The scald capper sware sythyche
That yt cost hym euen as myche
But there Pryde had a pull.
I loue yt well to haue syde here
Halfe a wote byneth myne ere
For euer more I stande in fere
That myne nek shold take cold
I knyt yt vp all the nyght
and the day tyme kemb yt down ryght
And then yt cryspeth and shyneth as bryght
as any pyrled gold.
My doublet ys on laced byfore
A stomacher of saten and no more
Rayn yt snow yt neuer so sore
Me thynketh I am to hote
Than haue I suche a short gown
Wyth _wyde sleues_ that hang a down
They wold make some lad in thys town
a doublet and a cote.
Som men wold thynk that this were pryde
But yt ys not so, ho ho abyde
I haue a dagger by my syde
yet therof spake not I
I bought thys dagger at the marte
A sharp poynt and a tarte
He that had yt in hys hart
Were as good to dye.
Than haue I a sworde or twayn
To bere theym my selfe yt were a payne
They ar so heuy that I am fayne
to puruey suche a lad
Though I say yt a praty boy
It ys halfe my lyues ioy
He maketh me laugh wyth many a toy
The vrchyn ys so mad.”
Sig. c ii.
Page 253. v. 861. _hose_] i. e. breeches.
v. 866. _hyght_] i. e. am called.
v. 871. _thee_] i. e. thrive.
v. 872. _fon_] i. e. fool.
Page 254. v. 878. _pore_] i. e. poor.
v. 881. _to to_] So in v. 2121;
“To flatterynge, to smatterynge, _to to_ out of harre.”
Compare _M. Harry Whobals mon to M. Camel_, &c. (folio broadside among
the “flytings” of Churchyard and Camell);
“My master Harry Whoball, sur, is _to to_ shamefull wrothe.
...
... for drinke is _to to_ nappye.”
Ray gives “_Too too_ will in two. _Chesh._” _Proverbs_, p. 163. ed. 1768.
v. 884. _crake_] i. e. vaunt.
Page 254. v. 885. _I befoule his pate_] i. e. I befool, &c. (not
_befoul_), as it would seem from v. 1057, “I _befole_ thy face;” and v.
1829, “I _befole_ thy brayne pan.”
v. 886. _fonne iet_] i. e. foolish fashion (see note on v. 458. p. 242).
v. 887. _From out of Fraunce_] So Barclay;
“Reduce courtiers clerely vnto your remembraunce,
From whence _this disguising_ was brought wherin ye go,
As I remember _it was brought out of France_.”
_The Ship of Fooles_, fol. 9. ed. 1570.
Borde, in his _Boke of knowledge_, introduces a Frenchman saying,
“I am ful of new inuencions
And dayly I do make new toyes and fashions
Al necions of me example do take
Whan any garment they go about to make.”
Sig. T. reprint.
v. 889. _purueaunce_] i. e. provision.
v. 907. _carlys_] i. e. churl’s.
v. 909. _wonne_] i. e. dwell.
Page 255. v. 915. _slyue_] i. e. sleeve.
v. 918. _preue_] i. e. prove.
v. 919. _A Tyborne checke_] i. e. a rope.
—— _craynge, Stow, stow_]—_craynge_, i. e. crying. See note, p. 206. v.
73.
v. 921. _out of harre_] i. e. out of hinge, out of order: see Jamieson’s
_Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ and _Suppl._ in v. _Har._ The expression
occurs again in v. 2121; and is found in the _Towneley Myst._ and G.
Douglas’s Virgil’s _Æn._
v. 923. _warre_] i. e. worse.
v. 932. _farly_] i. e. strange.
v. 933. _lokys_] i. e. looks.
v. 934. _an hawke of the towre_] So again our author in the _Garlande of
Laurell_;
“Ientill as fawcoun
Or _hawke of the towre_.”
v. 1006. vol. i. 402.
i. e., says Warton, “in the king’s mews in the Tower,” _Hist. of E.P._
ii. 355. ed. 4to: and the following lines occur in a poem called _Armony
of Byrdes_, n. d. (attributed without authority to Skelton), reprinted
entire in _Typograph. Antiq._ iv. 380. ed. Dibdin;
“The Haukes dyd syng
Their belles dyd ryng
Thei said _they came frō the tower_.
_We hold with the kyng_
_And wyll for him syng_
_To God, day, nyght, and hower.”_
p. 383.
But I apprehend that by a _hawke of the towre_ Skelton means—a hawk that
towers aloft, takes a station high in the air, and thence swoops upon her
prey. Juliana Berners mentions certain hawks which “ben _hawkes of the
toure_.” _Book of St. Albans_, sig. c. v.: and Turbervile says; “Shee
[the hobby] is of the number of those Hawkes that are hie flying and
_towre Hawks_.” _Booke of Falconrie_, p. 53. ed. 1611.
Page 255. v. 935. _the malarde_] i. e. the wild-drake.
v. 936. _becked_] i. e. beaked.
v. 938. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
Page 256. v. 940. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 947. _spere_] i. e. spire, shoot,—stripling. So in our author’s third
poem _Against Garnesche_, “But a slendyr _spere_.” v. 41. vol. i. 121.
v. 953. _mo_] i. e. more.
v. 954. _in the dyuyls date_] See note, p. 116. v. 375.
v. 956. _he playeth the state_] i. e. he playeth the person of
consequence.
v. 957. _pyke out of the gate_] “I _Pycke_ me forth out of a place or I
_pycke_ me hence, _Ie me tyre auant_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang.
Fr._, 1530. fol. cccxvi. (Table of Verbes).
v. 962. _out of consayte_] i. e. out of good opinion, favour.
v. 964. _a praty slyght_] i. e. a pretty trick, contrivance.
v. 971. _Cockes harte_] i. e. God’s heart: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
v. 973. _poynted after my consayte_] i. e. appointed, equipped according
to my fancy.
v. 974. _thou iettes it of hyght_] i. e. thou struttest it in high style:
see note, p. 94. v. 43.
Page 257. v. 975. _let vs be wyse_] Equivalent to—let us understand.
v. 977. _come of, it were done_] The expression “come of” has occurred
before; see note on v. 103. p. 238. Compare _Mary Magdalene_;
“_Cum_ of ȝe harlotts _that yt wer don_.”
_An. Mysteries from the Digby MSS._ p. 97. ed. Abbotsf.
_Magnus Herodes_;
“Hens now go youre way that ye _were_ thore.”
_Towneley Mysteries_, p. 147.
Still’s _Gammer Gurtons Nedle_;
“Sir knaue make hast diccon _were_ here.”
Sig. E 3. ed. 1575.
See too our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 243. vol. i. 371.
Page 257. v. 979. _sone_] i. e. soon.
v. 980. _Stowe_] See note, p. 206. v. 73.
v. 982. _There is many euyll faueryd, and thou be foule_] i. e. There is
many a one ill-looking, if thou be ugly: see note, p. 130. v. 442.
v. 985. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.).
v. 987. _Jesse_] i. e. Jesus.
v. 992. _bent_] i. e. arched; see note, p. 146. v. 1014.
v. 993. _glent_] i. e. glancing, bright.
v. 1000. _Barbyd lyke a nonne_]—_nonne_, i. e. nun. “The feders vnder the
becke [of a hawk] ben callyd the _Barbe feders_.” _Book of Saint Albans_,
sig. a 5. _Barbe_ is explained by Tyrwhitt to mean a hood or muffler,
which covered the lower part of the face and the shoulders; _Gloss._
to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_: and he refers to Du Cange in v. _Barbuta_.
According to Strutt, it was a piece of white plaited linen, and belonged
properly to mourning: in an edict concerning “The order and manner of
apparell for greate estates of weomen in tyme of mourninge,” made by
the mother of Henry vii. in the 8th year of his reign, we find “Everye
one not beinge vnder the degree of a Baronesse to weare a _barbe_ aboue
[Strutt prints by mistake—”about“] the chinne. And all other: as knightes
wyfes, to weare yt vnder theire throtes, and other gentleweomen beneath
the throte goyll.” _MS. Harl._ 1354. fol. 12. See _Dress and Habits_, pp.
323, 325, 326, 368, and plate cxxxv.
v. 1002. _donne_] i. e. dun.
v. 1003. _Well faueryd bonne_] So in our author’s _Elynour Rummyng_, v.
227, “my prety _bonny_;” see note, p. 166.
v. 1005. _rowte_] i. e. crowd, assembly.
Page 258. v. 1008. _prese_] i. e. press, throng.
v. 1009. _a hole mese_] i. e. a whole mess, set.
v. 1011. _I rede, we sease_] i. e. I advise that we cease.
v. 1012. _farly ... lokys_] i. e. strangely ... looks.
v. 1013. _becke ... crokys_] i. e. beak ... crooks.
v. 1014. _tenter hokys_] i. e. tenter-hooks.
v. 1015. _wokys_] i. e. weeks.
v. 1018. _The deuyll spede whyt_] So again in our author’s _Why come ye
nat to Courte_;
“For as for wytte,
_The deuyll spede whitte!_”
v. 1013. vol. ii. 58.
Page 258. v. 1020. _to_] i. e. too (as in the next two lines).
v. 1023. _solempne_] i. e. solemn.
v. 1027. _a pere_] i. e. a pear,—used frequently by our early writers for
a thing of no value. “Vayne glory of the world, the whiche is not worth
_a pere_.” _Morte d’Arthur_, B. xv. cap. vi. vol. ii. 254. ed. Southey.
v. 1028. _lese_] i. e. lose.
v. 1030. _And I may tende_] i. e. If I may attend.
v. 1032. _halfe_] i. e. side.
v. 1035. _Fansy seruyce_] i. e. Fancy-service.
—— _hyght_] i. e. am called.
v. 1038. _theke_] i. e. thatch.
v. 1040. _Make a wyndmyll of a mat_] Compare v. 2 of our author’s third
set of verses _Against venemous Tongues_, vol. i. 132.
v. 1041. _and I wyst_] i. e. if I knew.
Page 259. v. 1049. _blunder_] See note on v. 405. p. 241.
—— _blother_] i. e. gabble; as in our author’s _Colyn Cloute_, v. 66.
vol. i. 313.
v. 1054. _this_] i. e. thus: see note, p. 86. v. 38.
v. 1055. _euerychone_] i. e. every one.
v. 1057. _fonnysshe_] i. e. foolish.
—— _I befole thy face_] See note on v. 885. p. 250.
v. 1058. _a foles case_] i. e. a fool’s habit.
v. 1059. _glede_] i. e. kite. Nares, _Gloss._ in v., observes that in the
common version of the Bible, _Deut._ xiv. 13, the _glede_ and _kite_ are
erroneously mentioned together as two distinct birds.
v. 1061. _thy lyppes hange in thyne eye_] So in _Thenterlude of Youth_,
n. d.;
“Faine of him I wolde haue a sight
But my _lyppes hange in my lyght_.”
Sig. A iiii.
See too Heywood’s _Dialogue_, &c. sig. F 4,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.
v. 1066. _pylde_] i. e. bald—mangy: see note, p. 184. v. 68.
v. 1068. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 1069. _Mackemurre_] A proper name, though not printed as such in the
old copy:
“The great Onele, and _Makmurre_ also,
And al the lordes and kynges of Ireland.”
Hardyng’s _Chronicle_, fol. cxlix. ed. 1543.
v. 1070. _budge furre_] “_Budge_ or Lambes furre.” Minsheu’s _Guide into
Tongues_. In an order respecting the scholastic habit in the University
of Cambridge, dated 1414, (quoted by Todd from Farmer’s papers, in a note
on Milton’s _Comus_, v. 707,) mention is made of “_furruris buggeis_ aut
agninis.”
Page 260. v. 1073. _thou wylte coughe me a dawe_]—_dawe_, i. e.
simpleton; see note, p. 113. v. 301. So in the fourth line after this,
“ye shall _coughe me a fole_:” and in Lilly’s _Mother Bombie_, 1594; “I
know hee will cough for anger that I yeeld not, but he shall _cough mee a
foole_ for his labour.” Sig. B 2.
v. 1074. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 1079. _can_] i. e. know.
v. 1081. _broder_] i. e. brother.
v. 1082. _so hye fro me doth sprynge_] i. e. doth (dost) grow so much
taller than I.
v. 1088. _gere_] i. e. apparel.
v. 1089. _folysshe_] i e. foolish.
v. 1093. _flete_] i. e. float, flow, abound.
v. 1095. _by_] i. e. buy.
v. 1096. _Cockys harte_] i. e. God’s heart: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
v. 1103. _syke_] i. e. such.
v. 1104. _a fole the tone_] i. e. a fool the one.
Page 261. v. 1107. _warke_] i. e. work, business.
v. 1108. _donnyshe_] i. e. dunnish.
v. 1109. _a fonde gest_] i. e. a foolish guest.
v. 1111. _so folysshe and so fonde_] i. e. so foolish and so silly (one
of Skelton’s pleonasms).
v. 1118. _beshrowe_] i. e. curse.
v. 1119. _do_] i. e. done.
v. 1120. _Here is nothynge but the bockyll of a sho_] Compare _The Bowge
of Courte_, v. 397. vol. i. 45.
v. 1121. _marke_] i. e. marks,—the coins so named.
v. 1123. _hyght_] i. e. is called.
v. 1124. _fole_] i. e. fool.
v. 1126. _a botchment_] “_Botchement_. Additamentum.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed.
1499.
v. 1127. _forfende_] i. e. prohibit, forbid.
v. 1128. _For Goddes cope_] So we find as an oath, “By gods blew _hood_.”
_Tom Tyler and his Wife_, p. 5. ed. 1661.
v. 1131. _be tyme_] i. e. by time.
v. 1134. _praty_] i. e. pretty.
v. 1136. _Aungey_] Does it mean Angers, or Anjou?
Page 262. v. 1142. _gate_] i. e. got.
v. 1143. _puddynges_] See note, p. 173. v. 443.
—— _wortes_] Is here, I suppose, equivalent to—cabbages.
v. 1147. _marmosete_] A kind of ape, or monkey.
v. 1148. _iapes_] i. e. jests, jokes.
Page 262. v. 1150. _pultre_] i. e. poultry, fowl.
—— _catell_] i. e. beast.
v. 1154. _rode_] i. e. rood, cross: see note, p. 206. v. 69.
v. 1157. _nyfyls_] A word sufficiently explained by the context, and of
frequent occurrence. So in _A Mery Play between Johan the Husbande, Tyb
his Wyfe, and Syr Jhan the Preest_, 1533, attributed to Heywood;
“By God, I wolde ye had harde the tryfyls,
The toys, the mokkes, the fables, and the _nyfyls_,
That I made thy husbande to beleve and thynke.”
p. 21. reprint.
v. 1158. _canest_] i. e. knowest.
v. 1159. _mased_] i. e. bewildered, confounded.
v. 1165. _It forseth not_] i. e. It matters not.
v. 1168. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
—— _sone_] i. e. soon.
Page 263. v. 1172. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 1175. _a farle freke_] i. e. a strange fellow: see notes, p. 109. v.
187; p. 178. v. 15.
v. 1176. _play well at the hoddypeke_]—_hoddypeke_ is a common term of
contempt or reproach (as in our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_,
v. 326. vol. ii. 37), and is generally equivalent to—fool. The original
meaning of the word is altogether uncertain. Steevens (note on _Gammer
Gurtons Nedle_) explains it—hodmandod (shell-snail); and Nares (_Gloss._
in v.) is inclined to agree with him. In a passage of Dunbar’s _Dance of
the Sevin Deidly Synnis_ (_Poems_, i. 51. ed. Laing), “_hud-pykis_” has
been explained (on account of the context)—misers. In Cotgrave’s _Dict._
is “Noddy peke.”
v. 1182. _ne reckys_] i. e. recks not.
v. 1185. _mo folys_] i. e. more fools.
v. 1189. _kesteryll_] A sort of base-bred hawk.
v. 1190. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.).
—— _doteryll_] See note, p. 129. v. 409.
v. 1191. _In a cote thou can play well the dyser_] “_Dysoure_.
Bomolochus. Nugaculus.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “_Dissar_ a scoffar
_saigefol_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxix.
(Table of Subst.). “He can play the _desarde_ with a contrefet face
properly. _Morionem_ scite representat.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. bb
iiii. ed. 1530. “One that were skylled in the crafte of _dysours_ or
skoffyng fellowes.” Palsgrave’s _Acolastus_, 1540. sig. H ii.
v. 1195. _gatte_] i. e. got.
v. 1200. _fon_] i. e. fool.
Page 264. v. 1205. _do mastryes_] See note on v. 151. p. 238.
v. 1206. _cocke wat_] See note, p. 108. v. 173.
v. 1211. _rode_] i. e. rood, cross: see note, p. 206. v. 69.
—— _semblaunt_] i. e. semblance.
v. 1215. _lyste_] i. e. liest.
v. 1216. _moght ... lyste_] i. e. moth ... list.
v. 1220. _Johnn a Bonam_] One of the persons who figure in the old
metrical tale, _The Hunttyng of the Hare_, is called “Jac of Bonam:” see
Weber’s _Met. Rom._ iii. 279.
v. 1223. _Shyt_] i. e. Shut.
—— _dawe_] i. e. simpleton; see note, p. 113. v. 301.
Page 265. v. 1230. _cayser_] See note on v. 796. p. 247.
v. 1232. _scoles_] i. e. schools,—teaching.
v. 1234. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 1241. _renneth_] i. e. runneth.
v. 1242. _thefte and bryboury_]—_bryboury_, i. e. pilfering. “_Brybery_
or bribe. Manticulum.”—“_Briboure_. Manticulus.”—“_Bryben._ Latricino.
Manticulo.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “I _Bribe_ I pull I pyll, _Ie
bribe_. _Romant_, _ie derobbe_, ... and _ie emble_ ... He _bribeth_ and
he polleth and he gothe to worke: _Il bribe_,” &c. Palsgrave’s _Lesclar.
de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. clxxiiii. (Table of Verbes). “_Bribors_,
Cometh of the French _Bribeur_, i. e. Mendicus: It seemeth in a legal
Signification one that pilfereth other Mens Goods, as Cloaths out of a
Window, or the like. _Anno 28 Ed. 2. Stat. 1. cap. unico._” Cowel’s _Law
Dictionary, or The Interpreter_, &c. _augmented and improved_, &c. ed.
1727. So again our author;
“Thefte also and pety _brybery_.”
v. 1370 of the present drama.
“Some haue a name for thefte and _brybery_.”
_Garlande of Laurell_, v. 183. vol. i. 369.
So too in _The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous_, by Copland, n. d.;
“_Brybe_, and conuey, fro mayster and maystres.”
Utterson’s _Early Pop. Poet._ ii. 37.
and in _Gentylnes and Nobylyte_, n. d. (attributed without reason to
Heywood);
“For _brybe_ and stele euery thyng they wyll
If they may secretly come theruntyll.”
Sig. B iii.
Other passages might be cited from various poets. And see Tyrwhitt’s
_Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, and Richardson’s _Dict._
v. 1244. _a nysot_] In _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499 is “_Anysot_ or a folt.
Stolidus. Baburrus. Insons.” But in the present passage _nysot_ seems,
from the context, to be equivalent to—lazy jade: and in the work just
cited we find “_Nyce_. Iners.”—“_Nycehede_ or _nycete_. Inercia.”
Page 265. v. 1246. _warke_] i. e. work.
v. 1247. _lyther_] i. e. wicked, evil.
v. 1249. _Bytwene the tappet and the wall_]—_tappet_, i. e. tapestry.
This line has occurred before, in our author’s fourth poem _Against
Garnesche_, v. 75. vol. i. 128.
v. 1252. _ony_] i. e. any.
v. 1254. _sorte_] i. e. set, company,—people.
v. 1257. _ferre_] i. e. far.
Page 266. v. 1258. _dawys_] i. e. simpletons: see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 1261.
_He frownyth fyersly, brymly browde,_
_The knaue wolde make it koy, and he cowde_]
—_fyersly_ and _brymly_ are nearly synonymous: _make it koy_ means
here—affect (not merely reserve, but) haughtiness;—and so in our author’s
_Bowge of Courte_,—
“He bote the lyppe, he loked passynge _coye_.”
v. 288. vol. i. 41.
v. 1265. _besy_] i. e. busy.
v. 1270. _quod_] i. e. quoth.
v. 1275. _lese moche_] i. e. lose much.
v. 1278. _mo_] i. e. more.
v. 1280. _scolys_] i. e. schools.
v. 1281. _folys_] i. e. fools.
v. 1282. _lyther_] i. e. wicked,—rascals (as in the next line but
one—“these _lythers_”).
v. 1283. _Symkyn Tytyuell_] See note on _Colyn Cloute_, v. 418.
v. 1284. _lere_] i. e. learn.
v. 1289. _mykyll_] i. e. much.
Page 267. v. 1291. _dell_] i. e. part.
v. 1293. _shroudly_] i. e. shrewdly.
v. 1297. _fonde_] i. e. foolish.
v. 1299. _auowe_] i. e. vow: see note, p. 109. v. 199.
v. 1301. _kynde_] i. e. nature.
v. 1303. _rutters_] See note on v. 757. p. 245.
v. 1308. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
—— _boke_] i. e. book.
v. 1309. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
—— _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 1312. _howe_] i. e. ho! stop!
“Ye shall haue ay quhill you cry _ho_.”
_Philotvs_, sig. B. ed. 1612.
“Greit God defend I suld be one of tho
Quhilk of thair feid and malice neuer _ho_.”
G. Douglas’s _Palice of Honour_, p. 30. Bann. ed.
Page 267. v. 1314. _scrat_] i. e. scratch.
v. 1315. _So how_] i. e. So ho.
v. 1317. _gadde_] Does it mean—gadding?
v. 1318. _brayne seke_] i. e. brain-sick.
v. 1319. _to shyre shakynge nought_] i. e. to sheer nothing. So in our
author’s _Elynour Rummyng_, (v. 466. vol. i. 110), that lady pronounces
a couple of stunted goslings to be “_shyre shakyng nought_,” i. e. sheer
worthless.
v. 1323. _perde_] i. e. _par dieu_, verily.
—— _ryde or go_] See note, p. 125. v. 186.
Page 268. v. 1324. _slyght_] i. e. contrivance.
v. 1325. _hyght_] i. e. be called.
v. 1327. _wonne_] i. e. dwell.
v. 1334. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 1338. _Cockes armes_] i. e. God’s arms: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
v. 1339. _whylest_] i. e. till.
v. 1341. _slee_] i. e. slay.
v. 1342. _away the mare_] See note, p. 162. v. 110.
v. 1345. _a rome ... in euery route_] i. e. a place in every crowd,
assembly.
v. 1347. _face and brace_] See note, p. 216. v. 33.
v. 1348. _fotyth_] i. e. footeth.
Page 269. v. 1353. _poyntmentys_] i. e. appointments.
v. 1356. _mykyll praty_] i. e. much pretty.
v. 1358. _an hoby can make larkys to dare_]—_to dare_, i. e. to be
terrified, to tremble,—(it also means—to lurk, lie hid; see note on the
poem _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c. v. 271). To _dare larks_ was an
expression applied to the catching of larks by terrifying them; and there
were several modes of _daring_ them. When the _hobby_ (a small hawk, see
note, p. 135. v. 567) was employed for that purpose, the larks lay still
in terror till a net was thrown over them.
v. 1360. _almesse_] i. e. alms.
v. 1363. _howe_] i. e. ho.
v. 1365. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 1368. _hardely_] i. e. assuredly.
v. 1370. _pety brybery_] See note on v. 1242. p. 256.
v. 1373. _be_] i. e. by.
Page 269. v. 1376. _trew_] i. e. honest.
v. 1378. _checke_] i. e. taunt: see note on v. 300. p. 240.
v. 1379. _weltyth_] To _welt_ means—to border: but qy. is _weltyth_ here
used for _weldyth_, i. e. wieldeth, directeth?
v. 1382. _sadnesse_] i. e. gravity, seriousness, soberness, discreetness.
Page 270. v. 1389. _sorte_] i. e. set, company.
v. 1390. _hokes vnhappy_]—_hokes_, i. e. hooks, a word frequently applied
to persons as a term of reproach. “_Vnhappy_ of maners _maluays_.”
Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xcviii. (Table of
Adiect.). So in _Jacke Jugelar_, n. d.;
“Loo yender cumithe that _vnhappye hooke_.”
p. 26. Roxb. ed.
and in Heywood’s _Dialogue_, &c.;
“Since thou art crosse sailde, auale _vnhappie hooke_.”
Sig. E,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.
v. 1395. _dawe_] i. e. simpleton; see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 1396. _occupyed_] i. e. used, employed; see note, p. 86. v. 52.
v. 1397. _reason and skyll_] See note on v. 106. p. 238.
v. 1401. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 1405. _largesse_] i. e. liberality.
v. 1411. _Had I wyst_] See note, p. 86. v. 40.
Page 271. v. 1416. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 1421. _Ye haue eten sauce_] Compare our author’s _Bowge of Courte_, v.
72. vol. i. 33.
v. 1422. _to_] i. e. too.
v. 1425. _worshyp_] i. e. honour, dignity.
v. 1436. _repryuable_] i. e. reprovable.
Page 272. v. 1441. _menys of to moche_] i. e. means of too much.
v. 1442. _What, can ye agree thus and appose?_]—_and appose_, i. e. and
yet keep questioning, disputing: see note on _Colyn Cloute_, v. 267.
v. 1443. _faute_] i. e. fault.
v. 1444. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
—— _Jacke a thrommys bybyll_] See note, p. 189. v. 204.
—— _glose_] i. e. gloss.
v. 1446. _loke you vnder kay_] i. e. lock you under key.
v. 1456. _Take it in worthe_] See note, p. 95. v. 68.
v. 1458. _largesse_] i. e. liberality.
—— _kynde_] i. e. nature.
v. 1467. _stonde_] i. e. stand.
Page 273. v. 1473. _fonde_] i. e. foolish.
Page 273. v. 1474. _loke that ye occupye_] i. e. look that ye use; see
note, p. 86. v. 52.
v. 1475. _For nowe, syrs, I am lyke as a prynce sholde be, &c._] This
speech of Magnyfycence is very much in the style of Herod in the old
miracle-plays: see, for instance, the _Coventry Mysteries_, _MS. Cott.
Vesp. D._ viii. fol. 92. sqq.
v. 1477. _abandune_] i. e. subject.
“For _abandonit_ will he noght be to berne that is borne.”
_Golagros and Gawane_, p. 142,—_Syr Gawayne_, &c.
“Till all to yow _abandownyt_ be.”
Barbour’s _Bruce_, B. iii. v. 883. ed. Jam.
v. 1481. _mene_] See note on v. 138. p. 238.
v. 1491. _syar_] i. e. sire, lord.
v. 1493. _ryall trone_] i. e. royal throne.
v. 1496. _spyll_] i. e. destroy.
Page 274. v. 1502. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 1504. _dynt_] i. e. blow.
v. 1505. _the cane_] Does it mean—the khan?
v. 1507. _I set not by_] i. e. I value not, regard not.
—— _prane_] i. e. prawn.
v. 1508. _Ne_] i. e. Nor.
—— _rehersse_] i. e. mention.
v. 1513. _cache_] i. e. couch.
v. 1515. _mell_] i. e. meddle.
v. 1518. _to lowte man be sene_] i. e. (if the text be right; see
foot-note _ad l._) must be seen to bow, pay obeisance.
v. 1520. _brymme_] i. e. fierce, rugged, bristly.
v. 1521. _Basyan the bolde, for all his brybaunce_] _Basyan_ is, I
suppose, Antoninus Bassianus Caracalla (he is called “_Basian_” in
Robert of Gloucester’s _Chron_. p. 76. sqq.): _brybaunce_ would seem to
mean—plundering (properly, pilfering); see note on v. 1242. p. 256.
v. 1522. _Alerycus_] i. e. Alaric.
—— _the Gothyaunce_] i. e. the Goths.
—— _swerd_] i. e. sword.
v. 1524. _maysyd_] i. e. bewildered, confounded—stupid.
v. 1525. _fole_] i. e. fool.
v. 1526. _Galba, whom his galantys garde for agaspe_] i. e. (I suppose)
Galba, whom his gallants (soldiers) made to gasp:—they assassinated
him:—see _gar_ in v. 1532.
v. 1527. _nother set by_] i. e. neither valued, regarded.
v. 1528. _Vaspasyan, that bare in his nose a waspe_] This passage is
explained by the following lines of a poem never printed, entitled _The
Sege of Jerusalem_:
“His fader Vaspasiane ferly bytydde
A byke of waspes bredde in his nose
Hyved vp in his hedde he hadde hem of thoght
And Vaspasiane is called by cause of his waspes.”
_MS. Cott. Calig. A._ ii. fol. 109.
Page 274. v. 1529. _agayne_] i. e. against.
Page 275. v. 1531. _crake_] i. e. vaunt, talk bigly.
v. 1532. _I shall frounce them on the foretop_] To _frounce_ is—to
wrinkle, ruffle up, &c. In our author’s _Phyllyp Sparowe_, v. 1340. vol.
i. 92, Charon is described as having a “_frownsid_ fore top;” and in his
_Colyn Cloute_, v. 533. vol. i. 331, “foretop” means simply—head, pate.
—— _gar_] i. e. make, cause.
v. 1538. _auaunce_] i. e. advance.
v. 1539. _take it in degre_] Seems equivalent here to—“take it in gre”
(which occurs in v. 2005), i. e. take it kindly: see note, p. 95. v. 68.
v. 1544. _ferre_] i. e. far.
v. 1547. _supprysed_] i. e. overpowered, smitten.
v. 1549. _Pullyshyd_] i. e. Polished.
—— _ornacy_] i. e. ornate diction.
v. 1551. _electe vtteraunce_] i. e. choice expression.
v. 1554. _feffyd and seasyd_] i. e. enfeoffed and seised,—law-terms.
v. 1556. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 1557. _comon_] i. e. communing, discourse.
v. 1558. _Poynt deuyse_] See note on v. 852. p. 248.
Page 276. v. 1561. _pore_] i. e. poor.
v. 1564. _semynge_] i. e. beseeming, fitting.
v. 1568. _maystresse_] i. e. mistress.
v. 1569. _That quyckly is enuyued with rudyes of the rose_] i. e. That
is lively envived with hues, or complexion, of the rose. This somewhat
pleonastic expression is found again in our author’s _Garlande of
Laurell_;
“_Enuyuid_ picturis well touchid and _quikly_.”
v. 1161. vol. i. 408.
v. 1570. _Inpurtured_] i. e. Portrayed, pictured,—adorned.
v. 1571. _The streynes of her vaynes_] i. e. The strains, runnings of her
veins.
“Rills rising out of euery banck,
In wilde meanders _strayne_.”
Drayton’s _Muses Elizium_, p. 2. ed. 1630.
Page 276. v. 1571. _as asure inde blewe_] See note, p. 101. v. 17.
v. 1573. _loke_] i. e. look.
—— _leyre_] i. e. complexion, skin.
v. 1576. _lusty_] i. e. pleasant, desirable.
v. 1578. _to brace and to basse_] i. e. to embrace and to kiss.
v. 1579. _by hym that hell dyd harowe_] i. e. by our Saviour: see note,
p. 150. v. 1291.
v. 1580. _a Phylyp sparowe_] See note, p. 121. v. 7.
v. 1581. _whylest my hede dyd warke_] i. e. until my head did work, ache.
“_Hedwerke_ sekenesse. Cephalia.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “_Wark_, to
ache.” Hunter’s _Hallam. Gloss_. “But I may not stonde, _myn hede werches
soo_.” _Morte d’Arthur_, B. xxi. c. v. vol. ii. 440. ed. Southey.
v. 1582. _hobby for suche a lusty larke_] See note on v. 1358. p. 258.
The same metaphorical use of this expression occurs in our author’s
_Colyn Cloute_, v. 194. vol. i. 318.
v. 1584. _my flesshe wolde be wroken_]—_wroken_, i. e. wreaked, satiated.
“Whyles thou art yonge ...
_Wreke_ the with wiueryng, if thou wilt be excused.”
_Pierce Plowman_, sig. M iii. ed. 1561.
v. 1585. _consayte_] i. e. conceit, fancy.
v. 1586. _weryed I wolde be on_] i. e. I would worry, eagerly devour:
compare our author’s _Phyllyp Sparowe_, v. 29. vol. i. 52.
v. 1587. _Cockes armes_] i. e. God’s arms: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
v. 1588. _ony_] i. e. any.
v. 1589. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 1590. _to be sped_] i. e. to be made successful.
Page 277. v. 1592. _make suche one to the call_] A metaphor from falconry.
v. 1600. _a sawte_] i. e. an assault.
v. 1601. _prece_] i. e. press.
v. 1603. _sone_] i. e. soon.
v. 1604. _intreted_] i. e. prevailed on by solicitation.
v. 1606. _broken_] Seems to mean here—tame, assuage.
v. 1610. _consayte_] i. e. conceit, conception.
v. 1615. _it shall not gretely skyll_] i. e. it shall not make much
difference, it shall not much signify.
Page 278. v. 1620. _face it_] See note, p. 216. v. 33.
v. 1621. _Frete_] i. e. Gnaw, fret.
v. 1626. _lust and lykynge_] See note, p. 98, v. 23.
Page 278. v. 1633. _your gorge_] i. e. what you have swallowed, the
contents of your stomach: see note, p. 207. v. 87.
v. 1636. _wambleth_] “I _Wamble_ as ones stomake dothe _Ie allecte_.”
Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cccc. (Table of
Verbes). “Nauseo ... to _wamble_.” _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde,
n. d.
v. 1638. _wonder_] i. e. wondrous.
v. 1640. _harte seke_] i. e. heart-sick.
—— _me lyst_] i. e. it pleases me.
v. 1641. _coryed_] i. e. curried, drubbed.
—— _blyst_] i. e. wounded,—thumped.
“Your lasy bones I pretende so to _blisse_,
That you shall haue small luste to prate any more.”
_The Triall of Treasure_, 1567. sig. A iiii.
v. 1642. _loute_] i. e. bow, pay obeisance.
Page 279. v. 1652. _at the contemplacyon_] See note, p. 214, heading of
Epitaph.
v. 1653. _pore_] i. e. poor.
v. 1657. _sone_] i. e. soon.
v. 1664. _rowne_] i. e. whisper: see note, p. 120. v. 513.
v. 1671. _dyssayued_] i. e. deceived.
v. 1673. _wete_] i. e. know.
v. 1677. _I wyll haue hym rehayted and dyspysed_] Our early poets
frequently use _rehete_ in the sense of—revive, cheer; a meaning foreign
to the present passage. In the _Towneley Mysteries_, we find “_rehett_”
and “_rehete_,” pp. 143, 198, which the _Gloss._ explains “to threaten;”
qy. if rightly? In some copies of Chaucer’s _Troilus and Creseide_, B.
iii. 350, is “reheting;” of which, says Tyrwhitt (_Gloss._ to _Cant.
Tales_), “I can make no sense.” In G. Douglas’s Virgil’s _Æneidos_,
B. xiii. p. 467. l. 53. ed. Rudd., and in the _Flyting of Dunbar and
Kennedy_, Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 74, 80. ed. Laing, is “rehatoure,” which
has been referred to the French _rehair_: and perhaps _rehayted_ in our
text is—re-hated (Skelton afterwards in this piece, v. 2458, has the
uncommon word _inhateth_).
v. 1679. _rest_] i. e. remain.
Page 280. v. 1682. _supplyed_] i. e. supplicated.
v. 1687. _But for all that he is lyke to haue a glent_] _Glent_ is
frequently found in the sense of—glance; but its meaning here, as would
seem from the context, is—slip, fall: and in our author’s _Garlande of
Laurell_ we find,
“Go softly, she sayd, the stones be full _glint_ [i. e. slippery].”
v. 572. vol. i. 384.
Page 280. v. 1688. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 1692. _What force ye_] i. e. What care ye.
v. 1695. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 1698. _haftynge_] See note, p. 107. v. 138.
v. 1702. _woke_] i. e. week.
v. 1703. _sone_] i. e. soon.
v. 1706. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 1709. _comonynge_] i. e. communing, conversing.
v. 1711. _sad_] i. e. grave, serious, sober, discreet.
Page 281. v. 1713. _doute_] i. e. fear.
v. 1715. _ony_] i. e. any.
v. 1718. _be lykelyhod_] i. e. by likelihood,—as it appeared.
v. 1719. _to fode_] i. e. to feed with words,—deceive. So in our author’s
_Bowge of Courte_;
“Than Fauell gan _wyth fayre speche me to fede_.”
v. 147. vol. i. 36.
v. 1723. _reserued_] i. e. retained.
v. 1725. _set a gnat By_] i. e. value at a gnat, care a gnat for.
v. 1738. _suche maystryes gan make_]—_suche maystryes_, i. e. such
disturbances from the consequence which you assumed: and see note on v.
151. p. 238.
Page 282. v. 1745. _lurden_] See note on v. 423. p. 242.
v. 1748. _haynyarde_] A term of reproach which I do not understand: but
in our author’s _Bowge of Courte_, v. 327. vol. i. 42, _hayne_ seems to
mean—hind, slave, peasant.
v. 1749. _cast_] i. e. throw up.
v. 1751. _bolle_] i. e. bowl.
—— _Goddes brede_] i. e. God’s bread.
v. 1754. _praty_] i. e. pretty.
v. 1758. _Cockes armes_] i. e. God’s arms: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
v. 1759. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 1766. _ony_] i. e. any.
Page 283. v. 1772. _Where as_] i. e. Where.
v. 1775. _No force_] i. e. No matter.
v. 1776. _pollynge_] i. e. plundering.
v. 1778. _parde_] i. e. _par dieu_, verily.
—— _largesse_] i. e. liberality.
v. 1779. _vergesse_] i. e. verjuice.
v. 1782. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion.
v. 1786. _taken_] i. e. committed, consigned.
v. 1802. _lowte_] i. e. bow, pay obeisance.
Page 284. v. 1813. _syth_] i. e. since.
v. 1817. _acquyte_] i. e. requite.
v. 1820. _solace_] i. e. pleasure.
v. 1821. _dyntes_] i. e. blows.
v. 1822. _Well were_] i. e. In good condition were.
v. 1824. _halse_] }
v. 1825. _clepe_] }
Both words signify—embrace; with this distinction, that the former means
properly—to throw the arms round the neck.
v. 1829. _I befole thy brayne pan_] i. e. I befool thy skull, head: see
note, p. 100. v. 31.
Page 285. v. 1830. _By our lakyn_] See note on v. 341. p. 240.
v. 1831. _My hawke is rammysshe_] “_Ramage_ is when a Hawk is wilde,
coy, or disdainfull to the man, and contrary to be reclamed.” Latham’s
_Faulconry_ (_Explan. of Words of Art_), 1658.
v. 1833. _warne_] i. e. prevent.
v. 1835. _ronner_] i. e. runner.
—— _fole_] i. e. fool.
v. 1836. _iarfawcon_] See note, p. 134. v. 557.
v. 1838. _ydder_] i. e. udder.
v. 1840. _slydder_] i. e. slippery.
v. 1841. _for God auowe_] So presently, v. 1851, “I make God _auowe_:”
see note, p. 109. v. 199.
—— _chiydder_] i. e. shiver.
v. 1842. _Thy wordes hange togyder as fethers in the wynde_] An
expression which occurs again in our author’s _Speke, Parrot_, v. 295.
vol. ii. 14. So too in a comedy (before quoted), _The longer thou liuest,
the more foole thou art_, &c. _Newly compiled by W. Wager_, n. d.;
“A song much like thauthour of the same,
_It hangeth together like fethers in the winde_.”
Sig. D ii.
v. 1844. _carle_] i. e. churl.
v. 1848. _a losell lede a lurden_] i. e. one good-for-nothing fellow lead
another: see note, p. 209. v. 138, and note on v. 423 of the present
poem, p. 242.
v. 1849. _sowter_] i. e. shoemaker, cobbler.
v. 1850. _Cockes harte_] i. e. God’s heart: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
v. 1853. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 1854. _I shall gyue you a gaude of a goslynge that I gaue_] _Gaud_
is found in the sense of—jest, trick, toy, &c.: but the line (perhaps
corrupted) is beyond my comprehension.
v. 1856. _reue_] i. e. steward, bailiff.
v. 1858. _syke_] i. e. such.
Page 285. v. 1859. _Sadylgose_] i. e. Saddle-goose.
—— _Dawcocke_] See note, p. 113. v. 301.
Page 286. v. 1860. _garre_] i. e. make, cause.
v. 1862. _bytter_] i. e. bittern.
v. 1864. _to grame_] i. e. to be angry,—or perhaps to grieve; the word
being found in both senses.
v. 1865. _snyte_] i. e. snipe.
v. 1868. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 1871. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
—— _iapes_] i. e. jests, jokes.
v. 1876. _sone_] i. e. soon.
v. 1882. _mo_] i. e. more.
v. 1886. _payntyd_] See note, p. 176. v. 583.
v. 1887. _demenour_] i. e. director: see note, p. 134. v. 553.
Page 287. v. 1891. _largesse_] i. e. liberality.
v. 1892. _fondnesse_] i. e. folly.
v. 1896. _rode_] i. e. rood, cross: see note, p. 206. v. 69.
v. 1898. _broder_] i. e. brother.
v. 1899. _lokys_] i. e. looks.
v. 1900. _clokys_] i. e. claws—clutches; see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of
Scot. Lang._ in v. _Cleuck_.
v. 1903. _quyte_] i. e. requite.
v. 1904. _velyarde_] i. e. old man, dotard.
—— _dynt_] i. e. blow.
v. 1906. _losell_] See note, p. 209. v. 138.
v. 1908. _hyght_] i. e. am called.
v. 1910. _rughly_] i. e. roughly.
v. 1912. _lust_] i. e. pleasure, liking.
v. 1913. _lurden_] See note on v. 423. p. 242.
v. 1915. _set by hym a flye_] i. e. value him at a fly, care a fly for
him.
v. 1916. _brace_] See note, p. 216. v. 33.
v. 1917. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 1918. _to_] i. e. too.
Page 288. v. 1928. _carbuckyls_] i. e. carbuncles.
v. 1930. _lyppers_] i. e. lepers.
v. 1932. _Some with the marmoll to halte I them make_]—_marmoll_, i.
e. old sore, ulcer, gangrene. “_Marmoll_ a sore _lovp_.” Palsgrave’s
_Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xlvii. (Table of Subst.). Skelton
recollected Chaucer;
“But gret harm was it, as it thoughte me,
That _on his shinne a mormal_ hadde he.”
_Prol. to Cant. Tales_, v. 387.
on which passage see Tyrwhitt’s note.
Page 288. v. 1934. _brennynge_] i. e. burning.
v. 1936. _walter_] i. e. tumble, roll. “I _Walter_ I tumble, _Ie me
voystre_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cccc.
(Table of Verbes).
v. 1939. _sle_] i. e. slay.
v. 1945. _Lydderyns_] i. e. _Lydder_, wicked, persons: so in our author’s
_Garlande of Laurell_, “Some _lidderons_, some losels,” &c. v. 188. vol.
i., 369.
—— _set by_] i. e. value, regard.
Page 289. v. 1958. _franesy_] i. e. frensy.
v. 1960. _worshyp_] i. e. honour, dignity.
v. 1961. _fole_] i. e. fool.
v. 1962. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 1966. _sadly_] i. e. gravely, seriously, soberly, discreetly.
v. 1967. _preposytour_] i. e. a scholar appointed by the master to
overlook the rest. “I am _preposyter_ of my boke. Duco classem.” Hormanni
_Vulgaria_, sig. R viii. ed. 1530.
v. 1968. _theyr wanton vagys_]—_vagys_, i. e. vagaries, strayings.
Richardson in his _Dict._ gives an example of this substantive (_vagues_)
from Holinshed.
v. 1977. _mo_] i. e. more.
v. 1979. _Howe_] i. e. Ho.
v. 1980. _lore_] i. e. teaching.
v. 1984. _vnlykynge_] i. e. in poor condition of body. “The strength and
lustinesse, or _well lykyng_ of my body.” Palsgrave’s _Acolastus_, 1540.
sig. U iiii. “I am withered,” says Falstaff, “like an old apple-John.
Well, I’ll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some _liking_.”
Shakespeare’s _Henry IV._ Part i. act iii. sc. 3.
Page 290. v. 1989. _enuy_] i. e. ill-will, grudge.
v. 1993. _golde and fe_] See note, p. 234. v. 267.
v. 1995. _thought_] See note, p. 101. v. 10.
v. 2004. _syth_] i. e. since.
—— _no nother_] A not unfrequent form in our early writers,—i. e. none
other.
v. 2005. _take it in gre_] i. e. take it kindly: see note, p. 95, v. 68.
v. 2006. _a noble estate_] i. e. a person of noble estate or rank.
v. 2014. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
Page 291. v. 2026. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 2034. _cawdels_] According to the custom of great persons. So in the
ballad of _Glasgerion_;
“He harped in the kinges chambere,
Where cuppe and _caudle_ stoode.”
Percy’s _Rel. of A. E. P._, iii. 43. ed. 1794.
Page 291. v. 2035. _mamockes_] “_Mammocks_, leavings, wasted fragments.”
Forby’s _Vocab. of East Anglia_.
v. 2037. _fayne_] i. e. glad.
v. 2038. _pomped_] In our text at least is equivalent to—pampered.
“The _pomped_ clerkes with foles [fodes] delicous
Erth often fedeth,” &c.
Hawes’s _Pastime of Pleasure_, sig. B b iiii. ed. 1555.
v. 2040. _to be drawe_] i. e. to be drawn over, covered.
v. 2042. _shertes of Raynes_] i. e. shirts made of the delicate species
of linen manufactured at Rennes in Brittany.
v. 2044. _happed_] i. e. covered.
Page 292. v. 2054. _sykernesse_] i. e. security, sureness.
v. 2061. _plete_] i. e. plead.
v. 2064. _lyther_] i. e. bad,—inactive.
v. 2066. _leuer_] i. e. more willingly.
v. 2070. _they rynne to in manus tuas queche_]—_rynne_, i. e. run,—they
quickly come to be hanged, when they say _In manus tuas, Domine, commendo
spiritum meum_.
v. 2072. _mary_] i. e. by the Virgin Mary.
—— _mote_] i. e. may.
v. 2073. _too_] i. e. toe.
v. 2077. _rydlesse_] In v. 2445 is “_redlesse_,” which properly
means—devoid of counsel: but Skelton seems to use both forms in the sense
of—unavailing.
v. 2080. _bloo_] i. e. livid: see note, p. 103. v. 3.
Page 293. v. 2093. _I garde her gaspe, I garde her gle_]—_garde_, i. e.
made, caused: _gle_, i. e., perhaps, squint; see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of
Scot. Lang._ in v. _Gley_.
v. 2094. _daunce on the le_] A fragment, it would seem, of some song:
_le_, i. e. lea.
v. 2095. _bassed_] i. e. kissed.
v. 2096. _the bote of all my bale_] i. e. the remedy or help of all my
evil or sorrow.
“God send every good man _bote of his bale_.”
Chaucer’s _Chanones Yemannes Tale_, v. 16949. ed. Tyr.
v. 2097. _farre fet_] i. e. far-fetched.
v. 2098. _louesome_] i. e. lovely one.
Page 293. v. 2098. _let_] i. e. leave, desist.
v. 2100. _patlet_]—or _partlet_,—i. e. a sort of ruff, or rather
neck-kerchief: see Strutt’s _Dress and Habits_, &c. ii. 368.
v. 2104. _lust and lykynge_] See note, p. 98. v. 23.
v. 2106. _me lyst_] i. e. pleases me.
Page 294. v. 2113. _hardely_] i. e. assuredly.
v. 2114. _to moche_] i. e. too much.
v. 2115. _not worth an hawe_] A common expression in our early poetry;
“Your wo appease which is _not worth an haw_.”
Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sig. I iiii. ed. 1555.
v. 2116. _to free of the dawe_] Equivalent, I suppose, to—too much
fooling: see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 2117. _sad_] See note on v. 1966. p. 267.
v. 2121. _to to out of harre_] See notes on v. 881. p. 249, and v. 921.
p. 250.
v. 2123. _iettynge_] i. e. strutting: see note, p. 94. v. 43.
—— _iapes_] i. e. jests, jokes.
v. 2124. _mowynge_] i. e. making mouths, grimacing.
—— _iackenapes_] i. e. monkey.
v. 2132. _brothell_] Was formerly applied as a term of reproach to the
worthless of either sex:
“Of this daye gladde was many a _brothell_
That myght haue an ore with Cocke Lorell.”
_Cocke Lorelles bote_, n. d. sig. C ii.
v. 2135. _Cockes armes_] i. e. God’s arms: see note on v. 518, p. 243.
v. 2138. _lurden_] See note on v. 423. p. 242.
v. 2141. _largesse_] i. e. liberality.
v. 2143. _conuenyent_] i. e. fit, suitable.
Page 295. v. 2148. _poddynge prycke_] i. e. skewer that fastens the
pudding-bag.
v. 2150. _pot sharde_] i. e. potsherd.
v. 2151. _the spence of a noble_] i. e. the expense or spending of a
noble,—the gold coin so called.
v. 2152. _c. s._ i. e. a hundred shillings.
v. 2155. _occupyed_] Though our author, according to his occasionally
pleonastic style, has in the next line but one, “_occupyed_ and vsyd,”
the words are synonymous: see note, p. 86. v. 52.
v. 2156. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 2159. _retchlesse_] i. e. reckless.
Page 285. v. 2162. _rynne_] i. e. run.
v. 2164. _it shall not gretly skyll_] See note on v. 1615. p. 262.
v. 2165. _spyll_] i. e. destroy.
v. 2166. _some fall prechynge at the Toure Hyll_] So in _Thenterlude of
Youth_, n. d.;
“By our Lady he dyd promote the
To make the _preche_ at the galowe tre.”
Sig. B i.
v. 2168. _nother they set by_] i. e. neither they value, regard.
v. 2171. _lusty to loke on_] i. e. pleasant to look on.
v. 2172. _nonnes_] i. e. nuns.
—— _ryn_] i. e. run.
v. 2173. _Freers_] i. e. Friars.
—— _fayne_] i. e. glad, joyful.
v. 2177. _rechate_] See note, p. 234. v. 215.
Page 296. v. 2186. _brast_] i. e. burst.
v. 2187. _spewe and cast_] One of Skelton’s pleonasms.
v. 2188. _gotted ... to thy share_]—_gotted_, i. e. gotten.
v. 2193. _ye_] i. e. yea.
v. 2194. _to wed_] i. e. for a pawn, pledge.
v. 2195. _a daggeswane_] i. e. a rough sort of coverlet. “_Dagswayne._
Lodex.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “My bedde is couered with a
_daggeswayne_ and a quylte ... _gausape_ ...”—“Some _daggeswaynes_ haue
longe thrummes & iagges on bothe sydes: some but on one.” Hormanni
_Vulgaria_, sig. g iii. ed. 1530.
—— _ony_] i. e. any.
v. 2196. _metely well_] _“Metely: Moyennement. Assez,”_ &c. Palsgrave’s
_Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxliii. (Table of Aduerbes).
“He is _metely_ lerned. _Mediocriter_ doctus est.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_,
sig. R viii. ed. 1530.
v. 2197. _dele_] i. e. part, bit.
v. 2198. _in the deuyls date_] See note, p. 116. v. 375.
v. 2201. _the messe_] i. e. the Mass.
Page 297. v. 2204. _hose_] i. e. breeches.
v. 2207. _skelpe_] i. e. slap, strike: see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot.
Lang._
v. 2208. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 2209. _Cockes bones_] i. e. God’s bones: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
—— _blysse_] See note on v. 1641. p. 263.
v. 2210. _dynge the deuyll_]—_dynge_, i. e. strike, knock. So again in
our author’s poem _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c.;
“And _the deuill downe dynge_.”
v. 210. vol. ii. 74.
Compare _The Droichis Part of the Play_, attributed to Dunbar;
“That _dang the devill_, and gart him yowle.”
Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 38. ed. Laing.
Page 297. v. 2210. _holde_] i. e. holden, held.
v. 2211. _rede_] i. e. advice.
v. 2214. _wrynge thy be in a brake_] Some cant expression: _brake_, see
note, p. 168. v. 324, and note on _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 980.
v. 2215. _dawe_] i. e. simpleton: see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 2216. _fawchyn_] i. e. cut.
v. 2217. _cauell_] “_Kevil, Kephyl_, A horse, contemptuously applied to
a person, ‘thou girt _kevil_.’” _The Dialect of Craven_, &c. Compare
Lydgate’s verses, entitled in the Catalogue, _Advices for people to keep
a guard over their tongues_;
“I saugh a _kevell_ corpulent of stature,
Lyk a materas redlyd was his coote,” &c.
_MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 132.
v. 2218. _iauell_] “_Iauell_. Ioppus.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. Of
this common term of contempt (which Skelton uses in other passages) the
meaning and etymology are uncertain. Todd (Johnson’s _Dict._ in v.)
explains it “A wandering or dirty fellow;” shews that it is sometimes
written _jabel_; and would derive it from the verb, _javel_, _jable_,
or _jarble_, to bemire, to bedew. Nares (_Gloss._ in v.) refers it to
the French _javelle_, which sometimes means “a faggot of brush-wood or
other worthless materials.” The compiler of the _Gloss._ to _The Towneley
Mysteries_ (under _Hawvelle_) considers it equivalent to—jabberer.
Page 298. v. 2223. _iche_] i. e. I.
v. 2224. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 2229. _all one_] i. e. all agreed.
v. 2233. _rode_] i. e. road, cross: see note, p. 206. v. 69.
v. 2234. _blode_] i. e. blood.
v. 2235. _By our lakyn_] See note on v. 341. p. 240.
v. 2242. _acomberyd_] i. e. encumbered, troubled.
v. 2243. _Goddys fote_] i. e. God’s foot.
v. 2244. _facyd_] See note, p. 216. v. 33.
v. 2246. _condycyons_] See note, p. 183. v. 12.
Page 299. v. 2248. _bracyd_] See note, p. 216. v. 33.
v. 2249. _defaute_] i. e. default, defect.
v. 2250. _to haute_] i. e. too haughty.
v. 2252. _pratyer_] i. e. prettier.
v. 2258. _gardeuyaunce_] In a note on Dunbar’s _Freir of Tungland_,
Lord Hailes observes that _gardyvians_ is “literally _garde de viande_,
or cupboard; but there it implies his cabinet;” and Mr. D. Laing adds,
“rather, a portable cabinet.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 243. Skelton appears
to use the word in the sense of—trunk: and Palsgrave has “_Gardeuyans
bahus_.” _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxxv. (Table of Subst.)
Page 299. v. 2259. _bowget_] i. e. budget.
v. 2260. _male_] i. e. bag, wallet.
v. 2262. _Your trymynge and tramynge by me must be tangyd_] The reader
will hardly expect that I should attempt any precise explanation of this
line.
v. 2264. _When we with Magnyfycence goodys made
cheuysaunce_]—_cheuysaunce_, i. e. booty: see note, p. 107. v. 100.
Compare Gower;
“Right as a thefe _maketh his cheuesance_,
And robbeth mens gooddes aboute,” &c.
_Conf. Am._ B. v. fol. cxvi. ed. 1554.
v. 2265. _wengaunce_] i. e. vengeance.
v. 2266. _banne and wary_] “I _warrye_, I _banne_ or curse, _Ie
mauldis_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cccci.
(Table of Verbes). Barclay is even more pleonastic than Skelton;
“And your vnkindnes _weray, ban and curse_.”
_The Ship of Fooles_, fol. 22. ed. 1570.
v. 2268. _Cockys bonys_] i. e. God’s bones; see note on v. 518. p. 243.
v. 2270. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 2275. _gaure_] i. e. stare: see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s
_Cant. Tales_. Yet Palsgrave has “I _Gaure_ I krye, _Ie hue_. Howe he
_gaureth_ after his hauke: _Cōment il heue apres son oyseau._” _Lesclar.
de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccxliiii. (Table of Verbes).
Page 300. v. 2276. _yll hayle_] See note, p. 176. v. 617.
v. 2283. _the gowte and the gyn_] If _gyn_ means (as the context seems to
prove) some bodily ailment, I know not what it is.
v. 2287. _murre_] i. e. severe cold with hoarseness.
—— _pose_] i. e. rheum in the head.
v. 2288. _requiem æternam groweth forth of his nose_] Heywood has a
similar expression;
“Hunger droppeth _euen out of both their noses_.”
_Dialogue_, &c. sig. D 4.—_Workes_, ed. 1598.
And Cotgrave; “_Chishe-face_ ... one _out of whose nose_ hunger drops.”
_Dict._
v. 2291. _the halfe strete_] On the Bank-side, Southwark,—where the
stews were: it is mentioned in the following curious passage of _Cocke
Lorelles bote_, n. d. (where the “wynde fro wynchester” alludes to the
temporary suppression of the Southwark stews at the intercession of the
Bishop of Winchester);
“Syr this pardon is newe founde
By syde London brydge in a holy grounde
Late called the stewes banke
Ye knowe well all that there was
Some relygyous women in that place
To whome men offred many a franke
And bycause they were so kynde and lyberall
A merueylous auenture there is be fall
Yf ye lyst to here how
There came suche a wynde fro wynchester
That blewe these women ouer the ryuer
In wherye as I wyll you tell
Some at saynt Kateryns stroke a grounde
And many in holborne were founde
Some at saynt Gyles I trowe
Also in aue maria aly and at westmenster
And some in shordyche drewe theder
With grete lamentacyon
And by cause they haue lost that fayre place
They wyll bylde at colman hedge in space
Another noble mansyon
Fayrer and euer _the halfe strete_ was
For euery house newe paued is with gras
Shall be full of fayre floures
The walles shall be of hauthorne I wote well
And hanged wᵗ whyte motly yᵗ swete doth smell
Grene shall be the coloures
And as for this olde place these wenches holy
They wyll not haue it called the stewys for foly
But maketh it strabery banke.”
Sig. B iv.
Page 300. v. 2293. _motton_] Long after Skelton’s time, as the readers of
our early dramatists will recollect, _mutton_ was a favourite cant term
for a prostitute.
v. 2294. _Ye ... to_] i. e. Yea ... too.
v. 2295. _queysy mete_] “_Quaisy_ as meate or drike is, _dangereux_.”
Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xciii. (Table of
Adiect.). Compare _Jyl of Braintfords Testament_, n. d.;
“I pray you fil you not to much of the _mutton_
I promise you that it is very _queisy_.”
Sig. A.
Page 300. v. 2297. _In fay_] i. e. In faith.
—— _froty_] Is frequently, as here, used by our early writers for—_forty_.
v. 2303. _at all assayes_] See note on v. 433. p. 242.
Page 301. v. 2311. _sleeth_] i. e. slayeth.
v. 2315. _bronde_] i. e. brand.
v. 2316. _stonde_] i. e. stand.
v. 2319. _lewdly_] i. e. vilely, basely (but here it seems to be used as
an adjective).
v. 2320. _to_] i. e. too.
v. 2322. _fer_] i. e. far.
v. 2324. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 2330. _agayne_] i. e. against.
Page 302. v. 2332. _wyte_] i. e. blame.
v. 2333. _rede_] i. e. counsel.
v. 2335. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
—— _ryd thy selfe_] i. e. set free thyself,—despatch thyself.
v. 2336. _to_] i. e. too.
v. 2340. _honge_] i. e. hang.
v. 2342. _tonge_] i. e. thong.
v. 2343. _throte bole_] i. e. throat-bowl,—protuberance of the throat.
“Throte gole or _throte bole_, _neu de la gorge_, _gosier_.” Palsgrave’s
_Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxx. (Table of Subst.). In _Ortus
Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. is “Epiglotum, _a throte bolle_.”—“It
is not impossible,” says Warton, alluding to this passage, “that Despare
[Myschefe] offering the knife and the halter, might give a distant hint
to Spenser.” _Hist. of E. P._ (Em. and Ad. to p. 363 of vol. ii.) ed.
4to. See _The Faerie Queene_, i. ix. 50.
—— _slee_] i. e. slay.
v. 2351. _to_] i. e. too.
v. 2352. _Out, harowe_]—_harowe_ (variously spelt) is common in our early
poetry as an exclamation of alarm or sudden distress, or an outcry for
help. “Interiectyons of outkrye: _Haro._ as Haro alarme _trahy trahy_.”
Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530, last folio. On the origin
of the word see Du Cange’s _Gloss._ in vv. _Haro_, _Haroep_; Tyrwhitt’s
note on v. 3286 of Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_; Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of
Scot. Lang._ in v. _Harro_; and Roquefort’s _Gloss. to La Lang. Rom._ in
v. _Harau_.
—— _hyll_] i. e. hell.
v. 2353. _combred_] i. e. encumbered, troubled.
v. 2354. _sloo_] i. e. slay.
—— _nature and kynde_] A pleonastic expression.
Page 303. v. 2357. _sautes_] i. e. assaults.
v. 2361. _soner_] i. e. sooner.
v. 2362. _luge_] i. e. (I suppose) lodge, abode.
v. 2365. _wanhope_] i. e. want of hope,—despair. “Desperatio. _wanhope_.”
_Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. “_Wanhope desespoir_.”
Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxiii. (Table of
Subst.). In some of our early writers, however, we find a distinction
made between _wanhope_ and _despair_.
v. 2370. _dysease_] i. e. uneasiness, pain.
v. 2373. _ony_] i. e. any.
v. 2375. _ne_] i. e. nor.
v. 2383. _lectuary_] i. e. electuary.
v. 2387. _gommes goostly_] i. e. gums ghostly, spiritual.
—— _herte_] i. e. heart.
v. 2388. _To thanke God of his sonde_]—_his sonde_, i. e. his
sending,—his providential dispensation.
Page 304. v. 2392. _fote_] i. e. foot.
v. 2394. _mode_] i. e. mood.
v. 2398. _dyscryue_] Signifies—describe; but in the present passage it
would seem to mean—discover, search, try.
v. 2406. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 2411. _sone_] i. e. soon.
Page 305. v. 2430. _apayed_] i. e. satisfied, pleased.
v. 2433. _abylyment_] i. e. habiliment.
v. 2434. _aduysement_] i. e. consideration, heed.
v. 2435. _confyrmable_] i. e. conformable.
v. 2444. _to_] i. e. too.
v. 2445. _redlesse_] See note on v. 2077. p. 268.
v. 2449. _to accompte you the contynewe of my consayte_] i. e. to tell
you the continuation, the rest, of my conceit, conception.
Page 306. v. 2455. _sad_] See note on v. 1711. p. 264.
v. 2457. _that is no nay_] i. e. that is not to be denied.
v. 2458. _inhateth_] Skelton’s fondness for compound words has been
already noticed (see note, p. 105. v. 31); and here most probably
_inhateth_ was not intended to convey a stronger meaning than—hateth.
—— _rennynge_] i. e. running.
v. 2460. _ne can_] i. e. can not.
v. 2465. _largesse_] i. e. liberality.
v. 2467. _thorowly ingrosed_] i. e. (as the context would seem to shew)
fully written out.
v. 2468. _Pountes_] i. e. Pontoise.
Page 306. v. 2469. _hyght_] i. e. is called.
v. 2474. _to_] i. e. too.
Page 307. v. 2479. _ouerthrow_] i. e. overthrown.
v. 2481. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 2485. _hafters_] See note, p. 107. v. 138.
—— _forfende_] i. e. forbid, prohibit.
v. 2493. _sentence_] i. e. meaning.
v. 2494. _corage_] i. e. heart, affection.
—— _flyt_] i. e. remove.
v. 2499. _worshyp_] i. e. honour, dignity.
v. 2500. _sadnesse_] See note on v. 1382. p. 259.
Page 308. v. 2503. _I wyll refrayne you ferther, or we flyt_] i. e. I
will question you farther before we remove (_refrayne_ being here, it
would seem, according to Skelton’s use of such compounds, equivalent to
the simple, and not uncommon word,—_frayne_).
v. 2506. _processe_] i. e. relation, discourse: see notes, p. 143. v.
735. p. 146. v. 969. p. 194. v. 157, &c.
v. 2507. _Syth_] i. e. Since.
—— _erectyd_] See note on v. 95. p. 237.
v. 2508. _aforse me_] i. e. exert myself, do my endeavour.
v. 2510. _warkys_] i. e. works.
v. 2513. _largesse_] i. e. liberality.
—— _to_] i. e. too.
v. 2517. _the nygarde nor the chyncherde_] Synonymous terms. “_Chynche_
or _chynchare_. Preparcus.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499.
v. 2518. _negarship_] i. e. niggardship.
v. 2522. _fumously adresse you with magnanymyte_] i. e. hotly, vigorously
provide, furnish yourself with, &c.
v. 2525. _affyaunce_] i. e. trust.
v. 2534. _this processe_] i. e. this drama of _Magnyfycence:_ (so
presently, “this interlude” v. 2548, “this treatyse” v. 2562, “this
mater” v. 2576:) see note on v. 2506, above.
Page 309. v. 2539. _seke[r]nesse_] i. e. security, sureness.
v. 2541. _lawe_] i. e. low; as in v. 190.
v. 2544. _leue_] i. e. willing.
v. 2550. _auaunsyd_] i. e. advanced.
v. 2557. _lacke_] i. e. fault, blame.
v. 2563. _comberyd_] i. e. encumbered, troubled.
Page 310. v. 2573. _maysterfest_] i. e. master-fast.
v. 2577. _Precely purposyd vnder pretence of play_]—_Precely_, i. e.
Pressly, seems to mean here—seriously (rather than—expressly).
Page 310. v. 2583. _the terestre rechery_] If “_rechery_” be the right
reading, I know not what it means. Qy. “trechery?” as before, v. 2046,
“Fye on _this worlde, full of trechery_.”
—— _flode_] i. e. flood.
v. 2585. _Ensordyd_] Could only, I presume, mean—defiled: but qy., as the
context seems to require, “Ensorbyd,” i. e. sucked in, swallowed?
—— _wawys_] i. e. waves.
—— _wode_] i. e. mad, raging.
v. 2586. _brast_] i. e. burst,—break.
v. 2588. _hym_] Must be an error of the press for “hymselfe;” compare v.
2581.
v. 2590. _syttynge_] i. e. proper, becoming.
v. 2591. _ryalte_] i. e. royalty.
v. 2593. _indeuer_] i. e. endure, continue, dwell.