Page 110.—“Page 40. v. 252. _Heue and how rombelow_]” I might have added,
that “_heaue and hoe Rumbelo_” occurs in a nonsensical song (No. 31) in
Ravenscroft’s _Pammelia_, 1609.
Page 124.—“Page 54. v. 118. _For to kepe his cut, &c._]” So in the
_Coventry Mysteries_, the Pharisee says to the woman taken in adultery;
“We xal the teche with carys colde
A lytyl bettyr _to kepe thi kutte_.”
_MS. Cott. Vesp. D_ viii. fol. 123.
Page 132.—“Page 66. v. 485. _at a brayde_]” This expression is used here
in connexion with singing: and in one of the _Christmas Carols_ printed
for the Percy Society, p. 51, we find,
“Wherefor syng we alle _atte a brayde_, nowell.”
Page 147.—“Page 84. v. 1078. _Enhached_] i. e. Inlaid,” &c. I ought to
have observed that, though in the preceding line Skelton calls this
beauty-spot a “sker” (scar), he means the wart already mentioned;
“Her beautye to augment,
Dame Nature hath her lent
A _warte_ vpon her cheke,
Who so lyst to seke
In her vysage a _skar_,” &c.
v. 1041.
and see too v. 1064.
Page 148.—“Page 86. v. 1151.
_She is playnly expresse_
_Egeria, the goddesse,_
_And lyke to her image,_
_Emportured with corage,_
_A louers pilgrimage_]
I must leave the reader to form his own idea of the meaning of the last
two lines,” &c. The following lines of Lydgate may be cited as somewhat
resembling the present passage;
“To hym appered a monstruous _ymage_
Parted on twayne of colour and _corage_,” &c.
_Fall of Prynces_, B. vi. leaf cxxxiiii. ed. Wayland.
Page 157. last line but one. “The gist or point of this satire had a
noble origin, or there must be an extraordinary coincidence of thought
in the _Beoni_, or Topers, a ludicrous effusion of the great Lorenzo
de Medici, when a young man.” Dallaway was led to this remark by the
following passage in Spence’s _Anecdotes_, &c.; “Skelton’s poems are
all low and bad: there’s nothing in them that’s worth reading.—P. [Mr.
Cleland, who was by, added, that the Tunning of Ellinor Rummin, in that
author’s works, was taken from a poem of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s].” p. 173.
ed. 18-20.—_I Beoni_, observes Mr. D’Israeli (referring to Roscoe’s _Life
of Lorenzo de’ Medici_, i. 290), “was printed by the Giunti in 1568, and
therefore this burlesque piece could never have been known to Skelton.”
_Amen. of Lit._ ii. 79.
Page 166.—“Page 102. v. 229.... _fonny_ is, I suppose, foolishly
amorous,” &c. I ought to have said “_fonny_, i. e. to _fon_, to be
foolishly amorous,” &c.
Page 172. line 3. for “v. 490,” read “v. 400.”
Page 176.—“Page 113. v. 560. _mote I hoppy_] i. e. may I have good hap.”
Rather, I believe—may I hop. “_Hoppy_, to hop or caper. Exm.” Grose’s
_Prov. Gloss._ ed. 1839.
Page 184.—“Page 121. v. 46. _dud frese_] i. e. coarse frieze.” But in
_Prompt. Parv._ we find “_Dudde clothe_. Amphibolus. Burrus.” ed. 1499.
Page 188.—“Page 125. v. 178. _Soche pelfry thou hast pachchyd.”_ Add to
note on this line,—Dekker, describing “The Blacke Arte” (or “Picking of
Lockes”), tells us that “The gaines gotten is _Pelfry_.” _The Belman of
London_, &c. sig. F 4. ed. 1608.
Page 190. “—— _goliardum_].” “Goliardeis, _one who gains his living by
following rich men’s tables, and telling tales and making sport for the
guests_. See on this word the Introduction to the Poems of Walter Mapes.”
Wright’s Gloss, to _Piers Ploughman_.
Page 195.—“Page 133. v. 3. _In your crosse rowe nor Christ crosse you
spede_]” Add to note on this line that—in _The Boke of Curtasye_ we find;
“Yff that thou be a ȝong enfaunt,
And thenke tho scoles for to haunt,
This lessoun schulle thy maister the merke,
_Cros Crist the spede_ in alle thi werke.”
_The sec. Boke_, p. 7. (printed for the Percy Society.)
Page 206.—“Page 157. v. 73 ... So Fansy, in our author’s _Magnyfycence_,
exclaims to his _hawk_,” &c. But, though Fansy calls his bird a _hawk_,
it appears to have been an _owl_.
Page 207.—“Page 157. v. 78 ... Juliana _Barnes_.” Read “Juliana Berners.”
Page 244.—“Page 246. v. 658. _a pystell of a postyke_]” Cotgrave has
“_Postiquer_. To play the vagrant Impostor,” &c.: “_Postiqueries_.
Cousening sleights,” &c.: “_Postiqueur._ A wandering impostor,” &c.
Page 271.—“Page 297. v. 2211. _rede_] i. e. advice.” Read “i. e. advise.”
—— “Page 298. v. 2233. _rode_] i. e. road, cross.” Read “i. e. rood,
cross.”
Page 284.—“Page 326, v. 397 ... Cole’s _Dict._” Read “Coles’s _Dict._”
Page 311.—“Page 380. v. 474. _The carpettis within and tappettis of
pall_].” I may just notice that in an unpublished book of Kings Payments,
in the Chapter-House, we find, under the first year of Henry 8;
“Item to Corneles Vanderstrete opon his waraunt for }
xv _Tappettes made for Wyndowes_ at the towre } ix s.”
Page 328.—“Page 410. v. 1219 ... but, though Skelton was in all
probability an author as early as 1583,” &c. Read “1483.”
Page 345.—“Page 14. v. 280.” Latter part of the note—“if ‘33ᵒ’ and ‘34’”
&c. I ought to have mentioned that at the end of _Why come ye nat to
Courte_ (vol. ii. 67) we find (what is equally puzzling) “xxxiiii.”