Chapter IX: Part 9

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.

MAGNYFYCENCE.

“That this piece was composed subsequently to the year 1515, seems evident from the mention made in one place [v. 283] of ‘Kynge Lewes of Fraunce’ as an example of liberality [and as dead, v. 285]; and this could only mean Louis xii., who died in that year, as his immediate predecessor of that name [who died in 1483] was the most niggardly of wretches.” _MS. note by Ritson on a transcript of_ Magnyfycence.

Page 226. v. 4. _probate_] In our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_ mention is made of

“Macrobius that did trete
Of Scipions dreme what was the treu _probate_.”

v. 367. vol. i. 376.

where _probate_ is proof, meaning, or, perhaps, interpretation: but in what sense Skelton uses the word here I cannot determine, the greater part of this speech being beyond my comprehension.

v. 5. _fole_] i. e. fool.

v. 6. _vnhappely be vryd_] See note, p. 232. v. 95.

v. 9. _amense_] i. e., perhaps, amends.

v. 10. _by_] i. e. buy, acquire.

v. 16. _sad_] i. e. grave, serious, sober.

v. 17. _lure_] See note, p. 147. v. 1100.

v. 22. _wonnys_] i. e. dwells.

—— _and a man wolde wyt_] i. e. if a man would know.

v. 24. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.

Page 227. v. 33. _Ye, to knackynge ernyst what and it preue_]—i. e. Yea, what if it prove mocking earnest: compare the preceding line, and see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scott. Lang._ in v. _Knack_.

v. 35. _in the mew_] i. e. in confinement,—properly, the place in which hawks were kept, or in which fowls were fattened: see note on _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 219.

v. 36. _a cue_] Is explained (see Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict_. &c.)—a farthing, as being merely the sound of _q̄_, the abbreviation of _quadrans_. But Minsheu has; “_Cue_, halfe a farthing, so called because they set down in the Battling or Butterie Bookes in Oxford and Cambridge the letter q. for halfe a farthing, and in Oxford when they make that Cue or q. a farthing, they say, Cap my q., and make it a farthing thus qͣ. But in Cambridge,” &c. _Guide into Tongues_, ed. 1617.

v. 37. _to_] i. e. too.

Page 227. v. 39. _condyssende_] “I _Condescende_ I agre to a mater.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cxciiii. (Table of Verbes).

v. 44. _countenaunce_] i. e. continence, restraint.

v. 45. _let_] i. e. hinder, restrain.

v. 47. _corage_] i. e. inclination, desires.

v. 56. _parcell_] i. e. part, portion.

v. 57. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.

v. 60.

_Somwhat I coulde enferre,_
_Your consayte to debarre_]

i. e. I could bring in somewhat to hinder, contravene, your conception of the subject. So again in our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_;

“Madame, your apposelle is wele _inferrid_,
And at your auauntage quikly it is
Towchid, and hard for to be _debarrid_.”

v. 141. vol. i. 367.

Page 228. v. 65. _fet_] i. e. fetch.

v. 72. _the surpluse of my sawe_] i. e. the remainder of my saying.

v. 74. _where as_] i. e. where.

v. 80. _ryn_] i. e. run.

v. 86. _wonder_] I may observe that the Roxburgh reprint, without authority, and against the sense, has “no _wonder_.”

v. 89. _ken_] i. e. instruct.

v. 90. _wonders_] i. e. wondrous.

v. 92. _to_] i. e. too.

Page 229. v. 94. _other_] i. e. either.

v. 95.

_To you I arecte it, and cast_
_Therof the reformacyon_]

So Skelton again;

“Syth vnto me formest this processe is _erectyd_.”

v. 2507 of the present drama.

“_Arrectinge_ vnto your wyse examinacion
How all that I do is vnder refformation.”

_Garlande of Laurell_, v. 410. vol. i. 378.

He has also,

“_Arectyng_ my syght towarde the zodyake.”

_Id._ v. 1. p. 361.

“My supplycacyon to you I _arrect_.”

_Id._ v. 55. p. 363.

_Arect_ in our early writers frequently signifies—impute, a meaning foreign to the present passages: in the two last cited, there can be no doubt that it is used in the sense of—raise: in the others it seems to mean—offer, refer.

Page 229. v. 103. _Come of, therfore, let se_] Compare Chaucer;

“—— _let see, come off_, and say.”

_Court of Loue_,—_Workes_, fol. 331. ed. 1602.

and _Reynard the Fox_; “Why tarye ye thus longe, _come of_.” Sig. b 7. ed. 1481: and _Morte d’Arthur_; “_Come of_ thenne sayd they alle, and do hit.” Book xx. cap. iiii. vol. ii. 394. ed. Southey.

v. 106. _reason and skyll_] An expression which Skelton has elsewhere; but the words are nearly synonymous. “_Skyll_. Racio.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499.

v. 113. _chere_] i. e. spirit,—or reception.

v. 114. _intere_] i. e. entire.

v. 115. _Oracius to recorde_] i. e. Horace to witness.

v. 117. _to_] i. e. too.

v. 126. _Measure is treasure_] Lydgate mentions this as “an olde prouerbe:” see his verses on Moderation, _MS. Harl._ 2251. fol. 29, and his poem beginning “Men wryte of oold how _mesour is tresour.” Id._ 2255. fol. 143.

—— _this_] i. e. thus: see note, p. 86. v. 38.

Page 230. v. 131. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.

v. 133. _kynde_] i. e. nature.

v. 134. _renne_] i. e. run.

v. 137. _a rest_] i. e. a wrest—by which the strings of harps and other musical instruments were drawn up.

v. 138. _All trebyllys and tenours be rulyd by a meyne_] “Intercentus, a _meane_ of a songe.” _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. In the notes on Shakespeare, in Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._ &c., _mean_ is wrongly explained—tenor: what the _mean_ was, depended entirely on the nature of the composition.

v. 139. _beste_] i. e. beast.

v. 149. _skyll_] i. e. reason: see note on v. 106.

v. 150. _sad_] i. e. grave, serious, sober.

v. 151. _It is no maystery_] “_Maystry_ done by delyuernesse _ung tovr de souplesse, appertise_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xlvi. (Table of Subst.); and see note, p. 113. v. 329.

“So me helpe God! queth Beues tho,
_Hit were no meistri_ me to slo,
For this is the ferthe dai agon
Mete ne drinke ne bot I non.”

_Sir Beues of Hamtoun_, p. 68. Maitl. ed.

“That is _lytel maystry_ sayd syre launcelot to slee myn hors.” _Morte d’Arthur_, B. xix. c. iiii. vol. ii. 369. ed. Southey.

Page 230. v. 153. _herdely_] i. e. firmly.

Page 231. v. 166. _hyght_] i. e. am called.

v. 175. _Conuenyent_] i. e. Fit, suitable.

—— _ryall_] i. e. royal.

v. 178. _syttynge_] i. e. proper, becoming,—a word very common in our early poetry (altered unnecessarily to “fyttynge” in the Roxburgh reprint of this piece).

v. 182. _his large_] i. e. his range.

v. 184. _hooly_] i. e. wholly.

v. 189. _sawe_] i. e. sow.

v. 190. _nother to_] i. e. neither too.

—— _lawe_] i. e. low: so again in v. 2541, “nowe hy, nowe _lawe_ degre.”

v. 193. _consayte_] i. e. conception.

Page 232. v. 202. _losyll so lyther_] i. e. scoundrel so wicked.

v. 209. _plenarly_] i. e. fully, entirely.

v. 213. _Had I wyste_] See note, p. 86. v. 40.

v. 216. _to fer_] i. e. too far.

v. 219. _defaute_] i. e. default, want.

v. 226. _mone_] i. e. moon.

v. 230. _lyghtly_] “_Lightly_ or sone [i. e. soon]. Leuiter.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499: or, easily.

Page 233. v. 231. _to moche_] i. e. too much.

v. 233. _scole_] i. e. school.

v. 234. _a poppynge fole_]—_fole_, i. e. fool. “He is a _popte fole_ or a starke fole for the nones. Homo fatuitate monstrabilis.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. P iii. ed. 1530. And see note, p. 231. v. 39.

v. 239. _delyaunce_] i. e. dalliance, delay.

v. 249. _endure_] i. e. remain, dwell.

v. 256. _Here is none forsyth whether you flete or synke_]—_forsyth_, i. e. regardeth, careth: _flete_, i. e. float, swim. So Chaucer;

“Him _recketh neuer whether she flete or sinke_.”

_Annel. and Ar._,—_Workes_, fol. 244. ed. 1602.

v. 257. _lokyd_] i. e. looked.

v. 259. _hafter_] See note, p. 107. v. 138.

Page 234. v. 260. _iangelynge Jacke of the vale_] i. e. chattering, &c.; see note, p. 104. v. 6.

v. 266. _Mary_] i. e. by the Virgin Mary.

v. 267. _largesse_] i. e. bounty, liberality.

v. 269. _worshyp_] i. e. honour, dignity.

v. 272. _hyght_] i. e. am called.

v. 274. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.

v. 280. _hardely_] i. e. firmly.

Page 234. v. 280. _auaunce_] i. e. advance.

v. 283. _reporte me_] i. e. refer.

—— _Kynge Lewes_] i. e. King Louis the twelfth: see note on title, p. 236.

v. 285. _syth_] i. e. since.

v. 290. _Jacke shall haue Gyl_] So Heywood;

“Come chat at home, all is well, _Jack shall haue Gill_.”

_Dialogue_, sig. F 3.—_Workes_, ed. 1598.

Page 235. v. 295. _broder_] i. e. brother.

v. 296. _I set not by_] i. e. I value not.

—— _Dauncaster cuttys_] i. e. Doncaster horses.—_Cut_ was a term for a common horse, from its having the tail cut short.

v. 297. _bolte_] i. e. arrow (for a description of it, see Nares’s _Gloss._ in v.).

—— _shote_] i. e. shoot.

v. 298. _hyght_] i. e. be called.

v. 300. _this checke if ye voyde canne_] “_Checke_ a mery taunt.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, fol. xxiii. (Table of Subst.). “I _Voyde_ a thyng out of the way or out of syght, _Ie oste_.” _Id._ fol. ccclxxxxix. (Table of Verbes).

v. 301. _to longe to scole_] i. e. too long to school.

v. 302. _gose_] i. e. goose.

v. 303. _pole_] i. e. pool, water.

v. 304. _fole_] i. e. fool.

v. 306. _Go, shake the dogge, hay_] See note, p. 226. v. 28.

v. 310. _to play with me checke mate_] In allusion to the king being put in _check_ at the game of chess.

v. 311. _your noble estate_] Equivalent to—your noble lordship.

v. 312. _recorde_] i. e. testimony.

v. 314. _Sad_] i. e. Grave, serious, sober.

v. 318. _hele_] i. e. health.

v. 319. _commaunde_] i. e. commend.

v. 321. _ony_] i. e. any.

v. 322. _sone_] i. e. soon.

v. 323. _kepe_] i. e. heed, care, attention.

Page 236. v. 325. _after none_] i. e. afternoon.

v. 327. _Whylest_] i. e. Until.

v. 333. _mynde_] i. e. fancy.

v. 336. _beholde_] i. e. beholden.

v. 341. _By lakyn_] i. e. by our Lady: _lakyn_ is the contraction of _ladykyn_, little lady.

v. 346. _Pountesse_] i. e. Pontoise.

Page 236. v. 347. _taken me_] i. e. committed, consigned to me.

Page 237. v. 355. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.

v. 357. _They bare me in hande that I was a spye_] i. e. They accused me, laid to my charge, that, &c.

“This false knight, that hath this treson wrought,
_Bereth hire in hond_ that she hath don this thing.”

Chaucer’s _Man of Lawes Tale_, v. 5039. ed. Tyr.

“I _Beare in hande_ I threp vpon a man that he hath done a dede, or make hym byleue so, _Ie fais accroyre_” ... “What crime or yuell mayest thou _beare me in hande of: Quel crime ou mal me peulx tu mettre sus_.” Palgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. clxii. (Table of Verbes). “Many be _borne an hande_ of a faute, and punysshed therfore, that were neuer gylty. Plerique facinoris _insimulantur_,” &c. Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. m ii. ed. 1530. This expression occurs with a different shade of meaning in our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_,—

“_He bereth the kyng on hand_,
That he must pyll his lande,” &c.

v. 449. vol. ii. 40.

v. 362.

_And wolde haue made me Freer Tucke,_
_To preche out of the pylery hole_]

Friar Tuck was one of Robin Hood’s merry companions. Concerning these lines Ritson remarks that there is “an evident allusion to some game or practice now totally forgotten and inexplicable.” _Robin Hood_, i. xxvi.

v. 364. _antetyme_] i. e. text. So in the absurd story of Skelton’s preaching, _Merie Tales_, (reprinted in Appendix to _Account of his Life and Writings_), “I say, as I said before in my _antethem, vos estis_.” _Tale vii_.

v. 366. _moche warke_] i. e. much work, trouble.

v. 367. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.

v. 369. _made largesse as I hyght_] i. e. made donation of money according to my name (Fancy’s assumed name being Largesse, see v. 272).

v. 375. _grete estates_] i. e. persons of great estate or rank.

Page 238. v. 384. _ye_] i. e. yea.

v. 385. _mesure is a mery mene_] Heywood in his _Epigrammes vpon Prouerbs_ has ten on “Measure is a mery meane.” Sig. N iiii.,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.

v. 388. _ryall_] i. e. royal.

v. 391. _oder_] i. e. other.

v. 405. _blunderyng_] i. e. disturbance. “I _Blonder, Ie perturbe_.”

Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. clxviii. (Table of Verbes).

Page 238. v. 406. _betake_] i. e. commit, consign.

v. 411. _to put the stone_] i. e. to throw the stone above hand, from the uplifted hand, for trial of strength.

Page 239. v. 413. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion, manner.

v. 417. _I set not by_] i. e. I value not.

v. 423. _lurdayne_] i. e. lumpish, lazy fellow, clown,—worthless person in general.

v. 425. _tappyster_] i. e. woman presiding over the tap in a public house.

v. 429. _can_] i. e. know.

—— _praty_] i. e. pretty.

v. 430. _occupy_] i. e. use: see note, p. 86. v. 52.

—— _kayes_] i. e. keys.

v. 433. _at all assayes_] Occurs again in v. 2303. “_At all assayes, En tous poynts_, or _a tous poynts_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxxxviii. (Table of Aduerbes). “He is a frende _at all assayes_. _Omnium horarum_ amicus est.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. Y iiii. ed. 1530.

v. 435. _mekyll_] i. e. much.

v. 444. _sleyght_] i. e. trick, artful contrivance.

Page 240. v. 446. _fayty bone geyte_] Perhaps corrupted French—_fait a bon get_ or _geste_.

v. 449. _consayte_] i. e. conceit, conception.

v. 453. _noppe is rughe_] i. e. nap is rough.

v. 455. _chafer_] i. e. merchandise.

v. 458. _The courtly gyse of the newe iet_] A somewhat pleonastic expression,—the courtly guise of the new fashion. “_Gette_ a custome _guise nouuelle_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxxvi. (Table of Subst.).

“Yit a poynte _of the new gett_ to telle wille I not blyn.”

_Juditium_,—_Towneley Mysteries_, p. 312.

v. 460. _ferre fet_] i. e. far fetched.

v. 461. _ymet_] i. e. met.

v. 462. _Margery Mylke Ducke_] See note, p. 172. v. 418.

—— _mermoset_] A kind of ape or monkey.

v. 465. _fresshe_] i. e. smart.

v. 469. _praty_] i. e. pretty.

v. 470. _iet_] i. e. strut; see note, p. 94. v. 43.

v. 472. _pope holy_] See note, p. 230. l. 24.

v. 473. _sadnesse_] i. e. gravity, seriousness, soberness, discreetness.

Page 240. v. 475. _not worth a flye_] See note, p. 219. v. 104.

v. 477. _occupy_] i. e. use; see note, p. 86. v. 52.

v. 478. _worshyp_] i. e. honour, dignity.

Page 241. v. 482. _tehe wehe_] See note, p. 232. v. 75.

v. 485. _knokylbonyarde_] Compare Palsgrave’s _Acolastus_, 1540; “Do I raygne here on this facion, being a swynherde amongest swyne of Boeatia. i. amongest a meyny of iacke holde my staues, or _knockyldeboynyardes_, beinge but of late a kynge,” &c. Sig. Y iiii.; and Heywood’s _Dialogue_, &c.,—

“He is a _knuckilbonyard_ very meete
To match a minion neither fayre nor sweete.”

Sig. D 4.,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.

v. 486. _to_] i. e. too.

v. 488. _warke_] i. e. work, business, matter.

v. 489. _yarke_] i. e. strike, lash.

v. 490. _custrell_] “_Coustrell_ that wayteth on a speare _covsteillier_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxvii. (Table of Subst.). “_Coustillier_: An Esquire of the body; an Armour-bearer unto a Knight; the servant of a man at Armes; also, a groom of a stable, a horse-keeper.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._

v. 492. _this_] i. e. thus; see note, p. 86. v. 38 (and so in the next line).

—— _freers_] i. e. friars.

—— _famine_] “_Famen_, sermo, verbum.” Du Cange’s _Gloss._

v. 506. _By God, I haue bene about a praty pronge_]—_praty_, i. e. pretty: in the present line at least, _pronge_ seems to mean—prank (Dutch _pronk_), whatever be its signification in the following passage of our author’s _Colyn Cloute_;

“And howe at _a pronge_
We tourne ryght into wronge.”

v. 1196. vol. i. 357.

Page 242. v. 510. _pagent_] i. e. part: see notes, p. 88. v. 85; p. 189. v. 190.

v. 512. _by lakyn_] See note on v. 341. p. 240.

v. 513. _heyre parent_] i. e. heir apparent.

v. 514. _rome_] i. e. room, place.

v. 516. _to_] i. e. too.

v. 518. _Cockys harte_] i. e. God’s heart (_Cock_, a corruption of _God_).

v. 521. _thee_] i. e. thrive.

v. 526. _hyght_] i. e. am called.

v. 529. _large_] A play on the meanings of the word,—big, and liberal.

Page 242. v. 533. _cofer kay_] i. e. coffer-key.

v. 535. _auowe_] i. e. vow: see note, p. 109. v. 199.

Page 243. v. 539. _alowde_] i. e. approved.

v. 554. _in same_] i. e. in the same place (a pleonasm,—since “_togyder_” precedes).

v. 561. _Can_] i. e. Know.

v. 562. _spedde_] i. e. versed.

v. 564. _iapes_] i. e. jests, jokes.

v. 568. _ouerwharte_] i. e. overthwart—cross, perverse, wrangling.

v. 569. _beshrowe_] i. e. curse.

v. 571. _iangle_] i. e. babble, chatter.

Page 244. v. 573. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.

v. 575. _my botes and my spores_] i. e. my boots and my spurs.

v. 578. _Cockes woundes_] i. e. God’s wounds; see note on v. 518, preceding page.

v. 580. _loketh_] i. e. looketh.

v. 585. _iurde hayte_] Words (French perhaps) which I do not understand.

v. 591. _quod_] i. e. quoth.

v. 592. _a leysshe of ratches to renne an hare_] i. e. a leash of—three—hounds to run a hare.

v. 597. _prece_] i. e. press.

Page 245. v. 609. _to_] i. e. too.

v. 625. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.

v. 628. _do togyder_] i. e. put it together.

v. 629. _ony_] i. e. any.

v. 633. _wonne_] i. e. dwell.

v. 635. _a captyuyte_] Is rather, I suspect, a misprint for, than used in the sense of—_in_: compare v. 2543.

Page 246. v. 639. _the playnesse_] i. e. the plain fact.

v. 644. _thee_] i. e. thrive.

v. 658. _a pystell of a postyke_]—_pystell_, i. e. epistle, letter; but I do not understand the expression.

v. 659. _fonnysshe_] i. e. foolish.

v. 666. _freke_] i. e. fellow: see notes, p. 109. v. 187; p. 178. v. 15.

v. 667. _peke_] “I _Peke_ or prie.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cccxvii. [—xv.] (Table of Verbes).

Page 247. v. 672. _rome_] i. e. room, place.

v. 679. _hyght_] i. e. be called.

v. 681. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.

v. 685. _By the armes of Calys_] See note, p. 118. v. 398.

v. 687. _slyght_] i. e. trick, artful contrivance.

v. 688. _fonde consayte_] i. e. foolish conceit,—fantasies.

Page 247. v. 690. _sadnesse_] See note on v. 473. p. 242.

v. 692. _Cockys body_] i. e. God’s body: see note on v. 518. p. 243.

v. 695. _whylyst_] i. e. until.

v. 698. _quyte_] i. e. acquit.

—— _praty_] i. e. pretty.

Page 248. v. 707. _haftynge_] See note, p. 107. v. 138.

v. 713. _geste_] i. e. guest.

v. 719. _hynder_] “_Hyndringe_ or harmynge. Dampnificacio.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “I _Hynder_ I hurte, _Ie porte dommage_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cclxii. (Table of Verbes).

“Lest the reporte in _hinderyng_ of his name,” &c.

Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. iii. sig. Q ii. ed. 1555.

v. 720. _hode_] i. e. hood.

v. 722. _fole_] i. e. fool.

v. 730. _lacke_] i. e. blame.

v. 732. _sped_] i. e. versed.

v. 733. _lytherly_] i. e. wickedly.

v. 734. _Paynte_] See note, p. 176. v. 583.

Page 249. v. 737. _fauell_] See note, p. 107. v. 134.

—— _tyned_] i. e. pointed, pronged.

v. 745. _shrewdenes_] i. e. wickedness, evil.

v. 746. _grete estates_] i. e. persons of great estate, or rank.

v. 748. _flery_] i. e. fleer.

—— _pretence_] i. e. intent.

v. 751. _bronde_] i. e. brand.

v. 752. _mase_] i. e. bewilder, confound.

—— _fonde_] i. e. foolish.

v. 754. _bale_] i. e. sorrow, trouble.

v. 755. _Huffa, huffa_] See note, p. 181. v. 16.

v. 756. _a_] i. e. he.

v. 757. _Rutty bully_] See note, p. 94. v. 29.

—— _ioly rutterkyn, heyda_] Occurs in a song preserved in the Fairfax MS. which once belonged to Ralph Thoresby, and is now among the Additional MSS. in the British Museum (5465, fol. 114):

“Hoyda _joly rutterkyn hoyda_
Lyke a rutterkyn hoyda.

Rutterkyn is com vnto oure towne
In a cloke withoute cote or gowne
Save a raggid hode to kouer his crowne
Like a rutter hoyda.

Rutterkyn can speke no englissh
His tonge rennyth all on buttyrd fyssh
Besmerde with grece abowte his disshe
Like a rutter hoyda.

Rutterkyn shall bryng you all good luk
A stoup of bere vp at a pluk
Till his brayne be as wise as a duk
Like a rutter hoyda.

When rutterkyn from borde will ryse
He will piss a galon pott full at twise
And the ouerplus vndir the table of the newe gyse
Like a rutter hoyda.”

Sir John Hawkins printed the above song (with the music) and tells us that it “is supposed to be a satire on those drunken Flemings who came into England with the princess Anne of Cleve, upon her marriage with king Hen. viii.” _Hist. of Music_, iii. 2. But if it be the very song quoted in our text, it must allude to “rutterkyns” of a considerably earlier period; and, as the Fairfax MS. contains two other pieces which are certainly known to be from Skelton’s pen, there is a probability that this also was composed by him.

_Court. Ab._ in his next speech but one says, “am not I a ioly _rutter_?” and (v. 846)

“My robe russheth
So _ruttyngly_.”

_Rutter_, which properly means—a rider, a trooper (Germ. _reiter_, _reuter_), came to be employed, like its diminutive _rutterkin_, as a cant term, and with various significations, (see Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. q iii. ed. 1530; Drant’s _Horace His Arte of Poetrie, pistles_, &c. sig. D ii. ed. 1567). When _Court. Ab._ asks “am not I a ioly _rutter_?” he evidently uses the word in the sense of—dashing fellow, gallant, alluding to his dress, on which he afterwards enlarges in a soliloquy. In v. 805 _Cr. Con._ terms him “this ioly _ietter_.” Compare the following passage of Medwall’s _Interlude of Nature_, n. d.;

“And whan he is in suche aray
There goth _a rutter_ men wyll say
_a rutter huf a galand_.”

Sig. d ii.

Page 249. v. 759. _Decke your hofte, &c._.]—_hofte_, i. e. head. If I rightly understand the passage, _Court. Ab._ desires _Cl. Col._ to put on his hat, or cap: see note below the text.

v. 760. _Say vous, &c._] i. e. _Savez vous_, &c.: the last three words of the line seem to be the beginning of some French song.

Page 249. v. 761. _Wyda_] i. e. _Oui da!_

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.