Part ii

. B. vi.

Page 162. v. 214. _miscreantys_] i. e. infidels. “These thre kynges were the fyrst of _myscreauntes_ that byleued on cryst.” _The three kynges of Coleyne_, sig. C ii. ed. 1526.

v. 216. _Sowden_] i. e. Soldan, Sultan.

v. 225. _pekysh_] See note, p. 129. v. 409.

v. 228. _crokid_] i. e. crooked.

v. 230. _this_] i. e. thus; as before, see v. 181.

—— _ouerthwarted_] i. e. cavilled, wrangled. “To hafte or _ouerthwarte_ in a matter, to wrangle.” Baret’s _Alvearie_ in v.

v. 231. _proces_] i. e. subject-matter; see notes, p. 143. v. 735. p. 146. v. 969. p. 194. v. 157.

Page 163. v. 233. _loke_] i. e. look.

v. 234. _boke_] i. e. book.

v. 239. _rehers_] i. e. tell, declare.

v. 240. _sentence_] i. e. meaning.

v. 241. _scholys_] i. e. schools.

v. 242. _folys_] i. e. fools.

v. 244. _Dawcocke_] See note, p. 113. v. 301.

Page 164. v. 249. _fista_] i. e. fist.

v. 250. _you lista_] i. e. you please.

v. 260. _Dialetica_] i. e. Dialectica.

v. 264. _forica_] Is Latin for a public jakes; and compare vv. 62, 183: but I cannot determine the meaning of it here.

v. 270. _Jacke Harys_] Must not be mistaken for the name of the person who called forth this piece; we have been already told that he “shall be nameless,” v. 38. So in our author’s _Magnyfycence_, Courtly Abusyon terms Cloked Colusyon “cankard _Jacke Hare_.” v. 768. vol. i. 250. There is a poem by Lydgate (at least attributed to him) concerning a personage called _Jak Hare_, of which the first stanza is as follows:

“A froward knave plainly to discryve And a sluggard plainly to declare A precious knave that cast hym never to thryve His mowth wele wet his slevis right thredebare A tourne broche a boy for wat of ware With louryng face noddyng and slombryng Of newe cristened called _Jak Hare_ Whiche of a bolle can pluk out the lyneng.”

_MS. Harl._ 2251. fol. 14.

Since the above note was written, the ballad on Jack Hare has been edited from _MS. Lansd._ 699. fol. 88. by Mr. Halliwell, among Lydgate’s _Minor Poems_, p. 52 (printed for the _Percy Society_). “The original of this,” says Mr. H. (p. 267), “is an Anglo-Norman poem of the 13th century, in MS. Digb. Oxon. 86. fol. 94, entitled ‘De Maimound mal esquier.’”

Page 164. v. 274. _federis_] i. e. feathers.

Page 165. v. 284. _fisty_] i. e. fist.

v. 290. _Apostata_] This form, as an English word, continued in use long after the time of Skelton.

v. 291. _Nestorianus_] “_Nestoriani_ quidam heretici qui beatam mariam non dei, sed hominis dicunt genitricem.” _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d.: but here _Nestorianus_ seems to be put for Nestorius, the founder of the sect.

v. 300. _This_] i. e. Thus; as before, see v. 181.

v. 301. _Dys church ye thus deprauyd_] To _deprave_ generally means—to vilify in words (as in our author’s _Colyn Cloute_, “_The Churche to depraue_,” v. 515. vol. i. 330); but (and see the poem _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c. v. 191. vol. ii. 73) here _deprauyd_ must be equivalent to—defiled.

v. 305. _Concha_] “_Concha_ recensetur vulgo inter vasa ac ministeria sacra, cujus varii fuere usus.” Du Cange’s _Gloss_.

v. 306. _sonalia_] i. e. the bells attached to the hawk’s feet.

Page 166. v. 313.

_Et relis et ralis,_ _Et reliqualis_]

Occurs again in our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 1216. vol. i. 410.

v. 315. _Galis_] i. e. Galicia.

v. 320. _chalys_] i. e. chalice.

v. 324. _Masyd_] i. e. Bewildered, confounded.

v. 325. _styth_] i. e. anvil.

v. 327. _daw_] i. e. simpleton; see note, p. 113. v. 301.

Page 167. _Quod_] i. e. Quoth.

EPITAPHE, &c.

v. 3. _this_] i. e. these.

v. 4. _queed_] i. e. evil. The word is common in our earliest poetry:

“That euer schuld haue don him _qued_.”

_Arthour and Merlin_, p. 51. ed. Abbotsf.

A DEUOUTE TRENTALE, &c.

_trentale_] i. e. properly, a service of thirty masses for the dead, usually celebrated on as many different days.

Page 170. v. 44. _I faith, dikkon thou crue_] See note, p. 115. v. 360.

v. 46. _knauate_] i. e. knave.

v. 47. _rode_] i. e. rood, cross; see note, p. 206. v. 69.

v. 53. _fote ball_] i. e. foot-ball.

Page 171. v. 61. _Wit[h], hey, howe, rumbelowe_] See note, p. 110. v. 252.

Page 172. v. 23.

_Crudelisque Cacus_ _barathro, peto, sit tumulatus_]

To readers of Skelton’s days Cacus was known not so much from the 8th book of Virgil’s _Æneid_, as from _The Recuyel of the Historyes of Troy_, (a translation by Caxton from the French of Raoul le Fevre), where his story is related at considerable length, and with great variation from the classical fable: “In the cyte of Cartagene, a kynge and geant regned. named Cacus whiche was passyng euyll and full of tyrannye, and had slayn by his cursidnes the kynges of Aragon and of Nauerre. their wyues and their children And possessid her seignouryes and also helde in subieccion alle the contrey into ytaly,” &c.