libro primo

Prior. capite 24. numero primo. Hinc metrum hoc natum:

Ex _particulari_ non est syllogizari, Neque _negativis_, recte concludere si vis.”

Crakanthorp’s _Logicæ Libri Quinque_, 1622. p. 279.

v. 107. _Your hertes than were hosed_] i. e. Your hearts were in your hose (breeches): so again our author in his _Why come ye nat to Courte_;

“Their _hertes be in thyr_ hose.”

v. 286. vol. ii. 35.

See too Ray’s _Proverbs_, (Scottish), p. 292. ed. 1768.

v. 113. _quosshons_] i. e. cushions.

v. 115. _Harpocrates_] The God of Silence.

Page 213. v. 120. _folysshly_] i. e. foolishly.

—— _fopped_] A singular example of the word as a verb.

v. 121. _porisshly_] In our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_ is “_porisshly_ pynk iyde,” v. 626. vol. i. 386 (and Palsgrave has “_Porisshly_, as one loketh that can nat se well”); see note on the passage: but I cannot determine the meaning of the word here.

v. 124. _dawes_] i. e. simpletons; see note, p. 113. v. 301.

v. 126. _elenkes_] i. e. elenchs (_elenchus_—in logic).

v. 132. _prouoke and tyse_] i. e. incite and entice.

v. 143. _exhibycion_] i. e. allowance of money.

v. 144. _skoles_] i. e. schools.

v. 145. _foles_] i. e. fools.

v. 147. _founde_] i. e. maintained.

Page 214. v. 156. _brute_] i. e. saying, proverb.

v. 165. _skyes_] i. e. clouds.

v. 168. _dawns_] i. e. dance.

v. 169. _ray_] See note, p. 194. v. 170.

v. 171. _lau_] i. e. law.

v. 172. _shayle_] See note, p. 97. v. 19.

Page 214. v. 175. _babyls_] i. e. baubles.

Page 215. v. 196. _face_] i. e. face out.

v. 199. _to_] i. e. too.

v. 204. _lollardy_] i. e. heretical; see note, p. 204. v. 145.

v. 206. _predycacion_] i. e. declaration,—or preaching.

v. 207. _knowlege_] i. e. acknowledge.

v. 212. _muse_] Is properly the opening in a fence or thicket, through which a hare or other beast of sport, is accustomed to pass: see Nares’s _Gloss._ in v. and Moor’s _Suff. Words_, in v. _Mewse_.

v. 215.

_With blowyng out your hornes,_ ... _With chatyng and rechatyng_]

Whatever Skelton may have meant by “chatyng,”—(perhaps he uses it for _chatting_,—in the next line we have “pratyng”),—_rechatyng_ is properly a hunting-term, and signifies sounding the _rechate_ or _recheat_ (Fr.), a certain set of notes blown with the horn to recal the dogs.

v. 219. _pystels_] i. e. epistles.

Page 216. v. 220. _bremely_] i. e. fiercely, roughly.

v. 234. _lydder_] i. e. bad.

v. 247. _popeholy_] See note on prose of this piece, l. 24. p. 230.

Page 217. v. 260. _echone_] i. e. each one.

v. 264. _iangle_] i. e. babble, chatter.

v. 267. _the people of lay fee_] i. e. the laity; as again in our author’s _Colyn Cloute_;

“_The lay fee people_ rayles.”

v. 403. (where MS. omits “fee”) vol. i. 326:

_fee_, i. e. possessions; see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._, and Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._ in v.

v. 274. _snapper_] i. e. stumble; but see note, p. 92. v. 4.

—— _werkes_] i. e. works.

v. 280. _mo_] i. e. more.

v. 281. _latria_] “Le culte que nous déférons à Dieu seul, nous l’appellons _Latrie_ [λατρεία].” _Perroniana_, p. 312. ed. 1740.

v. 285.

_But, I trowe, your selfe ye ouerse_ _What longeth to Christes humanyte._ _If ye haue reed de hyperdulia,_ _Than ye knowe what betokeneth dulia_]

—_ouerse_, i. e. overlook: _longeth_, i. e. belongeth. “L’adoration de _Superdulie_ est celle qui se défère à la Vierge, et elle est plus eminente pour la grace qu’elle a reçu de Dieu, plus particuliere que les autres Saints, pour avoir porté le Fils de Dieu en ses entrailles.” _Perroniana_, p. 71. “Aux Saints nous déférons l’honneur qu’on appelle _Dulie_.” _Id._ p. 312. ed. 1740. “_Dulia_ [δουλεία] enim adoratio est, quæ etiam creaturæ exhibetur, quæ duas species habet, unam quæ hominibus indifferenter, alteram quæ soli humanitati Christi exhibetur.” Gaufridus Abbas in Epist. ad Albinum Cardinalem,—cited by Du Cange, _Gloss._ in v.

Page 218. v. 293. _mased_] i. e. bewildered, confounded.

v. 295. _brent_] i. e. burnt.

v. 296. _bvsynesse_] i. e. trouble.

v. 297. _vyse_] i. e. advise.

v. 298. _scoles_] i. e. schools.

v. 299. _foles_] i. e. fools.

Page 219. v. 303. _replycable_] i. e. such as can be replied to.

Page 220. v. 323. _remorded_] See note, p. 193. v. 101.

v. 225. _his pystell ad Paulinum_] i. e. his Epistle _ad Paulinum presbyterum de omnibus divinæ historiæ libris_, prefixed to the Vulgate: the passage quoted by Skelton is also to be found in Hieronymi _Opera_, I. 1011. ed. 1609.

—— _Serenus_] The Scholium on this name in Hieronymi _Opera_ is: “Aulus Serenus lyricus ipse etiam fuit, et, ut Terentianus est auctor, eleganti ac facili ingenio, et ad jocos amoresque describendos accommodato: Martianus Capella ac Nonius sæpius ejus carmina citant.” I. 1017. ed. 1609.—See also an account of Serenus, prefixed to his extant pieces, in Wernsdorf’s _Poetæ Latini Minores_, tom. ii.

v. 337. _armony_] i. e. harmony.

Page 221. _processe_] See note, p. 230, on last line (prose) of p. 208.

v. 359.

_For if ye sadly loke,_ _And wesely rede the Boke_ _Of Good Aduertysement,_ _With me ye must consent, &c._]

—_sadly loke_, i. e. seriously look, consider. In the _Garlande of Laurell_ Skelton mentions, as one of his own compositions,

“Item _Good Aduysement_, that brainles doth blame.”

v. 1186. vol. i. 409.

Qy. does he allude to it here?

Page 222. v. 395. _auaunce_] i. e. advance.

Page 223. v. 399. _make_] i. e. compose.

v. 405. _vnhappely vred_] See note on v. 95. p. 232.

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.”