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.