The Poetical Works of John Skelton, Volume 1 (of 2)Skelton, John
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The Poetical Works of John Skelton, Volume 1 (of 2)
Skelton, John
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
[506] _Start_] So Rand’s ed. Other eds. “Some _start_,” the eye of the
original compositor having caught the word “Some” from the preceding line.
[507] _haruest_] So Day’s ed. Other eds. “heruest,” “hernest,” “harnest.”
[508] _Layde_] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “Laye,” and “Lay.”
[509] _Some brought_, &c.] This line not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and
Rand.)
[510] _sallowe_] So Lant’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.) Other eds. “swallowe.”
[511] _stale_] Eds. “stare.” See notes.
[512] _met_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “meate.”
[513] _sayne_] Lant’s ed. “sayde.”
[514] _the peace_] Eds. “_the_ dronken _peace_” (except Rand’s ed., which
has “a drunken,” &c.): but no doubt the word “dronken” crept into the
original edition by a mistake of the compositor, his eye having caught it
in the following line. See notes.
[515] _fyll_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “fell.”
[516] _bones_] Day’s ed. “bornes.”
[517] _fylly_] Marshe’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.) “silly.” See notes.
[518] _brought_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “_brought_ vp.”
[519] _stubbed_] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “stubbled.”
[520] _walnuttes_] So Lant’s ed. (Rand’s, “walnuts.”) Other eds.
“walnutes” and “waluntes.”
[521] _stynkes_] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “stynges.”
[522] _Burdeou_] Eds. of Kynge and Marche, and of Lant, “burde on.” Eds.
of Day, and Marshe, “bourde on.” (Rand’s ed. “bord on.”)
[523] _She_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “Some.”
[524] _They_] Day’s ed. “The.”
[525] _wretchockes_] Day’s ed. “wrethockes.” Marshe’s ed. (and Rand’s
ed.), “wrethocke.”
[526] _dregges_] So Marshe’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.) Other eds. “dragges.”
[527] _And_] Not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand).
[528] _thy_] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “the.”
[529] _wide_] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “wyse.”
[530] _hedes_] Eds. “heddes” and “heds.”
[531] _Some of_, &c.] The line which rhymed with this has dropt out.
[532] _And of_, &c.] The line which rhymed with this has dropt out.
[533] _fysgygge_] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “sysgygge.”
[534] _hyght_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “high.”
[535] _croppy_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “coppy.”
[536] _swynged_] Marshe’s ed. “swinge.”
[537] _lege de moy_] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “lege moy.”
[538] _awne_] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “owne,” and “one.”
[539] _fyngers_] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “fynger.”
[540] _Invide_] Eds. “Inuidi.”
[541] _jocis_] Eds. “locis.”
[542] _qua spurca_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “quam spuria.”
[543] _sua gesta libellus_] Ed. of Day, “_sua libellus_.” Ed. of Marshe,
“_sua_ facta _libellus_.” (The Latin at the end of this poem not in
Rand’s ed.)
POEMS AGAINST GARNESCHE.
SKELTON LAURIATE[544] DEFEND[ER] AGENST M[ASTER] GARNESCHE CHALENGER, ET
CETERA.
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