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
_Magn._ I am content, my frendys, that it so be.
_Red._ And ye that haue harde this dysporte and game,
Jhesus preserue you frome endlesse wo and shame!
Amen.
[779] _Magnyfycence, &c._] From the ed. printed by Rastell, n. d.;—in
which the above list of characters is placed at the end of the drama.
[780] _Lyberte_] Enters, probably, towards the end of the preceding
speech.
[781] _is_] Ed. “it.”
[782] _countyth_] Ed. “countyd.”
[783] _Se_] Ed. “So.”
[784] _the dogge_] Qy. “thé, dogge?” but see notes.
[785] _after none_] Here Felycyte goes out.
[786] _sensim retrocedat; at_] Ed. “sensū _retrocedat_ ad.”
[787] _animat_] Qy. “animet?”
[788] _By your soth_] Ed. prefixes “_Fansy_” to these words, and omits
the prefix to the next speech.
[789] _intrat_] Qy. “intret?”—This stage-direction is not quite correct,
for _Count._ _Count._ enters as _Fansy_ is going off, and detains him
till v. 406.
[790] _to fyght_] Qy. “_to_ flyght”—scold (a word used elsewhere by
Skelton), or “_to_ syght?” see next line but two.
[791] _hym_] Compare v. 1275.
[792] _I counterfet, &c._] This line seems to be corrupt.
[793] _famine multo_] Ed. “famina multa.”
[794] _Sure Surueyaunce, &c._] Ed. gives this line to _C. Count._, and
the next speech to _Cr. Con._ Compare v. 652.
[795] _taste_] Qy. a line wanting to rhyme with this?
[796] _ye_] Ed. “we.”
[797] _Syr, the playnesse you tell me_] Ed. prefixes _Crafty Con._
to these words, and omits the prefix to the next line.—Qy., for the
rhyme,—“you me tell?”
[798] _But, Counterfet, &c._] Ed. omits the prefix to this speech.
[799] _Cr. Con._] Ed. “_Cl. Col._”
[800] _praty men_] Here _Fansy_, _Crafty Conueyaunce_, and _Counterfet
Conntenaunce_, go out.
[801] _exiat beretrum cronice_] Qy. “_exuat_ (or rather, _exueret_)
_barretum_ (_i. e._ pileum) _ironice?_”
[802] _batowe_] Qy. “batone?”
[803] _By Goddes fote, &c._] Here the prefixes to the speeches are surely
wrong: but as I am doubtful how they ought to be assigned, I have not
ventured to alter them. Qy.
“_Court. Ab._ By Goddes fote, and I dare well fyght, for I wyll not
start.
_Cl. Col._ Nay, thou art a man good inough but for thy false hart.
_Court. Ab._ Well, and I be a coward, ther is mo than I.
_Cl. Col_ Ye, in faythe, a bolde man and a hardy;
A bolde man in a bole of newe ale in cornys.
_Court. Ab._ Wyll ye se,” &c.
[804] _Cr. Con._] Ed. “_Cl. Col._” Compare the next line, and v. 796.
[805] _Cl. Col._] Ed. “_Court. Ab._”
[806] _ye, thou woldest_] Qy., for the rhyme, “thou woldest, ye?”
[807] _they_] i. e. _Cloked Colusyon_ and _Crafty Conueyaunce_.
[808] _Eche man take a fe_] There seems to be some corruption of the text
here.
[809] _tyll sone_] Here _Courtly Abusyon_ goes out.
[810] _crema_] If this be the right reading, I am unacquainted with the
word. It can hardly be a misprint for “cremia:” qy. “crembalum?”
[811] _eye_] Ed. “eyen.”
[812] _dogge_] Ed. “hogge.”
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