—— _to fare to seke_] i. e. too far at a loss, inexperienced,—unable. v. 38. _whypslovens_] A term which I do not understand. —— _a coke stole_] i. e. a cucking-stool, a chair or stool fixed at the end of a long pole, used for the punishment of scolds and brawlers by plunging them in the water. v. 39. _mantycore_] See note, p. 127. v. 294. —— _marmoset_] A kind of ape, or monkey. Page 120.—— _lusty Garnyche welle be seyn Crysteouyr_] Both these epithets allude to his dress: “_Lusty_ or fresshe in apparayle _frisque_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xci. (Table of Adiect.): _welle be seyn_; see note, p. 112. v. 283.—Compare Dunbar; “Gife I be _lusty in array_, Than luve I paramouris thay say ... Gife I be nocht _weill als besene_,” &c. _Poems_, i. 185. ed. Laing. v. 1. _lewde_] i. e. ignorant, vile. v. 3. _skrybe_] Printed by mistake in the text “skryke”—means Godfrey; see note on title of the preceding poem, p. 180, and compare v. 90 of the present. v. 6. _I caste me_] i. e. I project, design. v. 9. _fauyr_] i. e. appearance, look. v. 11. _cousshons_] i. e. cushions. v. 12. _condycyonns_] i. e. qualities, dispositions, habits. “_Condycions_ maners _meurs_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, fol. xxv. (Table of Subst.). “Whan a man is set in autoryte, than shall his _condycyons_ be spyed ... _Mores_ deprehenduntur.” “Thy _good condycyons_ ... _virtutes_ tuas.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. N i. ed. 1530. v. 13. _Gup, marmeset, jast ye, morelle_] See notes, p. 93. v. 11. p. 99. v. 17, and this page, v. 39. v. 14. _lorelle_] i. e. good-for-nothing fellow (see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_). v. 15. _Lewdely_] i. e. Badly, (as in v. 18 _lewdnes_, i. e. badness); but in v. 19 it is to be understood in its more original meaning—ignorantly. v. 18. _awne_] i. e. own. v. 20. _ȝe_] i. e. ye. v. 21. to _wyde_] i. e. too wide. Page 120. v. 26. _dryvyll_] See note, p. 113. v. 337. v. 27. _your nose dedde sneuylle_] So in _The Flytyng of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4); “Out! out! I schowt, upon _that snout that snevillis_.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 86. ed. Laing. v. 30. _fonne_] i. e. fool. v. 31. _A gose with the fete vponne_] i. e. a goose with its feet on. Page 121. v. 32. _slvfferd vp_] i. e. slabbered up. —— _sowse_] “Succiduum. anglice. _sowce_.” _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. (and so _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499). “_Souce trippes._” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxv. (Table of Subst.). And see Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._ and Richardson’s _Dict._ in v. v. 34. _xulde_] i. e. should: a provincialism (see, for instance, the _Coventry Mysteries_ passim), to be attributed not to Skelton, but to the transcriber. v. 36. _bawdy_] i. e. foul; see note, p. 161. v. 90. v. 38. _haftynge_] See note, p. 107. v. 138. —— _polleynge_] i. e. plundering. v. 40. _Gynys_] i. e. Guines. v. 41. _spere_] i. e. spire, shoot,—stripling.