v. 119. _Ye xulde haue kowththyd me a fole_] i. e. You should have made me known for, shewn me to be, a fool. v. 121. _wyse_] i. e. think, intend. v. 122. _xall_] i. e. shall. v. 123. _Thow_] i. e. Though. —— _Sarsens_] i. e. Saracen’s. v. 124. _Row_] i. e. Rough. —— _here_] i. e. hair. v. 125. _heuery_] i. e. every. v. 127. _peson_] i. e. pease. v. 129. _geson_] i. e. scarce, scanty. v. 131. _Your skyn scabbyd and scuruy,_ _Tawny, tannyd, and shuruy_, &c.] —_shuruy_, i. e., perhaps, “_shrovy_, squalid.” Forby’s _Vocab. of East Anglia_. With this passage compare _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4); “Fy! skolderit skyn, thow art bot skyre and skrumple.” ... “Ane crabbit, _skabbit_, evill facit messane tyk.” ... “Thow lukis _lowsy_.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 70, 84, 72. ed. Laing. Page 124. v. 139. _Xall kyt both wyght and grene_] i. e. Shall cut both white and green,—an allusion to the dress which our author appears to have worn as Laureat; see _Account of Skelton and his Writings_. v. 140. _to grett_] i. e. too great. v. 143. _puauntely_] i. e. stinkingly, strongly. v. 155. _crawes_] i. e. crops, stomachs. v. 157. _perke_] i. e. perch. v. 158. _gummys_] i. e. gums. Page 124. v. 159. _serpentins_] “His campe was enuironed with artilerie, as fawcones, _serpentynes_, cast hagbushes,” &c. Hall’s _Chronicle_ (Henry viii.), fol. xxviii. ed. 1548. v. 160. _bynde_] i. e. bend; so in the next poem we find “_wyll_” for “_well_,” and “_spynt_” for “_spent_,” peculiarities to be attributed to the transcriber, not to Skelton. v. 162. _scorpyone_] So in _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4) “_scorpion_ vennemous.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 75. ed. Laing. v. 163. _bawdy babyone_] i. e. filthy baboon; see note, p. 161. v. 90. v. 165. _mantycore_] See note, p. 127. v. 294. v. 168. _gresly gargone_] i. e. grisly Gorgon. —— _glaymy_] i. e., I suppose, slimy, clammy. v. 169. _seymy_] i. e. greasy. Page 125. v. 170. _murrionn_] i. e. Moor; see note, p. 178. v. 22. —— _mawment_] “_Mawment._ Idolum. Simulacrum.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “_Maument marmoset, poupee._” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xlvii. (Table of Subst.). “_Mawment_, a puppet.” Brockett’s _Gloss. of North Country Words_.—(_Mawmet_, i. e. Mahomet.) v. 172. _marmoset_] A sort of ape or monkey. v. 173. _I wyll nat dy in they det_]—_they_, i. e. thy; as in the next poem.—Compare _Cocke Lorelles Bote_; “Yf he call her calat she calleth hym knaue agayne She _shyll not dye in his dette_.” Sig. B i. v. 175. _xulddst_] i. e. shouldst. v. 176. _xall_] i. e. shall. v. 177. _hole_] i. e. whole.