The Poetical Works of John Skelton, Volume 2 (of 2)Skelton, John
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The Poetical Works of John Skelton, Volume 2 (of 2)
Skelton, John
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
The proverbial expression, “It is done _secundum usum Sarum_,” is thus
explained by Fuller: “It began on this occasion; Many Offices or forms of
service were used in severall Churches in England, as the Office of York,
Hereford, Bangor, &c. which caused a deal of Confusion in Gods Worship,
untill Osmond Bishop of Sarum, about the year of our Lord 1090, made that
Ordinall or Office which was generally received all over England, so that
Churches thence forward easily understood one another, all speaking the
same words in their Liturgy. It is now applyed to those persons which do,
and Actions which are formally and solemnly done, in so Regular a way by
Authentick Precedents, and Paterns of unquestionable Authority, that no
just exception can be taken thereat.” _Worthies_ (_Wilt-Shire_), p. 146.
ed. 1662.
v. 104. _Marche harum_] i. e. March hare.
v. 106. _let_] i. e. leave, desist.
v. 107. _fet_] i. e. fetch.
v. 110. _to halow there the fox_]—_halow_, i. e. halloo. “Men blewe the
hornes and cryed and _halowed the foxe_.” _Reynard the Fox_, sig. h 5.
ed. 1481.
v. 112. _Boke_] i. e. Book.
Page 159. v. 114. _lectryne_] “_Lecterne_ to syng at.” Palsgrave’s
_Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xliiii. (Table of Subst.).
“Sum syng at the _lectorne_ with long eares lyke an asse.”
Bale’s _Kynge Johan_, p. 27. Camd. ed.
Or simply, a reading-desk: see note on v. 120.
v. 116. _With, troll, cytrace, and trouy_] So in _Apius and Virginia_, by
R. B., 1575;
“_With_ hey tricke, how _trowle_, trey trip, and trey _trace_.”
Sig. B.
v. 117. _hankin bouy_] Compare _Thersytes_, n. d.;
“And we wyll haue minstrelsy
that shall pype _hankyn boby_.”
p. 62. Roxb. ed.
and Nash’s _Haue with you to Saffron-walden_, 1596; “No vulgar respects
haue I, what Hoppenny Hoe and his fellow _Hankin Booby_ thinke of mee.”
Sig. K 2: and Brome’s _Joviall Crew_, 1652; “he makes us even sick
of his sadness, that were wont to see my Ghossips cock to day, mould
Cocklebread, daunce clutterdepouch and _Hannykin booby_, binde barrels,
or do any thing before him, and he would laugh at us.” Act ii. sc. i.
sig. D 2.
Page 159. v. 119. _fawconer_] i. e. falconer.
vv. 120, 121. _gospellers_ ... _pystillers_] “_Gospellar_ that syngeth
the gospell.” “_Pysteller_ [Epistler] that syngeth the masse.”
Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fols. xxxvii., liiii.
(Table of Subst.). But in our author’s _Phyllyp Sparowe_ we find,
“Shal _rede the Gospell_ at masse
...
Shal _rede_ there _the pystell_.”
vv. 423, 5. vol. i. 64.
and see Todd’s Johnson’s _Dict._ in vv. _Gospeller_, _Epistler_.
v. 125. _gydynge_] “He controlled my lyuynge and _gydynge_.... _mores_.”
Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. N vi. ed. 1530.
“Wise women has wayis, and wonderfull _gydingis_.”
Dunbar’s tale of _The Tua Maryit Wemen and the Wedo_,—_Poems_, i. 77.
ed. Laing.
v. 127. _The rode with Mary and John_] See note on v. 69. p. 206.
v. 128. _fon_] i. e. fool.
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