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
Whatever Skelton may have meant by “chatyng,”—(perhaps he uses it for
_chatting_,—in the next line we have “pratyng”),—_rechatyng_ is properly
a hunting-term, and signifies sounding the _rechate_ or _recheat_ (Fr.),
a certain set of notes blown with the horn to recal the dogs.
v. 219. _pystels_] i. e. epistles.
Page 216. v. 220. _bremely_] i. e. fiercely, roughly.
v. 234. _lydder_] i. e. bad.
v. 247. _popeholy_] See note on prose of this piece, l. 24. p. 230.
Page 217. v. 260. _echone_] i. e. each one.
v. 264. _iangle_] i. e. babble, chatter.
v. 267. _the people of lay fee_] i. e. the laity; as again in our
author’s _Colyn Cloute_;
“_The lay fee people_ rayles.”
v. 403. (where MS. omits “fee”) vol. i. 326:
_fee_, i. e. possessions; see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant.
Tales_, Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._, and Todd’s _Johnson’s
Dict._ in v.
v. 274. _snapper_] i. e. stumble; but see note, p. 92. v. 4.
—— _werkes_] i. e. works.
v. 280. _mo_] i. e. more.
v. 281. _latria_] “Le culte que nous déférons à Dieu seul, nous
l’appellons _Latrie_ [λατρεία].” _Perroniana_, p. 312. ed. 1740.
v. 285.
_But, I trowe, your selfe ye ouerse_
_What longeth to Christes humanyte._
_If ye haue reed de hyperdulia,_
_Than ye knowe what betokeneth dulia_]
—_ouerse_, i. e. overlook: _longeth_, i. e. belongeth. “L’adoration
de _Superdulie_ est celle qui se défère à la Vierge, et elle est plus
eminente pour la grace qu’elle a reçu de Dieu, plus particuliere que les
autres Saints, pour avoir porté le Fils de Dieu en ses entrailles.”
_Perroniana_, p. 71. “Aux Saints nous déférons l’honneur qu’on appelle
_Dulie_.” _Id._ p. 312. ed. 1740. “_Dulia_ [δουλεία] enim adoratio est,
quæ etiam creaturæ exhibetur, quæ duas species habet, unam quæ hominibus
indifferenter, alteram quæ soli humanitati Christi exhibetur.” Gaufridus
Abbas in Epist. ad Albinum Cardinalem,—cited by Du Cange, _Gloss._ in v.
Page 218. v. 293. _mased_] i. e. bewildered, confounded.
v. 295. _brent_] i. e. burnt.
v. 296. _bvsynesse_] i. e. trouble.
v. 297. _vyse_] i. e. advise.
v. 298. _scoles_] i. e. schools.
v. 299. _foles_] i. e. fools.
Page 219. v. 303. _replycable_] i. e. such as can be replied to.
Page 220. v. 323. _remorded_] See note, p. 193. v. 101.
v. 225. _his pystell ad Paulinum_] i. e. his Epistle _ad Paulinum
presbyterum de omnibus divinæ historiæ libris_, prefixed to the Vulgate:
the passage quoted by Skelton is also to be found in Hieronymi _Opera_,
I. 1011. ed. 1609.
—— _Serenus_] The Scholium on this name in Hieronymi _Opera_ is: “Aulus
Serenus lyricus ipse etiam fuit, et, ut Terentianus est auctor, eleganti
ac facili ingenio, et ad jocos amoresque describendos accommodato:
Martianus Capella ac Nonius sæpius ejus carmina citant.” I. 1017. ed.
1609.—See also an account of Serenus, prefixed to his extant pieces, in
Wernsdorf’s _Poetæ Latini Minores_, tom. ii.
v. 337. _armony_] i. e. harmony.
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