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
v. 775. _swap_] i. e. swop: see Richardson’s _Dict._ in v. “I _Swappe_
I stryke.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccclxxxi.
(Table of Verbes).
—— _fotys_] i. e. foots, footest.
v. 776. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
—— _gere_] i. e. apparel.
v. 780. _mo_] i. e. more.
v. 782. _a bole of newe ale in cornys_] i. e. a bowl, &c.: see note, p.
171. v. 378.
v. 784. _auysed_] i. e. purposed on consideration.
v. 786. _rome_] i. e. room, place, office.
Page 251. v. 789. _Cockys harte_] i. e. God’s heart: see note on v. 518.
p. 243.
v. 790. _for the armys of the dyce_] Some cant exclamation.
v. 793. _fayne_] i. e. glad.
v. 795. _rynne_] i. e. run.
v. 796. _cayser_] i. e. Cæsar, or, as it is generally explained, emperor:
in the _Coventry Mysteries_, however, a distinction is made between these
terms;
“Bothe kynge and _caysere_ and grett _empere_.”
_MS. Cott. Vesp._ D viii. fol. 113.
v. 798. _quod_] i. e. quoth.
v. 799. _tende_] i. e. attend.
v. 805. _ietter_] i. e. strutter,—gallant: see note, p. 94. v. 43, and
note on v. 757. p. 246.
Page 251. v. 806. _supplye_] i. e. supplicate.
v. 810. _I ne tell can_] i. e. I cannot tell.
Page 252. v. 818. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion.
v. 819. _we wyll be aduysed twyse_] i. e. we will consider of it twice.
v. 821. _crake_] i. e. speak vauntingly.
v. 827. _bende_] i. e. band.
v. 830. _tawle_] i. e. brave, bold.
v. 832. _defaute_] i. e. default, defect.
v. 833. _hawte_] i. e. haughty.
v. 834. _pose_] i. e. rheum in the head.
v. 839. _loketh_] i. e. looketh.
Page 253. v. 843. _gere_] i. e. apparel.
v. 844. _My heyre bussheth_]—_heyre_, i. e. hair. So Barclay, alluding to
the “newe fassions and disguised garmentes” of the time;
“To Ship, galants, come nere I say agayne,
With your set _bushes_ curling as men of Inde.”
_The Ship of Fooles_, fol. 8. ed. 1570.
v. 847. _ruttyngly_] i. e. dashingly, gallantly: see note on v. 757. p.
246.
v. 850. _To daunce delyght_] So afterwards, Magnyfycence, exulting in his
prosperity, says, “I dawnce all in delyte,” v. 1510.
v. 852. _poynte deuyse_] i. e. perfectly exact: see Gifford’s note on B.
Jonson’s _Works_, iv. 169.
v. 855. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion.
v. 857. _route_] i. e. crowd, assembly.
v. 859. _My sleue is wyde_] So Barclay describes the young gallants of
the time with “Their _sleues_ blasing like to a Cranes winges.” _The
Ship of Fooles_, fol. 8. ed. 1570. Wide sleeves are also mentioned in
the following curious passage of Medwall’s _Interlude of Nature_, n. d.
(written before the year 1500); the speaker is Pride:
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