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. 1055. _euerychone_] i. e. every one.
v. 1057. _fonnysshe_] i. e. foolish.
—— _I befole thy face_] See note on v. 885. p. 250.
v. 1058. _a foles case_] i. e. a fool’s habit.
v. 1059. _glede_] i. e. kite. Nares, _Gloss._ in v., observes that in the
common version of the Bible, _Deut._ xiv. 13, the _glede_ and _kite_ are
erroneously mentioned together as two distinct birds.
v. 1061. _thy lyppes hange in thyne eye_] So in _Thenterlude of Youth_,
n. d.;
“Faine of him I wolde haue a sight
But my _lyppes hange in my lyght_.”
Sig. A iiii.
See too Heywood’s _Dialogue_, &c. sig. F 4,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.
v. 1066. _pylde_] i. e. bald—mangy: see note, p. 184. v. 68.
v. 1068. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 1069. _Mackemurre_] A proper name, though not printed as such in the
old copy:
“The great Onele, and _Makmurre_ also,
And al the lordes and kynges of Ireland.”
Hardyng’s _Chronicle_, fol. cxlix. ed. 1543.
v. 1070. _budge furre_] “_Budge_ or Lambes furre.” Minsheu’s _Guide into
Tongues_. In an order respecting the scholastic habit in the University
of Cambridge, dated 1414, (quoted by Todd from Farmer’s papers, in a note
on Milton’s _Comus_, v. 707,) mention is made of “_furruris buggeis_ aut
agninis.”
Page 260. v. 1073. _thou wylte coughe me a dawe_]—_dawe_, i. e.
simpleton; see note, p. 113. v. 301. So in the fourth line after this,
“ye shall _coughe me a fole_:” and in Lilly’s _Mother Bombie_, 1594; “I
know hee will cough for anger that I yeeld not, but he shall _cough mee a
foole_ for his labour.” Sig. B 2.
v. 1074. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 1079. _can_] i. e. know.
v. 1081. _broder_] i. e. brother.
v. 1082. _so hye fro me doth sprynge_] i. e. doth (dost) grow so much
taller than I.
v. 1088. _gere_] i. e. apparel.
v. 1089. _folysshe_] i e. foolish.
v. 1093. _flete_] i. e. float, flow, abound.
v. 1095. _by_] i. e. buy.
v. 1096. _Cockys harte_] i. e. God’s heart: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
v. 1103. _syke_] i. e. such.
v. 1104. _a fole the tone_] i. e. a fool the one.
Page 261. v. 1107. _warke_] i. e. work, business.
v. 1108. _donnyshe_] i. e. dunnish.
v. 1109. _a fonde gest_] i. e. a foolish guest.
v. 1111. _so folysshe and so fonde_] i. e. so foolish and so silly (one
of Skelton’s pleonasms).
v. 1118. _beshrowe_] i. e. curse.
v. 1119. _do_] i. e. done.
v. 1120. _Here is nothynge but the bockyll of a sho_] Compare _The Bowge
of Courte_, v. 397. vol. i. 45.
v. 1121. _marke_] i. e. marks,—the coins so named.
v. 1123. _hyght_] i. e. is called.
v. 1124. _fole_] i. e. fool.
v. 1126. _a botchment_] “_Botchement_. Additamentum.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed.
1499.
v. 1127. _forfende_] i. e. prohibit, forbid.
v. 1128. _For Goddes cope_] So we find as an oath, “By gods blew _hood_.”
_Tom Tyler and his Wife_, p. 5. ed. 1661.
v. 1131. _be tyme_] i. e. by time.
v. 1134. _praty_] i. e. pretty.
v. 1136. _Aungey_] Does it mean Angers, or Anjou?
Page 262. v. 1142. _gate_] i. e. got.
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