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. 1677. _I wyll haue hym rehayted and dyspysed_] Our early poets
frequently use _rehete_ in the sense of—revive, cheer; a meaning foreign
to the present passage. In the _Towneley Mysteries_, we find “_rehett_”
and “_rehete_,” pp. 143, 198, which the _Gloss._ explains “to threaten;”
qy. if rightly? In some copies of Chaucer’s _Troilus and Creseide_, B.
iii. 350, is “reheting;” of which, says Tyrwhitt (_Gloss._ to _Cant.
Tales_), “I can make no sense.” In G. Douglas’s Virgil’s _Æneidos_,
B. xiii. p. 467. l. 53. ed. Rudd., and in the _Flyting of Dunbar and
Kennedy_, Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 74, 80. ed. Laing, is “rehatoure,” which
has been referred to the French _rehair_: and perhaps _rehayted_ in our
text is—re-hated (Skelton afterwards in this piece, v. 2458, has the
uncommon word _inhateth_).
v. 1679. _rest_] i. e. remain.
Page 280. v. 1682. _supplyed_] i. e. supplicated.
v. 1687. _But for all that he is lyke to haue a glent_] _Glent_ is
frequently found in the sense of—glance; but its meaning here, as would
seem from the context, is—slip, fall: and in our author’s _Garlande of
Laurell_ we find,
“Go softly, she sayd, the stones be full _glint_ [i. e. slippery].”
v. 572. vol. i. 384.
Page 280. v. 1688. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 1692. _What force ye_] i. e. What care ye.
v. 1695. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 1698. _haftynge_] See note, p. 107. v. 138.
v. 1702. _woke_] i. e. week.
v. 1703. _sone_] i. e. soon.
v. 1706. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 1709. _comonynge_] i. e. communing, conversing.
v. 1711. _sad_] i. e. grave, serious, sober, discreet.
Page 281. v. 1713. _doute_] i. e. fear.
v. 1715. _ony_] i. e. any.
v. 1718. _be lykelyhod_] i. e. by likelihood,—as it appeared.
v. 1719. _to fode_] i. e. to feed with words,—deceive. So in our author’s
_Bowge of Courte_;
“Than Fauell gan _wyth fayre speche me to fede_.”
v. 147. vol. i. 36.
v. 1723. _reserued_] i. e. retained.
v. 1725. _set a gnat By_] i. e. value at a gnat, care a gnat for.
v. 1738. _suche maystryes gan make_]—_suche maystryes_, i. e. such
disturbances from the consequence which you assumed: and see note on v.
151. p. 238.
Page 282. v. 1745. _lurden_] See note on v. 423. p. 242.
v. 1748. _haynyarde_] A term of reproach which I do not understand: but
in our author’s _Bowge of Courte_, v. 327. vol. i. 42, _hayne_ seems to
mean—hind, slave, peasant.
v. 1749. _cast_] i. e. throw up.
v. 1751. _bolle_] i. e. bowl.
—— _Goddes brede_] i. e. God’s bread.
v. 1754. _praty_] i. e. pretty.
v. 1758. _Cockes armes_] i. e. God’s arms: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
v. 1759. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
v. 1766. _ony_] i. e. any.
Page 283. v. 1772. _Where as_] i. e. Where.
v. 1775. _No force_] i. e. No matter.
v. 1776. _pollynge_] i. e. plundering.
v. 1778. _parde_] i. e. _par dieu_, verily.
—— _largesse_] i. e. liberality.
v. 1779. _vergesse_] i. e. verjuice.
v. 1782. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion.
v. 1786. _taken_] i. e. committed, consigned.
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