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. 1904. _velyarde_] i. e. old man, dotard.
—— _dynt_] i. e. blow.
v. 1906. _losell_] See note, p. 209. v. 138.
v. 1908. _hyght_] i. e. am called.
v. 1910. _rughly_] i. e. roughly.
v. 1912. _lust_] i. e. pleasure, liking.
v. 1913. _lurden_] See note on v. 423. p. 242.
v. 1915. _set by hym a flye_] i. e. value him at a fly, care a fly for
him.
v. 1916. _brace_] See note, p. 216. v. 33.
v. 1917. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 1918. _to_] i. e. too.
Page 288. v. 1928. _carbuckyls_] i. e. carbuncles.
v. 1930. _lyppers_] i. e. lepers.
v. 1932. _Some with the marmoll to halte I them make_]—_marmoll_, i.
e. old sore, ulcer, gangrene. “_Marmoll_ a sore _lovp_.” Palsgrave’s
_Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xlvii. (Table of Subst.). Skelton
recollected Chaucer;
“But gret harm was it, as it thoughte me,
That _on his shinne a mormal_ hadde he.”
_Prol. to Cant. Tales_, v. 387.
on which passage see Tyrwhitt’s note.
Page 288. v. 1934. _brennynge_] i. e. burning.
v. 1936. _walter_] i. e. tumble, roll. “I _Walter_ I tumble, _Ie me
voystre_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cccc.
(Table of Verbes).
v. 1939. _sle_] i. e. slay.
v. 1945. _Lydderyns_] i. e. _Lydder_, wicked, persons: so in our author’s
_Garlande of Laurell_, “Some _lidderons_, some losels,” &c. v. 188. vol.
i., 369.
—— _set by_] i. e. value, regard.
Page 289. v. 1958. _franesy_] i. e. frensy.
v. 1960. _worshyp_] i. e. honour, dignity.
v. 1961. _fole_] i. e. fool.
v. 1962. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 1966. _sadly_] i. e. gravely, seriously, soberly, discreetly.
v. 1967. _preposytour_] i. e. a scholar appointed by the master to
overlook the rest. “I am _preposyter_ of my boke. Duco classem.” Hormanni
_Vulgaria_, sig. R viii. ed. 1530.
v. 1968. _theyr wanton vagys_]—_vagys_, i. e. vagaries, strayings.
Richardson in his _Dict._ gives an example of this substantive (_vagues_)
from Holinshed.
v. 1977. _mo_] i. e. more.
v. 1979. _Howe_] i. e. Ho.
v. 1980. _lore_] i. e. teaching.
v. 1984. _vnlykynge_] i. e. in poor condition of body. “The strength and
lustinesse, or _well lykyng_ of my body.” Palsgrave’s _Acolastus_, 1540.
sig. U iiii. “I am withered,” says Falstaff, “like an old apple-John.
Well, I’ll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some _liking_.”
Shakespeare’s _Henry IV._ Part i. act iii. sc. 3.
Page 290. v. 1989. _enuy_] i. e. ill-will, grudge.
v. 1993. _golde and fe_] See note, p. 234. v. 267.
v. 1995. _thought_] See note, p. 101. v. 10.
v. 2004. _syth_] i. e. since.
—— _no nother_] A not unfrequent form in our early writers,—i. e. none
other.
v. 2005. _take it in gre_] i. e. take it kindly: see note, p. 95, v. 68.
v. 2006. _a noble estate_] i. e. a person of noble estate or rank.
v. 2014. _Ye_] i. e. Yea.
Page 291. v. 2026. _loke_] i. e. look.
v. 2034. _cawdels_] According to the custom of great persons. So in the
ballad of _Glasgerion_;
“He harped in the kinges chambere,
Where cuppe and _caudle_ stoode.”
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