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. 553. _Hussyans_] i. e. followers of Huss.
v. 554. _Arryans_] i. e. followers of Arius.
v. 555. _Pollegians_] i. e. Pelagians,—followers of Pelagius.
v. 559. _to mykel_] i. e. too much.
Page 332. v. 564. _tryalytes_] i. e. three benefices united.
v. 565. _tot quottes_] So Barclay;
“Then yf this lorde haue in him fauour, he hath hope
To haue another benefyce of greater dignitie,
And so maketh a false suggestion to the pope
For a _tot quot_, or els a pluralitie.”
_Ship of Fooles_, fol. 60. ed. 1570.
Page 333. v. 572. _persons and vycaryes_] i. e. parsons and vicars.
v. 576. _loselles_] See note, p. 209. v. 138.
v. 577. _lewdely_] i. e. wickedly, vilely.
v. 578. _sely_] i. e. silly, simple, harmless.
v. 581. _mought_] i. e. might.
v. 582. _so dysgysed_] See note, p. 205. v. 22.
Page 334. v. 597. _lokes_] i. e. looks.
v. 598. _bokes_] i. e. books.
v. 600. _wroken_] i. e. wreaked.
v. 602. _iauell_] See note, p. 271. v. 2218.
v. 604. _face_] See note, p. 216. v. 33.
—— _crake_] i. e. vaunt, talk bigly.
v. 606. _kayser_] See note, p. 247. v. 796.
v. 607. _layser_] i. e. leisure.
v. 619. _connyng_] i. e. knowledge, learning.
—— _auaunce_] i. e. advance.
Page 335. v. 624. _dykes_] i. e. ditches.
“Where the blinde leadeth the blinde, both fall in the _dyke_.”
Heywood’s _Dialogue_, &c.—_Workes_, ed. 1598, sig. G 2.
v. 625. _Set nothyng by_] i. e. Value not, regard not.
v. 637. _ye, shall_] i. e. yea, I shall.
v. 648. _shule_] i. e. shovel.
Page 336. v. 654. _mamockes_] See note, p. 268. v. 2035.
v. 663. _kynde_] i. e. nature.
v. 664. _Many one ye haue vntwynde_] The reading of the MS., which at
least gives a sense to the line: _vntwynde_, i. e. destroyed; see note,
p. 127. v. 284.
v. 668. _fote_] i. e. foot.
v. 672. _in the deuyll way_] A common expression in our early writers.
“Our Hoste answerd: Tell on _a devil way_.”
Chaucer’s _Milleres Prol._, v. 3136. ed. Tyr.
“In the _twenty deuyll way, Au nom du grant diable_.” Palsgrave’s
_Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxlii. (Table of Aduerbes).
“What reason is that, _in the twenty deuell waye_, that he shulde bere
suche a rule? Quænam (_malum_) ratio est,” &c. Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig.
dd iii. ed. 1530.
Page 337. v. 673. _ouer_] i. e. besides.
v. 675. _hear_] i. e. hair.
v. 679. _tonsors_] i. e. tonsures.
v. 688. _the male dothe wrye_] See note, p. 142. v. 700.
Page 338. v. 692. _Ye bysshops of estates_]—_of estates_, i. e. of great
estate, rank, dignity.
v. 698. _awtentyke_] i. e. authentic.
v. 704. _intoxicate_] i. e. poison (Lat. _intoxico_).
v. 705. _conquinate_] i. e. coinquinate,—pollute, defile, defame.
v. 710. _The Churchis hygh estates_] i. e. the dignitaries of the Church.
Page 339. v. 728. _marke_] i. e. marks,—the coins so called.
v. 730. _werke_] i. e. work.
v. 734. _sawe_] i. e. saying,—branch of learning.
v. 737. _pore_] i. e. poor.
v. 739. _frere_] i. e. friar.
Page 340. v. 747.
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