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. 16. _Encraumpysshed_] i. e. encramped. Skelton’s fondness for
compounds of this kind has been already noticed. The simple word occurs
in other writers:
“_Crampisheth_ her limmes crokedly.”
Chaucer’s _Annel. and Ar_.,—_Workes_, fol. 244. ed. 1602.
“As marbyll colde her lymmes _craumpishing_.”
Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. iv. sig. X v. ed. 1555.
—— _conceyte_] i. e. conceit, conception.
v. 20. _boystors_] i. e. boisterous.
v. 22.
_Thus stode I in the frytthy forest of Galtres,_
_Ensowkid with sylt of the myry mose_]
—_stode_, i. e. stood: _frytthy_, i. e. woody: _ensowkid_, i. e.
ensoaked: _sylt_, i. e. mud: _mose_, i. e. moss. The forest of Galtres
(which, as already noticed, extended nearly all round Sheriff-Hutton)
was, when Camden wrote, “in some places shaded with trees, _in others
swampy_.” _Britannia_ (by Gough), iii. 20.
v. 24. _hartis belluyng_] In the _Book of Saint Albans_, Juliana Berners,
treating “Of the cryenge of thyse bestys,” says,
“_An harte belowyth_ and a bucke groynyth I fynde.”
Sig. d ii.
—— _embosyd_] “When he [the hart] is foamy at the mouth, we say that he
is _embost_.” Turbervile’s _Noble Art of Venerie_, p. 244. ed. 1611.
v. 26. _the hynde calfe_] “Ceruula. a _hynde calfe.” Ortus Vocab._ fol.
ed. W. de Worde, n. d. In the _Book of Saint Albans_ we are told;
“And for to speke of the harte yf ye woll it lere:
Ye shall hym a _Calfe_ call at the fyrste yere.”
Sig. C vi.
v. 27. _forster_] i. e. forester.
—— _bate_] Does it mean—set on, or train?
v. 28. _torne_] i. e. turn.
v. 32. _superflue_] i. e. superfluous.
“Ye blabbering fooles _superflue_ of language.”
Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, fol. 38. ed. 1570.
v. 35. _wele_] i. e. well.
Page 363. v. 38. _disgysede_] i. e. decked out in an unusual manner.
“Of his straunge aray merueyled I sore
...
Me thought he was gayly _dysgysed_ at that fest.”
Lydgate’s _Assemble de dyeus_, sig. b ii. n. d. 4to.
Page 363. v. 39. _fresshe_] “_Fresshe_, gorgyouse, gay.” Palsgrave’s
_Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxxviii. (Table of
Adiect.),—which I ought to have cited earlier for the meaning of this
word.
v. 40. _Enhachyde with perle, &c._] i. e. Inlaid, adorned with pearl,
&c. Our author in his _Phyllyp Sparowe_ tells us that a lady had a
wart (or as he also calls it, a scar) “_enhached_ on her fayre skyn,”
v. 1078. vol. i. 84. Gifford observes that “literally, to _hatch_ is
to inlay [originally, I believe, to cut, engrave, mark with lines];
metaphorically, it is to adorn, to beautify, with silver, gold, &c.”
Note on Shirley’s _Works_, ii. 301. “The ladies apparell was after the
fashion of Inde, with kerchifes of pleasance, _hatched_ with fine gold.”
Holinshed’s _Chron._ (Hen. viii.) vol. iii. 849. ed. 1587. “_Hatching_,
is to Silver or gild the Hilt and Pomell of a Sword or Hanger.” R.
Holme’s _Ac. of Armory_, 1688. B. iii. p. 91.
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