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
Page 386. v. 632. _Masid_] i. e. Bewildered, confounded.
—— _a scut_] “_Scut_ or hare. Lepus.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499.
v. 635. _dysour_] See note, p. 255. v. 1191.
—— _a deuyl way_] See note, p. 287. v. 672.
Page 387. v. 637. _peuisshenes_] i. e. foolishness, silliness: compare v.
626.
v. 639. _foisty bawdias_] See note, p. 192. v. 76.
v. 641. _Dasyng after dotrellis, lyke drunkardis that dribbis_]—_Dasying_
i. e. gazing with a stupified look: _dotrellis_; see note, p. 129. v.
409: _dribbis_, i. e. drip, drivel, slaver.
v. 642. _titiuyllis_] See note, p. 284. v. 418.
—— _taumpinnis_] i. e. tampions,—wooden stoppers, put into the mouths of
cannon to keep out rain or sea-water. In _The foure P. P._ by Heywood,
the Poticary tells a facetious story about “a thampyon.” Sig. D i. ed. n.
d. (Fr. _tampon_).
v. 643. _I hyght you_] i. e. I assure you.
v. 644. _mone light_] i. e. moonlight.
v. 648. _wele_] i. e. well.
v. 649. _auenturis_] i. e. adventure.
v. 652. _herber_] See note, p. 101. v. 13.
v. 653. _brere_] i. e. briar.
v. 654. _With alys ensandid about in compas_] “i. e. it was surrounded
with sand-walks.” Warton’s _Hist. of E. P._, ii. 350 (note), ed. 4to. So
the garden, in which Chaucer describes Cressid walking, was “_sonded_ all
the waies.” _Troilus and Creseide_, B. ii. fol. 152, —_Workes_, ed. 1602:
and compare Lydgate;
“Alle the _aleis_ were made playne with _sond_.”
_The Chorle and the Bird,—MS. Harl._ 116. fol. 147.
v. 655. _with singular solas_] i. e. in a particularly pleasant manner.
v. 656. _rosers_] i. e. rose-bushes.
v. 658. _coundight_] i. e. conduit.
—— _coryously_] i. e. curiously. So Lydgate;
“_Coriously_ and craftly to endyte.”
_The prohemy of a mariage_, &c.—_MS. Harl._ 372. fol. 47.
v. 662. _ensilured again the son beames_] i. e. ensilvered against the
sunbeams.
Page 388. v. 664. _reuolde_] i. e. revolved, turned.
v. 669. _bet vp a fyre_] See note, p. 146. v. 930.
v. 671. _flagraunt flower_]—_flagraunt_, i. e. fragrant. Compare v. 978.
So Hawes;
“Strowed with _floures flagraunte_ of ayre.”
_The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. A a iiii. ed. 1555.
Page 388. v. 673. _baratows broisiours_] i. e. contentious
bruisers,—unless (as the context seems rather to shew) _broisiours_
means—bruisures, bruises.
v. 674. _passid all bawmys_] i. e. surpassed all balms.
v. 676. _gardynge_] i. e. garden.
—— _piplyng_] i. e. piping; as in our author’s _Replycacion_, &c. vol. i.
207. l. 26 (prose).
v. 680. _the nyne Muses, Pierides by name_] So Chaucer;
“_Muses, that men clepe Pierides._”
_The Man of Lawes Prol._ v. 4512 (but see Tyrwhitt’s note).
v. 681. _Testalis_] i. e. Thestylis. So Barclay;
“Neera, Malkin, or lustie _Testalis_.”
_Second Egloge_, sig. B ii. ed. 1570.
v. 682. _enbybid_] i. e. made wet, soaked.
v. 683. _moche solacyous_] i. e. much pleasant, mirthful.
v. 686. _somer_] i. e. summer.
—— _fotid_] i. e. footed.
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