v. 19. _shayle_] Is several times used by Skelton. “_Schayler_ that gothe awrie with his fete _boytevx_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxi. (Table of Subst.) “I _Shayle_ as a man or horse dothe that gothe croked with his legges: _Ie vas eschays_. It is to late to beate him for it nowe, he shal _shayle_ as longe as he lyueth ... _il yra eschays_ ... I _Shayle_ with the fete, _Ientretaille des pieds_.” _Id._ fol. cccxlviii. (Table of Verbes). “_A shayle_ with yᵉ knees togyther and the fete outwarde: _A eschays_.” _Id._ fol. ccccxxxvii. (Table of Aduerbes). v. 20. _pyggysny_] “The Romans,” says Tyrwhitt, “used _oculus_ as a term of endearment, and perhaps _piggesnie_, in vulgar language, only means _ocellus_; the eyes of that animal being remarkably small.” Note on Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, v. 3268.—In confirmation of this etymology, Todd (_Johnson’s Dict._ in v. _Pigsney_) has shewn that the word was occasionally written _pigs eie_. v. 21. _quyte_] i. e. requite. Page 21. v. 26. _doute_] i. e. fear. v. 28. _all beshrewde_] i. e. altogether cursed. v. 29. _that farly swete_] i. e. that strange sweet one. v. 30. _wonnes_] i. e. dwells. —— _Temmys strete_] i. e. Thames’ street. DYUERS BALETTYS AND DYTIES, &c. _solacyous_] i. e. pleasant, amusing. Page 22. v. 2. _quod_] i. e. quoth. v. 4. _hardely_] i. e. boldly, with confidence. v. 7. _kepe_] i. e. heed, regard, care. v. 8. _With ba, ba, ba, and bas, bas, bas,_ _She cheryshed hym both cheke and chyn_] i. e. With kissings,—with, kiss me. “Come ner my spouse, and let me _ba_ thy cheke.” Chaucer’s _Wif of Bathes Prol._ v. 6015. ed. Tyr. “I wald him chuk, _cheik and chyn_, and _cheris_ him so mekill.” Dunbar’s tale of _The Tua Maryit Wemen and the Wedo_,—_Poems_, i. 71. ed. Laing. v. 10. _wyst_] i. e. knew. v. 11. _He had forgoten all dedely syn_] Compare our author’s _Phyllyp Sparowe_, v. 1080. vol. i. 84. v. 13. _He trusted her payment, and lost all hys pray_] In the note below the text I inconsiderately queried if “_pray_” should be “pay.” Compare the last of Skelton’s _Poems against Garnesche_; “And thus there ye _lost yower pray_ [i. e. prey].” v. 61. vol. i. 128. Page 22. v. 15. _rowth_] i. e. rough. —— _waters wan_] Many passages of our early poetry might be cited where this epithet is applied to water: see note on _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 887, where a wrong reading has misled H. Tooke and Richardson. v. 18. _halsyd_] i. e. embraced (round the neck). v. 19. _cought_] i. e. caught. Page 23. v. 20. _lefe_] i. e. dear. —— _rowtyth_] i. e. snoreth. v. 21. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.).