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. 6. _gryll_] “Grymm _gryl_ and horryble ... horridus ... horribilis.”
_Prompt. Parv._,—_MS. Harl._ 221. (Ed. 1499 of that work omits
“_gryl._.”) The word is of frequent occurrence; but its exact meaning
here seems to be doubtful.
v. 12. _lere_] i. e. complexion, skin.
v. 14. _chere_] i. e. look, countenance.
v. 17. _bowsy_] i. e. bloated by drinking.
v. 21. _here_] i. e. hair.
v. 22. _lewde_] i. e. vile, nasty.
v. 23. _sayne_] i. e. say.
v. 25. _glayre_] i. e. viscous matter.
Page 96. v. 27.
_Her nose somdele hoked,_
_And camously croked_]
—_somdele hoked_, i. e. somewhat hooked. “_Camed_ or short nosed. Simus.”
_Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “A _Camoise_ nose, that is to saie crooked
vpward as the Morians [Moors].” Baret’s _Alvearie_. “_Camuse_. Flat.”
Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_. “_Camused._ Flat, broad
and crooked; as applied to a nose, what we popularly call a _snub-nose_.”
Nares’s _Gloss._ Todd, quoting this passage of Skelton, explains
_camously_, awry. _Johnson’s Dict._ in v.
v. 34. _gowndy_] So Lydgate;
“A _goundy_ eye is deceyued soone,
That any colour cheseth by the moone.”
_Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sig. H iii. ed. 1555.
“_Gownde_ of the eye. Ridda, Albugo.” _Prompt. Parv._,—_MS. Harl._ 221.
v. 35. _vnsowndy_] i. e. unsound.
v. 38. _jetty_] i. e. that part of a building which projects beyond the
rest.
Page 96. v. 40.
—— _how she is gumbed,_
_Fyngered and thumbed_]
i. e. what gums, fingers, and thumbs she has.
v. 45. _huckels_] i. e. hips.
v. 49. _Foted_] i. e. Footed.
v. 51. _iet_] i. e. strut: see note, p. 94. v. 43.
v. 52. _fet_] Means, perhaps, _feat_,—neat, handsome one.
v. 53. _flocket_] “Is described as a loose garment with large sleeves:”
see Strutt’s _Dress and Habits_, &c. ii. 373.
v. 54. _rocket_] i. e. a garment, worn often without, and sometimes with
sleeves; sometimes it was made to reach the ground, and sometimes much
shorter and open at the sides. See _Id. ibid._
v. 55. _With symper the cocket_] So Heywood in his _Dialogue_;
“Vpright as a candell standth in a socket,
Stoode she that day, so _simper decocket_.”
Sig. F,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.
and Jonson in his Masque, _The Gipsies Metamorphosed;_
“Lay by your wimbles,
Your boring for thimbles,
Or using your nimbles,
In diving the pockets,
And sounding the sockets
Of _simper-the-cockets_.”
_Works_ (by Gifford), vii. 376.
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