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. 123. _heles dagged_] In _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. is “_Daggyd_.
Fractillosus,”—a sense in which Skelton certainly has the word elsewhere
(_Garlande of Laurell_, v. 630. vol. i. 386); but here perhaps _dagged_
may mean—be-mired: “I Daggyll or I _dagge_ a thing with myer.”
Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cciii. (Table of
Verbes).
v. 124. _kyrtelles_] See note, p. 149. v. 1194.
—— _all to-iagged_] See note, p. 100. v. 32: “I Cutte or _iagge_ a
garment.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cciii.
(Table of Verbes).
v. 130. _tunnynge_] i. e. brewing; see note, p. 158.
v. 131. _leneth ... on_] i. e. lendeth, furnisheth ... of: compare v. 491.
v. 139. _sorte_] i. e. set, company.
v. 142. _skewed_] Does it mean—distorted? or walking obliquely? or
squinting? see Todd’s Johnson’s _Dict._ in v. _Skew_. A friend suggests
that this epithet, as well as that in the preceding line, may be applied
to colour,—the words being still used as terms of the stable.
Page 100. v. 143. _sho clout_] i. e. shoe-cloth.
v. 145. _herelace_] i. e. hair-band.
v. 147. _tresses vntrust_] So Lydgate;—“With _heyr vntrussed_.” _Warres
of Troy_, B. iii. sig. S i. ed. 1555.
v. 148. _vnlust_] i. e. unpleasantness, unseemliness.
v. 149.
_Some loke strawry,_
_Some cawry mawry_]
—_loke_, i. e. look: _strawry_ I do not remember to have met with
elsewhere: _cawry mawry_ (as a substantive) occurs in _Pierce Plowman_;
“[Envy] was as pale as a pellet, in the palsey he semed
And clothed in _Caurymaury_,” &c.
sig. F ii. ed. 1561.
Page 100. v. 151. _vntydy_] i. e. sluttish.
—— _tegges_] A term found again in our author’s first poem _Against
Garnesche_;
“Your wynde schakyn shankkes, your longe lothy legges
...
Bryngges yow out of fauyr with alle femall _teggys_.”
v. 29. vol. i. 117.
In what sense Skelton uses _tegge_, I cannot pretend to determine. In
Warwickshire and Leicestershire, a _teg_ means a sheep of a year old;
and Ray gives, “A _Tagge_, a Sheep of the first Year, _Suss_.” _Coll. of
Words_, &c., p. 88, appended to _Proverbs_, ed. 1768.
v. 152. _Lyke rotten egges_] Lydgate in a satirical description of a lady
has—
“Colowryd _lyche a rotyn eey_ [i. e. egg].”
_MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 156.
v. 153. _lewde sorte_] i. e. vile set, low rabble.
v. 155. _tyde_] i. e. time, season.
v. 161. _commy_] i. e. come.
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