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
_The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. Q viii. ed. 1555.
“_A fiest_, Tacitus flatus.” Withals’s _Dict_. p. 343. ed. 1634.
v. 346. _wyth shamfull deth_] Equivalent to—may you die with a shameful
death! see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, in v. _With_.
v. 347. _callettes_] i. e. trulls, drabs, jades.
v. 348. _I shall breake your palettes_]—_palettes_, i. e. crowns, pates.
So in a poem by Sir R. Maitland;
“For your rewarde now _I sall brek your pallat_.”
_Anc. Scot. Poems from. Maitl. MSS._, ii. 317. ed. Pinkerton,—
who, in the Gloss., wrongly explains it “cut your throat.”
v. 350. _And so was made the peace_] In confirmation of the reading which
I have given, compare _Reynard the Fox_; “Thus was _the pees made_ by
fyrapel the lupaerd frendly and wel.” Sig. e 5. ed. 1481; and see note on
v. 319. p. 168.
v. 354. _sainct James in Gales_] The body of Saint James the Great
having, according to the legend, been buried at Compostella in Galicia
(_Gales_), a church was built over it. Pilgrims flocked to the spot;
several popes having granted the same indulgences to those who repaired
to Compostella, as to those who visited Jerusalem. In _The foure P. P._
by Heywood, the Palmer informs us that he has been
“At saynt Cornelys at _saynt James in Gales_
And at saynt Wynefrydes well in Walles,” &c.
Sig. A ii. ed. n. d.
v. 355. _Portyngales_] i. e. Portuguese.
v. 356. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.).
v. 360. _the Crosse in Chepe_] Was originally erected in 1290 by Edward
I. at one of the resting places of the body of his beloved Eleanor, in
its progress from Herdeby, where she died, to Westminster Abbey, where
she was buried; and was adorned with her image and arms. Of its being
afterwards rebuilt,—of the conduits that were added to it, &c. &c. an
account will be found in Stow’s _Survey_, B. iii. 35. ed. 1720, and _Sup.
to Gent. Mag._ for 1764, vol. 34. 607. This structure was barbarously
demolished in 1643, as a monument of Popish superstition.
Page 106. v. 362. _route_] i. e. disorderly crowd.
Page 107. v. 364.
_Sneuelyng in her nose,_
_As thoughe she had the pose_]
—_pose_, i. e. a rheum in the head. So Chaucer;
“_he speketh in his nose_,
And sneseth fast, and eke _he hath the pose_.”
_The Manciples Prol._ v. 17010. ed. Tyr.
See also _Reves Tale_, v. 4149.
v. 371. _fyll_] i. e. fell.
v. 372. _barlyhood_] Or _barlikhood_, is said to mean a fit of obstinacy
or violent ill-humour produced by drunkenness: see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict.
of Scot. Lang._ and _Supp._ in v.; also Stevenson’s addition to Boucher’s
_Gloss._ in v. _Barlic_.
v. 378. _newe ale in cornes_] So in _Thersytes_, n. d.;
“I will make the drincke worse than good _ale in the cornes_.”
p. 56. Rox. ed.
“_New ale in cornes. Ceruisia cum recrementis_.” Baret’s _Alvearie_, in
v. _Ale_.
v. 386. _fabell_] i. e. talking.
v. 387. _babell_] i. e. babbling.
v. 388.
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