“Heigh ho, _away the Mare_, Let vs set aside all care, If any man be disposed to trie, Loe here comes a lustie crew, That are enforced to crie A new Master, a new,” &c.
v. 115. _Wyth, Fyll the cup, fyll_] So in _The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous_, by Copland, n. d.;
“_With fyll the pot, fyll_, and go fyll me the can.”
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. 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. 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.
—_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.
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_.”
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.