“I can playe at the _chery pytte_ And I can wystell you a fytte Syres in a whylowe ryne.”
_The Worlde and the Chylde_, 1522. sig. A iii.
v. 339. _Non sine postica sanna_] “—— _posticæ_ occurrite _sannæ_.” Persius, _Sat._ i. 65.
Page 18. v. 356. _propyr_] i. e. pretty, handsome.
v. 362. _slaundrys obliqui_] i. e. slanderous obloquy.
v. 366. _balas_] See note, p. 326. v. 1166.
v. 367. _eyndye sapher_] See note, p. 101. v. 17.
v. 368. _remorde[r]s_] i. e. blamers, censurers: see note, p. 193. v. 101.
Page 19.—— _votorum meorum omnis lapis, lapis pretiosus operimentum tuum_] From the Vulgate, “Omnis lapis pretiosus operimentum tuum.” _Ezech._ xxviii. 13.
v. 378. _on and hothyr_] i. e. one and other.
v. 382. _prosses_] Equivalent here to—matter: see p. 230 (first note on prose).
v. 385. _connyng_] i. e. knowing, learned.
v. 386. _postyll_] See note, p. 289. v. 755.
Page 20. v. 393. _Lyacon_] See note on v. 291. p. 345.
v. 394. _Racell, rulye_] i. e. Rachel, ruefully; compare v. 116.
v. 395. _mawmett_] See note, p. 188. v. 170.
v. 407. _For passe a pase apase ys gon to cache a molle_] Qy. is there an allusion here to Secretary Pace?
v. 408. _Scarpary_] See note on v. 133. p. 342.
v. 409. _pendugims_] See note on v. 210. p. 344.
Page 21. v. 412. _Difficille hit ys_] i. e. Difficult it is.
v. 417. _ensembyll_] i. e. together. (Fr.)
v. 418. _The nebbis of a lyon they make to trete and trembyll_]—_nebbis_, i. e. neb, nib, nose: _to trete_, i. e. (I suppose) to become tractable.
v. 420. _to play cowche quale_] So in _Thersytes_, n. d.;
“Howe I haue made the knaues for _to play cowch quaile_.”
“And thou shalt make him _couche as doth a quaille_.”
v. 422. _babylles_] i. e. (fools’) bawbles.
v. 424. _He facithe owte at a fflusshe_] Compare _The Bowge of Courte_, v. 315.
“And soo outface hym with a carde of ten.”
_fflusshe_, i. e. a hand of cards all of a sort.
v. 427. _skyregalyard_] See note, p. 218. v. 101.
—— _prowde palyard_] So, afterwards, the Duke of Albany is termed by Skelton in his tirade against that nobleman, v. 170. vol. ii. 73. “_Paillard._ A lecher, wencher, whoremunger, whorehunter; also, a knave, rascall, varlet, scoundrell, filthy fellow.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._
—— _vaunteperler_] “_Avant-parleur._ A forespeaker; or one that is too forward to speak.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ “Whiche bee the _vauntperlers_ and heddes of thair faction.” _Letter of Bedyll to Crumwell_,—_State Papers_ (1830), i. 424.