_Unguibus ire parat loca singula livida curvis_ _Quam modo per Phœbes nummos raptura Celæno_]
The whole of this “Cacosyntheton ex industria” is beyond my comprehension. Here Skelton has an eye to Juvenal;
“Nec per conventus nec cuncta per oppida _curvis_ _Unguibus ire parat nummos raptura Celæno_.”
v. 601. _Spreto spineto cedat saliunca roseto_] Here he was thinking of Virgil;
“Lenta salix quantum pallenti _cedit_ olivæ, Puniceis humilis quantum _saliunca rosetis_.”
v. 603. _presed_] i. e. pressed, thronged.
v. 606. _astate_] i. e. estate, condition.
—— _haskardis_] “_Haskerdes_ went in the queste: not honeste men. _Proletarii & capite censi_: non classici rem trāsegerunt.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. n iiii. ed. 1530.
“Wyne was not made for euery _haskerde_.”
Copland’s _Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous_, _Early Pop. Poetry_, ii. 33. ed. Utterson,
who in the Gloss. queries if _haskerde_ mean “dirty fellow? from the Scotch _hasky_.” The latter word is explained by Jamieson “dirty, slovenly.” _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._
v. 608. _Dysers, carders_] Dicers, card-players.
Page 386. v. 609. _Furdrers of loue_] i. e. Furtherers of love—pimps, pandars.
v. 610. _blow at the cole_] A friend suggests that there is an allusion here to alchemists; but I believe he is mistaken. It is a proverbial expression. So our author again;
_Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 81. vol. ii. 29.
“_Let them that bee colde, blow at the cole._ So may a man do, and yet play the foole.”
and by Ray, _Proverbs_, p. 90. ed. 1768, seems to have a quite different meaning.
Page 386. v. 611. _kownnage_] i. e. coinage,—coining.
v. 612. _Pope holy ypocrytis_] i. e. Pope-holy hypocrites: see note, p. 230. l. 24 (prose).
—— _as they were golde and hole_]—_hole_, i. e. whole. Heywood also has this expression;
“In words _gold and hole_, as men by wit could wish, She will [lie] as fast as a dog will lick a dish.”
_Dialogue_, &c.—_Workes_, sig. H 2, ed. 1598.
v. 613. _Powle hatchettis_] See note, p. 98. v. 28.
—— _ale pole_] i. e. pole, or stake, set up before an ale-house by way of sign.
v. 614. _brybery, theft_] See note, p. 256. v. 1242.
v. 615. _condycyons_] See note, p. 183. v. 12.
v. 618. _dysdanous dawcokkis_] i. e. disdainful simpletons, empty fellows: see note, p. 113. v. 301.