“He harped in the kinges chambere, Where cuppe and _caudle_ stoode.”
Percy’s _Rel. of A. E. P._, iii. 43. ed. 1794.
Page 291. v. 2035. _mamockes_] “_Mammocks_, leavings, wasted fragments.” Forby’s _Vocab. of East Anglia_.
v. 2038. _pomped_] In our text at least is equivalent to—pampered.
“The _pomped_ clerkes with foles [fodes] delicous Erth often fedeth,” &c.
Hawes’s _Pastime of Pleasure_, sig. B b iiii. ed. 1555.
v. 2040. _to be drawe_] i. e. to be drawn over, covered.
v. 2042. _shertes of Raynes_] i. e. shirts made of the delicate species of linen manufactured at Rennes in Brittany.
Page 292. v. 2054. _sykernesse_] i. e. security, sureness.
v. 2070. _they rynne to in manus tuas queche_]—_rynne_, i. e. run,—they quickly come to be hanged, when they say _In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum_.
v. 2072. _mary_] i. e. by the Virgin Mary.
v. 2077. _rydlesse_] In v. 2445 is “_redlesse_,” which properly means—devoid of counsel: but Skelton seems to use both forms in the sense of—unavailing.
v. 2080. _bloo_] i. e. livid: see note, p. 103. v. 3.
Page 293. v. 2093. _I garde her gaspe, I garde her gle_]—_garde_, i. e. made, caused: _gle_, i. e., perhaps, squint; see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ in v. _Gley_.
v. 2094. _daunce on the le_] A fragment, it would seem, of some song: _le_, i. e. lea.
v. 2096. _the bote of all my bale_] i. e. the remedy or help of all my evil or sorrow.
“God send every good man _bote of his bale_.”
Chaucer’s _Chanones Yemannes Tale_, v. 16949. ed. Tyr.
Page 293. v. 2098. _let_] i. e. leave, desist.
v. 2100. _patlet_]—or _partlet_,—i. e. a sort of ruff, or rather neck-kerchief: see Strutt’s _Dress and Habits_, &c. ii. 368.
v. 2104. _lust and lykynge_] See note, p. 98. v. 23.
Page 294. v. 2113. _hardely_] i. e. assuredly.
v. 2115. _not worth an hawe_] A common expression in our early poetry;
“Your wo appease which is _not worth an haw_.”
Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. ii. sig. I iiii. ed. 1555.
v. 2116. _to free of the dawe_] Equivalent, I suppose, to—too much fooling: see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 2117. _sad_] See note on v. 1966. p. 267.
v. 2121. _to to out of harre_] See notes on v. 881. p. 249, and v. 921. p. 250.
v. 2123. _iettynge_] i. e. strutting: see note, p. 94. v. 43.