“Gife I be _lusty in array_, Than luve I paramouris thay say ... Gife I be nocht _weill als besene_,” &c.
v. 3. _skrybe_] Printed by mistake in the text “skryke”—means Godfrey; see note on title of the preceding poem, p. 180, and compare v. 90 of the present.
v. 6. _I caste me_] i. e. I project, design.
v. 12. _condycyonns_] i. e. qualities, dispositions, habits. “_Condycions_ maners _meurs_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, fol. xxv. (Table of Subst.). “Whan a man is set in autoryte, than shall his _condycyons_ be spyed ... _Mores_ deprehenduntur.” “Thy _good condycyons_ ... _virtutes_ tuas.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. N i. ed. 1530.
v. 13. _Gup, marmeset, jast ye, morelle_] See notes, p. 93. v. 11. p. 99. v. 17, and this page, v. 39.
v. 14. _lorelle_] i. e. good-for-nothing fellow (see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_).
v. 15. _Lewdely_] i. e. Badly, (as in v. 18 _lewdnes_, i. e. badness); but in v. 19 it is to be understood in its more original meaning—ignorantly.
Page 120. v. 26. _dryvyll_] See note, p. 113. v. 337.
v. 27. _your nose dedde sneuylle_] So in _The Flytyng of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4);
“Out! out! I schowt, upon _that snout that snevillis_.”
v. 31. _A gose with the fete vponne_] i. e. a goose with its feet on.
Page 121. v. 32. _slvfferd vp_] i. e. slabbered up.
—— _sowse_] “Succiduum. anglice. _sowce_.” _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. (and so _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499). “_Souce trippes._” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxv. (Table of Subst.). And see Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._ and Richardson’s _Dict._ in v.
v. 34. _xulde_] i. e. should: a provincialism (see, for instance, the _Coventry Mysteries_ passim), to be attributed not to Skelton, but to the transcriber.
v. 36. _bawdy_] i. e. foul; see note, p. 161. v. 90.
v. 38. _haftynge_] See note, p. 107. v. 138.
v. 41. _spere_] i. e. spire, shoot,—stripling.
v. 54. _kyst a shepys ie_] i. e. cast a sheep’s eye.
Page 122. v. 68. _pyllyd garleke hed_] Palsgrave has both “_Pylled_, as one that wanteth heare,” and “_Pylled_ scalled.” _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xciii. (Table of Adiect.). Compare the next poem _Against Garnesche_;
“Thow callyst me _scallyd_, thou callyst me mad: Thow thou be _pyllyd_, thow ar nat sade.”