Act ii. sc. 1. sig. D 3.

Compare too an epigram by Heywood;

“Take time when time commeth: are we set time to take? Beware time, in meane time, _take_ not vs _in brake_.”

_Workes_, sig. Q 3. ed. 1598.

and Cavendish’s _Life of Wolsey_; “At last, as ye have heard here before, how divers of the great estates and lords of the council lay in a-wait with my Lady Anne Boleyn, to espy a convenient time and occasion _to take_ the cardinal _in a brake_.” p. 147. ed. 1827.—In our text, and in the passages just quoted, _brake_ seems to be used for trap: among its various significations, it means a strong wooden frame for confining the feet of horses, preparatory to their being shod; see Gifford’s note on Jonson’s _Works_, iii. 463.

Page 105. v. 327. _gambone_] i. e. gammon.

v. 328. _resty_] i. e. reasty, rancid.

v. 330. _Angry as a waspy_]—_waspy_, i. e. wasp. So Heywood;

“Now mery as a cricket, and by and by, _Angry as a waspe_.”

_Dialogue_, sig. C 4,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.

v. 331. _yane_] “I _yane_ I gaspe or gape.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxi. (Table of Verbes).

—— _gaspy_] i. e. gasp.

Page 106. v. 332. _go bet_] Compare;

“Arondel, queth Beues tho, For me loue _go bet_, go.”

_Sir Beues of Hamtoun_, p. 129. Maitl. ed.

“_Go bet_, quod he, and axe redily, What corps is this,” &c.

Chaucer’s _Pardoneres Tale_, v. 12601. ed. Tyrwhitt,—

who observes that in the following lines of Chaucer’s _Legend of Dido_ (288), _go bet_ seems to be a term of the chase;

“The herd of hartes founden is anon, With hey, _go bet_, pricke thou, let gon, let gon.”

“He hath made me daunce, maugre my hede, Amonge the thornes, hey _go bette_.”

_The Frere and the Boye_,—_An. Pop. Poetry_, p. 46. ed. Ritson,—

who supposes the words to be the name of some old dance.

Page 106. v. 333. _met_] i. e. measure.

v. 334. _fet_] i. e. fetched.

v. 335. _spycke_] “_Spyk_ of flesshe. Popa.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. The copy of that work, _MS. Harl._ 221, has “_Spyk_ or fet flesche,” &c.

v. 336. _flycke_] i. e. flitch.

v. 339. _stut_] i. e. stutter.

v. 343. _sayne_] i. e. says.

—— _a fyest_] So Hawes;

“She let no ferte nor yet _fyste_ truelye.”

_The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. Q viii. ed. 1555.

“_A fiest_, Tacitus flatus.” Withals’s _Dict_. p. 343. ed. 1634.

v. 346. _wyth shamfull deth_] Equivalent to—may you die with a shameful death! see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, in v. _With_.

v. 347. _callettes_] i. e. trulls, drabs, jades.

v. 348. _I shall breake your palettes_]—_palettes_, i. e. crowns, pates. So in a poem by Sir R. Maitland;

“For your rewarde now _I sall brek your pallat_.”

_Anc. Scot. Poems from. Maitl. MSS._, ii. 317. ed. Pinkerton,—

who, in the Gloss., wrongly explains it “cut your throat.”

v. 350. _And so was made the peace_] In confirmation of the reading which I have given, compare _Reynard the Fox_; “Thus was _the pees made_ by fyrapel the lupaerd frendly and wel.” Sig. e 5. ed. 1481; and see note on v. 319. p. 168.

v. 354. _sainct James in Gales_] The body of Saint James the Great having, according to the legend, been buried at Compostella in Galicia (_Gales_), a church was built over it. Pilgrims flocked to the spot; several popes having granted the same indulgences to those who repaired to Compostella, as to those who visited Jerusalem. In _The foure P. P._ by Heywood, the Palmer informs us that he has been

“At saynt Cornelys at _saynt James in Gales_ And at saynt Wynefrydes well in Walles,” &c.

Sig. A ii. ed. n. d.

v. 355. _Portyngales_] i. e. Portuguese.

v. 356. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.).

v. 360. _the Crosse in Chepe_] Was originally erected in 1290 by Edward I. at one of the resting places of the body of his beloved Eleanor, in its progress from Herdeby, where she died, to Westminster Abbey, where she was buried; and was adorned with her image and arms. Of its being afterwards rebuilt,—of the conduits that were added to it, &c. &c. an account will be found in Stow’s _Survey_, B. iii. 35. ed. 1720, and _Sup. to Gent. Mag._ for 1764, vol. 34. 607. This structure was barbarously demolished in 1643, as a monument of Popish superstition.

Page 106. v. 362. _route_] i. e. disorderly crowd.

Page 107. v. 364.

_Sneuelyng in her nose,_ _As thoughe she had the pose_]

—_pose_, i. e. a rheum in the head. So Chaucer;

“_he speketh in his nose_, And sneseth fast, and eke _he hath the pose_.”

_The Manciples Prol._ v. 17010. ed. Tyr.

See also _Reves Tale_, v. 4149.

v. 371. _fyll_] i. e. fell.

v. 372. _barlyhood_] Or _barlikhood_, is said to mean a fit of obstinacy or violent ill-humour produced by drunkenness: see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ and _Supp._ in v.; also Stevenson’s addition to Boucher’s _Gloss._ in v. _Barlic_.

v. 378. _newe ale in cornes_] So in _Thersytes_, n. d.;

“I will make the drincke worse than good _ale in the cornes_.”

p. 56. Rox. ed.

“_New ale in cornes. Ceruisia cum recrementis_.” Baret’s _Alvearie_, in v. _Ale_.

v. 386. _fabell_] i. e. talking.

v. 387. _babell_] i. e. babbling.

v. 388.

—— _folys fylly_ _That had a fole wyth wylly_]

Whether _folys fylly_ means a foolish young jade (a _filly_,—compare what follows), or foolish Philly (_Phillis_,—compare our author’s _Bowge of Court_, v. 370. vol. i. 44); and whether or not _wylly_ is meant for a proper name (as it is given in the comparatively recent ed. of Rand), let the reader judge.

v. 390. _Iast you, and, gup, gylly_] See note, p. 99. v. 17. “What _gyppe gyll_ with a galde backe, begynne you to kycke nowe: _Hey de par le diable gilotte_,” &c. Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cclxxii. (Table of Verbes). So Dunbar uses _gillot_ for a young mare; see his _Poems_, i. 65, ii. 459 (note), ed. Laing.

v. 394. _sennet_] i. e. sennight, week.

Page 108. v. 395. _pay_] i. e. satisfaction, content.

v. 397. _Of thyne ale let vs assay_]—_assay_, i. e. try, taste. So in _Pierce Plowman_;

“I haue good _ale_ goship said he, gloton _wold thou assai_.”

Sig. G ii. ed. 1561.

Page 108. v. 398. _pylche_] i. e. cloak of skins.

v. 399. _conny_] i. e. rabbit.

v. 490. _loke_] i. e. look.

—— _donny_] Richardson, _Dict._ in vv. _Dun_, _Dunny_, cites this line as containing an example of the latter word,—rightly, perhaps, for _donne_ (dun) occurs in Skelton’s _Magnyfycence_, v. 1102. vol. i. 257.—The common people of Ireland employ _donny_ in the sense of—poor, mean-looking, as “a _donny_ creature;” also in the sense of—poorly, as “How are you to-day?”—“Och! but _donny_, very _donny_.” For this information I am indebted to the kindness of Miss Edgeworth, who has used the word in one of her excellent tales.

v. 407. _blommer_] i. e., perhaps, noise, uproar.

v. 408. _a skommer_] i. e. a skimmer.

v. 409. _a slyce_] “_Sclyce_ to tourne meate _tournoire_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxii. (Table of Subst.).

v. 412. _sterte_] i. e. started, rushed.

v. 414. _somdele seke_] i. e. somewhat sick.

v. 415. _a peny cheke_] Does it mean—a puny chick?

v. 418. _Margery Mylkeducke_] So again in our author’s _Magnyfycence_;

“What, _Margery Mylke Ducke_, mermoset!”

v. 462. vol. i. 240.

Compare one of the _Coventry Mysteries_;

“Malkyn _Mylkedoke_ and fayr Mabyle.”

_MS. Cott. Vesp._ D viii. fol. 74.

v. 419.

_Her kyrtell she did vptucke_ _An ynche aboue her kne_]

—_kyrtell_; see note, p. 149. v. 1194.—So in our old ballad poetry;

“Then you must cut your gowne of greene, _An inch above your knee_.”

_Child Waters_,—Percy’s _Rel. of A. E. P._ iii. 56. ed. 1794.

v. 422. _stubbed_] i. e. short and thick.

v. 423. _pestels_] i. e. legs,—so called, perhaps, because the leg-bone resembles a _pestle_ used in a mortar. The expression “_pestle_ of pork” frequently occurs in our early writers; as in the following passage concerning the tremendous appetite of Charlemagne; “Whan he took hys repaast he was contente wyth lytel brede, but as touchyng the pytaunce, he ete at his repaast a quarter of moton, or ii hennes, or a grete ghoos, or a grete _pestel_ of porke, or a pecok, or a crane, or an hare all hool.” Caxton’s _Lyf of Charles the Grete_, &c., 1485. sig. b iii.

Page 108. v. 423. _clubbed_] i. e. like clubs.

v. 425. _fote_] i. e. foot.

v. 426. _foule_] i. e. ugly: see note, p. 130. v. 442.

Page 109. v. 429. _cantell_] i. e. corner, piece, fragment.

v. 431. _quycke_] i. e. live.

v. 435. _punyete_] i. e. pungent.

v. 436. _sorte_] i. e. set, company.

v. 441. _I wote nere_] i. e. I know never, not.

v. 443. _podynges and lynkes_] “_Links_, a kind of Pudding, the skin being filled with Pork Flesh, and seasoned with diverse Spices, minced, and tied up at distances.” R. Holme’s _Ac. of Armory_, 1688. B. iii. p. 83. In Scotland the terms _puddings_ and _links_ are applied to various intestines of animals.

v. 447. _leche_] i. e. physician, doctor.—Dunbar makes a distinction, which I do not understand;

“In Medicyne the most Practicianis, _Leichis_, Surrigianis, and Phisicianis.”

_Poems_, i. 213. ed. Laing.

v. 450. _keke_] i. e. kick.

v. 451. _the vertue of an vnset leke_] “_Vnsette lekes_ be of more _vertue_ than they that be sette ... _præstant in medicina_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. f ii. ed. 1530.

v. 452. _breke_] i. e. breeches.

v. 453. _feders_] i. e. feathers.

v. 460. _noughty froslynges_] i. e. worthless things, stunted by frost. In Suffolk, _froslin_ is applied to any thing—a lamb, a _goslin_, a chicken, an apple, &c., nipped, or pinched, or injured by frost: see Moor’s _Suffolk Words, Appendix_.

Page 110. v. 462. _callet_] i. e. trull, drab, jade.

v. 465. _wretchockes_] “The famous imp yet grew a _wretchock_; and though for seven years together he was carefully carried at his mother’s back, rocked in a cradle of Welsh cheese, like a maggot, and there fed with broken beer, and blown wine of the best daily, yet looks as if he never saw his _quinquennium_.” Jonson’s Masque, _The Gipsies Metamorphosed_,—_Workes_, vii. 371. ed. Gifford, who thus comments on the passage in his authoritative style: “i. e. pined away, instead of thriving. Whalley appears to have puzzled himself sorely in this page, about a matter of very little difficulty. In every large breed of domestic fowls, there is usually a miserable little stunted creature, that forms a perfect contrast to the growth and vivacity of the rest. This unfortunate abortive, the goodwives, with whom it is an object of tenderness, call a _wrethcock_; and this is all the mystery. Was Whalley ignorant that what we now term chick, was once chocke and _chooke_?” The fol. ed. of the _Masque of Gipsies_ has “_wretch-cock_,” which Nares, who does not know what to make of the word, observes “would admit of an easy derivation from _wretch_ and _cock_, meaning a poor wretched fowl.” _Gloss._ in v.

Page 110. v. 466. _shyre shakyng nought_] i. e. sheer worthless. So again our author in his _Magnyfycence_;

“From _qui fuit aliquid_ to shyre shakynge nought.”

v. 1319. vol. i. 267.

v. 475. _fall_] i. e. fallen.

v. 483. _foggy_] “_Foggy_, to full of waste flesshe.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxxviii. (Table of Adiect.).

v. 489. _craw_] i. e. crop, stomach.

v. 491. _on_] i. e. of: compare v. 131.

Page 111. v. 492. _an old rybibe_] Chaucer, in _The Freres Tale_, says,

“This Sompnour, waiting ever on his pray, Rode forth to sompne a widewe, _an olde ribibe_.”

v. 6958. ed. Tyrwhitt,—

who says he cannot guess how this musical instrument came to be put for an old woman, “unless perhaps from its shrillness.” The word so applied occurs also in Jonson’s _Devil is an Ass_, act i. sc. 1, where Gifford observes, “_Ribibe_, together with its synonym _rebeck_, is merely a cant expression for an old woman. A ribibe, the reader knows, is a rude kind of fiddle, and the allusion is probably to the inharmonious nature of its sounds.” _Works_, v. 8.

v. 493. _She halted of a kybe_] i. e. She limped from a chap in the heel. The following remedy is seriously proposed in _The Countrie Farme_, and was no doubt applied by our ancestors: “_For kibes on the heeles_, make powder of old shooe soles burned, and of them with oile of roses annoint the kibes; or else lay vnto the kibes the rinde of a pomegranat boiled in wine.” p. 83. ed. 1600.

v. 496.

_And fell so wyde open_ _That one myght se her token_]

Compare _The foure P. P._ by Heywood;

“So was thys castell layd _wyde open_ _That euery man myght se the token_.”

Sig. D i. ed. n. d.

v. 498. _wroken_] i. e. wreaked.

v. 501. _on Gods halfe_] i. e. “on God’s part, with God’s favour.” Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_. “_A goddes halfe: De par dieu._” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxxxvi. (Table of Aduerbes).

Page 111. v. 503. _beshrew_] i. e. curse.

v. 506. _lampatrams_] A word which I am unable to explain.

v. 507. _shap_] i. e. pudendum: see Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxvi. (Table of Subst.). So in a description of purgatory-punishments in the metrical legend of _Owayne Myles_;

“And some were yn to _shappus_ And some were vp to the pappus.”

_MS. Cott. Calig._ A ii. fol. 91.

v. 512. _stert_] i. e. started.

v. 515. _dant_] In Kilian’s _Dict._ is “_Dante. Ambubaia, mulier ignaua._” ed. 1605; and in _Gloss. to West. and Cumb. Dialect_, “_Dannet_, a ... woman of disreputable character:” but, for aught I know, the word in the text may have some very different signification.

v. 516. _a gose and a gant_] Must mean here,—a goose and a gander: yet Skelton in _Phyllyp Sparowe_ mentions first “the gose and the _gander_,” and afterwards “the gaglynge _gaunte_:” see note, p. 130. v. 447.

v. 517. _wesant_] i. e. weasand.

v. 519. _olyfant_] i. e. elephant.

v. 520. _bullyfant_] Another word which I do not understand.

v. 522. _hedes_] i. e. heads.

Page 112. v. 525. _ale pole_] i. e. pole, or stake, set up before an ale-house by way of sign.

v. 535. _A strawe, sayde Bele, stande vtter_]—_stande vtter_, i. e. stand more out, back.

“_Straw_, quod the thridde, ye ben lewed and nice.”

Chaucer’s _Chanones Yemannes Tale_, v. 16393. ed. Tyr.

“_Stonde vtter_ felowe where doest thou thy curtesy preue?”

_The Worlde and the Chylde_, 1522. sig. B iv.

v. 538. _sterte_] i. e. started.

—— _fysgygge_] “_Trotiere_: A raumpe, _fisgig_, fisking huswife, raunging damsell, gadding or wandring flirt.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ “_Fiz-gig_, a wild flirting wench.” _Dialect of Craven_, &c.

v. 543. _gat_] i. e. got.

v. 549. _quod_] i. e. quoth.

—— _hyght_] i. e. called.

v. 550. _bybyll_] i. e. drink, tipple.

v. 553. _Wheywormed_] i. e. covered with _whey-worms_,—pimples from which a whey-like moisture exudes.

Page 113. v. 555. _puscull_] i. e. pustule.

v. 556. _muscull_] i. e. muscle,—the shell of which is frequently “scabbyd.”

Page 113. v. 557. _noppy_] i. e. nappy.

v. 558. _soppy_] i. e. sop.

v. 560. _mote I hoppy_] i. e. may I have good hap.

v. 561. _coleth_] i. e. cooleth.

—— _croppy_] i. e. crop, stomach.

v. 563. _Haue here is for me_] See note, p. 118. v. 413.

v. 573. _defoyled_] i. e. defiled.

v. 575. _sorte_] i. e. set, company.

v. 582. _a pryckemedenty_] i. e. one affectedly nice, finical.

v. 583.

_Sat lyke a seynty,_ _And began to paynty_ _As thoughe she would faynty_]

—_seynty_, i. e. saint: _paynty_, i. e. paint,—feign: _faynty_, i. e. faint. Compare our author’s _Colyn Cloute_;

“That counterfaytes and _payntes_ As they were very _sayntes_.”

v. 922. vol. i. 347.

v. 587. _a lege de moy_] So again in our author’s _Colyn Cloute_;

“And howe Parys of Troy Daunced a _lege de moy_, Made lusty sporte and ioy With dame Helyn the quene.”

v. 952. vol. i. 348.

I have not found elsewhere the term _lege de moy_. Mace, in his _Musick’s Monument_, 1676, mentions a _Tattle de Moy_,—“a New Fashion’d Thing, much like a Seraband; only It has more of Conceit in It, as (in a manner) speaking the word (Tattle de Moy),” &c. p. 129.

Page 114. v. 594. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.).

v. 598. _spence_] i. e. store-room, for drink, or victuals: “_Spens_ a buttrye _despencier_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxvi. (Table of Subst.).

v. 609. _awne_] i. e. own.

v. 610. _Neyther gelt nor pawne_] i. e. Neither money nor pledge.

v. 615. _balke_] i. e. beam, post: “_Balke_ of an house _pouste_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xix. (Table of Subst.).

v. 616. _tayle_] i. e. tally. “A payre of _taylles_, suche as folke vse to score vpon for rekennyng.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xiii. (Thirde Boke).

v. 617. _yll hayle_] i. e. ill health,—ill luck,—a common imprecation in our old poetry;

“_Ill haile_, Alein, by God thou is a fonne.”

Chaucer’s _Reves Tale_, v. 4087. ed. Tyr.

See too _Chester Mysteries_ (_De Del. Noe_), p. 27. Roxb. ed.

Page 114. v. 619. _to mytche_] i. e. too much.

v. 620. _mummynge_] i. e. frolicking, merriment.

Page 115. v. 622. _gest_] i. e. story. “_Gest_ or romauns.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499.

v. 623. _this worthy fest_] So in the _Coventry Mysteries_;

“At _wurthy festys_ riche men woll bene.”

_MS. Cott. Vesp._ D viii. fol. 32.

and in Cavendish’s _Life of Wolsey_, “It is not to be doubted but that the king was privy of all _this worthy feast_.” p. 199. ed. 1827.

_Quod_] i. e. Quoth.

POEMS AGAINST GARNESCHE.

All the particulars concerning Garnesche, which I have been able to discover will be found in the _Account of Skelton and his Writings_.

Page 116. v. 1. _Sithe_] i. e. Since.

v. 4. _Syr Tyrmagant_]—or _Termagant_,—a very furious deity, whom the Crusaders and romance-writers charged the Saracens with worshipping, though there was certainly no such Saracenic divinity. Concerning the name, see Gifford’s note on Massinger’s _Works_, ii. 125. ed. 1813, and Nares’s _Gloss._ in v.—So in _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_, which in various minute particulars bears a strong resemblance to the present pieces _Against Garnesche_;

“_Termygantis_ temptis and Vespasius thy eme.”

Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 85. ed. Laing.

—— _tyrnyd_] i. e. tourneyed, encountered.

v. 5. _Syr Frollo de Franko_] Was a Roman knight, governor of Gaul, slain by King Arthur: see _Geoffrey of Mon._ l. ix. cap. ii., _The Legend of King Arthur_, Percy’s _Rel. of A. E. P._ iii. 39. ed. 1794, &c. &c.

—— _talle_] i. e. valiant.

v. 6. _Syr Satrapas_] Neither with this, nor with the personage mentioned in the next line, have I any acquaintance.

v. 8. _haue ye kythyd yow a knyght_]—_kythyd_, i. e. made known, shewn.

“It _kythit_ be his cognisance _ane knight_ that he wes.”

_Golagros and Gawane_, p. 137, _Syr Gawayne_, &c. ed. Bann.

Garnesche had the dignity of knighthood; see _Account of Skelton and his Writings_. In the heading, and first line, of this poem, he is called _Master_; but knights were frequently so addressed. In Cavendish’s _Life of Wolsey_ mention is made of “Sir William Fitzwilliams, _a knight_,” who is presently called “_Master_ Fitzwilliams,” pp. 310, 311. ed. 1827, and of “Sir Walter Walshe, _knight_,” who is immediately after termed “_Master_ Walshe,” pp. 339, 340, and of “that worshipful _knight Master_ Kingston,” p. 374.

Page 116. v. 8. _Syr Dugles the dowty_] “The high courage of Dowglasse wan him that addition of _Doughty Dowglasse_, which after grew to a Prouerbe.” Marg. Note on the description of the Battle of Shrewsbury, in Drayton’s _Polyolbion_, Song 22. p. 37. ed. 1622.

v. 9. _currysly_] i. e. currishly.

v. 10. _stowty_] i. e. stout.

v. 11. _Barabas_] The robber mentioned in Scripture.

—— _Syr Terry of Trace_]—_Trace_, i. e. Thrace: but I do not recollect any romance or history in which a Sir Terry of that country is mentioned.

v. 12. _gyrne_] i. e. grin.

—— _gomys_] i. e. gums.

v. 15. _Syr Ferumbras the ffreke_]—_ffreke_ (common in romance-poetry in the sense of—man, warrior) is here, as the context shews, equivalent to furious fellow: we have had the word before, see p. 109. v. 187. Consult the analysis of the romance of _Sir Ferumbras_ in Ellis’s _Spec. of Met. Rom._ ii. 356, and Caxton’s _Lyf of Charles the Grete_, &c., 1485, for much about this Saracen, called in the latter _Fyerabras_,—“a meruayllous geaunte,”—“whyche was vaynquysshed by Olyuer, and at the laste baptysed, _and was after a Saynt in heuen_.” Sig. b viii.

v. 16. _Syr capten of Catywade, catacumbas of Cayre_] _Cayre_ is Cairo; but I am unable to explain the line. In the opening of Heywood’s _Four P. P._, the Palmer says, he has been at “the graet God of Katewade,” alluding, as O. Gilchrist thinks, to Catwade-bridge in Sampford hundred in Suffolk, where there may have been a famous chapel and rood; see Dodsley’s _Old Plays_, i. 61. last ed.

v. 17. _Thow_] i. e. Though.

—— _Syr Lybyus_] See note, p. 138. v. 649.

v. 18. _contenons oncomly_] i. e. countenance uncomely.

v. 19. _apayere_] i. e. impair—become less.

Page 117. v. 22. _Of Mantryble the Bryge, Malchus the murryon_]—_murryon_, i. e. Moor; so in the third of these poems, Skelton calls Garnesche “Thou _murrionn_, thou mawment,” v. 170. vol. i. 125; so too in the Scottish Treasurer’s Accounts for 1501, “Peter the _Moryen_,” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 306. ed. Laing; and in a folio broadside, _M. Harry Whobals mon to M. Camell_, &c. (among the “flytings” of Churchyard and Camell), “Some _morryon_ boye to hold ye vp.” If the present passage means that the Bridge was guarded by a Moor called Malchus, I know not what authority Skelton followed. Concerning the Bridge of Mantryble see the analysis of the romance of _Sir Ferumbras_, Ellis’s _Spec. of Met. Rom._ ii. 389; and Caxton’s _Lyf of Charles the Grete_, &c., 1485, “Of the meruayllous bridge of Mantryble, of the trybute there payed for to passe ouer,” &c., sig. e viii., and how “the strong brydge of mantryble was wonne not wythoute grete payne,” sig. h viii.: it was kept by a giant, named Algolufre in the former, and Galafre in the latter, who was slain by the Frenchmen when the Bridge was won. In _The Bruce_ of Barbour, the hero reads to his followers “Romanys off worthi Ferambrace” and how Charlemagne “wan _Mantrybill_ and passit Flagot.” B. ii. v. 832 sqq. ed. Jam. “The tail of _the brig of the mantribil_” is mentioned in _The Complaynt of Scotland_, p. 98. ed. Leyden. Compare also _Don Quixote_; “nor that [history] of Fierabras, with the _Bridge of Mant[r]ible_, which befell in Charlemaines time, and is, I sweare, as true, as that it is day at this instant.” P. i. B. iv. c. xxii. p. 546., Shelton’s trans., 1612.

Page 117. v. 23. _blake Baltazar with hys basnet routh as a bere_] Does _blake Baltazar_ mean one of the Magi, or, as they were commonly called, the Three Kings of Cologne? “the third, Balthasar, a black or Moor, with a large spreading beard,” &c. _Festa Anglo-Romana_, p. 7, cited in Brand’s _Pop. Ant._ i. 19 (note), ed. 1813: _with hys basnet routh as a bere_, i. e. with his cap (not helmet, it would seem,) rough as a bear.

v. 24. _Lycon, that lothly luske_]—_Lycon_ is probably Lycaon; see note, p. 127. v. 311. “Here is a great knaue i. a great lyther _luske_, or a stout ydell lubbar.” Palsgrave’s _Acolastus_, 1540. sig. X ii. “_Luske_ a vyle parsone _ribavlt, esclaue, lovrdavlt_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xlvi. (Table of Subst.). The word is often used as a term of reproach in general.

v. 25. _brymly_] i. e. fiercely, ruggedly.

—— _here_] i. e. hair.

v. 26. _bake_] i. e. back.

—— _gere_] i. e. dress.

v. 30. _a camoke_] Is explained—a crooked stick, or tree; a crooked beam, or knee of timber.

v. 31. _teggys_] See note, p. 164. v. 151.

Page 117. v. 33. _Orwelle hyr hauyn_] By Harwich.

v. 36. _Sarson_] i. e. Saracen. So in _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4), “_Sarazene_, syphareit,” &c. Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 75. ed. Laing.

—— _ble_] i. e. colour, complexion.

v. 37. _As a glede glowynge_] i. e. glowing like a burning coal:—but qy. did Skelton write “as a glede _glowrynge_?” i. e. staring like a kite. He uses _glede_ in this latter sense in _Magnyfycence_, v. 1059. vol. i. p. 259: and in _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4) we find,—

“hungry _gled_.” ... “Lyke to ane stark theif _glowrand_ in ane tedder.”

Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 70, 72. ed. Laing.

—— _ien_] i. e. eyne, eyes.

v. 39. _passe_] i. e. excel.

v. 40. _Howkyd as an hawkys beke, lyke Syr Topyas_] i. e. Hooked, &c. The allusion is to Chaucer’s _Sire Thopas_, who “had a semely nose.” v. 13659. ed. Tyr.

v. 41. _buske_] i. e. prepare, or rather, perhaps, hie.

v. 42. _fole_] i. e. fool.

_Be_] i. e. By.

_gorbelyd_] i. e. big-bellied.

_Godfrey_] Concerning this person, who assisted Garnesche in his compositions, and is afterwards called his _scribe_, I can give the reader no information.

Page 118. v. 2. _[Your] gronynge, ȝour grontynge, your groinynge lyke a swyne_] Skelton has elsewhere;

“Hoyning like hogges that _groynis_ and wrotes.”

_Against venemous tongues_, vol. i. 132.

“The Gruntyng and the _groynninge_ of the gronnyng swyne.”

_Garlande of Laurell_, v. 1376. vol. i. 415.

To _groin_ is explained to groan, to grunt, to growl; but perhaps our author may have used it like the French “_Groigner_. To nuzle, or to root with the snout.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._

v. 3. _alle to peuiche_] See note, p. 100. v. 32.

v. 4. _mantycore_] See note, p. 127. v. 294.

—— _maltaperte_] i. e. malapert, (perhaps an error of the transcriber).

v. 5. _lere_] i. e. complexion, skin.

—— _gresyd bote_] i. e. greased boot.

Page 118. v. 6.

_Ye cappyd Cayface copious, your paltoke on your pate,_ _Thow ye prate lyke prowde Pylate, be ware yet of chek mate_]

—_Cayface_, i. e. Caiaphas: _copious_ is perhaps an allusion to some sort of cope, in which that personage might have figured on the stage. The usual explanations of _paltock_ (“_Paltok._ Baltheus,” _Prompt. Parv._; “a short garment of the doublet kind,” Strutt’s _Dress and Habits_, &c. ii. 352) do not seem to suit the present passage. In Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr_., 1530. fol. lii. (Table of Subst.) we find “_Paltocke_ a patche _palleteau_;” and see what immediately follows in this poem: _Thow_, i. e. Though: _chek mate_; see note, p. 96. v. 29.

Compare _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4)

“Thow irefull attircop, _Pylat_ appostata.” ... ...“_Cayphass_ thy fectour.”

Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 85, 86. ed. Laing.

v. 8. _Hole_] i. e. Whole, healed.

—— _Deu[ra]ndall_] Was the celebrated sword of Roland: see (among other works which might be referred to) Caxton’s _Lyf of Charles the Grete_, &c., 1485, “How Rolland deyed holyly after many martyres and orysons made to god ful deuoutely, and of the complaynte maad for _hys swerde durandal_.” Sig. m i.

—— _awne_] i. e. own.

v. 11. _Ye countyr vmwhyle to capcyously, and ar ye be dysiryd_]—_countyr_; see note, p. 92: _vmwhyle_, i. e. some time: _to_, i. e. too: _ar_, i. e. ere.

v. 12. _all to-myryd_] See note, p. 100. v. 32,—meaning, I suppose, all befouled.

v. 15. _Gabionyte of Gabyone_] So in his _Replycacion agaynst certayne yong scolers_, &c. Skelton calls them “_Gabaonitæ_,” vol. i. 218.

—— _gane_] “I _Gane_ or gape.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccxliii. (Table of Verbes).

v. 16. _Huf a galante_] Compare;

“_Hof hof hof a frysch galaunt._”

_Mary Magdalene,—An. Mysteries from the Digby MSS._ p. 85. ed. Abbotsf.

“Make rome syrs and let vs be mery With _huffa galand_ synge tyrll on the bery.”

_Interlude of the iiii. Elementes_, n. d. sig. B ii.

In some _Glossary_, to which I have lost the reference, is “_Huff_, a gallant.”

Page 118. v. 16. _loke_] i. e. look.

v. 17. _Lusty_] See note on title of the next poem, p. 183.

—— _jet_] i. e. strut; see note, p. 94. v. 43.

—— _jaspe_] Does it mean—wasp?

v. 19. _that of your chalennge makyth so lytyll fors_] i. e. that maketh (make) so little matter of your challenge.

Page 119. v. 22. _Syr Gy_, _Syr Gawen_, _Syr Cayus_, _for and Syr Olyuere_] Concerning the two first see notes, p. 136. v. 629: _Cayus_, or Kay, was the foster-brother of King Arthur; see the _Morte d’Arthur_, &c. &c.: _for and_ is an expression occasionally found in much later writers; see Middleton’s _Fair Quarrel_, act v. sc. 1., _Works_, iii. 544. ed. Dyce; and Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Knight of the Burning Pestle_,—

“_For and_ the Squire of Damsels, as I take it.”