NOTES TO VOLUME II. (continued 2)

—— crag] i. e. neck, throat.

v. 295. hag] See note, p. 99. v. 19.

v. 296. sir Wrig wrag] }

v. 297. sir Dalyrag] }

See note, p. 189. v. 186.

Page 77. v. 298. mellyng] i. e. meddling.

v. 301. huddypeke] See note, p. 255. v. 1176.

v. 303. a farly freke] i. e. a strange fellow: see notes, p. 109. v. 187; p. 178. v. 15.

v. 304. an horne keke] A term which I am unable to explain.

v. 308. swerde] i. e. sword.

v. 309. the Lyon White] See note, p. 220. v. 135.

v. 316. render the] i. e. consign thee.

v. 317. the flingande fende] i. e. the flinging fiend. So in Ingelend’s Disobedient Child, n. d.;

Northern readers at least need not be informed that to fling means—to throw out the legs;

v. 319. borde] i. e. jest.

v. 322. parbrake] i. e. vomit.

v. 323. auauns] i. e. vaunts. “The braging avaunts of the Spaniards be so accalmed,” &c. Letter of Wolsey,—Burnet’s Hist. of the Reform., iii. P. ii. 9. ed. 1816.

v. 324. wordes enbosed] i. e. swollen, big words.

v. 329. lewde] i. e. evil, vile.

v. 330. Sir Dunkan] See note on v. 270. p. 379.

—— in the deuill waye] See note, p. 287. v. 672.

Page 78. v. 336. lurdayne] See note, p. 242. v. 423.

v. 341. varry] i. e. fall at variance, contend.

v. 344. stownde] i. e. moment.

v. 348. ryn] i. e. run.

v. 352. loke] i. e. look.

v. 353. defoyle] i. e. defile.

v. 360. wele] i. e. well.

v. 366. bace] i. e. low.

Page 79. v. 375. cordylar] i. e. cordelier,—a Franciscan friar, whose cincture is a cord.

v. 377. to] i. e. too.

v. 380. daucockes] i. e. simpletons: see note, p. 113. v. 301.

v. 381. reme] i. e. realm.

v. 382. Ge heme] Scottice for—Go home (as before in Why come ye nat to Courte, v. 123. vol. ii. 30).

v. 383. fonde] i. e. foolish.

Page 79. v. 386. mate you with chekmate] In allusion to the king’s being put in check at the game of chess. And see note, p. 355. v. 158.

v. 389. pype in a quibyble] The word quibyble, as far as I am aware, occurs only in Skelton. Chaucer has a well-known passage,

The Milleres Tale, v. 3331, where Tyrwhitt (apparently against the context) supposes quinible to be an instrument: and I may notice that Forby gives “Whybibble, a whimsy; idle fancy; silly scruple, &c.” Voc. of East Anglia.

v. 398. faytes] i. e. facts, doings.

v. 399. me dresse] i. e. address, apply myself.

Page 80. v. 406. auaunce] i. e. advance.

v. 410. nobles] i. e. noblesse, nobleness.

v. 417. rechelesse] i. e. reckless.

v. 418. a lunatyke ouerage] See note, p. 352. v. 39.

v. 420. ennewde] See note, p. 144. v. 775.

v. 431. Lyke vnto Hercules] Barclay goes still farther in a compliment to the same monarch;

v. 436. foy] i. e. faith.

Page 81. v. 439. Scipiades] i. e. Scipio.

v. 442. Duke Iosue]—Duke, i. e. leader, lord. So Hawes;

v. 448. animosite] i. e. bravery.

v. 457. to] i. e. too.

v. 459. losels] i. e. good-for-nothing fellows, scoundrels.

v. 461. astate] i. e. estate, high dignity.

v. 468. domage] i. e. damage.

v. 470. rydes or goos] See note, p. 125. v. 186.

Page 82. v. 475. a knappishe sorte] “Knappish. Proterve, pervers, fascheux.” Cotgrave’s Dict. “Knappish. Tart, testy, snappish.” Jamieson’s Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang.: sorte, i. e. set.

v. 477. enbosed iawes] See note, p. 301. v. 24.

v. 478. dawes] i. e. simpletons: see note, p. 113. v. 301.

v. 479. fende] i. e. fiend.

v. 487. hart blode] i. e. heart-blood.

v. 488. gode] i. e. good,—goods.

v. 494. faytour] See note, p. 195. v. 2.

Page 82. v. 495. recrayed] i. e. recreant.

v. 500. rede ... loke] i. e. advise ... look.

Page 83. v. 506. Sainct George to borowe] i. e. St. George being my surety or pledge: the expression is common in our early poetry.

v. 508. quayre] i. e. quire,—pamphlet, book.

v. 523. wrate] i. e. wrote.

—— Lenuoy] Concerning this second L’envoy, which, I believe, does not belong to the poem against Albany, see Account of Skelton, &c.

Page 84. v. 9. ammas] i. e. amice: see note, p. 134. v. 560.

—— Ie foy enterment, &c.] i. e. Je fie entièrement, &c.