“Then _gip_ fellowe asse, then _jost_ fellowe lurden.”
v. 19. _corage_] i. e. heart, affection, inclination.
—— _haggys_] I know not in what sense Skelton uses this word: so again in his _Colyn Cloute_;
“I purpose to shake oute All my connyng bagge, Lyke a clerkely _hagge_.”
and in his poem _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c.;
“For thou can not but brag, Lyke a Scottyshe _hag_.”
v. 20. _Haue in sergeaunt ferrour_] i. e. Bring in sergeant farrier. “_Ferrour._ Ferrarius. Ferrator.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. The title _sergeant_ belongs properly to certain of the king’s servants: so in an unpublished _Liber Excerpt. Temp. Hen. vii. et Hen. viii._ in the Chapter-house, Westminster;
(xix. of “Item payd to the _sergeant_ plummer and } Hen. vii.) bartram opon their indentures for grenewiche } _xxli._”
Page 24. v. 23. _keylyth_] i. e. (perhaps) cooleth—but I do not understand the passage.
v. 25. _wrenche_] “_Wrenche_, a wyle _gauche_, _ruse_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxvi. (Table of Subst.).
v. 31. _He bresyth theyr braynpannys_] i. e. He bruiseth, breaketh their skulls, heads: “_Pan_ of the hede. _Cranium._” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499.
v. 32. _all to-brokyn_] A writer in the new ed. of Boucher’s _Gloss._ (in v. _All_) justly observes that it is a mistake to suppose that in such expressions _all_ is coupled with _to_, and that it becomes equivalent to _omnino_ from being thus conjoined. The augmentative _to_ is connected with the following word as a prefix, and often occurs without being preceded by _all_: so in our author’s _Bowge of Courte_,
“A rusty gallande, _to-ragged_ and _to-rente_.”—v. 345. vol. i. 43.
v. 33. _to lepe the hach_] i. e. to run away:—(_hatch_—the fastened half or part of the door, the half-door).
“I pretende [i. e. intend] therefore _to leape ouer the hatche_.”
_The Triall of Treasure_, 1567. sig. E ii.
v. 34. _By theyr conusaunce knowing how they serue a wily py_] _Conusaunce_ is cognizance,—a badge worn by servants; _py_ is magpie: there seems to be some allusion to armorial bearings.
v. 36. _It can be no counsell that is cryed at the cros_] i. e. It can be no secret that is proclaimed at the market-place.
—— _los_] May mean _loss_, but, rather, it would seem, “_Loos_ or bad name. Infamia.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499.