v. 18. _halsyd_] i. e. embraced (round the neck).
v. 21. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.).
v. 23. _lust and lykyng_] “_Luste_ pleasure _delyt ... volupté._” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xlvi. (Table of Subst.): _lykyng_; see note, p. 85. v. 8. This somewhat pleonastic expression (used again more than once by Skelton) is not uncommon in our old writers: “Allas my swete sones thenne she sayd, for your sakes I shalle lese my _lykynge and lust_.” _Morte d’Arthur_, B. xi. c. x. vol. ii. 174. ed. Southey. Nay, in the interlude of _The Worlde and the Chylde_, 1522, one of the characters bears the name of _Lust and Lykynge_.
v. 24. _blowboll_] “Blowbole _yuroigne_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xx. (Table of Subst.).
“To _blowe in a bowle_, and for to pill a platter,” &c.
Barclay’s _First Egloge_, sig. A iiii. ed. 1570.
“Farewell Peter _blowbowle_ I may wel call thee.”
_Enterlude of Kyng Daryus_, 1565. sig. B.
Among the contents of MS. Rawlinson marked C. 86., Bodl. Libr., is a ludicrous poem entitled _Colyne Blowbols Testament_: see Sir F. Madden’s Introd. to _Syr Gawayne_, &c. p. lxvi.
v. 25. _luggard_] i. e. heavy fellow, sluggard.
v. 28. _powle hachet_] So again in our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_;
“_Powle hatchettis_, that prate wyll at euery ale pole.”
—— _bleryd thyne I_] (I—eye) i. e. imposed on, put a cheat on you.
Page 23. v. 8. _fauorable_] i. e. well-favoured, beautiful.
v. 11. _Menolope_] In a “ballade” entitled _The IX. Ladies Woorthie_, printed among Chaucer’s _Workes_, the writer, after celebrating the eighth, “Quene Semiramys,” concludes thus;
“Also the ladie _Menalip_ thy sister deere, Whose marcial power no man coud withstand, Through the worlde was not found her pere, The famous duke Thes[e]us she had in hand, She chastised hym and [conquered] all his land, The proude Greekes mightely she did assaile, Ouercame and vanquished them in battaile.”
“There was quene Phantasyle with penalape Quene helayne and quene _menalape_.”
_The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. T iii. ed. 1555.
—— _set nowght by_] i. e. set no value, or regard, on.
_morell_; see note, p. 93. v. 11.—_Gup_ and _jayst_ are exclamations applied to horses; compare our author’s _Elynour Rummyng_, v. 390. vol. i. 107., and his third _Poem against Garnesche_, v. 13. vol. i. 120. So too in _Camelles Rejoindre_ to Churchyarde (fol. broadside);