v. 428. _woluys hede_] i. e. wolf’s head.
—— _bloo_] i. e. livid: see note, p. 103. v. 3.
v. 429. _Hyt ys to fere_] i. e. It is to fear,—be feared.
v. 430. _Peregall_] i. e. Equal (thoroughly equal).
v. 432. _quod ex vi bolte harvi_]—_quod_, i. e. quoth: of the rest, the reader may make what he can.
_Grete reysons with resons be now reprobitante,_ _For reysons ar no resons, but resons currant_]
Perhaps this is the earliest instance of a quibble between _raisins_ and _reasons_. The same pun is used by Shakespeare in _Much ado about Nothing_, act v. sc. 1, and (though Steevens thinks not) in _Troilus and Cressida_, act ii. sc. 2: compare also Dekker; “_Raisons_ will be much askt for, especially in an action of iniury.” _The Owles Almanache_ 1618. p. 36.
v. 439. _the date of the Devyll_] See note, p. 116. v. 375.
v. 442. _So many morall maters, &c._] There is a considerable resemblance between this concluding portion of _Speke, Parrot_, and a piece attributed to Dunbar, entitled _A General Satyre_; see his _Poems_, ii, 24. ed. Laing.
v. 443. _So myche newe makyng_] i. e. So much new composing.
Page 23. v. 460. _on dawys hedd_] i. e. one daw’s head: see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 467. _dowȝtfull daunger_] i. e. doubtful danger,—danger that ought to cause dread.
v. 471. _not worthe an hawe_] See note, p. 269. v. 2115.
v. 472. _So myche papers weryng for ryghte a smalle exesse_]—_exesse_, i. e. excess, offence. “And for a truthe he [the Cardinal] so punyshed periurye with open punyshment & _open papers werynge_, that in his tyme it was lesse vsed.” Hall’s _Chron._ (Hen. viii.), fol. lix. ed. 1548.
v. 473. _pelory pajauntes_] i. e. pillory-pageants.
v. 474. _the cooke stole_] See note, p. 183. v. 38.
_So bolde a braggyng bocher...._ ... _So mangye a mastyfe curre, the grete grey houndes pere_]
Again, in his _Why come ye nat to Courte_, Skelton alludes to the report that Wolsey was the son of a butcher, vv. 295. 491. vol. ii. 36. 42. Compare too Roy’s satire against Wolsey, _Rede me, and be nott wrothe,_ &c.;
“_The mastif curre_, bred in Ypswitch towne. ...
_Wat._ He commeth then of some noble stocke?
_Jeff._ His father coulde snatche a bullock, A butcher by his occupacion.”
“To se a churle _a Bochers curre_ To rayne & rule in soche honour,” &c.