Page 193. v. 1. _Gup_] See note, p. 99. v. 17.
v. 28. _Go shake thy dog, hey_] In our author’s _Magnyfycence_, v. 306. vol. i. 235, is,—
“_Go, shake the dogge, hay_, syth ye wyll nedys.”
and had the expression occurred only in these two passages of Skelton, I should have felt confident that in the present one “thy” was a misprint for “the,” and that both were to be explained—“Go shake thee, dog,” &c.; but again, in his poem _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c. v. 159. vol. ii. 72, we find,
v. 37. _A spectacle case, &c._] See note, p. 193. v. 133.
v. 40. _A tolman to blot_] A friend queries “tal man?” but _tolman_ is, I believe, pen-man: compare our author’s third poem _Against Garnesche_;
“Had ye gonne with me to scole, And occupyed no better your _tole_ [i. e. pen],” &c.
also the commencement of the present piece,—
v. 41. _rough foted_] See note, p. 222. v. 170.
v. 56. _rankis_] i. e., perhaps, wrangles.
v. 58. _Huntley bankes_] See note, p. 221. v. 149.
v. 60. _Dunde, Dunbar_] See note, p. 219. v. 121.
This illustrious and excellent lady, born in 1441, was Margaret, the only child of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Her first husband was Edmund, Earl of Richmond, who died in 1456, a little more than a year after their marriage, the sole issue of which was Henry, afterwards King Henry the Seventh. Her second husband was Sir Henry Stafford, second son of Humphrey, the great Duke of Buckingham. Her third husband was Thomas Lord Stanley, afterwards the first Earl of Derby of his name. Having survived him, as also her son King Henry, she died June 29, 1509, in her 69th year, and was buried in the magnificent chapel then lately erected in Westminster Abbey.
Page 195. v. 5. _polyandro_] _Polyandrum_ or _polyandrium_, (properly, _multorum commune sepulchrum_—πολυάνδριον)—“Interdum et sæpius apud ævi inferioris scriptores sumitur pro monumento aut sepulcro unius hominis.” Du Cange’s _Gloss_.—Here it means, of course, the tomb of Henry vii.—Whiting has anglicised the word in a poem appended to his _Albino and Bellama_, 1638;
“King Ethelbert’s clos’d in his _Poliander_.”
v. 7. _Titus hanc, &c._] i. e. Livy, who gives an account of Tanaquil, wife of Tarquinius Priscus: see his _Hist._ i. 34, &c.—“Tanaquilem Sidonius Apollinaris et Ausonius pro egregia uxore.” Cassellii _Var._ lib. i. c. xiii. p. 210 (Gruteri _Lampas_, iii.).