WOFFULLY ARAID
Is mentioned by our author as one of his compositions in the Garlande of Laurell, v. 1418. vol. i. 417.
With the opening of this piece compare Hawes’s Conuercyon of Swerers, where Christ is made to exclaim,
“They newe agayne do hange me on the rode,
They tere my sydes, and are nothynge dysmayde,
My woundes they do open, and deuoure my blode:
I, god and man, moost wofully arayde,
To you complayne, it maye not be denayde;
Ye nowe to lugge me, ye tere me at the roote,
Yet I to you am chefe refuyte and bote.”
and a little after,
“Why arte thou harde herted,” &c.
Sig. A iii. ed. n. d. 4to.
Barclay too has,
“Some sweareth armes, nayles, heart, and body,
Tearing our Lorde worse then the Jewes him arayde.”
The Ship of Fooles, fol. 33. ed. 1570.
Woffully araid is, I believe, equivalent to—wofully disposed of or treated, in a woful condition. “Araye condicion or case poynt.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. xviii. (Table of Subst.)—(and see note, p. 164. v. 163).
“Isaac. What have I done, fader, what have I saide?
Abraham. Truly, no kyns ille to me.
Isaac. And thus gyltles shalle be arayde.”
Abraham,—Towneley Mysteries, p. 40.
—“His [Tybert’s] body was al to beten, and blynde on the one eye. Whan the kynge wyste this, that tybert was thus arayed, he was sore angry, &c.” Reynard the Fox, sig. b 8. ed. 1481. Again in the same romance, when Isegrym the wolf has received a kick on the head from a mare, he says to Reynard, “I am so foule arayed and sore hurte, that an herte of stone myght haue pyte of me.” Sig. f 4.
“Who was wyth loue: more wofully arayed
Than were these twayne.”
Hawes’s Pastime of pleasure, sig. I iiii. ed. 1555.
“I am fowle arayed with a chyne cowgh. Laceor pertussi.”—“He was sore arayed with sycknesse. Morbo atrociter conflictus est.” Hormanni Vulgaria, sigs. II iii. I ii. ed. 1530.
Page 141. v. 4. naid] i. e. denied.
v. 5. bloo] i. e. livid; see note, p. 103. v. 3.
v. 8. encheson] i. e. cause.
v. 9. Sith] i. e. Since.
v. 12. fretid] Equivalent to—galled.
v. 14. mowid] i. e. made mouths at, mocked.
v. 19. hart rote] i. e. heart-root.
Page 141. v. 20. panys] i. e. pains.
—— vaynys] i. e. veins.
—— crake] i. e. crack.
Page 142. v. 24.
Entretid thus in most cruell wyse,
Was like a lombe offerd in sacrifice]
Entretid, i. e. Treated. So in a “litel dite” by Lydgate, appended to his Testamentum;
“Drawen as a felon in moost cruel wyse
...
Was lik a lamb offryd in sacrifise.”
MS. Harl. 2255. fol. 64.
v. 29. bobbid] i. e. struck. So Lydgate in the piece just cited;
“Bete and eke bobbid.”
Ibid.
and in the Coventry Mysteries, Nichodemus seeing Christ on the cross, says
“Why haue ȝe bobbyd and thus betyn owth
All his blyssyd blood?”
MS. Cott. Vesp. D viii. fol. 186.
—— robbid] i. e. (I suppose) robed.
v. 30. Onfayned] Generally means un-glad, displeased, which even in the forced sense of—to my sorrow, is against the intention of the passage: it seems to be used here for—Unfeignedly: and see note, p. 207. v. 81.
—— deynyd] i. e. disdained;
“Youth dayneth counsell, scorning discretion.”
Barclay’s Fifth Egloge, sig. D ii. ed. 1570.
v. 33. myȝt] i. e. might.
v. 39. enterly] i. e. entirely.
v. 43. ȝytt] i. e. yet.
v. 45. race] i. e. tear, wound.
v. 48. Butt gyve me thyne hert]—hert, i. e. heart. With this and v. 41 compare Lydgate’s “litel dite” already cited;
“Gyff me thyn herte, and be no mor vnkynde.”
MS. Harl. 2255. fol. 66.
Page 143. v. 49. wrouȝt] i. e. wrought, formed.
—— bowgȝt] i. e. bought, redeemed.
v. 50. hyȝt] i. e. high.
v. 55. sawlys] i. e. soul’s.
v. 59. Hytt] i. e. It.
—— nayd] i. e. denied.
v. 60. blow] i. e. livid; see note, p. 103. v. 3.
NOW SYNGE WE, &c.
This piece is mentioned by Skelton as his own composition in the Garlands of Laurell, v. 1420. vol. i. 417.
Page 144. v. 1.
Now synge we as we were wont,
Vexilla regis prodeunt]
Compare Lydgate;
“Wherefore I synge as I was wont
Vexilla regis prodeunt.”
Poem about various birds singing praises to God,—MS. Harl. 2251. fol. 38.
The hymn Vexilla regis prodeunt, &c. may be seen in Hymni Ecclesiæ e Breviario Parisiensi, 1838, p. 71. I ought to add that the present poem is not a translation of it.
v. 3. onfelde is playd] i. e. is displayed on field.
v. 4. nayd] i. e. denied.
v. 11. thees] i. e. thighs.
v. 13. pyne] i. e. pain.
v. 14. spylt] i. e. destroyed, put to death.
v. 17. dong] i. e. dung, struck.
Page 145. v. 25. fote] i. e. foot.
v. 31. Syth] i. e. Since.
v. 33. chere] i. e. spirit,—or reception.
v. 35. lykes] i. e. pleases.
v. 40. eysell] i. e. vinegar.
v. 51. doone] i. e. done.
Page 146. v. 60. isprode] i. e. spread.
v. 68. payne] i. e. labour, strive.
v. 71. mys] i. e. miss, fail.
v. 72. Withouten nay] i. e. Without contradiction, assuredly.
v. 74. hardnes] i. e. cruelty.