The Pastime of pleasure, sig. T iii. ed. 1555.
v. 16. curtoyl] i. e. curtal.
—— set nowght by] i. e. set no value, or regard, on.
Page 24. v. 17.
Gup, morell, gup,
With jayst ye——]
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);
“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;