Dunbar’s Poems, ii. 86. ed. Laing.
v. 30. fonne] i. e. fool.
v. 31. A gose with the fete vponne] i. e. a goose with its feet on.
Page 121. v. 32. slvfferd vp] i. e. slabbered up.
—— sowse] “Succiduum. anglice. sowce.” Ortus Vocab. fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. (and so Prompt. Parv. ed. 1499). “Souce trippes.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. lxv. (Table of Subst.). And see Todd’s Johnson’s Dict. and Richardson’s Dict. in v.
v. 34. xulde] i. e. should: a provincialism (see, for instance, the Coventry Mysteries passim), to be attributed not to Skelton, but to the transcriber.
v. 36. bawdy] i. e. foul; see note, p. 161. v. 90.
v. 38. haftynge] See note, p. 107. v. 138.
—— polleynge] i. e. plundering.
v. 40. Gynys] i. e. Guines.