v. 100. pye] i. e. magpie.
v. 101. Syr skyrgalyard] So again our author in his Speke, Parrot;
“With, skyregalyard, prowde palyard, vaunteperler, ye prate.”
v. 427. vol. ii. 21.
and in his poem Howe the douty Duke of Albany, &c.;
“Suche a skyrgaliarde.”
v. 168. vol. ii. 73.
“William Johnstone of Wamphray, called the Galliard, was a noted freebooter.... His nom de guerre seems to have been derived from the dance called The Galliard. The word is still used in Scotland to express an active, gay, dissipated character.” Scott’s Minst. of the Scott. Bord. i. 305. ed. 1810. To skir (under which Richardson in his Dict. cites Skelton’s term “a skyrgaliarde”) is to scour, to move rapidly.
Page 185. v. 101. skyt] i. e. hasty, precipitate.
v. 103. layd] “I Laye for me or alledge to make my mater good.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. cclxxv. (Table of Verbes).