Whatever Skelton may have meant by “chatyng,”—(perhaps he uses it for chatting,—in the next line we have “pratyng”),—rechatyng is properly a hunting-term, and signifies sounding the rechate or recheat (Fr.), a certain set of notes blown with the horn to recal the dogs.
v. 219. pystels] i. e. epistles.
Page 216. v. 220. bremely] i. e. fiercely, roughly.
v. 234. lydder] i. e. bad.
v. 247. popeholy] See note on prose of this piece, l. 24. p. 230.
Page 217. v. 260. echone] i. e. each one.
v. 264. iangle] i. e. babble, chatter.
v. 267. the people of lay fee] i. e. the laity; as again in our author’s Colyn Cloute;
“The lay fee people rayles.”
v. 403. (where MS. omits “fee”) vol. i. 326: