v. 2207. skelpe] i. e. slap, strike: see Jamieson’s Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang.
v. 2208. loke] i. e. look.
v. 2209. Cockes bones] i. e. God’s bones: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
—— blysse] See note on v. 1641. p. 263.
v. 2210. dynge the deuyll]—dynge, i. e. strike, knock. So again in our author’s poem Howe the douty Duke of Albany, &c.;
“And the deuill downe dynge.”
v. 210. vol. ii. 74.
Compare The Droichis Part of the Play, attributed to Dunbar;
“That dang the devill, and gart him yowle.”