v. 9. somer flower] i. e. summer-flower.
v. 10. halfe] i. e. side, part.
Page 362. v. 15. dumpe] “I Dumpe I fall in a dumpe or musyng vpon thynges.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. ccxxii. (Table of Verbes).
v. 16. Encraumpysshed] i. e. encramped. Skelton’s fondness for compounds of this kind has been already noticed. The simple word occurs in other writers:
“Crampisheth her limmes crokedly.”
Chaucer’s Annel. and Ar.,—Workes, fol. 244. ed. 1602.
“As marbyll colde her lymmes craumpishing.”
Lydgate’s Warres of Troy, B. iv. sig. X v. ed. 1555.
—— conceyte] i. e. conceit, conception.
v. 20. boystors] i. e. boisterous.