Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

^__jNOTES.loSi. Deadly syn. i.e. the recompense of deadly sin. Skelton uses thephrase elsewhere.1 091. 'My soul hath fainted for thy salvation. What askest thou forthy son. sweetest mother? Oh strange!' The last line is probably ahexameter, but with two false quantities.1096. Paslaunce, a corruption oi passetemps, pastime.1097. 'Sad, i.e. serious, grave, sober; so afterwards, " sobre, demureDyane," 1. 1224.'—D.1 1 14. 'Oh how I love thy law, O lady! Let old things give place,let all things become new.' See Psalm cxix. 97.1116. To amende ber tale, to increase her number, or list, of perfections.Tale is used here as in Exod. v. 8.11 17. ' Auale is generally to let down, to lower; but I know not howto explain the present passage, which appears to be defective.'—D.I take auale to be put for auale herself, i. e. to condescend. 1 think thedefect only arises from a sudden change of construction ; the poet was;^'oing to say, ' when she was pleased to condescend, and with her fingerssmall, &.C., to strain my hand,' when he suddenly altered it to wherwyth myhand she strayned. The sense is clear, though the grammar is at fault.But there is certainly some deficiency in 11. 11 2 4, 11 2 5, which hardly agree.1 1 25. ' Reclaymed, a metaphor from falconry. " Reclaming is to tame,make gentle, or bring a hawk to familiarity with the man." Latham'sFaulconry (Explan. of Words of Art), 1658.'— D.II 43. Ps. cxLx. 113. The Vulgate has Iniquos odio babui, I hate evilmen ; but our version has ' I hate vain thoughts.'1 148. Hert rote, heart-root, 'ground of the heart.' A common phrase.1152. .^geria, the goddess who is said to have instructed NumaPompilius in religious rites. See Juvenal, iii. 12 ; Livy, i. 21.1 154-5. Mr. Dyce gives up these two lines as inexplicable. The onlyway to make some sense of them is to suppose a put for on, as frequentlyin Old English ; we may then translate ' Like her image, depicted (asgoings with courage on a lover's pilgrimage ;' i. e. going to meet Xuma.Emportured is formed like the word poriurat in Sect. XIIL 1. 67.116S. Ps cxix. 17.9; see the Vulgate (Ps cxviii).1169. Ps. cxliv. 12 ; see the Vulgate (Ps. cxliii\1192. Ps cxix. I45 ; see the Vulgate (Ps. cxviii).1193. Ps. Ixxxvi. 13; Ixxxv. 13 in the Vulgate.1225. Jane. Her name was Jane or Johanna Scroupe, and she wasprobably a boarder at, and educated in, the nunnery at Carow, in the-uhurbs of Norwich.1239. Psalm cxx.\.ix. (cxxxviii in the Vulgate) is known as Domine.irobasti me, from the first three words in it.