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50 NOTES TO ANE DECLARATIOUN, ETC. (5-31).
VII.—ANE DECLARATIOUN OF THE LORDIS
IUST QUARRELL.
In this poem we have a discussion between two politicians, Philan-
drius and Erideilus, touching the action of the confederate lords to¬
wards Mary and Bothwell. Philandrius, as the doughty champion of
religion and morality, has little difficulty in silencing his timid and
irresolute antagonist.
5. Qnhal tkay wald=vjhaX they meant, the drift of their arguments.
6. In memories on record.
8. The tame = thet aine or thet atie, the one ; thet being dem. adj. or
def. art. A.S. Sect. 7b/z = the one, occurs in ‘The Ballad of Chevy-
Chase ’—
' ‘ Be my troth, sayd the doughte Dogglas agayn,
Ther-for the ton of us shall de this day.”
—LI. 71, 72.
Philandrius (Gr. </>1aoj and d^p), the benevolent one—
“ quha in vertew and manheid tuik delyte.”—L. 9.
10. The tother—thaX other, the other. The forms taine and tother
are correctly used only after the.
1 ‘ Tak ye the taine and I the tother,
Sa sail we mak greit cheir.”
—Lyndsay, ‘Ane Satyre,’ 11. 2218, 22t9-
At all= altogether, utterly. It is the English equivalent to the in¬
separable Greek particle in Erideilus. Cf. Douglas—
“ My waverand wit, my cunnyng feble at all."
—‘ Eneados,’ i., Prolong, vol. ii. p. 4, 1. ir.
11. Erideilus (Gr. tpl.$u\os), the terribly timid or craven one; the
one that “ feirfull semt to be at all” (1. 10).
12. dispute, debate, discuss. This verb is generally used in
the sense of “ scold.”
23. created (?) or ordered, enjoined (?). Fr. deviser. Cf.
Chaucer, who very frequently uses this word in the latter sense—
“ Wei couthe he hewe woode, and water here,
For he was yonge and mighty for the nones,
And therto he was strong and bygge of bones
To doon that eny wight can him devyse.”
—‘ The Knightes Tale,’ vol. i. p. I34-
28. = unless. So also in 1. 159.
31. Abhominabill. This word is constantly spelt so at this period ;
and the same orthography obtained in England. In ‘ Love’s Labour