Pryke: Sry this has hijacked the thread.
:) - well as the op was only looking for gifts anyway.. sh i didn't really say that, honest...
Pryke:
William Doyle (wwd(at)juno.com) sent me the following snippet which seems to support the "Ride" theory:
A gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine
- Spenser, Faerie Queene, I.i.1
shouldn't I be puting this up?
Pryke:
"Pryke" is also used in Henry Medwall's Fulgens and Lucres:
Nay, we shall nede no horse ne mule,
But let us just at farte pryke in cule.
i'll start here..... may not deal with the rest later :)
i see you quote latin
"farte pryke in cule"
having spent a year in rome as part of my degree....
culo = bum hole ....... - i'm sure there's a link here somewhere :)
i rest my case :)