The Poetical Works of John Skelton principally according to the edition of the Rev. Alexander Dyce. In three volumes |
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The Quene of Fame to Dame Pallas.
Madame, with fauour of your benynge sufferaunce,
Vnto your grace then make I this motyue;
Whereto made ye me hym to auaunce
Vnto the rowme of laureat promotyue?
Or wherto shulde he haue that prerogatyue,
But if he had made sum memoryall,
Wherby he myght haue a name inmortall?
Vnto your grace then make I this motyue;
Whereto made ye me hym to auaunce
Vnto the rowme of laureat promotyue?
Or wherto shulde he haue that prerogatyue,
But if he had made sum memoryall,
Wherby he myght haue a name inmortall?
To pas the tyme in slowthfull ydelnes,
Of your royall palace it is not the gyse,
But to do sumwhat iche man doth hym dres:
For how shulde Cato els be callyd wyse,
But that his bokis, whiche he did deuyse,
Recorde the same? or why is had in mynde
Plato, but for that he left wrytynge behynde,
Of your royall palace it is not the gyse,
But to do sumwhat iche man doth hym dres:
For how shulde Cato els be callyd wyse,
But that his bokis, whiche he did deuyse,
Recorde the same? or why is had in mynde
Plato, but for that he left wrytynge behynde,
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For men to loke on? Aristotille also,
Of phylosophers callid the princypall,
Olde Diogenes, with other many mo,
Demostenes, that oratour royall,
That gaue Eschines suche a cordyall.
That bannisshed was he by his proposicyoun,
Ageyne whome he cowde make no contradicyoun?
Of phylosophers callid the princypall,
Olde Diogenes, with other many mo,
Demostenes, that oratour royall,
That gaue Eschines suche a cordyall.
That bannisshed was he by his proposicyoun,
Ageyne whome he cowde make no contradicyoun?
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