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The Poetical Works of John Skelton

principally according to the edition of the Rev. Alexander Dyce. In three volumes

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Occupacyon to Skelton.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Occupacyon to Skelton.

Nowe what ye mene, I trow I coniect;
Gog gyue you good yere, ye make me to smyle;
Now, be your faith, is not this theffect
Of your questyon ye make all this whyle,
To vnderstande who dwellyth in yone pile,

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And what blunderar is yonder that playth didil diddil?
He fyndith fals mesuris out of his fonde fiddill.