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The Poetical Works of John Skelton

principally according to the edition of the Rev. Alexander Dyce. In three volumes
Skelton, John (1460?-1529)

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VOLUME I.
  
OF THE DEATH OF THE NOBLE PRINCE, KYNGE EDWARDE THE FORTH, PER SKELTONIDEM LAUREATUM.
  
SKELTON LAUREAT VPON THE DOULOUR[U]S DETHE AND MUCHE LAMENTABLE CHAUNCE OF THE MOST HONORABLE ERLE OF NORTHUMBERLANDE.
  
SKELTON LAUREATE AGAYNSTE A comely coystrowne, that curyowsly chawntyd, and curryshly cowntred, and madly in hys musykkys mokkyshly made agaynste the ix Musys of polytyke poems and poettys matryculat.
  
SKELTON LAUREAT, Vppon a deedmans hed, that was sent to hym from an honorable jentyllwoman for a token, deuysyd this gostly medytacyon in Englysh couenable, in sentence comendable, lamentable, lacrymable, profytable for the soule.
  
[Womanhod, wanton, ye want]
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Here folowythe dyuers Balettys and Dyties solacyous, deuysyd by Master Skelton, Laureat.
  
MANERLY MARGERY MYLK AND ALE.
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HERE BEGYNNETH A LYTELL TREATYSE, NAMED THE BOWGE OF COURTE.
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HERE AFTER FOLOWETH THE BOKE OF PHYLLYP SPAROWE.
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HERE AFTER FOLOWETH THE BOOKE CALLED ELYNOUR RUMMYNGE.
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POEMS AGAINST GARNESCHE.
  
SKELTON LAVREATE, ORATORIS REGIS TERTIUS, AGAINST VENEMOUS TONGUES ENPOYSONED WITH SCLAUNDER AND FALSE DETRACTIONS, &C.
  
[Ye may here now, in this ryme]
  
PRAYER TO THE FATHER OF HEAUEN.
  
TO THE SECONDE PARSON.
  
TO THE HOLY GOOSTE.
  
[Woffully araid]
  
[Now synge we, as we were wont]
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HERE AFTER FOLOWETH THE BOKE ENTYTULED WARE THE HAUKE, PER SKELTON, LAUREAT.
  
EPITHAPHE.
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SKELTON LAUREATE AGAINST THE SCOTTES.
  
VNTO DIUERS PEOPLE THAT REMORD THIS RYMYNGE AGAYNST THE SCOT JEMMY.
  
VILITISSIMUS SCOTUS DUNDAS ALLEGAT CAUDAS CONTRA ANGLIGENAS.
  
Why were ye Calliope embrawdred with letters of golde?
  
THE BOKE OF THREE FOOLES.
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A replycacion agaynst certayne yong scholers abiured of late, &c.
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VOLUME II.

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TO THE SECONDE PARSON.

O benygne Jesu, my souerayne Lord and Kynge,
The only Sonne of God by filiacion,
The Seconde Parson withouten beginnynge,
Both God and man our fayth maketh playne relacion,
Mary the mother, by way of incarnacion,
Whose glorious passion our soules doth reuyue!
Agayne all bodely and goostely trybulacion
Defende me with thy piteous woundis fyue.
O pereles Prynce, payned to the deth,
Rufully rent, thy body wan and blo,
For my redempcion gaue vp thy vytall breth,
Was neuer sorow lyke to thy dedly wo!
Graunte me, out of this world when I shall go,
Thyne endles mercy for my preseruatyue;
Agaynst the world, the flesh, the deuyl also,
Defende me wyth thy pyteous woundis fyue.
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