PREFACE.

A LAWDE AND PRAYSE MADE FOR OUR SOUEREIGNE LORD THE KYNG. [4]

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

SOME ACCOUNT OF SKELTON AND HIS WRITINGS.

APPENDIX I. MERIE TALES OF SKELTON (see Memoir, p. xxx.); AND NOTICES OF SKELTON FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

APPENDIX II. LIST OF EDITIONS, and c.

APPENDIX III. EXTRACTS FROM PIECES WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN, OR

OF THE DEATH [155] OF THE NOBLE PRINCE, KYNGE EDWARDE THE FORTH, PER SKELTONIDEM LAUREATUM.

POETA SKELTON [182] LAUREATUS LIBELLUM SUUM METRICE ALLOQUITUR.

SKELTON LAUREAT VPON THE DOULOUR[U]S DETHE AND MUCHE LAMENTABLE

TETRASTICHON [211] SKELTON. LAUREATI AD MAGISTRUM RUKSHAW, SACRAE THEOLOGIAE EGREGIUM PROFESSOREM.

SKELTON LAUREATE [215] AGAYNSTE A comely coystrowne, that

CONTRA ALIUM CANTITANTEM ET ORGANISANTEM ASINUM, QUI IMPUGNABAT SKELTONIDA PIERIUM, SARCASMOS.

SKELTON LAUREAT, Vppon a deedmans hed, that was sent to hym

Here folowythe dyuers Balettys [225] and Dyties solacyous, deuysyd by Master Skelton, Laureat.

MANERLY MARGERY [230] MYLK AND ALE.

HERE BEGYNNETH A LYTELL TREATYSE, NAMED THE BOWGE OF COURTE. [232]

HERE AFTER [335] FOLOWETH THE BOKE OF PHYLLYP SPAROWE, COMPYLED BY MAYSTER SKELTON, POETE LAUREATE.

HERE AFTER FOLOWETH [474] THE BOOKE CALLED ELYNOUR RUMMYNGE.

POEMS AGAINST GARNESCHE. SKELTON LAURIATE [544] DEFEND[ER]

SKELTON LAVREATE, ORATORIS REGIS TERTIUS, [571] AGAINST

PRAYER TO THE FATHER OF HEAUEN.

TO THE SECONDE PARSON.

TO THE HOLY GOOSTE.

THE MANER OF THE WORLD NOW A DAYES. [601]

HERE AFTER FOLOWETH THE BOKE ENTYTULED WARE THE HAUKE, [604] PER SKELTON, LAUREAT.

SKELTONIS APOSTROPHAT AD DIVUM JOHANNEM DECOLLATUM, IN CUJUS PROFESTO FIEBAT HOC AUCUPIUM.

LAMENTATIO URBIS NORVICEN.

IN BEDEL, QUONDAM BELIAL INCARNATUM, DEVOTUM EPITAPHIUM.

ORATOR [682] REGIUS SKELTONIS [683] LAUREATUS IN SINGULARE

EULOGIUM PRO SUORUM TEMPORUM CONDITIONE, TANTIS PRINCIPIBUS NON

TETRASTICHON VERITATIS.

SKELTON LAUREATE AGAINST THE SCOTTES. [699]

VNTO DIUERS PEOPLE THAT REMORD THIS [724] RYMYNGE AGAYNST THE SCOT JEMMY.

CHORUS DE DIS [730] CONTRA SCOTTOS [731] CUM OMNI PROCESSIONALI

CHORUS DE DIS, and C. SUPER TRIUMPHALI VICTORIA CONTRA GALLOS,

VILITISSIMUS [738] SCOTUS DUNDAS ALLEGAT CAUDAS CONTRA ANGLIGENAS.

ELEGIA [746] IN SERENISSIMAE PRINCIPIS ET DOMINAE, DOMINAE

Why were ye [757] Calliope embrawdred with letters of golde?

LATINUM CARMEN SEQUITUR.

THE BOKE OF THREE FOOLES, [759] M. SKELTON, POETE LAUREATE, GAUE TO MY LORD CARDYNALL.

A REPLYCACION AGAYNST CERTAYNE YONG SCOLERS ABIURED OF LATE, and c.

MAGNYFYCENCE, A GOODLY INTERLUDE AND A MERY, DEUYSED AND MADE BY MAYSTER SKELTON, POET LAUREATE. [779]

COLYN CLOUTE. [875] HERE AFTER FOLOWETH A LITEL BOKE CALLED

A RYGHT DELECTABLE TRATYSE VPON A GOODLY GARLANDE OR CHAPELET

ADMONET SKELTONIS OMNES ARBORES [1870] DARE LOCUM VIRIDI LAURO JUXTA GENUS SUUM.

EN PARLAMENT A PARIS.

OUT OF FRENSHE INTO LATYN.

OWT OF LATYNE INTO ENGLYSSHE.

[i]

THE
POETICAL WORKS OF SKELTON.

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LONDON:
PRINTED BY LEVEY, ROBSON, AND FRANKLYN,
Great New Street, Fetter Lane.

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THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
JOHN SKELTON:

WITH NOTES,
AND
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR AND HIS WRITINGS,
BY THE
REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
THOMAS RODD, GREAT NEWPORT STREET.
MDCCCXLIII.

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