Calliope

Skelton, John

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Brown and Robbins 585.5. Not in Ringler

Pithy pleasaunt and profitable workes of maister Skelton. Nowe collected and newly published
London: T. Marshe,1568.



Composition Date: after April 1512 [Scattergood].

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Skelton Laureate Orator Regius maketh this aunswere. etc. Cur tibi contexta est aurea Calliope? Responsio eiusdem vatis.

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	¶Why were ye Calliope, embrawdred with letters of golde?
	CAlliope
	As ye may se
	Regent is she
	Of poetes al
5	Whiche gaue to me
	The high degre
	Laureat to be.
	Of fame royall
	Whose name enrolde
10	With silke and golde
	I dare be bolde
	Thus for to were
	Of her I holde
	And her housholde
15	Though I waxe olde
	And somdele sere
	Yet is she fayne
	Voyde of disdayn
	Me to retayne
20	Her seruiture.
	With her certayne
	I wyll remayne
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	As my souerayne
	Moost of pleasure.
	¶ Maulgre touz malheureux.
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	Latinum carmen sequitur.
	CAndida Calliope vatum regina, coronans
	Pierios lauro, radiante intexta sub auro,
	Hanc ego Pierius, tanto dignabor honore
	Dum mihi vita manet, dum spiritus hos regit artus
5	Quamquam conficior senio marcescoque sensim
	Ipse tamen gestare sua haec pia pignora certo,
	Assensuque suo placidis parebo camenis
	Inclita Calliope et semper mea maxima cura est.
	¶ Haec Pierius omni Spartano liberior.
	CALLIOPE, Musarum excellentissima, Speciosissima, formosissima, Heroicis preest versibus.
	FINIS.