| sig: [Y3v] | ||
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Vilitissimus Scotus dundas allegat caudas contra, Angligenas spurcaquae] spureaquae M bucca est.
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| Anglicus a tergo | ||
| Cauda[m] gerit. Caudam] Caudant M | ||
| Est canis ergo. | ||
| Anglice caudate | ||
| sig: [Y4] | ||
| 5 | Cape caudam | |
| Ne cadat a te. | ||
| Ex causa caude | ||
| Manet Anglica | ||
| Gens si[n]e laude. | ||
| Diffamas patriam qua non | ||
| Est melior usquam | ||
| Cum cauda plaudis dum | ||
| Possis ad hostia pultes | ||
| 5 | Mendicans mendicus eris, | |
| Mendaxquae bilinguis, | ||
| Scabidus. horribilis, quem | ||
| Vermes sexquae pedales | ||
| Corrodunt misere, miseres | ||
| 10 | Genus est maledictum. | |
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Skelton nobilis Poeta, |
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| ref.ed: 135 | ||
| Gup Scot. ye blot, | ||
| Laudate Caudate | ||
| Set in better | ||
| Thy pentameter | ||
| 5 | This dundas | |
| This Scottishe as | ||
| He rymes and railes | ||
| That Englishmen haue tailes. | ||
| Skeltonus laureatus | ||
| 10 | Anglicus natus, | |
| Prouocat musas | ||
| Contra Dundas | ||
| Norpacissimum Scotum, | ||
| Vndiquae notum, | ||
| 15 | Rustice fotum | |
| Vapide potum, | ||
| Skelton Laureat | ||
| After this rate | ||
| Defendeth with his pen | ||
| 20 | All Englysh men. | |
| Agayn dundas | ||
| That Scottishe asse | ||
| Shake thy tayle Scot lyke a cur, | ||
| For thou beggest at euery mannes dur. | ||
| sig: [Y4v] | ||
| 25 | Tut Scot I sey | |
| Go shake th[e] dog hey the] thy M | ||
| Dundas of Galaway | ||
| With thy versyfyeng rayles | ||
| How they haue tayles. | ||
| 30 | By Iesu_Christ, | |
| Fals scot thou lyest, | ||
| ref.ed: 136 | ||
| But behynd in our hose | ||
| We bere there a rose | ||
| For thy Scottyshe nose, | ||
| 35 | A spectacle-case | |
| To couer thy face | ||
| With tray deux ase | ||
| A tolman to blot | ||
| A rough-foted Scot | ||
| 40 | Dundas sir knaue | |
| Why doste thow depraue, | ||
| This Royall Reame | ||
| Whose radiant beame | ||
| And relucent light | ||
| 45 | Thou hast in despite | |
| Thou donghyll knyght | ||
| But thou lakest might | ||
| Dundas, dronken, and drowsy | ||
| Skabed scuruy, and lowsy | ||
| 50 | Of vnhappy generacion | |
| And most vngracious nacion. | ||
| Dundas that dronke asse | ||
| That ratis and rankis | ||
| sig: Y5 | ||
| That prates and prankes | ||
| 55 | On huntley_bankes | |
| Take this our thankes | ||
| Dunde [Dun]bar, Dunbar] bar M | ||
| Walke Scot | ||
| Walke sot | ||
| 60 | Rayle not to far. |