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¶Here-after foloweth the boke of Phyllyp_Sparowe compyled by mayster Skelton Poete Laureate. | |
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PLa_ce_bo | |
Who is there who | |
¶Di_le_xi | |
Dame Margery. | |
5 | ¶Fa re my my |
ref.ed: 72 | |
Wherfore and why why | |
For the sowle of Philip_sparowe | |
That was late slayn at carowe | |
Among the Nones blake | |
10 | For that swete soules sake |
And for all sparowes soules | |
Set in our bede-rolles | |
Pater noster qui | |
With an Aue mari | |
15 | And with the corner of a Crede |
The more shalbe your mede. | |
WHan I remembre agayn | |
How mi philyp was slayn | |
Neuer halfe the payne | |
20 | Was betwene you twayne |
Pyramus and Thesbe | |
As than befell to me | |
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I wept and I wayled | |
The tearys downe hayled | |
25 | But nothynge it auayled |
To call Phylyp agayne | |
Whom Gyb our cat hath slayne | |
Gyb I saye our cat | |
Worrowyd her on that | |
30 | Which I loued best |
It can not be exprest | |
My sorowfull heuynesse | |
But all with-out redresse | |
For within that stounde | |
35 | Halfe slumbrynge in a sounde |
I fell downe to the grounde | |
¶Unneth I kest myne eyes | |
Towarde the cloudy skyes | |
But whan I dyd beholde | |
40 | My sparow dead and colde |
No creatu[re] but that wolde creature] creatuer K | |
Haue rewed vpon me | |
To behold and se | |
What heuynesse dyd me pange | |
45 | Where-with my handes I wrange |
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ref.ed: 73 | |
That my senaws cracked | |
As though I had ben racked | |
So payned and so strayned | |
That no lyfe well-nye remayned | |
50 | ¶I syghed and I sobbed |
For that I was robbed | |
Of my sparowes lyfe | |
O mayden / wydow / and wyfe | |
Of what estate ye be | |
55 | Of hye or lowe degre |
Great sorowe than ye myght se | |
And lerne to wepe at me | |
Such paynes dyd me frete | |
That myne hert dyd bete | |
60 | My vysage pale and dead |
Wanne / and blewe as lead | |
The panges of hatefull death | |
Wellnye had stopped my breath had] W, Kit, M omit | |
¶Heu heu me | |
65 | That I am wo for the |
Ad dominum cum tribularer clamaui | |
Of god nothynge els craue I | |
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BUt phyllypes soule to kepe | |
From the marees depe | |
70 | Of Acherontes well |
That is a flode of hell | |
And from the great Pluto | |
The prynce of endles wo | |
And from foule Alecto | |
75 | With vysage blacke and blo |
And from Medusa that mare | |
That lyke a fende doth stare | |
And from Megeras edders | |
For rufflynge of phillips fethers For] From W, Kit, M | |
80 | And from her fyry sparklynges |
For burnynge of his wynges | |
And from the smokes sowre | |
Of Proserpinas bowre | |
And from the dennes darke | |
85 | Wher Cerberus doth barke |
ref.ed: 74 | |
Whom Theseus dyd afraye | |
Whom Hercules dyd outraye | |
As famous poetes say | |
F[rom] that hel-[h]ounde From] For K, W, Kit, M; hel hounde] hel bounde K, hell hounde W, hel hounde K, M | |
90 | That lyeth in cheynes bounde
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With gastly hedes thre | |
To Iupyter pray we | |
That Phyllyp preserued may be | |
Amen say ye with me | |
95 | ¶Do_mi_nus. |
Helpe nowe swete Iesus | |
Leuaui oculos meos in montes | |
Wolde god I had zenophontes. | |
OR Socrates the wyse | |
100 | To shew me their deuyse |
Moderatly to take | |
This sorow that I make | |
For Phyllip_sparowes sake | |
So feruently I shake | |
105 | I fele my body quake |
So vrgently I am brought | |
In-to carefull thought | |
¶Like Andromach Hectors wyfe | |
Was wery of her lyfe | |
110 | Whan she had lost her ioye |
Noble Hector of Troye | |
In lyke maner also | |
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Encreaseth my dedly wo | |
For my sparowe is go | |
115 | It was so prety a fole |
It wold set on a stole set] sit W, Kit, M | |
And lerned after my scole | |
For to kepe his cut | |
With Phyllyp kepe your cut | |
120 | ¶It had a veluet cap |
And wold syt vpon my lap | |
And seke after small wormes | |
And somtyme white bred-crommes | |
And many tymes and ofte | |
125 | Betwene my brestes softe |
ref.ed: 75 | |
It wolde lye and rest | |
It was propre and prest | |
¶Somtyme he wolde gaspe | |
Whan he sawe a waspe | |
130 | A fly / or a gnat |
He wolde flye at that | |
And prytely he wolde pant | |
Whan he saw an ant | |
Lord how he wolde pry | |
135 | After the butterfly |
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Lorde how he wolde hop | |
After the gressop | |
And whan I sayd / phyp / phyp | |
Than he wold lepe and skyp | |
140 | And take me by the lyp |
Alas it wyll me slo | |
That Phillyp is gone me fro | |
¶Si in_i_qui_ta_tes | |
Alas I was euyll at ease | |
145 | ¶De pro_fun_dis cla_ma_ui |
Whan I sawe my sparowe dye | |
Nowe after my dome | |
Dame Sulpicia at Rome Sulpicia] Sulspicia K, Sulpicia W, Kit, M | |
Whose name regystred was | |
150 | For-euer in tables of bras |
Because that she dyd pas that] M omits | |
In poesy to endyte | |
And eloquen[t]ly to wryte eloquently] eloquenly K | |
Though she wolde pretende | |
155 | My sparowe to commende |
I trowe she coude not amende | |
Reportynge the vertues all | |
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Of my sparowe royall | |
¶For it wold come and go | |
160 | And fly so to and fro fly] fle W, Kit, M |
And on me it wolde lepe | |
Whan I was a_slepe | |
And his fether shake fethers] fether K, fethers W, Kit, M | |
ref.ed: 76 | |
Where-with he wolde make | |
165 | Me often for to wake |
And for to take him in | |
Upon my naked skyn | |
God wot we thought no syn | |
What though he crept so lowe though] thought K, though W, Kit, M | |
170 | It was no hurt I trowe |
He dyd nothynge perde | |
But syt vpon my kne | |
Phyllyp though he were nyse | |
In him it was no vyse | |
175 | Phyllyp had leue to go |
To pyke my lytell too | |
Phillip myght be bolde | |
And do what he wolde | |
Phillip wolde seke and take | |
180 | All the flees blake |
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That he coulde there espye | |
With his wanton eye | |
¶O_pe_ra | |
La soll fa fa | |
185 | Confitebor tibi domine in toto corde meo |
Alas I wolde ryde and go | |
A Thousand myle of grounde | |
If any such might be found | |
It were worth an hundreth pound | |
190 | Of Kynge Cresus golde |
Or of A[t]talus the olde Attalus] Artalus K, W, Kit, M | |
The ryche prynce of Pargame | |
Who-so lyst the story to se | |
¶Cadmus that his syster sought | |
195 | And he shold be bought |
For golde and fee | |
He shuld ouer the see | |
To wete / if he coulde brynge | |
Any of the of_sprynge of sprynge] sprynge Kit, M | |
200 | Or any of the blode |
But who-so vnderstode | |
Of Medeas arte | |
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I wolde I had a parte | |
ref.ed: 77 | |
Of her crafty magyke | |
205 | My sparowe than shuld be quycke |
With a charme or twayne | |
And playe with me agayne | |
But all this is in vayne | |
Thus for to complayne | |
210 | ¶I toke my sampler ones |
Of purpose for the nones | |
To sowe with stytchis of sylke | |
My sparow whyte as mylke | |
That by representacyon | |
215 | Of his Image and facyon |
To me it myght importe | |
Some pleasure and comforte | |
For my solas and sporte | |
But whan i was sowing his beke | |
220 | Me-thought my sparow did spek |
And ope[n]ed his prety byll opened] open M | |
Saynge / mayd ye are in wyll | |
Agayne me for to kyll | |
Ye prycke me in the head | |
225 | With that my nedle waxed red waxed] ware M |
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Me-thought of Phyllyps blode | |
Myne hear ryght vpstode | |
And was in suche a fray | |
My speche was taken away | |
230 | I kest downe that there was |
And sayd / Alas alas | |
How commeth this to pas | |
My fyngers dead and colde | |
Coude not my sampler holde | |
235 | My nedle and threde |
I threwe away for drede | |
The best now that I maye | |
Is for his soule to pray | |
¶A porta inferi | |
240 | Good lorde haue mercy |
¶Upon my sparowes soule | |
Wryten in my bede-roule | |
Au_di_ui vo_cem | |
Iaphet cam and Sem | |
ref.ed: 78 | |
245 | ¶Ma_gni_fi_cat |
Shewe me the ryght path | |
TO the hylles of armony | |
Wherfore the bordes yet cry bordes] byrdes W, Kit, M | |
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Of your fathers bote | |
250 | That was sometyme a_flote |
And nowe they lye and rote | |
Let some poetes wryte | |
Deucalyons flode it hyght | |
But as verely as ye be | |
255 | The naturall sonnes thre |
Of Noe the patryarke | |
That made that great arke | |
Wherin he had apes and owles | |
Beestes / byrdes / and foules | |
260 | That if ye can fynde |
Any of my sparowes kynde | |
God sende the soule good rest | |
I wolde haue yet a nest haue yet] yet haue W, Kit, M | |
As prety and as prest | |
265 | As my sparowe was |
But my Sparowe dyd pas | |
All sparowes of the wode | |
That were syns Noes flode | |
Was neuer none so good | |
270 | Kynge Phylyp of Macedony |
Had no such Phylyp as I | |
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No no syr hardely | |
¶That vengeaunce I aske and crye | |
By way of exclamacyon | |
275 | On all the hole nacyon |
Of cattes wylde and tame | |
God send them sorowe and shame | |
That cat specyally | |
That slew so cruelly | |
280 | My lytell prety sparowe |
That I brought vp at Carowe | |
¶O cat of carlyshe kynde carlyshe] churlyshe Kit, M | |
The fynde was in thy mynde | |
ref.ed: 79 | |
Whan thou my byrde vntwynde | |
285 | I wold thou haddest ben blynde |
The leopardes sauage | |
The lyons in theyr rage | |
Myght catche the in theyr pawes 'the'='thee' | |
And gnawe the in theyr iawes | |
290 | [The] serpens of Lybany The] These K, W, Kit, M; serpens] serpentes W, Kit, M |
Myght stynge the venymously | |
The dragones with their tonges | |
Might poyson thy lyuer and longes | |
The mantycors of the montaynes | |
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295 | Myght fede them on thy braynes |
¶Melanchates that hounde | |
That plucked Acteon to the grounde | |
Gaue hym his mortall wounde | |
Chaunged to a dere | |
300 | The story doth appere |
Was chaunged to an harte | |
So thou foule cat / that thou arte | |
The selfe same hounde | |
Myght the confounde | |
305 | That his owne Lorde bote |
Myght byte asondre thy throte | |
¶Of Inde the gredy grypes | |
Myght tere out all thy trypes | |
Of Arcady the beares | |
310 | Might plucke away thyne eares |
The wylde wolfe Lycaon | |
Byte a_sondre thy backe-bone | |
Of Ethna the brennynge hyll | |
That day and night brenneth styl | |
315 | Set in thy tayle a blase |
That all the world may gase | |
And wonder vpon the | |
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From Occyan the great se | |
Unto the Iles of Orchady | |
320 | From Tyllbery fery |
To the playne of Salysbery | |
So trayterously my byrde to kyll | |
That neuer ought the euyll wyll | |
ref.ed: 80 | |
Was neuer byrde in cage space set for ¶ before 'Was' | |
325 | More gentle of corage |
In doynge his homage | |
Unto his souerayne | |
Alas I say agayne | |
Deth hath departed vs twayne | |
330 | The false cat hath the slayne |
Fare-well Phyllyp adew | |
Our Lorde thy soule reskew | |
Fare-well without restore | |
Fare-well for euer-more | |
335 | And it were a Iewe were] where K |
It wolde make one rew | |
To se my sorow new | |
These vylanous false cattes | |
Were made for myse and rattes | |
340 | And not for byrdes smale |
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Alas my face waxeth pale | |
Tellynge this pyteyus tale | |
How my byrde so fayre | |
That was wont to repayre | |
345 | And go in at my spayre go in] often Kit |
And crepe in at my gore crepe] gape Kit | |
Of my gowne before | |
Flyckerynge with his wynges | |
Alas my hert it stynges | |
350 | Remembrynge prety thynges |
Alas myne hert it sleth | |
My Phyllyppes dolefull deth | |
Whan I remembre it | |
How pretely it wolde syt | |
355 | Many tymes and ofte |
Upon my fynger aloft | |
I played with him tytell-tattyll | |
And fed him with my spattyl | |
With his byll betwene my lippes | |
360 | It was my prety Phyppes |
Many a prety kusse | |
Had I of [his] swete musse his] this K, W, his Kit, M | |
And now the cause is thus | |
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ref.ed: 81 | |
That he is slayne me fro | |
365 | To my great payne and wo |
Of fortune / this the chaunce | |
Standeth on varyaunce | |
Oft-tyme after pleasaunce | |
Trouble and greuaunce | |
370 | No man can be sure |
All-way to haue pleasure | |
As well perceyue ye maye | |
How my dysport and play | |
From me was taken a_way | |
375 | By Gyb our cat sauage |
That in a furyous rage a] M omits | |
Caught Phyllyp by the head | |
And slew him there starke dead | |
¶Kyryeleyson Christe leyson | |
380 | Kyrye leson. |
FOr Phy[l]yp_sparowes soule Phylyp] Phyyp K, Philip W, Kit, M | |
Set in our bede-rolle | |
Let vs now whysper | |
A Pater-noster | |
385 | ¶Lauda anima mea dominum |
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To wepe with me loke that ye come | |
All maner of byrdes in your kynd | |
So none be left behynde | |
To mornynge loke that ye fall | |
390 | With dolorous songes funerall |
Some to synge / and some to say | |
Some to wepe and some to pray | |
Euery byrde in his laye | |
The goldfynche / the wagtayle | |
395 | The ianglynge Iay to rayle |
The fleckyd pye to chatter | |
Of this dolorous mater | |
And Robyn_Redbrest | |
He shall be the preest | |
400 | The Requiem masse to synge |
Softly warbelynge Softly] Loftly M | |
ref.ed: 82 | |
With helpe of the red sparow | |
And the chattrynge swallow | |
This herse for to halow | |
405 | The larke with his longe to |
The spynke and the martynet also | |
The shouelar with his brode bek | |
The doterell that folyshe pek | |
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And also the mad coote | |
410 | With a balde face to toote |
The felde-fare and the snyte | |
The crowe and the kyte | |
The rauyn called rolfe | |
His playne-songe to solfe | |
415 | The partryche / the quayle |
The plouer with vs to wayle | |
The woodhacke that syngeth chur | |
Horsly as he had the mur | |
The lusty chauntyng nyghtyngale | |
420 | The Popyngay to tell her tale |
That toteth oft in a glasse | |
Shall rede the Gospell at masse | |
The mauys with her whystell | |
Shall rede there the Pystell | |
425 | But with a large and a longe |
To kepe iust playne-songe | |
Our chaunters shalbe the Cuckoue | |
The Culuer / the Stockedowue | |
With puwyt the Lapwyng | |
430 | The versycles shall syng |
The Better with his bumpe Better] bitter W, Kit, M | |
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The Crane with his trumpe | |
The swan of Menander | |
The Gose and the Gander | |
435 | The Ducke and [the] Drake the] K, W omit; the Kit, M |
Shall watche at this wake | |
The Pecocke so prowde | |
Bycause his voyce is lowde | |
[A]nd hath a glorious tayle And] Tnd K | |
440 | He shall syng the Grayle |
The owle that is so foule is] Kit, M omit | |
Must helpe vs to houle | |
ref.ed: 83 | |
The heron so gaunce gaunce] gaunte W, Kit, M | |
And the cormoraunce cormoraunce] cormoraunte W, Kit, M | |
445 | With the Fesaunte |
And the gaglynge gaunte | |
And the churlysshe chowgh | |
The [kn]oute and the [r]owgh knoute] route K, W, rout Kit, M; rowgh] kowgh K, kough W, Kit, M | |
The barnacle / the bussarde | |
450 | With the wy[l]de mallarde wylde] wynde K, wylde W, wilde Kit, M |
The dyuendop to slepe The] Tthe K | |
The wather-hen to wepe | |
The pu[ff]yn / and the tele puffyn] pussyn K, puffyn W, puffin Kit, M | |
Money they shall dele | |
455 | To poore folke at large |
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That shall be theyr charge | |
The semewe, and the tytmose | |
The wodcocke with the longe nose | |
The threstyl with her warblyng | |
460 | The starlyng with her brablyng |
The roke / with the ospraye | |
That putteth fysshes to a fraye | |
And the denty curlewe | |
With the turtyll most trew | |
465 | At this placebo |
We may not well for_go | |
The countrynge of the coe | |
The storke also | |
That maketh his nest | |
470 | In chymneyes to rest |
With-in those walles | |
No broken galles | |
May there abyde No] Nor Kit | |
Of cokoldry syde | |
475 | Or els phylos[o]phy phylosophy] phylosphy K |
Maketh a great lye | |
The Estryge that wyll eate | |
An horshowe so great | |
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In the stede of meate | |
480 | Such feruent heat |
His stomake [doth freat] doth freat] so great K, W, Kit, doth freat M | |
He can not well fly | |
Nor synge tunably | |
ref.ed: 84 | |
Yet at abrayde | |
485 | He hath well assayde |
To solfe aboue Ela | |
[F]a lorell fa fa Fa] Ga K, W, Kit, Fa M | |
Ne quando | |
Male cantando | |
490 | The best that we can |
To make hym our Belman | |
And let hym ryng the bellys | |
He can do nothyng ellys | |
Chaunteclere our coke | |
495 | Must tell what is of the clocke |
By the astrology | |
That he hath naturally | |
Conceyued and cought | |
And was neuer tought | |
500 | By Albumazer |
The Astronomer | |
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Nor by Ptholomy | |
Prince of Astronomy | |
Nor yet by Haly | |
505 | And yet he croweth dayly |
And nygh[t]ly the tydes nyghtly] nyghly K | |
That no man abydes | |
With partlot his hen | |
Whom now and then | |
510 | He plucketh by the hede |
Whan he doth her trede | |
The byrde of Araby | |
That potencyally | |
May neuer dye | |
515 | And yet there is none |
But one alone | |
A Phenex it is | |
This herse that must blys | |
With armatycke gummes | |
520 | That cost great sumes |
The way of Thurifycation | |
To make a fumigation a] W, Kit, M omit | |
Swete of refla[yre] reflayre] reflary K, reflarye W, Kit, M | |
And redolent of eyre | |
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ref.ed: 85 | |
525 | This corse for to sence |
With greate reuerence | |
As Patryarke or Pope | |
In a blacke cope | |
Whyles he senseth [the herse] the herse] K, W, Kit, M omit | |
530 | He shall synge the verse |
Libe /_ra me | |
In de la soll re | |
Softly bemole | |
For my sparowes soule | |
535 | Plinni sheweth all |
In his story naturall | |
What he doth fynde | |
Of this Phenyx kynde | |
Of whose incyneracyon | |
540 | There ryseth a new creacyon |
Of the same facyon | |
Without alteracyon | |
Sauyng that olde age | |
Is turned into corage | |
545 | Of fresshe youth agayne |
This matter trew and playne | |
Playne matter in-dede | |
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Who-so lyst to rede | |
But for the Egle doth flye | |
550 | Hyest in the skye |
He shall be th[e] se_deane the] thye K, thy W, Kit, M | |
The quere to demeane | |
As prouost pryncypall | |
To teach them theyr ordynall | |
555 | Also the noble fawcon |
With the g[er]fawcon gerfawcon] grefawcon K | |
The tarsell-gentyll | |
They shall morne soft and styll | |
In theyr amysse of gray | |
560 | The sacre with them shall say |
Dirige for Phyllyppes soule | |
The goshauke shall haue a role | |
The queresters to controll | |
The lanners / and the marlyons and the] and W, Kit, M | |
565 | Shall stand in their morning-gounes |
ref.ed: 86 | |
The hobby and the muskette | |
The sensers and the crosse shall fet | |
The kestrell in all this warke | |
Shall be holy-wather clarke | |
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570 | And now the darke cloudy nyght |
Chaseth a_way Phebus bryght | |
Taking his course to_ward the west | |
God sende my sparoes sole good rest | |
¶Requ[i]em eternam dona eis domine. Requiem] Requem K | |
575 | Fa fa fa my re |
¶A por_ta in_fe_re | |
Fa fa fa my my | |
¶Credo vydere bona domini. | |
I pray god phillip to heuen may fly | |
580 | ¶Domine exaudi oracionem meam |
To heuen he shall from heuen he cam | |
¶Do_mi_nus vo_bis_cum | |
Of al good praiers god send him sum | |
Oremus. | |
585 | Deus cui proprium est miserere et parcere |
On Phillips soule haue pyte. | |
For [he] was a prety cocke he] she K, he W, Kit, M | |
And came of a gentyll stocke | |
And wrapt in a maidenes smocke | |
590 | And cherysshed full dayntely |
Tyll cruell fate made him to dy Tyll] Thyll K | |
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Alas for dolefull deste[n]y desteny] destey K | |
But where-to shuld I | |
Lenger morne or crye | |
595 | To Iupyter I call |
Of heuen emperyall | |
That Phyllyp may fly | |
A_boue the starry sky | |
To treade the prety wren | |
600 | That is our Ladyes hen |
Amen / amen / amen. | |
¶Yet one thynge is behynde | |
That now commeth to mynde mynde] mi minde W, mi mind Kit | |
An Epytaphe I wold haue | |
605 | For phyllyppes graue |
ref.ed: 87 | |
But for / I am a mayde | |
Tymerous / halfe afrayde | |
That neuer yet a_sayde | |
Of Elyconys well | |
610 | Where the muses dwell |
Though I can rede and spell | |
Recounte / reporte / and tell | |
Of the tales of Caunterbury | |
Some sad storyes / some mery | |
sig: [B7v] | |
615 | As Palamon / and Arcet |
Duke Theseus / and partelet | |
And of the wyfe of Bath | |
Tha[t] worketh moch scath That] Thay K, They W, Kit, That M | |
Whan her tale is tolde | |
620 | Amonge huswy[u]es bolde huswyues] huswyes K |
How she controlde | |
Her husbandes as she wolde | |
And them to despyse | |
In the homylyest wyse | |
625 | Brynge other wyues in thought |
Their husbandes to set at nought | |
And though that rede haue I | |
Of Gawen and syr Guy | |
And tell can a great pece | |
630 | Of the golden flece |
How Iason it wan | |
Lyke a valyaunt man | |
Of Arturs rounde table | |
With his knightes commendable | |
635 | And dame Gaynour his quene |
Was somwhat wanton I wene | |
How syr Launcelote_de_lake | |
sig: [B8] | |
Many a spere brake | |
For his ladyes sake | |
640 | Of Trystram and kynge Marke |
And all the hole warke | |
Of bele Isold his wyfe | |
For whom was moch stryfe | |
Some say she was lyght | |
645 | And made her husband knyght |
Of the comyne hall | |
ref.ed: 88 | |
That cuckoldes men call | |
And of syr Lybius | |
Named Dysconius | |
650 | Of quater_fylz_[A]mund quater fylz Amund] quater fylz Emund K, quater fylz Amund W, Kit, quarter fylz Amunde M |
And how they were sommonde | |
To Rome to Charlemayne | |
Upon a great payne | |
And how they rode eche one | |
655 | On Bayarde_Mountalbon |
Men se hym now and than than] then M | |
In the forest of Arden of] W, Kit, M omit | |
What though I can frame though] thought K, though W, Kit, M | |
The storyes by name | |
sig: [B8v] | |
660 | Of Iudas_Machabeus |
And of Cesar Iulious | |
And of the loue be_twene | |
Paris and vyene | |
And of the duke Hannyball Hannyball] of Hannyball W, M, of Hannybal Kit | |
665 | [T]hat made the Romaynes all That] What K, W, That Kit, M |
For_drede and to quake | |
How Scipion dyd wake | |
The cytye of Cartage | |
Which by his mercyfull rage mercyfull] vnmercifull W, vnmerciful Kit, M | |
670 | He bete downe to the grounde |
And though I can expounde | |
Of Hector of Troye | |
That was all theyr ioye | |
Whom Achylles slew | |
675 | Wherfore all Troy dyd rew |
And of the loue so hote | |
That made Troylus to dote | |
Upon fayre Cressyde | |
And what they wrote and sayd | |
680 | And of theyr wanton wylles |
Pandaer bare the bylles | |
From one to the other | |
sig: [C1] | |
K misnumbers as B1 | |
His maisters loue to further | |
Somtyme a presyous thyng | |
685 | An ouche or els a ryng |
From her to hym agayn | |
Somtyme a prety chayn | |
ref.ed: 89 | |
Or a bracelet of her here | |
Prayd Troylus for to were | |
690 | That token for her sake |
How hartely he dyd it take | |
And moche therof dyd make | |
And all that was in vayne | |
For she dyd but fayne | |
695 | The story telleth playne |
He coulde not optayne | |
Though his father were a kyng | |
Yet there was a thyng | |
That made th[e] male to wryng the] tha K | |
700 | She made hym to syng |
The song of louers lay | |
Musyng nyght and day | |
Mournyng all alone | |
Comfort had he none | |
705 | For she was quyte gone |
sig: [C1v] | |
Thus in conclusy[o]n conclusyon] conclusynn K | |
She brought him in abusyon | |
In ernest and in game | |
She was moch to blame | |
710 | Disparaged is her fame |
And blemysshed is her name | |
In maner half with shame | |
Troylus also hath lost | |
On her moch loue and cost | |
715 | And now must kys the post |
Pand[aer] that went betwene Pandaer] Pandara K, W, Kit, M | |
Hath won nothing I wene | |
But lyght for somer grene | |
Yet for a speciall laud | |
720 | He is named Troylus baud |
Of that name he is sure | |
Whyles the world shall dure | |
Though I remembre the fable | |
Of Penelope most stable | |
725 | To her husband most trew |
Yet long-tyme she ne knew | |
Whether he were onlyue or ded | |
Her wyt stood her in-sted | |
sig: C2 | |
ref.ed: 90 | |
That she was true and iust | |
730 | For any bodely lust |
To Ulixes her make | |
And neuer wold him forsake | |
Of Marcus_Marcellus | |
A proces I could tell vs | |
735 | And of Anteocus |
And of Iosephus | |
De antiquitatibus | |
And of Mardocheus | |
And of great Assuerus | |
740 | And of Uesca his queene |
Whom he forsoke with teene | |
And of Hester his other wyfe | |
With whom he ledd a plesaunt life | |
Of kyng Alexander | |
745 | And of kyng Euander |
And of Porcena the great | |
That made the romayns to s[wea]t sweat] smart K, W, Kit, M | |
Though I haue enrold | |
A thousand new and old | |
750 | Of these historious tales |
To fyll bougets and males | |
sig: [C2v] | |
With bokes that I haue red | |
Yet I am nothyng sped | |
And can but lytell skyll | |
755 | Of Ouyd or Uirgyll |
Or of Plutharke | |
Or Frauncys_Petrarke | |
Alcheus or Sapho Or] Or of Kit, M | |
Or such other Poetes mo | |
760 | As Linus and Homerus |
E[u]phorion and Theocritus | |
Anacreon and Arion | |
Sophocles and Philemon | |
Pyndarus and [S]ymonides Symonides] Dymonides K, Dimonides W, Kit, M | |
765 | Philistion and Phorocides |
These Poetes of auncyente | |
They ar to diffuse for me | |
For as I to_fore haue sayd | |
ref.ed: 91 | |
I am but a yong mayd | |
770 | And can not in effect |
My style as yet direct | |
With englysh wordes [elect] elect] clere K, elect W, Kit, M | |
Our naturall tong is rude | |
And hard to be enneude | |
sig: [C3] | |
775 | With pullysshed termes lusty |
Our language is so rusty | |
So cankered and so full | |
Of frowardes and so dull | |
That if I wolde apply | |
780 | To wryte ornatly ornatly] ordinately Kit, M |
I wot not where to fynd | |
Termes to serue my mynde | |
Gowers englysh is olde | |
And of no value told told] is tolde W, Kit, M | |
785 | His mater is worth gold |
And worthy to be enrold | |
In Chauser I am sped | |
His tales I haue red | |
His mater is delectable | |
790 | Solacious and commendable |
His englysh well alowed | |
So as it is enprowed | |
For as it is enployd | |
There is no englysh voyd | |
795 | At those dayes moch commended |
And now men wold haue amended | |
His englyssh where-at they barke | |
sig: [C3v] | |
And mar all they warke | |
Chaucer that famus clerke | |
800 | His termes were not darke |
But plesaunt / easy / and playne | |
Ne worde he wrote in vayne | |
Also Iohnn_Lydgate | |
Wryteth after an hyer rate | |
805 | It is dyffuse to fynde |
The sentence of his mynde | |
Yet wryteth he in his kynd | |
No man that can amend | |
ref.ed: 92 | |
Those maters that he hath pende | |
810 | Yet some men fynde a faute |
And say he wryteth to haute | |
Wherfore hold me excused | |
If I haue not well perused | |
Myne englyssh halfe-abused | |
815 | Though it be refused |
In worth I shall it take | |
And fewer wordes make | |
But for my sparowes sake | |
Yet as a woman may | |
820 | My wyt I shall assay |
sig: [C4] | |
An Epytaphe to wryght | |
In latyne playne and lyght | |
Where-of the Elegy | |
Foloweth by and by | |
825 | ¶Flos volucrum formose vale |
Philippe. sub isto | |
Marmore iam recubas | |
Qui mihi carus eras | |
Semper erunt nitido | |
830 | Radiantia sydera celo |
Impressus_que meo | |
Pectore semper eris | |
er me Laurigerum | |
Britanum Skeltonida vate[m] vatem] vaten K, W, Kit, M | |
835 | Hec cecinisse licet |
Ficta sub imagine texta | |
Cuius eris volucris | |
Prestanti corpore virgo | |
Candida Nais erat | |
840 | Formosior ista Ioanna est |
Docta corinna fuit | |
Sed magis ista sapit | |
Bien men souuient, | |
sig: [C4v] | |
¶The commendacions |
|
BEati i[m]_ma_cu_l[a]_ti in via immaculati] inmaculuti K, immaculati W, Kit, M | |
845 | O glo_rio_sa femi_na |
ref.ed: 93 | |
¶Now myne hole imaginacion | |
And studyous medytacion | |
Is to take this commendacyon | |
In this consyderacion | |
850 | And vnder pacyent tolleracyon |
Of that most goodly mayd goodly] godly W, Kit, M | |
That placebo hath sayd | |
And for her sparow prayd | |
In lamentable wyse | |
855 | Now wyll I enterpryse |
Thorow the grace dyuyne | |
Of the muses nyne | |
Her beautye to commende | |
If Arethusa wyll send | |
860 | Me enfluence to endyte |
And with my pen to wryte | |
If Apollo wyll promyse | |
Melodyously it to deuyse | |
His tunable harpe-stryngges | |
865 | With armony that synges |
sig: [C5] | |
Of Princes and of kynges | |
And of all pleasaunt thynges | |
Of lust and of delyght | |
Thorow his godly myght | |
870 | To whom be the laude ascrybed |
That my pen hath enbybed | |
With the aureat droppes | |
As verely my hope is | |
Of Thagus that golden flod | |
875 | That passeth all erthly good all] al the W, Kit, all the M |
And as that flode doth pas | |
Al floodes that euer was | |
With his golden sandes | |
Who-so that vnderstandes | |
880 | Cosmography: and the stremys |
And the floodes in straunge remes | |
Ryght so she doth excede | |
All other of whom we rede | |
Whose fame by me shall sprede | |
885 | In-to Perce and Mede |
ref.ed: 94 | |
From brytons Albion | |
[T]o the towre of Babilon To] Bo K | |
I trust it is no shame | |
sig: [C5v] | |
And no man wyll me blame | |
890 | Though I regester her name |
In the courte of fame | |
For this most goodly floure | |
This blossome of fresshe coulour | |
So Iupiter me socour | |
895 | She floryssheth new and new |
In bewte and vertew | |
Hac claritate gemina | |
O gloriosa femina | |
¶etribue seruo tuo viuifica me | |
900 | La_bi_a mea laudabunt te |
BUt enforsed am I | |
Openly to askry | |
And to make an out-cri an] a K, an W, Kit, M | |
Against odyous enui | |
905 | That euer-more wil ly |
And say cursedly | |
With his ledder ey | |
And chekes dry | |
With vysage wan | |
910 | As [s]wart as tan swart] wart K, W, Kit, swarte M |
His bones crake | |
sig: [C6] | |
Leane as a rake | |
His gummes rusty | |
Are full vnlusty | |
915 | His herte with-all |
Bytter as gall | |
His lyuer / his longe longe] longes W, Kit, M | |
With anger is wronge | |
His serpentes tonge | |
920 | That many one hath stonge |
He frowneth euer | |
He laugheth neuer | |
Euen nor morow | |
But other mennes sorow | |
925 | Causeth him to gryn |
ref.ed: 95 | |
And reioyce therin | |
No slepe can him catch | |
But euer doth watch | |
He is so bete | |
930 | With malyce and frete |
With angre and yre | |
His foule desyre | |
Wyll suffre no slepe | |
In his hed to crepe | |
sig: [C6v] | |
935 | His f[o]ule semblaunt foule] feule K, W, foule Kit, M |
All displ[es]aunt displesaunt] displseaunt K | |
Whan other ar glad | |
Than is he sad | |
Frantyke and mad | |
940 | His tong neuer styll |
For to say yll | |
Wrythyng and wringyng | |
Bytyng and styngyng | |
And thus this elf | |
945 | Consumeth him-self |
Him-self doth slo | |
With payne and wo | |
This fals enuy | |
Sayth that I | |
950 | Use great folly great] greeat K |
For to endyte | |
And for to wryte | |
And spend my tyme | |
In prose and ryme | |
955 | For to expres |
The noblenes | |
Of my maistres | |
sig: [C7] | |
That causeth me | |
Studious to be | |
960 | [T]o make a relation To] Bo K |
Of her commendation | |
And there agayne | |
Enuy doth complayne | |
And hath disdayne | |
965 | But yet certayne |
ref.ed: 96 | |
I wyll [b]e playne be] me K, be W, Kit, M | |
And my style dres | |
To this prosses | |
Now Phebus me ken | |
970 | To sharpe my pen |
And lede my fyst | |
As hym best lyst | |
That I may say | |
Honour alway | |
975 | Of woma[n]-kynd woman kynd] womam kynd K |
Trouth doth me bynd | |
And loyalte | |
Euer to be | |
Their true bedell | |
980 | To wryte and tell |
sig: [C7v] | |
How women excell | |
In noblenes | |
As my maistres | |
Of whom I thynk | |
985 | With pen and ynk |
For to compyle | |
Some go[o]dly style goodly] godly K, goodly W, Kit, M | |
For this most goo[d]ly floure goodly] gooly K, goodly W, Kit, M | |
This blossome of fresh coloure | |
990 | So Iupyter me socoure |
She flourissheth new and new | |
In beaute and vertew | |
Hac claritate gemina | |
O gloriosa femina | |
995 | ¶Legem pone michi domin[a] in viam iustificacion[e]m tuarum domina] domine K; iustificacionem] iustificacionum K |
Quemadmodum desiderat ceruus ad fontes aquarum. | |
¶HOw shall I report | |
All the goodly sort | |
Of her fetures clere | |
1000 | That hath non erthly pere |
Her fauour of her face | |
sig: [C8] | |
Ennewed all with grace all with] with all W, with al Kit, M | |
Confort / pleasure and solace | |
Myne hert doth so enbrace | |
1005 | And so hath rauyshed me |
ref.ed: 97 | |
Her to behold and se | |
That in wordes playne | |
I can not me refrayne | |
To loke on her agayne on] to M | |
1010 | Alas what shuld I fayne |
It wer a plesaunt payne | |
With her aye to remayne | |
Her eyen gray and stepe | |
Causeth myne hert to lepe | |
1015 | With her browes bent |
She may well represent | |
Fayre Lucres as I wene | |
Or els fayre Polexene | |
Or els Caliope | |
1020 | Or els Penolope |
For this most goodly floure | |
This blossome of fresshe coloure | |
So Iupiter me socoure | |
She florisheth new and new | |
sig: [C8v] | |
1025 | In beautye and vertew |
Hac claritate gemina | |
O gloriosa femina | |
¶Memor esto verbi tui seruo tuo | |
Seruus tuus sum ego | |
1030 | THe Indy Saphyre blew |
Her vaynes doth ennew | |
The Orient perle so clere | |
The whytnesse of her lere | |
The lusty ruby ruddes | |
1035 | Resemble the Rose-buddes |
Her lyppes soft and mery | |
Emblomed lyke the chery | |
It were an heuenly blysse | |
Her sugred mouth to kysse | |
1040 | Her beautye to augment |
Dame nature hath her lent | |
A warte upon her cheke | |
Who-so lyst to seke | |
In her vysage a skar | |
1045 | That semyth from a_far |
ref.ed: 98 | |
Lyke to the radyant star | |
All with fauour fret | |
sig: D[1] | |
So properly it is set | |
She is the vyolet | |
1050 | The daysy delectable |
The c[o]lumbyn commendable columbyn] calumbyn K, columbyne W, columbine Kit, M | |
This ielofer amyable | |
[For] this most goodly floure For] K, W, Kit, M omit | |
This blossom of fressh colour | |
1055 | So Iupiter me succour |
She florysheth new and new | |
In beaute and vertew | |
Hac claritate gemina | |
O gloriosa femina | |
1060 | ¶Bonitatem fecisti cum seruo tuo domina |
Et ex precordiis sonant preconia. | |
ANd whan I perceyued | |
Her wart and conceyued | |
It can not be denayd | |
1065 | But it was well conuayd |
And set so womanly | |
And nothynge wantonly | |
But ryght conuenyently | |
And full congruently | |
1070 | As nature cold deuyse |
sig: [D1v] | |
In most goodly wyse | |
Who-so lyst beholde | |
It makethe louers bolde | |
To her to sewe for grace | |
1075 | Her fauoure to purchase |
The sker vpon her chyn | |
Enhached on her fayre skyn | |
Whyter than the swan | |
It wold make any man | |
1080 | To forget deadly syn |
Her fauo[u]r to wyn | |
For this most go[o]dly floure goodly] godly K, goodly W, Kit, M | |
This blossom of fressh coloure | |
So Iupiter me socoure | |
1085 | She flouryssheth new and new |
In beaute and vertew | |
ref.ed: 99 | |
Hac claritate gemina | |
O gloriosa femina | |
¶Defecit in salutare tuum anima mea | |
1090 | Quid petis filio / mater dulcissima ba ba |
SOft and make no dyn | |
For now I wyll begyn | |
To h[a]ue in remembraunce haue] heue K, haue W, Kit, M | |
sig: [D2] | |
Her goodly dalyaunce | |
1095 | And her goodly pastaunce |
So sad and so demure | |
Behauynge her so sure | |
With wordes of pleasure | |
She wold make to the lure | |
1100 | And any man conuert |
To gyue her his hole hert | |
She made me sore a_mased | |
Upon her whan I gased | |
Me-thought min hert was crased | |
1105 | My eyne were so dased |
For this most goodly flour | |
This blossom of fressh colour This] The W, Kit, M | |
So Iupyter me socour | |
She flouryssheth new and new | |
1110 | In beauty and vertew |
Hac claritate gemina | |
O gloriosa femina | |
¶Quomodo dilexi legem tuam domina. | |
Recedant vetera noua s[u]nt omnia. sunt] sint K | |
1115 | ANd to amende her tale |
Whan she lyst to auale | |
sig: [D2v] | |
And with her fyngers smale | |
And handes soft as sylke | |
Whyter than the mylke the] Kit, M omit | |
1120 | That are so quyckely vayned |
Wher-wyth my hand she strayne[d] strayned] strayne K | |
Lorde how I was payned | |
Unneth I me refrayned | |
How she me had reclaymed | |
1125 | And me to her retayned |
Enbrasynge there-with-all | |
Her go[o]dly myddell small goodly] godly K, goodly W, Kit, M | |
ref.ed: 100 | |
With sydes longe and streyte | |
To tell you what conceyte | |
1130 | I had than in a tryce |
The matter were to nyse | |
And yet there was no vyce | |
Nor yet no vyllany | |
But only fantasy | |
1135 | For this most go[o]dly floure goodly] godly K, goodly W, Kit, M |
Th[is] blossom of fressh coloure This] The K, W, Kit, M | |
So Iupiter me succoure | |
She floryssheth new and new | |
In beaute and vertew | |
sig: [D3] | |
1140 | Hac claritate gemina |
O gloriosa femina | |
¶Iniquos odio habui | |
Non calumnientur me superbi. | |
BUt where-to shulde I note | |
1145 | How often dyd I tote |
Upon her prety fote | |
It raysed myne hert-rote | |
To se her treade the grounde | |
With heles short and rounde | |
1150 | She is playnly expresse |
Egeria the goddesse | |
And lyke to her image | |
Emportured with corage | |
A louers pylgrimage | |
1155 | Ther is no beest sauage |
Ne no tyger so wood | |
But she wolde chaunge his mood | |
Such relucent grace | |
Is formed in her face | |
1160 | For this most goodly floure |
This blossome of fressh coloure | |
So Iupiter me succour | |
sig: [D3v] | |
She flouryssheth new and new | |
In beaute and vertew | |
1165 | Hac claritate gemina |
O gloriosa femina | |
¶Mirabilia testimonia tua | |
Sicut nouelle plantat[i]ones in iuuentute sua plantationes] plantatones K | |
ref.ed: 101 | |
[S]O goodly as she dresses | |
1170 | So prope[r]ly she presses properly] propeeyly K, properly W, Kit, M |
The bryght golden tresses | |
Of her heer so fyne | |
Lyke Phebus beames shyne | |
Wherto shuld I disclose | |
1175 | The garterynge of her hose |
It is for to suppose | |
How that she can were | |
Gorgiously her gere | |
Her fresshe habylementes | |
1180 | With other implementes |
To serue for all ententes | |
Lyke dame flora quene | |
Of lusty somer grene | |
For this [m]ost goodly floure For] Kit, M omit | |
1185 | This blossom of fressh coloure |
sig: [D4] | |
So Iupiter me soco[u]re | |
She florisheth new and new | |
In beautye and vertew | |
Hac claritate gemina | |
1190 | O gloriosa femina |
¶Clamaui in toto co[r]de exaudi me corde] code K | |
Misericordia tua magna est super me | |
Her kyrtell so goodly lased | |
And vnder that is brased | |
1195 | Such pleasures that I may pleasures] plasures K, pleasures W, Kit, M |
Neyther wryte nor say | |
Yet though I wryte not with ynke | |
No man can let me thynke | |
For thought hath lyberte | |
1200 | Thought is franke and fre |
To thynke a mery thought | |
It cost me lytell nor nought nor] or W, Kit, M | |
Wolde god myne homely style | |
Were pu[l]lysshed with the fyle pullysshed] publysshed K, pullyshed W, pollished Kit, M | |
1205 | Of Ciceros eloquence |
To prase her excellence | |
For this most goodly floure For this] The Kit, M | |
Th[i]s blossome of fressh coloure This] Thus K | |
sig: [D4v] | |
So Iupiter me succoure | |
ref.ed: 102 | |
1210 | She flouryssheth new and new |
In beaute and vertew | |
Hac claritate gemina | |
O gloriosa femina | |
¶Principes persecuti sunt me gratis | |
1215 | Omnibus consideratis. |
Paradisus voluptatis. | |
Hec virgo est dulcissima | |
My pen it is vnable | |
My h[an]d it is vnstable hand] hnad K | |
1220 | My reson rude and dull |
To prayse her at the full | |
Goodly maystres Iane | |
Sobre / demure Dyane | |
Iane this maystres hyght | |
1225 | The lode-stare of delyght |
Dame Uenus of all pleasure | |
The well of worldly treasure | |
She doth excede and pas | |
In prudence dame Pallas | |
1230 | [For] this most goodly floure For] K, W, Kit, M omit; this] the W, Kit, M |
This blossome of fresshe colour | |
So Iupiter me socoure | |
sig: [D5] | |
She floryssheth new and new | |
In beaute and vertew | |
1235 | Hac claritate gemina. |
O gloriosa femina. | |
REquiem eter[n]am dona eis domine | |
Wt this psalme / Domine probasti me. | |
Shall sayle ouer the see | |
1240 | With tibi domine commendamus |
On pylgrimage to saynt Iamys pilgrimage] pilgrimages M | |
For shrympes / and for pranys | |
And for stalk[yng]e cranys stalkynge] stalke K, stalking W, stalkynge Kit, M | |
And where my pen hath offendyd | |
1245 | I pray you it may be amendyd |
By discrete consyderacyon | |
Of your wyse reformacyon | |
I haue not offended I trust | |
If it be sadly dyscust | |
ref.ed: 103 | |
1250 | It were no gentle gyse |
This treatyse to despyse | |
Because I haue wrytten and sayd | |
Honour of this fayre mayd | |
Wherefore shulde I be blamed | |
1255 | That I Iane haue named haue] M omits |
sig: [D5v] | |
And famously proclamed | |
She is worthy to be enrolde | |
With letters of golde | |
¶Car elle vault | |
PEr me Laurigerum Britonum Skeltonida [v]atem vatem] latem K, W, Kit, M | |
Lau[d]ibus eximiis merito / hec redimita puella est Laudibus] Laubibus K | |
Formosam [cecini] qua non formosior vlla est cecini] pocecini K, W, Kit, M | |
Formosam po[t]ius / quam commendaret Homerus potius] pocius K | |
5 | Sic iuuat interdum r[i]gidos recreare labores rigidos] regidos K |
Nec minus hoc titulo tersa minerua. mea est. | |
¶Rien que playsere. | |
¶Thus endeth the boke of Philip_sparow / and her foloweth an addicyon made by maister Skelton |
|
sig: [D6] | |
THe gyse now-a-dayes | |
Of some ianglynge iayes | |
Is to discommende | |
That they cannot amend | |
5 | Though they wold spend |
All the wyttes they haue | |
What ayle them to depraue | |
Phillip_sparowes graue | |
His dirige: her commendacyon | |
10 | Can be no derogacyon |
But myrth and consolacyon | |
Made by protestacyon | |
No man to myscontent | |
With Phillyppes enterement | |
15 | Alas that goodly mayd |
Why shuld she be afrayde | |
Why shuld she take shame | |
That her goodly name | |
Honorably reported | |
20 | Sholde be set and sorted |
ref.ed: 104 | |
To be matriculate | |
With ladyes of estate | |
I coniure the Phillip_sparow | |
sig: [D6v] | |
By Hercules that hell dyd harow | |
25 | And with a venemous arow |
Slew of the Epidaures | |
One of the Centaures | |
Or onocentaures | |
Or hipocentaur[e]s hipocentaures] hipocentaurius K, W, Kit, M | |
30 | By whose myght and mayne |
An hart was slayne | |
With hornes twayne | |
Of glytteryng gold | |
And the appels of gold | |
35 | Of Hesperides withhold |
And with a dragon kept | |
That neuer-more slept | |
By marcyall strength | |
He wan at lenght | |
40 | And slew Gerion |
With thre bodyes in one | |
With myghty corage | |
A[d]aunted the rage Adaunted] Anaunted K, Auaunted W, Kit, M | |
Of a lyon sauage | |
45 | Of Dyomedes stable |
He brought out a rable | |
sig: [D7] | |
Of coursers and rounses | |
With leapes and bounses | |
And with myghty luggyng | |
50 | Wrestlyng and tuggyng |
He plucked the bull | |
By the horned skull | |
And offred to Cornucopia | |
And so forth per cetera | |
55 | Also by Ecates bower |
In Plut[o]s gastly tower Plutos] Plutus K, W, Kit, M | |
By the vgly Eumenides | |
That neuer haue rest nor ease | |
By the venemous serpent | |
60 | That in hell is neuer brent |
ref.ed: 105 | |
In Lerna the Grekes fen | |
That was engendred then | |
By Chemeras flames | |
And all the dedly names | |
65 | Of infernall posty |
Where soules frye and rousty | |
By the stygyall flood | |
And the streames wood | |
Of Cocitus botumles well | |
sig: [D7v] | |
70 | By the feryman of hell |
Caron with his beerd hore | |
That roweth with a rude [ore] ore] eor K | |
And with his [frownsid] fore-top frownsid] K, W, Kit, M omit | |
Gydeth his bote with a prope | |
75 | I coniure Phylyp and call |
In the name of kyng Saul | |
Primo regum expresse | |
He [b]ad the Phitonesse bad] had K, W, Kit, M | |
To wytch-craft her to dresse | |
80 | And by her abusyons |
And dampnable illusyons | |
Of marueylus conclusyons | |
And by her supersticyons | |
And wonderfull condityons | |
85 | She raysed vp in that stede |
Samuell that was dede | |
But whether it were so | |
He were / idem in numero | |
The selfe-same Samuell | |
90 | How-be-it to Saull dyd he tell |
The Philistinis shuld hym ascry | |
And the next day he shuld dye | |
sig: [D8] | |
I wyll my-selfe dyscharge | |
To lettred men at large | |
95 | But Phylyp I coniure the |
Now by these names thre | |
Diana in the woodes grene | |
Luna that so bryght doth shyne | |
Procerpina in hell | |
100 | That thou shortly tell |
ref.ed: 106 | |
And shew now vnto me | |
What the cause may be | |
Of this perplexite | |
Infer[ias] Philippe [tuas] Scroupe pulchra Iohanna Inferias] Infera K, W, Kit, Inferia M; tuas] K, W, Kit, M omit | |
105 | Instanter petiit / cur nostri carminis illam |
Nunc pudet / est sero / minor est infamia vero | |
Than suche as haue disdayned | |
And of this worke complayned | |
I pray god they be payned | |
110 | No worse than is contayned |
In verses two or thre | |
That folowe as you may se you] ye W, Kit, M | |
Luride cur liuor volucris pia funera damnas | |
Talia te rapiant / rapiunt que fata volucrem | |
115 | Est tamen inuidia mors tibi continua. |
¶Prynted at Lo[n]don at the poultry by Rychard_Kele. | |
sig: [D8v] |