A Lawde and Prayse Made for Our Sovereigne Lord the Kyng

Skelton, John

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Ringler L11: E 36 /228 and TM 1588. Brown and Robbins 3456.5. PRO, E 36-228 is a single folded sheet (fols. 7-8), "autograph copy of John Skelton, congratulatory poem on the accession of Henry VIII, 1509" (Ringler). Ed. Dyce 1.ix-xi; ed. Scattergood, pp. 110-12. Facsim. and transcript in P. J. Croft, _Autograph Poetry in the English Language_, 2 vols. (London, 1973) 1:6-8


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Composition Date: 1509 [Scattergood].

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	a laude and prayse made for our souereigne lord the kyng this title, written in a different hand, appears on fol. 8v
folio: 7
	¶The Rose both white and Rede Candida punica etc
	In one rose now dothe grow:
	Thus thorow every stede
	There-of the fame dothe blow:
5	Grace the sede did sow
	England now gaddir flowris
	Exclude now all dolowrs
	¶Noble Henry_the_eight Nobilis henricus etc
	Thy loving souereine lorde
10	Of kingis line moost streight
	His titille dothe Recorde:
	In whome dothe wele Acorde
	Alexis yonge of Age
	Adrastus wise and sage:
15	¶Astrea Iustice hight Sedibus etherijs etc
	That from the starry sky
	Shall now com and do Right
ref.ed: 111
	This hunderd yere scantly
	A man kowd not Aspy
20	That Right dwelt vs Among
	And þat was the more wrong
	¶Right shall the foxis chare Arcebit vulpes etc
	The wolvis the beris also
	That wrowght have moche care
25	And browght Englond in wo
	They shall wirry no mo
folio: 7v
	Nor wrote the Rosary
	By extort Trechery
	¶Of this our noble king Ne tanti Regis etc
30	The law they shall not breke
	They shall com to Rekening
	No man for them wil speke:
	The pepil durst not creke
	Theire grevis to complaine
35	They browght them in soche paine
	¶Therfor nomore they shall Ecce plato[n]isplatonis] platois P secla. etc platonis] platois P
	The Commouns ouerbace
	That wont wer ouer-all
	Both lorde and knight to face:
40	For now the yeris of grace
	And welthe ar com Agayne
	That makith England faine
	¶Adonis of Freshe colour Redijt iam pulcer Adonis [et]cetc] c P etc] c P
	Of yowthe the godely flour
45	Our prince of hih honour
	Our paves our succour
	Our king our Emperour
	Our Priamus of Troy
	Our welth our worldly Ioy
50	¶Vpon vs he doth Reigne
	That makith our hartis glad
	As king moost souereine
folio: 8
	That ever Englond had Anglorum Radians [et]cetc] c P. etc] c P
	Demure sober and sad
ref.ed: 112
55	And Martis lusty knight
	God save him in his Right:
	Amen
	Bien men souient:
	deo .21o. gracias Per me laurigerum britonum skeltonida vatem: