| ref.ed: 359 | ||
| sig: F2 | ||
|
Skelton Laureate. etc. |
||
| REioyse Englande | ||
| And vnderstande | ||
| These tidinges newe | ||
| Whiche be as trewe | ||
| 5 | As the gospell: | |
| This duke so fell | ||
| Of Albany | ||
| So cowardly | ||
| With all his hoost | ||
| 10 | Of the scottyshe coost | |
| For all theyr boost | ||
| Fledde lyke a beest. | ||
| Wherfore to ieste | ||
| Is my delyght | ||
| 15 | Of this cowarde knyght | |
| And for to wright | ||
| In the dispyght | ||
| Of the scottes ranke | ||
| Of Huntley_banke | ||
| 20 | Of Lowdyan. | |
| Of Locryan | ||
| sig: [F2v] | ||
| And the ragged ray | ||
| Of Galaway. | ||
| ¶Dunbar, Dunde | ||
| 25 | Ye shall trowe me | |
| False scottes are ye | ||
| Your hartes sore faynted | ||
| And so attaynted | ||
| Lyke cowardes starke | ||
| 30 | At the castell of warke | |
| By the water of Twede | ||
| Ye had euill spede. | ||
| ref.ed: 360 | ||
| Lyke cankerd curres | ||
| Ye loste your spurres | ||
| 35 | For in that fraye | |
| Ye ranne awaye | ||
| With hey dogge hay. | ||
| For sir William_Lyle | ||
| Within shorte whyle | ||
| 40 | That valiaunt knyght | |
| Putte you to flyght | ||
| By his valyaunce | ||
| Two th[o]usande of Fraunce thousande] thausande M | ||
| There he putte backe | ||
| 45 | To your great lacke | |
| And vtter shame | ||
| Of your scottysshe name. | ||
| sig: [F3] | ||
| Your chefe Cheftayne | ||
| Voyde of all brayne | ||
| 50 | Duke of all Albany | |
| Than shamefuly | ||
| He reculed backe | ||
| To his great lacke | ||
| Whan he herde tell | ||
| 55 | That my Lorde Amrell | |
| Was comyng downe | ||
| To make hym frowne | ||
| And to make hym lowre | ||
| With the noble powre | ||
| 60 | Of my lorde Cardynall | |
| As an hoost royall | ||
| After the auncient manner | ||
| With sainct Cutberdes banner | ||
| And sainct Williams also | ||
| 65 | Your capitayne ranne to go | |
| To go to go to go | ||
| And brake vp all his hoost | ||
| For all his crake and bost | ||
| Lyke a cowarde knyght | ||
| 70 | He fledde and durst nat fyght: | |
| He ranne awaye by night | ||
| But now must I | ||
| Your duke ascry, | ||
| ref.ed: 361 | ||
| Of Albany | ||
| 75 | With a worde or twayne | |
| sig: [F3v] | ||
| In sentence playne: | ||
| Ye duke so doutty | ||
| So sterne so stoutty | ||
| In shorte sentens | ||
| 80 | Of your pretens | |
| What is the grounde? | ||
| Breuely and rounde | ||
| To me expounde | ||
| Or els wyll I | ||
| 85 | Euydently | |
| Shewe as it is | ||
| For the cause is this | ||
| Howe ye pretende | ||
| For to defende | ||
| 90 | The yonge Scottyshe kyng | |
| But ye meane a thyng | ||
| And ye coude bryng | ||
| The matter about | ||
| To putte his eyes out | ||
| 95 | And put hym downe | |
| And set hys crowne | ||
| On your owne heed | ||
| Whan he were deed | ||
| Suche trechery: | ||
| 100 | And traytory | |
| Is all your cast. | ||
| Thus ye haue compast | ||
| With the frenche kyng | ||
| A fals rekenyng | ||
| sig: F4 | ||
| 105 | To enuade Englande | |
| As I vnderstande. | ||
| But our kyng royall | ||
| Whose name ouer-all | ||
| Noble Henry the eyght | ||
| 110 | Shall cast a beyght | |
| And sette suche a snare | ||
| That shall cast you in care | ||
| Bothe kyng Fraunces and the | ||
| That knowen ye shall be | ||
| ref.ed: 362 | ||
| 115 | For the moost recrayd | |
| Cowardes afrayd | ||
| And falsest forsworne | ||
| That euer were borne. | ||
| O ye wretched scottes | ||
| 120 | Ye puaunt pyspottes | |
| It shalbe your lottes | ||
| To be knytte vp with knottes | ||
| Of halters and ropes | ||
| About your traytours throtes: | ||
| 125 | O scottes pariured | |
| Vnhaply vred | ||
| Ye may be assured | ||
| Your falshod discured | ||
| It is, and shal be. | ||
| 130 | From the scottish se | |
| Vnto Gabione | ||
| For ye be false echone | ||
| sig: [F4v] | ||
| False and false agayne | ||
| Neuer true nor playne | ||
| 135 | But flery, flatter and fayne | |
| And euer to remayne | ||
| In wretched beggary | ||
| And maungy misery | ||
| In lousy lothsumnesse | ||
| 140 | And scabbed scorffynesse | |
| And in abhominacion | ||
| Of all maner of nacion | ||
| Nacion moost in hate | ||
| Proude and poore of state: | ||
| 145 | Twyt scot go kepe thy den | |
| Mell nat wyth Englyshe-men | ||
| Thou dyd nothyng but barke | ||
| At the castell of warke: | ||
| Twyt scot yet agayne ones | ||
| 150 | We shall breke thy bones | |
| And hang you vpon polles | ||
| And byrne you all to colles | ||
| With twyt scot, twyt scot twyt | ||
| Walke scot go begge a byt | ||
| ref.ed: 363 | ||
| 155 | Of brede, at ylke mannes hecke | |
| The fynde scot breke thy necke | ||
| Twyt scot agayne I saye | ||
| Twyt scot of Galaway | ||
| Twyt scot, shake th[e] dogge hay the] thy M | ||
| sig: [F5] | ||
| 160 | Twyt scot thou ran away | |
| We set nat a flye | ||
| By your duke of Albany | ||
| We set nat a prane | ||
| By suche a dronken drane | ||
| 165 | We set nat a myght | |
| By suche a cowarde knyght | ||
| Suche a proude palyarde | ||
| Suche a skyrgaliarde | ||
| Suche a starke cowarde | ||
| 170 | Suche a proude pultrowne | |
| Suche a foule Coystrowne | ||
| Suche a doutty dagswayne | ||
| Sende him to F[r]aunce agayne Fraunce] Faunce M | ||
| To bring with hym more brayne | ||
| 175 | From kynge Fraunces of Frauns | |
| God sende them bothe myschauns: | ||
| Ye scottes all the rable | ||
| Ye shall neuer be hable | ||
| With vs for to compare | ||
| 180 | What though ye stampe and stare | |
| God sende you sorow and care | ||
| With vs whan-euer ye mell | ||
| Yet we bear away the bell | ||
| Whan ye cankerd knaues | ||
| 185 | Must crepe in-to your caues | |
| Your heedes for to hyde | ||
| For ye dare nat abyde. | ||
| sig: [F5v] | ||
| Sir duke of Albany | ||
| Right inconuenyently | ||
| 190 | Ye rage and ye raue | |
| And your worshyp depraue | ||
| Nat lyke duke Hamylcar | ||
| With the Romayns that made war | ||
| Nor lyke his sonne Hanyball | ||
| 195 | Nor lyke duke Hasdruball | |
| ref.ed: 364 | ||
| Of Cartage in Aphrike | ||
| Yet somwhat ye be lyke | ||
| In some of their condicions | ||
| And their false sedycions | ||
| 200 | And their dealyng double | |
| And their weywarde trouble: | ||
| But yet they were bolde | ||
| And manly manyfolde | ||
| Their enemyes to assayle | ||
| 205 | In playn felde and battayle. | |
| But ye and your hoost | ||
| Full of bragge and boost | ||
| And full of waste-wynde | ||
| Howe ye wyll beres bynde | ||
| 210 | And the deuill downe dynge | |
| Yet ye dare do nothynge | ||
| But lepe away lyke frogges | ||
| And hyde you vnder logges | ||
| Lyke pygges and lyke hogges | ||
| 215 | And lyke maungy dogges. | |
| sig: [F6] | ||
| What an army were ye? | ||
| Or what actyuyte? | ||
| Is in you beggars braules | ||
| Full of scabbes and scaules: | ||
| 220 | Of vermyne and of lyce | |
| and of all maner vyce. | ||
| Syr duke: nay syr ducke | ||
| Syr drake of the lake: sir ducke | ||
| Of the donghyll, for small lucke | ||
| 225 | Ye haue in feates of warre | |
| Ye make nought but ye marre | ||
| Ye are a fals entrusar | ||
| And a fals abusar | ||
| And an vntrewe knyght | ||
| 230 | Thou hast to lytell myght | |
| Agaynst Englande to fyght | ||
| Thou art a graceles wyght | ||
| To put thy-selfe to flyght | ||
| A vengeaunce and dispight | ||
| 235 | On the must nedes lyght | |
| That durst nat byde the sight | ||
| ref.ed: 365 | ||
| Of my lorde amrell | ||
| Of chiualry the well | ||
| Of knighthode the floure | ||
| 240 | In euery marciall shoure | |
| The noble erle of Surrey | ||
| That put the in suche fray | ||
| Thou durst no felde derayne | ||
| sig: [F6v] | ||
| Nor no batayle mayntayne | ||
| 245 | Against our st[r]onge captaine stronge] stonge M | |
| But thou ran home agayne | ||
| For feare thou shoulde be slayne | ||
| Lyke a scottyshe keteryng | ||
| That durst abyde no reknyng | ||
| 250 | Thy herte wolde nat serue the | |
| The fynde of hell mot sterue the. | ||
| No man hath harde | ||
| Of suche a cowarde | ||
| And such a mad ymage | ||
| 255 | Caried in a cage: | |
| As it were a cotage | ||
| Or of suche a mawment | ||
| Caryed in a tent | ||
| In a tent: nay nay | ||
| 260 | But in a mountayne gay | |
| Lyke a great hill: | ||
| For a wyndmil | ||
| Therin to couche styll | ||
| That no man hym kyll | ||
| 265 | As it were a gote | |
| In a shepe-cote | ||
| About hym a parke | ||
| Of a madde warke | ||
| Men call it a toyle | ||
| 270 | Therin like a royle | |
| Sir Dunkan ye dared | ||
| And thus ye prepared | ||
| Youre carkas to kepe | ||
| sig: [F7] | ||
| Lyke a sely shepe | ||
| 275 | A shepe of Cottyswolde | |
| From rayne and from colde | ||
| ref.ed: 366 | ||
| And from raynning of rappes | ||
| And such after-clappes | ||
| Thus in your cowardly castell | ||
| 280 | Ye decte you to dwell | |
| Suche a captayne of [h]ors hors] fors M | ||
| It made no great fors | ||
| If that ye had tane | ||
| Your last deedly bane | ||
| 285 | With a gon-stone | |
| To make you to grone | ||
| But hyde the sir Topias | ||
| Nowe into the castell of Bas | ||
| And lurke there lyke an as | ||
| 290 | With some scotyshe [l]as las] as M | |
| With dugges dugges dugges | ||
| I shrewe thy scottishe lugges | ||
| Thy munpynnys and thy crag | ||
| For thou can not but brag | ||
| 295 | Lyke a scottyshe hag | |
| A_due nowe sir wrig_wrag | ||
| A_due sir dalyrag | ||
| Thy mellyng is but mockyng | ||
| Thou mayst giue vp thy cocking | ||
| 300 | Gyue it vp. And cry creke | |
| Lyke an huddy-peke: | ||
| sig: [F7v] | ||
| Wherto shuld I more speke | ||
| Of suche a farly freke | ||
| Of suche an horne-keke | ||
| 305 | Of suche an bolde captayne | |
| That dare nat turne agayne | ||
| Nor durst nat crak a worde | ||
| Nor durst nat drawe his swerde | ||
| Agaynst the lyon white | ||
| 310 | But ran away quyte | |
| He ran away by nyght | ||
| In the owle-flyght | ||
| Lyke a cowarde knyght | ||
| A_due cowarde a_due | ||
| 315 | Fals knight and mooste vntrue | |
| I render the fals rebelle | ||
| To the flingande fende of helle. | ||
| ref.ed: 367 | ||
| Harke yet sir duke a worde | ||
| In ernest or in borde | ||
| 320 | What haue ye villayn forged? | |
| And virulently dysgorged | ||
| As though ye wolde parbrake | ||
| Your auauns to make | ||
| With wordes enbosed | ||
| 325 | Vngraciously engrosed | |
| Howe ye wyll vndertake | ||
| Our royall kyng to make | ||
| His owne realme to forsake | ||
| Suche lewde langage ye spake: | ||
| sig: [F8] | ||
| 330 | Sir Dunkan in the deuill waye | |
| Be well ware what ye say. | ||
| Ye saye that he and ye | ||
| Whyche he and ye? let se | ||
| Ye meane Fraunces french kyng | ||
| 335 | Shulde bring about that thing | |
| I say thou lewde lurdayne | ||
| That neyther of you twayne | ||
| So hardy nor so bolde | ||
| His countenaunce to beholde | ||
| 340 | If our moost royall Harry | |
| Lyst with you to varry | ||
| Full soone ye should miscary | ||
| For ye durst nat tarry | ||
| With hym to stryue a stownde | ||
| 345 | If he on you but frounde | |
| Nat for a thousande poun[de] pounde] pouned M | ||
| Ye durst byde on the grounde | ||
| Ye wolde ryn away rounde | ||
| And cowardly tourne your backes | ||
| 350 | For all your comly crackes | |
| And for feare par case | ||
| To loke hym in the face | ||
| Ye wolde defoyle the place | ||
| And ryn your way apace | ||
| 355 | Thoughe I trym you thys trace | |
| With englyshe somwhat base | ||
| Yet sau[e] voster grace saue] saua M | ||
| sig: [F8v] | ||
| Therby I shall purchace | ||
| ref.ed: 368 | ||
| No displesaunt rewarde | ||
| 360 | If ye wele can regarde | |
| Your cankarde cowardnesse | ||
| And your shamfull doublenesse. | ||
| ¶Are ye nat frantyke madde? | ||
| And wretchedly bestadde | ||
| 365 | To rayle agaynst his grace | |
| That shall bring you full bace | ||
| And set you in suche case | ||
| That bytwene you twayne | ||
| There shalbe drawen a trayne | ||
| 370 | That shalbe to your payne | |
| To flye ye shalbe fayne | ||
| And neuer tourne agayne: | ||
| What wold Fraunces our friar? | ||
| Be suche a false lyar | ||
| 375 | So madde a cordylar | |
| So madde a murmurar | ||
| Ye muse somwhat to far | ||
| All out of ioynt ye iar | ||
| God let you neuer thriue | ||
| 380 | Wene ye daucockes to driue | |
| Our kyng, out of his reme | ||
| Ge heme ranke scot ge heme | ||
| With fonde Fraunces french kyng | ||
| Our mayster shall you brynge | ||
| sig: G[1] | ||
| 385 | I trust to lowe estate | |
| And mate you with chek-mate: | ||
| Your braynes are ydell | ||
| It is time for you to brydell | ||
| And pype in a quibyble | ||
| 390 | For it is impossible | |
| For you to bring about | ||
| Our kyng for to dryue out | ||
| Of this his realme royall | ||
| And lande imperiall | ||
| 395 | So noble a prince as he | |
| In all actyuite | ||
| Of hardy merciall actes | ||
| Fortunate in all his faytes: | ||
| ref.ed: 369 | ||
| And nowe I wyll me dresse | ||
| 400 | His valiaunce to expresse | |
| Though insufficient am I | ||
| His grace to magnify | ||
| And laude equiualently | ||
| Howe-be-it loyally | ||
| 405 | After myne allegyaunce | |
| My pen I will auaunce | ||
| To extoll his noble grace | ||
| In spyght of thy cowardes face | ||
| In spyght of kyng Fraunces | ||
| 410 | Deuoyde of all nobles | |
| Deuoyde of good corage | ||
| Deuoyde of wysdome sage | ||
| sig: [G1v] | ||
| Mad: frantyke, and sauage | ||
| Thus he dothe disparage | ||
| 415 | His blode with fonde dotage: | |
| A prince to play the page | ||
| It is a rechelesse rage | ||
| And a lunatyke ouerage | ||
| What though my stile be rude? | ||
| 420 | With trouthe it is ennewde | |
| Trouth ought to be rescude | ||
| Trouthe should nat be subdude | ||
| But nowe will I expounde | ||
| What noblenesse dothe abounde | ||
| 425 | And what honour is founde | |
| And what vertues be resydent | ||
| In our royall regent | ||
| Our perelesse president | ||
| Our kyng most excellent: | ||
| 430 | In merciall prowes | |
| Lyke vnto Hercules | ||
| In prudence and wysdom | ||
| Lyke vnto Salamon | ||
| In his goodly person | ||
| 435 | Lyke vnto Absolon | |
| In loyalte and foy | ||
| Lyke to Ector of Troy | ||
| And his glory to incres | ||
| ref.ed: 370 | ||
| Lyke to Scipiades | ||
| sig: G2 | ||
| 440 | In royal mageste | |
| Lyke vnto Ptholome | ||
| Lyke to duke Iosue | ||
| And the valiaunt Machube: | ||
| That if I wolde reporte | ||
| 445 | All the roiall sorte | |
| Of his nobilyte | ||
| His magnanymyte | ||
| His animosite | ||
| His fr[u]galite frugalite] fragalite M | ||
| 450 | His lyberalite | |
| His affabilite | ||
| His humanyte | ||
| His stabilite | ||
| His humilite | ||
| 455 | His benignite | |
| His royall dignyte. | ||
| My lernyng is to small | ||
| For to recount them all. | ||
| What losels than are ye | ||
| 460 | Lyke cowardes as ye be | |
| To rayle on his astate | ||
| With wordes inordinate. | ||
| He rules his cominalte | ||
| With all benignite | ||
| 465 | His noble baronage | |
| He putteth them in corage | ||
| sig: [G2v] | ||
| To exployte dedes of armys | ||
| To the domage and harmys | ||
| Of suche as be his foos | ||
| 470 | Where-euer he rydes or goos | |
| His subiectes he dothe supporte | ||
| Maintayne them with comforte | ||
| Of his moste princely porte | ||
| As all men can reporte: | ||
| 475 | Than ye be a knappishe sorte | |
| Et faitez a luy grant torte | ||
| With your enbosed iawes | ||
| ref.ed: 371 | ||
| To rayle on hym lyke dawes | ||
| The fende scrache out your mawes: | ||
| 480 | All his subiectes and he | |
| Moost louyngly agre | ||
| With hole hart and true mynde | ||
| They fynde his grace so kynde | ||
| Wherwith he dothe them bynde | ||
| 485 | At all houres to be redy | |
| With hym to lyue and dye | ||
| And to spende their hart-blode | ||
| Their bodyes and their gode | ||
| With hym, in all dystresse | ||
| 490 | Alway in redynesse. | |
| To assyst his noble grace | ||
| In spyght of thy cowardes face | ||
| Moost false attaynted traytour | ||
| And false forsworne faytour. | ||
| sig: G3 | ||
| 495 | Auaunte cowarde recrayed | |
| Thy pride shalbe alayd | ||
| With sir Fraunces of Fraunce | ||
| We shall pype you a daunce | ||
| Shall tourne you to myschauns: | ||
| 500 | I rede you loke about | |
| For ye shalbe driuen out | ||
| Of your lande in shorte space | ||
| We will so folowe in the chace | ||
| That ye shall haue no grace | ||
| 505 | For to tourne your face | |
| And thus sainct George to borowe | ||
| Ye shall haue shame and sorowe. | ||
|
¶Lenuoy. |
||
| GO lytell quayre quickly | ||
| Shew them that shall you rede | ||
| How that ye are lykely | ||
| Ouer all the world[e] to sprede: worlde] worlds M | ||
| 5 | The fals Scottes for dred | |
| With the duke of Albany, | ||
| Beside the water of Twede | ||
| They fledde full cowardly. | ||
| ref.ed: 372 | ||
| Though your englishe be rude | ||
| 10 | Barreyne of eloquence | |
| Yet breuely to conclude | ||
| Grounded is your sentence | ||
| sig: [G3v] | ||
| On trouthe, vnder defence | ||
| Of all trewe englyshemen | ||
| 15 | This mater to credence | |
| That I wrate with my pen. | ||
| Skelton Laureat: obsequious et loyall. | ||
| To my lorde Cardynals right noble grace.etc. | ||
|
Lenuoy. |
||
| GO lytell quayre apace | ||
| In moost humble wyse | ||
| Before his noble grace | ||
| That caused you to deuise | ||
| 5 | This lytel enterprise | |
| And hym moost lowly pray | ||
| In his mynde to comprise | ||
| Those wordes his grace dyd saye | ||
| Of an ammas gray. | ||
| Ie, Foy enterment En sa bone grace. |