A Replycacion Agaynst Certayne Yong Scolers Abjured of Late

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HONORIFICATISSIMO, Amplissimo, longeque reuerendissimo in Christo patri: Ac domino, domino THOME etc. Tituli sanct Cecili, sacrosanct Roman ecclesi presbytero Cardinali meritissimo, et Apostolice sedis legato. A latereque legato superillustri etc. Skeltonis laureatus Ora, reg. Humillimum, dicit obsequium cum omni debita reuerentia, tanto tamque magnifico digna principe sacerdotum, totiusque iustiti equabilissimo moderatore. Necnon presentis opusculi fautore excellentissimo etc. Ad cuius auspicatissimam contemplationem, sub memorabili prelo gloriose inmortalitatis presens pagella felicitatur etc,

¶A replycacion agaynst certayne yong scolers / abiured of late etc.

ARGUMENTVM.

Crassantes nimium, Nimium sterilesque labruscas

(Vinea quas domini, sabaot non sustinet ultra

Laxius expandi) nostra est resecare uoluntas.

¶Cum priuilegio a rege in_dulto.

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PRotestacion alway canonically prepensed / professed / and with good delyberacion made / that this lytell Pamphilet (called the Replicacion of Skelton laureate) Orator regius Remordyng dyuers recrayed and moche vnresonable errours / of certayne Sophystycate scolers and rechelesse yonge heretykes / lately abiured etc. Shall euermore be (with all obsequious redynesse) humbly submytted vnto the ryght discrete reformacyon of the reuerende prelates and moche noble doctours / of our mother holy churche etc.

¶ Ad almam vniuersitatem Cantabrigensem etc.

ALma parens. O. Cantabrigensis

Cur lac[r]imaris? Esto / tui sint lacrimaris] lachimaris P

Degeneres hi. Filioli / sed

Non ob inertes (O pia mater)

Insciolos uel decolor esto.

Progenies non nobilis omnis

Quam tua forsan / mamma fouebat:

Tu tamen esto / Palladis alme

Gloria pollens plena Minerue

Dum radiabunt astra polorum:

Iamque ualeto / meque foueto. Cantabrigia / skeltonidi laureato primam mammmam eruditionis pientissime propinauit

Namque tibi quondam / carus alumnus eram.

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enbolned] enbolmed P

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Zebub musca inflatiua sibulans ab austro / que intumescere facit heresiarchas contra fidem ortadoxam etc. h. il. Eruditionis exordium in tenera audacique iuuenta temperate moderationis frenum postulat. Alioquin scientia effrenata inflataque spum elationis / quod dulceo venenum est subtiliter intoxicat interimitque incautum possessorum suum etc. h. il. Non sit igitur tibi Philologia (ratione intemperate loquacitatis tue inordinate dicacitatis incogitate procacitatis in singultum et scrupulum cordis tui etc. h. il. Eloquentiam sine sapientia prodesse nunquam / obesse plerumque satis constat euidenter .i. veterum rethoris.

¶A lytell ragge of Rethorike

A lesse lumpe of Logyke

A pece or a patche of Philosophy

Than forthwith by and by

They tumble so in Theology

Drowned in dregges of Diuinite

That they iuge them-selfe able to be

Doctours of the Chayre in the Vyntre

At the thre_Cranes

To magnifye their names

But madly it frames.

¶For all that they preche and teche

Is farther than their wytte wyll reche

Thus by demeryttes of their abusyon

Finally they fall to carefull confusyon

To beare a Fagot or to be enflamed

Thus are they vndone and vtterly shamed. Rhetoricari incomposite. Logicari meticulose. Philosophari perfunctorie. Theologisari frenetice. Arguit in concionatore (nedum lucidum interuallum) sed continuam pertinacemque mentis alienationem / feculentam / amurcatam / temulentam etc. hec il. Uos ergo eliphantice euangelisantes tanquam anseres strepentes inter canoros olores. Relegamus ad tres grues bacchato bromio iniciatos pro foribus Uinitoris propter fluenta Thamisie. Ubi poti potati cum fasciculo inambusto ambustum futurum fasciculum pensitate etc. hec il.

ERGO

Licet non enclitice. tamen enthymematice

Notandum in primis. Vt ne quid nimis.

¶ Tantum pro primo.

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OUer this. For a more ample processe to be farther delated and contynued / and of euery true christen man laudably to be enployed iustifyed / and constantly mainteyned. As touchyng the Tetrycall Theologisacion of these demy-diuines and Stoicall studiantes / and frisca-ioly yonkerkyns / Stoicam sectam zenon primus instituit. moche better bayned than brayned / basked and bathedbathed] baththed P in their wylde burblyng and boyling blode / Feruently reboyled with the infatuate flames of their rechelesse youthe and wytlesse wontonnesse / enbrased and enterlased with a Iuuenes sanguinolenti propter libidinem dominandi et gloriam fame / frequenter fieri solent sediciosi. hec dias. moche fantasticall frenesy of their insensate sensualyte. Surmysed vnsurely in their Perihermeniall principles / to prate and to preche proudly and leudly / Perihermonias latine interpretatio .etc. and loudly to lye. And yet they were but febly enformed in maister Porphiris problemes / and haue waded but weakly in his thre maner of Porphirius floruit Athenis tempore Gordiani imperatoris .CC.xlix. etc. clerkly

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workes. Analeticall / Topicall / and Logycall. Howbeit they were Analitica libri priorum et posteriorum. aris . Topica .i. liber totalis de totalibus locis etc. puffed so full of vaynglorious pompe and surcudant elacyon / that popholy andpeuysshe presumpcion prouoked them to publysshe and to preche to people Presumere est non audenda facere. etc. im ####ab#### prudent perilously: howe it was Idolatry to offre to ymages of our blessed lady / or to pray and go on pylgrimages / or to make oblacions to any ymages of sayntes in churches / or els-where. De Idolatria lege Hieronimum ad Iouenianum etc. ydolatria dictio composita ex ydolo (quod est simulacrum) et latria (quod est cultura) apud nos etc. De latria / iperdulia / dulia / quid sanctitas apostolica / cum Constantino magno Constantinopoli ordinauit in consilio Latriensi manifeste reperies / et infra.

¶Agaynst whiche erronyous errours / odyous / orgulyous / and Flyblowen opynions etc.

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IN the honour of our blessed Lady

And her most blessed Baby

I purpose for to reply

Agaynst this horryble heresy

Of these yong heretikes þat stynke vnbrent

Whom I nowe sommon and con[u]ent conuent] content P Conuenio vos o / publici iniuriatores sancte et apostolice ecclesie. etc.

That leudly haue their tyme spent

In their study abhomynable

Our glorious Lady to disable

And heynously on her to bable

With langage detestable

With your lyppes polluted

Agaynst her grace disputed

Which is the most clere Christall

Of all pure clennesse virgynall

That our Sauyour bare

Whiche vs redemed from care. O. prodigiosa progenies qualem / de filio queritis habere misericordiam? cuius matrem inficiamini esse matrem misericordie. canit tamen vniuersalis ecclesia. Salue regina mater misericordie. etc.

¶I saye thou madde Marche-Hare

I wondre howe ye dare

Open your ianglyng iawes

To preche in any clawes

Lyke pratynge poppyng dawes

Agaynst her excellence

Agaynst her reuerence

Agaynst her preemynence

Agaynst her magnifycence

That neuer dyde offence. Conuenio vos o / Ariani / Iuliano apostata execrabiliores. etc.

¶Ye heretykes recrayed

Wotte ye what ye sayed /

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Of Mary / mother and mayed

With baudrie at her ye brayed

With baudy wordes vnmete

Your tonges were to flete

Your sermon was nat swete Conuenio vos o / spurcissimi / o / vilissimi. o / nequissimi obtrectatores matris christi etc.

Ye were nothyng discrete

Ye were in a dronken hete

Lyke heretykes confettred

Ye count your-selfe wele lettred

Your lernyng is starke nought

For shamefully ye haue wrought

And to shame your-selfe haue brought. Conuenio vos o / insensati literar[u]m professores. etc.

¶Bycause ye her mysnamed

And wolde haue her defamed

Your madnesse she attamed Conuenio vos o / Iebuseij. o / Iudei. o / Cananeij. o / phariseij. etc.

For ye were worldly shamed

At Poules_crosse openly

All men can testifye

There lyke a sorte of sottes

Ye were fayne to beare Fagottes

At the feest of her Concepcion

Ye suffred suche correction. Non vacat (o. contemptores mariani) non vacat (inquam) quod digna factis recepistis in deipare virginis Conceptione. etc. hec il.

¶Siue per Equiuocum

Siue per Uniuocum

Siue sic / siue nat so

Ye are brought to. Lo / Lo / Lo /

Se where the Heretykes go

Wytlesse wandring to and fro

With. Te_ /he. ta_ /ha. bo_ /ho bo_ /ho. Conuenio vos o / Malesani / vani / prophani / christiani.

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And suche wondringes many mo

Helas / ye wreches ye may be wo

Ye may syng wele_a_way

And curse bothe nyght and day

Whan ye were bredde and borne

And whan ye were preestes shorne

Thus to be laughed to skorne Conuenio vos o / Hussiani etc

Thus tattred and thus torne

Thorowe your owne foly

To be blowen with the flye

Of horryble heresy

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Fayne ye were to reny

And mercy for to crye

Or be brende by and by

Confessyng howe ye dyde lye

In prechyng shamefully.

¶Your-selfe thus ye discured

As clerkes vnassured

With ignorance obscured

Ye are vnhappely vred

In your Dialeticall

And principles Silogisticall Conuenio vos o / Lutheriani

If ye to remembrance call

Howe Syllogisari

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Non est ex particulari

Necque negatiuis Necque non neque legas.

Recte concludere / si_vis:

Et cetera id genus

Ye coude nat Corde tenus:

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Nor answere Verbo tenus

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Whan prelacy you opposed

Your hertes than were hosed

Your relacions reposed

And yet ye supposed

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Respondere ad quantum

But ye were Confuse tantum

Surrendring your supposycions

For there ye myst you[r] quosshons. your] you P Quoniam ignorantibus suppocitiones veritates propositionum non relucent. etc.

¶Wolde god / for your owne ease

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That wyse Harpocrates Harpocrates digito labijs impresso admonuit silentium fieri in Isidis templo. etc.

Had your mouthes stopped

And your tonges cropped

Whan ye Logyke chopped

And in the Pulpete hopped

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And folysshly there fopped Conuenio vos o / Coaxantes rane. etc.

And porisshly forthe popped

Your sysmaticate sawes

Agaynst goddes lawes

And shewed your-selfe dawes

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Ye argued argumentes

As it were upon the elenkes Sunt preterea nonnulli huius farine / de quibus hic non est narrandi locus

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De rebus apparentibus

Et non existentibus

And ye wolde appere wyse

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But ye were folysshe nyse

Yet be meanes of that vyse

Ye dyde prouoke and tyse

Oftnar than ones or twyse

Many a goodman

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And many a good woman

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By way of their deuocion

To helpe you to promocion

Whose charite wele regarded

Can nat be vnrewarded.

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¶I saye it for no sedicion

But vnder pacient tuicyon Conuenio vos o. Herodiani.

It is halfe a supersticyon

To gyue you exhibycion

To mainteyne with your skoles

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And to proue your-selfe suche foles

Some of you had ten pounde

Therwith for to be founde

At the Unyuersyte

Employed whiche myght haue be

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Moche better other-wayes Obscurum sarcassmos.

But as the man sayes

The blynde eteth many a flye

What may be ment here-by

Ye may soone make construction

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With right lytell instruction

For it is an auncyent brute

Suche apple-tre / suche frute Ex fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos. etc.

What shulde I prosecute

Or more of this to clatter

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Retourne we to our matter.

¶Ye soored ouer-hye Sublimius equo aucupium agunt. etc.

In the Ierarchy

Of Iouenyans heresy

Your names to magnifye

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Among the scabbed skyes

Of wycliffes flesshe-flyes Conuenio vos o wichliftiste.

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Ye strynged so Luthers lute

That ye dawns all in a sute

The heritykes ragged ray

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That bringes you out of the way

Of holy churches lay

Ye shayle / inter enigmata

And inter paradigmata

Marked in your cradels

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To beare fagottes for babyls

And yet some men say

Howe ye are this day

And be nowe as yll

And so ye wyll be styll

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As ye were before

What shulde I recken more.

¶Men haue you in suspicion

Howe ye haue small contrycion

Of that ye haue myswrought Conuenio vos o verbosi Sophiste etc.

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For if it were well sought

One of you there was

That laughed whan he dyd pas

With his fagot in processyon

He counted it for no correction

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But with scornefull affection

Toke it for a sporte

His heresy to supporte

Where-at a thousande gased

As people halfe a_mased

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And thought in hym smale grace

His foly so to face.

¶Some iuged in this case

Your penaunce toke no place

Your penaunce was to lyght Conuenio vos o diabolici dogmatiste etc

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And thought / if ye had right

Ye shulde take further payne

To resorte agayne

To places where ye haue preched

And your lollardy lernyng teched

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And there to make relacion

In open predycacion

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And knowlege your offence

Before open audyence

Howe falsely ye had surmysed

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And deuyllysshely deuysed

The people to seduce

And chase them thorowe the muse

Of your noughty counsell

To hunt them in-to hell

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With blowyng out your hornes

Full of mockysshe scornes

With chatyng and rechatyng

And your busy pratyng

Of the gospell and the pystels

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Ye pyke out many thystels Sunt pleriqui alii sed non alieni qui tantundem pene enunciant etc.

And bremely with your bristels

Ye cobble and ye clout

Holy scripture so about

That people are in great dout

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And feare / leest they be out

Of all good Christen order

Thus all-thyng ye disorder

Thorowe-out euery bord[e]r. border] bordr P

¶It had ben moche better

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Ye had neuer lerned letter

For your ignorance is gretter

I make you fast and sure

Than all your lytterature: Conuenio vos male docti legiste. etc.

Ye are but lydder logici

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But moche worse Isagogici

For ye haue enduced a secte

With heresy all infecte

Wherfore ye are well checte

And by holy churche correcte

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And in maner as abiecte

For euermore suspecte

And banysshed in effect

From all honest company

Bycause ye haue eaten a flye

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To your great vyllony

That neuer more may dye.

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¶Come forthe ye pope-holy

Full of melancoly

Your madde Ipocrisy Conuenio vos o. ypocrite etc.

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And your idiosy

And your vayne-glorie

Haue made you eate the flye

Pufte full of heresy

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To preche it Idolatry

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Who-so dothe magnifye

That glorious mayde Mary

That glorious mayde and mother

So was there neuer another

But that Princesse alone

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To whom we are bounde echone

The ymage of her grace

To reuerence in euery place Maledictio mariana descendat super capita vestra. o / heretici cretici frenetici etc.

¶I saye ye braynlesse beestes

Why iangle you suche iestes

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In your diuynite

Of Luthers affynite

To the people of lay-fee

Raylyng in your rages Conuenio vos o / Machomitani. etc.

To worshyppe none ymages

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Nor do pylgrymages

I saye ye deuyllysshe pages

Full of suche dottages

Count ye your-selfe good clerkes

And snapper in suche werkes.

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¶Saynt Gregorie and saynt Ambrose

Ye haue reed them I suppose

Saynt Ierome and saynt Austen

With other many holy men

Saynt Thomas_de_Aquyno

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With other doctours many mo Conuenio vos o / demoniaci meridiani. etc.

Whiche / de (Latria) do trete

They saye howe (Latria) is an honour grete

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Belongyng to the deite

To this ye nedes must agre

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But I trowe your-selfe ye ouer_se

What longeth to Christes humanyte

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If ye haue reed / de (Hiperdulia)

Than ye knowe what betokeneth (Dulia) nota de latria Hiperdulia / dulia / quid per sancte sanxitum est Constantinopoli ab ecclesia catholica et apostolica iterum infringere (quid hoc sibi vult) fasciculum consulite inflammatum. etc.

Than shall ye fynde it fyrme and stable

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And to our faithe moche agreable

To worshyppe ymages of sayntes

Wherfore make ye no mo restrayntes

But mende your myndes that are mased

Or els doutlesse ye shalbe blased

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And be brent at a stake

If further busynesse that ye make

Therfore I vyse you to forsake

Of Heresy the deuyllysshe scoles

And crye god mercy lyke frantyke foles. O. medici mediam pertundite venam.

¶Tantum pro secundo.

¶Peroratio ad nuper abiuratos quosdam Hipot[h]eticos

Hipotheticos] Hipoteticos P

hereticos. etc.

AUdite viri Ismaelite (non dico) Israelite

Audite (inquam) viri madianite / ascolonite

Amonite / Gabionite / Audite verba que loquar.

¶Opus Euangelii est cibus perfectorum.

Sed quia non estis / de genere bonorum

(Qui cate[ch]isatis categorias / Cacodemoniorum) catechisatis] caterisatis P

ERGO.

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P misnumbers as B3

¶Et reliqua / vestra problemata. Scemata.

Dilemata. Sinto anathemata.

Ineluctabile argumentum. Est.

¶A confutacion responsyue / or a[n] ineuytably prepensed answere / to all waywarde or frowarde altercacyons / that can or may be made or obiected agaynst Skelton laureate / deuyser of this Replycacyon. etc.

WHy fall ye at debate

With Skelton Laureate

Reputyng hym vnable

To gainsay replycable

Opinyons detestable

Of Heresy execrable

Ye saye that Poetry

Maye nat flye so hye

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In Theology

Nor Analogy

Nor Philology

Nor Philosophy

To answere or reply

Agaynst suche Heresy. Tota erras via si doctos poetas (illis autem non desunt carismata) arguis de inscitia. h. il.

Wherefore by and by

Nowe consequently

I call to this rekenyng

Dauyd that royall kyng

Whom Hieronymus

That doctour glorious

Dothe bothe write and call Dauid rex et propheta per diuum Hieronymum / matriculatur in nobili catalogo poetarum liricorum / vt patet infra etc. hec il.

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Poete of poetes all

And Prophete princypall

Th[i]s may nat be remorded This] Thus P

For it is wele recorded

In his pystell ad Paulinum

Presbyterum diuinum

Where worde for worde ye may

Rede / what Ierome there dothe say. Uos igitur omnes irrisores / contemptoresque poetarum erubescite cum ignominosa verecundia exiticiosaque confusio operiat facies vestras. hec il.

DAuid (inquit) Si[m]onides Simonides] Siphonides P noster / Pindarus et Alceus Alceus] Alcheus P / Flaccus quoque / Catullus / atque Serenus / Christum lira personat / et in decachordo psalterio ab inferis excitat resurgentem. Hec Hieronymus .

¶The Englysshe.

¶Kyng Dauid the prophete / of prophetes principall

Of poetes chefe poete / saint Ierome dothe wright

Resembled to Symonides / that poete lyricall Symonides] Symphonides P

Among the Grekes / most relucent of lyght

In that faculte: which shyned as Phebus bright

Lyke to Pyndarus / in glorious poetry

Lyke vnto Alcheus / he dothe hym magnify.

¶Flaccus nor Catullus / with hym may nat compare

Nor solempne Serenus / for all his armony

In metricall muses / his harpyng we may spare

For Dauyd our poete / harped so meloudiously

Of our sauyour Christ / in his decacorde psautry

That at his resurrection / he harped out of hell

Olde patriarkes et prophetes / in heuen with him to dwell

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¶Returne we to our former processe.

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THan / if this noble kyng

Thus can harpe and syng

With his harpe of prophecy

And spyrituall poetry

And saynt Ierome saythe

To whom we must gyue faythe

Warblynge with his strynges

Of suche Theologicall thynges

Why haue ye than disdayne

At poetes. And complayne

Howe poetes do but fayne.

Ye do moche great outrage

For to disparage

And to discorage

The fame matryculate

Of poetes laureate. Fama matriculata. i. scripta in quadam cartula immortalitatis et scedula gratie inmarcescibilis etc. h. il

For if ye sadly loke

And wesely rede the boke

Of good aduertysement

With me ye must consent

And infallibly agre

Of necessyte

Howe there is a spyrituall

And a mysteriall

And a mysticall

Effect Energiall

As Grekes do it call Energia grece latine efficax operatio. Internoque quodam spiritus impulsu inopinabiliter originata. etc.

Of suche an industry

And suche a pregna[n]cy pregnancy] pregnacy P

Of heuenly inspyracion

In laureate creacyon

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Of poetes commendacion

That of diuyne myseracion

God maketh his habytacion

In Poetes whiche excelles

And soiourns with them and dwelles Est deus in nobis agitanti calestianis illo sedibus etherijs / spiritus iste venit. h. Oui.

¶By whose inflammacion

Of spyrituall ins[t]ygacion instygacion] inslygacion P

And diuyne inspyracion Dona dei carmen nitidum facundia prestans. Mittitur ex astris a superisque datur. hec Bapt._Man.

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We are kyndled in suche facyon

With hete of the Holygost

Which is god of myghtes most

That he our penne dothe lede

And maketh in vs suche spede Tarda nescit molimina spiritus sancti gratia hec Hierony.

That forthwith we must nede

With penne and ynke procede

Somtyme for affection

Somtyme for sadde dyrection

Somtyme for correction

Somtyme vnder protection

Of pacient sufferance Lingua mea calamus scribe velociter scribentis. h. psal.

With sobre cyrcumstance

Our myndes to auaunce

To no mannes anoyance

Therfore no gre[u]ance

I pray you for to take

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In this that I do make

Agaynst these frenetykes

Agaynst these lunatykes

Agaynst these Sysmatykes

Agaynst these Heretykes

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Now of late abiured

Most vnhappely vred

For be ye wele assured

That Frensy nor Ielousy

Nor Heresy. wyll neuer dye.

DIXI. ¶Iniquis. Nolite inique agere / et delinquentibus. Nolite exaltare. CORNU. Hec psalmista.

¶Tantum pro tertio.

¶De raritate poetarum / deque Gimnosophistarum Philosophorum / Theologorum / ceterorumque eruditorum. Infinita numerositate Skeltonidis Laureati Epitoma.

Sunt infiniti. Sunt innumerique Sophiste

Sunt infiniti / sunt innumerique Logiste

Innumeri sunt Philosophi / sunt Theologique

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Sunt infiniti Doctores / suntque Magistri

Innumeri: sed sunt pauci / Rarique Poete. Que fiunt inter sociabus sicut Achates. h. Gag. etc

Hinc omne est rarum carum / Reor ergo Poetas.

Ante alios omnes diuino flamine flatos Lege Ualerium_Maximum de insigni veneratione poetarum.

Sic Plato diuinat. Diuinat sicque Socrates.

Sic magnus Macedo / sic Cesar maximus Heros

Romanus / celebres semper coluere Poeta[s]. Poetas] Poeta P

¶Thus endeth the Replicacyon of Skelton Laureate etc. Imprinted by Richard_Pynson / printer to the kynges most noble grace.

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