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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. |
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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. |
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ALma parens. O. Cantabrigensis | ||
Cur lac[r]imaris? Esto / tui sint lacrimaris] lachimaris P | ||
Degeneres hi. Filioli / sed | ||
Non ob inertes (O pia mater) | ||
5 | Insciolos uel decolor esto. | |
Progenies non nobilis omnis | ||
Quam tua forsan / mamma fouebat: | ||
Tu tamen esto / Palladis alme | ||
Gloria pollens plena Minerue | ||
10 | 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 | ||
ref.ed: 374 | ||
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 | ||
5 | 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 | ||
10 | 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 | ||
15 | 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 ref.ed:
375
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
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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 | ||
20 | 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 | ||
25 | In their study abhomynable | |
Our glorious Lady to disable | ||
And heynously on her to bable | ||
With langage detestable | ||
With your lyppes polluted | ||
30 | 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. | ||
35 | ¶I saye thou madde Marche-Hare | |
I wondre howe ye dare | ||
Open your ianglyng iawes | ||
To preche in any clawes | ||
Lyke pratynge poppyng dawes | ||
40 | Agaynst her excellence | |
Agaynst her reuerence | ||
Agaynst her preemynence | ||
Agaynst her magnifycence | ||
That neuer dyde offence. Conuenio vos o / Ariani / Iuliano apostata execrabiliores. etc. | ||
45 | ¶Ye heretykes recrayed | |
Wotte ye what ye sayed / | ||
ref.ed: 376 | ||
sig: [A3v] | ||
Of Mary / mother and mayed | ||
With baudrie at her ye brayed | ||
With baudy wordes vnmete | ||
50 | 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 | ||
55 | 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 | ||
60 | 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 | ||
65 | 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 | ||
70 | 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 | ||
75 | With. Te_ /he. ta_ /ha. bo_ /ho bo_ /ho. Conuenio vos o / Malesani / vani / prophani / christiani. | |
sig: [A4] | ||
And suche wondringes many mo | ||
Helas / ye wreches ye may be wo | ||
Ye may syng wele_a_way | ||
And curse bothe nyght and day | ||
80 | 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 | ||
85 | To be blowen with the flye | |
Of horryble heresy | ||
ref.ed: 377 | ||
Fayne ye were to reny | ||
And mercy for to crye | ||
Or be brende by and by | ||
90 | Confessyng howe ye dyde lye | |
In prechyng shamefully. | ||
¶Your-selfe thus ye discured | ||
As clerkes vnassured | ||
With ignorance obscured | ||
95 | Ye are vnhappely vred | |
In your Dialeticall | ||
And principles Silogisticall Conuenio vos o / Lutheriani | ||
If ye to remembrance call | ||
Howe Syllogisari | ||
100 | Non est ex particulari | |
Necque negatiuis Necque non neque legas. | ||
Recte concludere / si_vis: | ||
Et cetera id genus | ||
Ye coude nat Corde tenus: | ||
105 | Nor answere Verbo tenus | |
sig: A4v] | ||
Whan prelacy you opposed | ||
Your hertes than were hosed | ||
Your relacions reposed | ||
And yet ye supposed | ||
110 | 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 | ||
115 | 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 | ||
120 | 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 | ||
125 | Ye argued argumentes | |
As it were upon the elenkes Sunt preterea nonnulli huius farine / de quibus hic non est narrandi locus | ||
ref.ed: 378 | ||
De rebus apparentibus | ||
Et non existentibus | ||
And ye wolde appere wyse | ||
130 | But ye were folysshe nyse | |
Yet be meanes of that vyse | ||
Ye dyde prouoke and tyse | ||
Oftnar than ones or twyse | ||
Many a goodman | ||
135 | 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. | ||
140 | ¶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 | ||
145 | 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 | ||
150 | 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 | ||
155 | 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 | ||
160 | 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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165 | Among the scabbed skyes | |
Of wycliffes flesshe-flyes Conuenio vos o wichliftiste. | ||
ref.ed: 379 | ||
Ye strynged so Luthers lute | ||
That ye dawns all in a sute | ||
The heritykes ragged ray | ||
170 | That bringes you out of the way | |
Of holy churches lay | ||
Ye shayle / inter enigmata | ||
And inter paradigmata | ||
Marked in your cradels | ||
175 | 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 | ||
180 | 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. | ||
185 | 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 | ||
190 | 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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195 | 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 | ||
200 | 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 | ||
205 | And there to make relacion | |
In open predycacion | ||
ref.ed: 380 | ||
And knowlege your offence | ||
Before open audyence | ||
Howe falsely ye had surmysed | ||
210 | And deuyllysshely deuysed | |
The people to seduce | ||
And chase them thorowe the muse | ||
Of your noughty counsell | ||
To hunt them in-to hell | ||
215 | With blowyng out your hornes | |
Full of mockysshe scornes | ||
With chatyng and rechatyng | ||
And your busy pratyng | ||
Of the gospell and the pystels | ||
220 | 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 | ||
sig: [A6v] | ||
225 | 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 | ||
230 | 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 | ||
235 | But moche worse Isagogici | |
For ye haue enduced a secte | ||
With heresy all infecte | ||
Wherfore ye are well checte | ||
And by holy churche correcte | ||
240 | And in maner as abiecte | |
For euermore suspecte | ||
And banysshed in effect | ||
From all honest company | ||
Bycause ye haue eaten a flye | ||
245 | To your great vyllony | |
That neuer more may dye. | ||
ref.ed: 381 | ||
¶Come forthe ye pope-holy | ||
Full of melancoly | ||
Your madde Ipocrisy Conuenio vos o. ypocrite etc. | ||
250 | 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 | ||
255 | Who-so dothe magnifye | |
That glorious mayde Mary | ||
That glorious mayde and mother | ||
So was there neuer another | ||
But that Princesse alone | ||
260 | 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 | ||
265 | 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 | ||
270 | Nor do pylgrymages | |
I saye ye deuyllysshe pages | ||
Full of suche dottages | ||
Count ye your-selfe good clerkes | ||
And snapper in suche werkes. | ||
275 | ¶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 | ||
280 | With other doctours many mo Conuenio vos o / demoniaci meridiani. etc. | |
Whiche / de (Latria) do trete | ||
They saye howe (Latria) is an honour grete | ||
sig: [B1v] | ||
Belongyng to the deite | ||
To this ye nedes must agre | ||
285 | But I trowe your-selfe ye ouer_se | |
What longeth to Christes humanyte | ||
ref.ed: 382 | ||
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 | ||
290 | 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 | ||
295 | 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. |
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¶Peroratio ad nuper abiuratos quosdam Hipot[h]eticos Hipotheticos] Hipoteticos P hereticos. etc.
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AUdite viri Ismaelite (non dico) Israelite | ||
Audite (inquam) viri madianite / ascolonite | ||
Amonite / Gabionite / Audite verba que loquar. | ||
¶Opus Euangelii est cibus perfectorum. | ||
5 | Sed quia non estis / de genere bonorum | |
(Qui cate[ch]isatis categorias / Cacodemoniorum) catechisatis] caterisatis P | ||
ERGO. | ||
sig: B2 | ||
P misnumbers as B3 | ||
¶Et reliqua / vestra problemata. Scemata. | ||
Dilemata. Sinto anathemata. | ||
10 | 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. |
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WHy fall ye at debate | ||
With Skelton Laureate | ||
Reputyng hym vnable | ||
To gainsay replycable | ||
5 | Opinyons detestable | |
Of Heresy execrable | ||
Ye saye that Poetry | ||
Maye nat flye so hye | ||
ref.ed: 383 | ||
In Theology | ||
10 | 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. | ||
15 | Wherefore by and by | |
Nowe consequently | ||
I call to this rekenyng | ||
Dauyd that royall kyng | ||
Whom Hieronymus | ||
20 | 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. | ||
sig: [B2v] | ||
Poete of poetes all | ||
And Prophete princypall | ||
Th[i]s may nat be remorded This] Thus P | ||
25 | 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. |
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30 | ¶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 | ||
35 | 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 | ||
40 | 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 | ||
ref.ed: 384 | ||
¶Returne we to our former processe. |
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THan / if this noble kyng | ||
45 | Thus can harpe and syng | |
With his harpe of prophecy | ||
And spyrituall poetry | ||
And saynt Ierome saythe | ||
To whom we must gyue faythe | ||
50 | Warblynge with his strynges | |
Of suche Theologicall thynges | ||
Why haue ye than disdayne | ||
At poetes. And complayne | ||
Howe poetes do but fayne. | ||
55 | 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 | ||
60 | For if ye sadly loke | |
And wesely rede the boke | ||
Of good aduertysement | ||
With me ye must consent | ||
And infallibly agre | ||
65 | Of necessyte | |
Howe there is a spyrituall | ||
And a mysteriall | ||
And a mysticall | ||
Effect Energiall | ||
70 | 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 | ||
sig: [B3v] | ||
75 | 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. | ||
80 | ¶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. | ||
ref.ed: 385 | ||
We are kyndled in suche facyon | ||
With hete of the Holygost | ||
85 | 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 | ||
90 | Somtyme for affection | |
Somtyme for sadde dyrection | ||
Somtyme for correction | ||
Somtyme vnder protection | ||
Of pacient sufferance Lingua mea calamus scribe velociter scribentis. h. psal. | ||
95 | With sobre cyrcumstance | |
Our myndes to auaunce | ||
To no mannes anoyance | ||
Therfore no gre[u]ance | ||
I pray you for to take | ||
100 | In this that I do make | |
Agaynst these frenetykes | ||
Agaynst these lunatykes | ||
Agaynst these Sysmatykes | ||
Agaynst these Heretykes | ||
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105 | 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. |
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¶De raritate poetarum / deque Gimnosophistarum Philosophorum / Theologorum / ceterorumque eruditorum. Infinita numerositate Skeltonidis Laureati Epitoma. |
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Sunt infiniti. Sunt innumerique Sophiste | ||
Sunt infiniti / sunt innumerique Logiste | ||
Innumeri sunt Philosophi / sunt Theologique | ||
ref.ed: 386 | ||
Sunt infiniti Doctores / suntque Magistri | ||
5 | 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 | ||
10 | 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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