Poetry. John Skelton

      Volume 1

       Table of Contents

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       A LAWDE AND PRAYSE MADE FOR OUR SOUEREIGNE LORD THE KYNG.

       SOME ACCOUNT OF SKELTON AND HIS WRITINGS.

       APPENDIX I. MERIE TALES OF SKELTON (see Memoir, p. xxx.); AND NOTICES OF SKELTON FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

       APPENDIX II. LIST OF EDITIONS, &c.

       APPENDIX III. EXTRACTS FROM PIECES WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN, OR WHICH CONTAIN EXAMPLES OF, THE METRE CALLED SKELTONICAL.

       OF THE DEATH OF THE NOBLE PRINCE, KYNGE EDWARDE THE FORTH, PER SKELTONIDEM LAUREATUM.

       POETA SKELTON LAUREATUS LIBELLUM SUUM METRICE ALLOQUITUR.

       SKELTON LAUREAT VPON THE DOULOUR[U]S DETHE AND MUCHE LAMENTABLE CHAUNCE OF THE MOST HONORABLE ERLE OF NORTHUMBERLANDE.

       TETRASTICHON SKELTON. LAUREATI AD MAGISTRUM RUKSHAW, SACRÆ THEOLOGIÆ EGREGIUM PROFESSOREM.

       SKELTON LAUREATE AGAYNSTE A comely coystrowne, that curyowsly chawntyd, and curryshly cowntred, and madly in hys musykkys mokkyshly made agaynste the ix Musys of polytyke poems and poettys matryculat.

       CONTRA ALIUM CANTITANTEM ET ORGANISANTEM ASINUM, QUI IMPUGNABAT SKELTONIDA PIERIUM, SARCASMOS.

       SKELTON LAUREAT, Vppon a deedmans hed, that was sent to hym from an honorable jentyllwoman for a token, deuysyd this gostly medytacyon in Englysh, couenable in sentence, comendable, lamentable, lacrymable, profytable for the soule.

       Here folowythe dyuers Balettys and Dyties solacyous, deuysyd by Master Skelton, Laureat.

       MANERLY MARGERY MYLK AND ALE.

       HERE BEGYNNETH A LYTELL TREATYSE, NAMED THE BOWGE OF COURTE.

       HERE AFTER FOLOWETH THE BOKE OF PHYLLYP SPAROWE, COMPYLED BY MAYSTER SKELTON, POETE LAUREATE.

       HERE AFTER FOLOWETH THE BOOKE CALLED ELYNOUR RUMMYNGE. THE TUNNYNG OF ELYNOUR RUMMYNG PER SKELTON LAUREAT.

       POEMS AGAINST GARNESCHE.

       SKELTON LAVREATE, ORATORIS REGIS TERTIUS, AGAINST VENEMOUS TONGUES ENPOYSONED WITH SCLAUNDER AND FALSE DETRACTIONS, &c.

       PRAYER TO THE FATHER OF HEAUEN.

       TO THE SECONDE PARSON.

       TO THE HOLY GOOSTE.

       THE MANER OF THE WORLD NOW A DAYES.

       HERE AFTER FOLOWETH THE BOKE ENTYTULED WARE THE HAUKE, PER SKELTON, LAUREAT.

       SKELTONIS APOSTROPHAT AD DIVUM JOHANNEM DECOLLATUM, IN CUJUS PROFESTO FIEBAT HOC AUCUPIUM.

       LAMENTATIO URBIS NORVICEN.

       IN BEDEL, QUONDAM BELIAL INCARNATUM, DEVOTUM EPITAPHIUM.

       ORATOR REGIUS SKELTONIS LAUREATUS IN SINGULARE MERITISSIMUMQUE PRÆCONIUM NOBILISSIMI PRINCIPIS HENRICI SEPTIMI, NUPER STRENUISSIMI REGIS ANGLIÆ, HOC EPITAPHIUM EDIDIT, AD SINCERAM CONTEMPLATIONEM REVERENDI IN CHRISTO PATRIS AC DOMINI, DOMINI JOHANNIS ISLIPPÆ ABBATIS WESTMONASTERIENSIS OPTIME MERITI, ANNO DOMINI MDXII. PRIDIE DIVI ANDREÆ APOSTOLI, &c.

       EULOGIUM PRO SUORUM TEMPORUM CONDITIONE, TANTIS PRINCIPIBUS NON INDIGNUM, PER SKELTONIDA LAUREATUM, ORATOREM REGIUM.

       TETRASTICHON VERITATIS.

       SKELTON LAUREATE AGAINST THE SCOTTES.

       VNTO DIUERS PEOPLE THAT REMORD THIS RYMYNGE AGAYNST THE SCOT JEMMY.

       CHORUS DE DIS CONTRA SCOTTOS CUM OMNI PROCESSIONALI FESTIVITATE SOLEMNISAVIT HOC EPITOMA XXII DIE SEPTEMBRIS, &c.

       CHORUS DE DIS, &C. SUPER TRIUMPHALI VICTORIA CONTRA GALLOS, &C. CANTAVIT SOLEMNITER HOC ELOGIUM IN PROFESTO DIVI JOHANNIS AD DECOLLATIONEM.

       VILITISSIMUS