_Gup, Scót, Ye blót: Laudáte Caudáte, Sét in bétter Thy péntaméter. This Dúndás, This Scóttishe ás, He rýmes and ráyles That Énglishman have táyles. Skeltónus laureátus, Ánglicus nátus, Próvocat Músas Cóntra Dúndas Spurcíssimum Scótum Úndique nótum_, &c. The mingling of Latin and English lines, as in this passage, is one of the characteristic features of the Skeltonic verse. In some passages, as e.g. in the humorous poems _Phyllyp Sparowe_ and _Elinour Rummyng_, the three-beat rhythm seems to prevail. In such cases it probably developed out of the two-beat rhythm in the same way as in _King Horn_. _Yet óne thynge ìs behýnde That nów còmmeth to mýnde; An épytàphe I wold háue For Phýllỳppes gráue; But fór I àm a máyde, Týmorous, hàlf afráyde, That néuer yèt asáyde Of Elycònys wéll, Whère the Múses dwell;_ &c. Phyllyp Sparowe (i. 69). Skelton's verse was chiefly used by poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for satirical and burlesque poetry. One of its chief cultivators was John Taylor, the Water-poet. A list of Skeltonic poems is given in Dyce's edition of Skelton's poems, i. introduction, pp. cxxviii-cxxix. =C. Revival of the old four-beat alliterative verse in the Modern English period.= § =72.= If after what precedes any doubt were possible as to the scansion of the verses quoted on p. 113 from the Prologue to the Early Modern English comedy of _Gammer Gurton's Needle_, this doubt would be removed at once by the following couplet and by the accents put over the second line of it by the sixteenth-century metrician, George Gascoigne[116]: _No =w=ight in this =w=orld | that =w=ealth can attayne, Unlésse hè bèléve | thàt áll ìs bùt váyne._ For the rhythm of these lines is perfectly identical with that of the lines of the above-mentioned prologue, and also with that of the alliterative line quoted ten years later (A. D. 1585), and called tumbling-verse by King James VI in his _Revlis and Cavtelis_, viz.: _Fetching fúde for to féid it | fast fúrth of the Fárie._ This is the very same rhythm in which a good many songs and ballads of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are written, as e.g. the well-known ballad of _King John and the Abbot of Canterbury_, which begins with the following stanzas[117]: _An áncient stóry | I'le téll you anón Of a nótable prínce, | that was cálled king Jóhn; And he rúled Éngland | with máine and with míght, For he díd great wróng, | and maintéin'd little ríght._ _And I'le téll you a stóry, | a stóry so mérrye, Concérning the Abbot | of Cánterbúrye; How for his hóuse-kéeping, | and hígh renówne, They rode póst for him | to faire Lóndon tówne._