_Principes persecuti sunt me gratis!_ _Omnibus consideratis,_ _Paradisus voluptatis_ _Hæc virgo est dulcissima._ My pen it is vnable, My hand it is vnstable, 1220 My reson rude and dull To prayse her at the full; Goodly maystres Jane, Sobre, demure Dyane; Jane this maystres hyght The lode star[452] of delyght, Dame Venus of all pleasure, The well of worldly treasure; She doth excede and pas In prudence dame Pallas; 1230 [For][453] this[454] most goodly floure, This blossome of fresshe colour, So Jupiter me socoure, She floryssheth new and new In beaute and vertew: _Hac claritate gemina_ _O gloriosa fœmina!_ _Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine!_ With this psalme, _Domine, probasti me_, Shall sayle ouer the see, 1240 With _Tibi, Domine, commendamus_, On pylgrimage[455] to saynt Jamys, For shrympes, and for pranys, And for stalkynge[456] cranys; And where my pen hath offendyd, I pray you it may be amendyd By discrete consyderacyon Of your wyse reformacyon; I haue not offended, I trust, If it be sadly dyscust. 1250 It were no gentle gyse This treatyse to despyse Because I haue wrytten and sayd Honour of this fayre mayd; Wherefore shulde I be blamed, That I Jane haue[457] named, And famously proclamed? She is worthy to be enrolde With letters of golde. _Car elle vault._ 1260 _Per me laurigerum Britonum Skeltonida vatem[458]_ _Laudibus eximiis merito hæc redimita puella est:_ _Formosam cecini,[459] qua non formosior ulla est;_ _Formosam potius quam commendaret Homerus._ _Sic juvat interdum rigidos recreare labores,_ _Nec minus hoc titulo tersa Minerva mea est._ _Rien que playsere._ _Thus endeth the boke of Philip Sparow, and here foloweth an adicyon made by maister Skelton._