The Poetical Works of John Skelton, Volume 1 (of 2)Skelton, John
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The Poetical Works of John Skelton, Volume 1 (of 2)
Skelton, John
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
But, Phylyp, I coniure thee
Now by these names thre,
Diana in the woodes grene,
Luna that so bryght doth shene,[467]
Procerpina in hell,
That thou shortly tell,
And shew now vnto me
What the cause may be
Of this perplexite! 1370
_Inferias,[468] Philippe, tuas[469] Scroupe pulchra Joanna_
_Instanter petiit:[470] cur nostri carminis illam_
_Nunc pudet?[471] est sero; minor est infamia vero._
Than suche as haue disdayned
And of this worke complayned,
I pray God they be payned
No worse than is contayned
In verses two or thre
That folowe as you[472] may se.
_Luride, cur, livor, volucris pia funera damnas?_ 1380
_Talia te rapiant rapiunt quæ fata volucrem!_[473]
_Est tamen invidia mors tibi continua._
[335] _Here after_, &c.] From the ed. by Kele, n. d., collated with that
by Kitson, n. d. (which in some copies is said to be printed by Weale),
and with Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568.
[336] _had_] Not in other eds.
[337] _For_] Other eds. “From.”
[338] _From_] Eds. “For.”
[339] _montes_] Marshe’s ed. “montis.”
[340] _Zenophontes_] Other eds. “Zenophontis.”
[341] _Andromach_] Marshe’s ed. “Andromaca.”
[342] _syt_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “set;” but see fifth line after.
[343] _Sulpicia_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “Sulspicia.”
[344] _that_] Not in Marshe’s ed.
[345] _eloquently_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “eloquenly.”
[346] _fly_] Other eds. “fle.”
[347] _fethers_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “fether.”
[348] _though_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “thought.”
[349] _in_] Not in other eds.
[350] _Attalus_] Eds. “Artalus.”
[351] _ofsprynge_] Other eds. “sprynge.”
[352] _opened_] Marshe’s ed. “open.”
[353] _waxed_] Marshe’s ed. “ware.”
[354] _birdes_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “bordes,” which, perhaps, is the
right reading. See notes.
[355] _haue yet_] Other eds. “yet haue.”
[356] _carlyshe_] Other eds. “churlyshe.”
[357] _The_] Eds. “These.”
[358] _serpentes_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “serpens.”
[359] _were_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “where.”
[360]
_And go in at my spayre,_
_And crepe in at my gore_
Kitson’s ed.;
“_And_ often _at my spayre_
_And_ gape _in at my gore_.”
[361] _his_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “this.”
[362] _on_] Marshe’s ed. “an.”
[363] _a_] Not in Marshe’s ed.
[364] _Softly_] Marshe’s ed. “Loftly.”
[365] _bitter_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “better.”
[366] _Menander_] See notes.
[367] _the_] So other eds. Not in Kele’s ed.
[368] _is_] Not in other eds.
[369] _gaunce_] Other eds. “gaunte.”
[370] _cormoraunce_] Other eds. “cormoraunte.”
[371] _The route and the kowgh_] See notes.
[372] _wilde_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “wynde.”
[373] _water hen_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “wather _hen_.”
[374] _puffin_] So other eds. Kele’s ed. “pussyn.”
[375] _No_] Kitson’s ed. “Nor.”
[376] _doth freat_] So Marshe’s ed. Other eds. “so great.”
[377] _Ga_] Marshe’s ed. “Fa.”
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