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
Whereto should I rehers
The sentence of my vers? 240
In them be no scholys
For braynsycke frantycke folys:
_Construas hoc_,
_Domine_ Dawcocke!
Ware the hawke!
Maister _sophista_,
Ye _simplex syllogista_,
Ye[628] deuelysh _dogmatista_,
Your hawke on your fista,
To hawke when you[629] lista 250
_In ecclesia ista_,
_Domine concupisti_,[630]
With thy hawke on thy fisty?
_Nunquid sic dixisti?_
_Nunquid sic fecisti?_
_Sed ubi hoc legisti_
_Aut unde hoc_,
Doctor Dawcocke?
Ware the hawke!
Doctor _Dialetica_,[631] 260
Where fynde you in _Hypothetica_,
Or in _Categoria_,
_Latina sive Dorica_,
To vse your hawkys _forica_
_In propitiatorio_,
_Tanquam diversorio?_
_Unde hoc_,
_Domine_ Dawcocke?
Ware the hawke!
Saye to me, Jacke Harys, 270
_Quare aucuparis_
_Ad sacramentum altaris?_
For no reuerens[632] thou sparys
To shake my pygeons federis
_Super arcam fœderis_:
_Unde hoc_,
Doctor Dawcocke?
Ware the hawke!
Sir _Dominus vobiscum_,
_Per[633] aucupium_ 280
Ye made your hawke to cum
_Desuper candelabrum_
_Christi crucifixi_
To fede vpon your fisty:
_Dic, inimice crucis Christi_,
_Ubi didicisti_
_Facere hoc_,
_Domine_ Dawcocke?
Ware the hawke!
Apostata Julianus, 290
Nor yet Nestorianus,
Thou shalt no[634] where rede
That they dyd suche a dede,
To let theyr hawkys fly
_Ad ostium tabernaculi_,
_In quo est corpus Domini_:
_Cave hoc_,
Doctor Dawcocke!
Ware the hawke!
This dowtles ye rauyd, 300
Dys church ye thus deprauyd;
Wherfore, as I be sauyd,
Ye are therefore beknauyd:
_Quare? quia Evangelia_,
_Concha et conchylia_,
_Accipiter[635] et sonalia_,
_Et bruta animalia_,[636]
_Cætera quoque talia_
_Tibi sunt æqualia_:
_Unde hoc_, 310
_Domine_ Dawcocke?
Ware the hawke!
_Et relis et ralis_,
_Et reliqualis_,
From Granado to Galis,
From Wynchelsee to Walys,[637]
_Non est_ braynsycke _talis_,
_Nec minus rationalis_,
_Nec magis bestialis_,[638]
That synggys with a chalys: 320
_Construas hoc_,
Doctor Dawcocke!
Ware the hawke!
Masyd, wytles, smery smyth,
Hampar with your hammer vpon thy styth,
And make hereof a syckyll or a saw,
For thoughe ye lyue a c. yere, ye shall dy a daw.
_Vos valete_,
_Doctor indiscrete!_
[604] _Ware the Hauke_] From the ed. by Kynge and Marche of _Certaine
bokes compyled by mayster Skelton_, n. d., collated with the same work,
ed. Day, n. d., and ed. Lant, n. d., and with Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s
_Workes_, 1568.
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