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
This tretise devysed it is
Of two knaues somtyme of Dis.
Though this knaues be deade,
Full of myschiefe and queed,
Yet, where so euer they ly,
Theyr names shall neuer dye.
_Compendium de duobus versipellibus, John Jayberd, et Adam all[647] a
knaue, deque illorum notissima vilitate._
A DEUOUTE TRENTALE FOR OLD JOHN CLARKE, SOMETYME THE HOLY PATRIARKE OF
DIS.
_Sequitur trigintale_
_Tale quale rationale,_
_Licet parum curiale,_
_Tamen satis est formale,_
_Joannis Clerc, hominis_
_Cujusdam multinominis,[648]_
_Joannes Jayberd qui vocatur,_
_Clerc cleribus nuncupatur._
_Obiit sanctus iste pater_
_Anno Domini MD. sexto._ 10
_In parochia de Dis_
_Non erat sibi similis;_
_In malitia vir insignis,_
_Duplex corde et bilinguis;_
_Senio confectus,_
_Omnibus suspectus,_
_Nemini dilectus,_
_Sepultus est_ amonge the wedes:
God forgeue hym his mysdedes!
_Dulce melos_
_Penetrans cœlos._
_Carmina cum cannis_
_cantemus festa Joannis:_
_Clerk obiit vere,_
_Jayberd nomenque dedere;_
_Dis populo[649] natus,_
_Clerk cleribus estque vocatus._
_Hic vir Chaldæus,_
_nequam vir, ceu Jebusæus,_
_In Christum Domini_
_fremuit de more cameli,_ 10
_Rectori proprio_
_tam verba retorta loquendo_
_Unde resultando—_
_que Acheronta[650] boando tonaret._
_Nunquam sincere_
_solitus sua crimina flere;_
_Cui male lingua loquax—_
_que dicax mendaxque, fuere_
_Et mores tales_
_resident in nemine quales;_ 20
_Carpens vitales_
_auras, turbare sodales_
_Et cines socios,[651]_
_asinus, mulus velut, et bos._
_Omne suum studium_
_rubeum pictum per amictum_
_Discolor; et victum_
_faciens semper maledictum_
_Ex intestinis ovium—_
_que boumque caprorum;_ 30
_Tendens adque forum,_
_fragmentum colligit horum,_
_Dentibus exemptis_
_mastigat cumque polentis_
_Lanigerum caput aut ovis[652]_
_aut vaccæ mugientis._
_Quid petis, hic sit quis?_
_John Jayberd, incola[653] de Dis;_
_Cui, dum vixerat is,_
_sociantur jurgia, vis, lis._ 40
_Jam jacet hic_ starke deed,
Neuer a toth in his heed.
Adieu, Jayberd, adue,
I faith, dikkon thou crue!
_Fratres, orate_
For this knauate,
By the holy rode,
Dyd neuer man good:
I pray you all,
And pray shall, 50
At this trentall
On knees to fall
To the fote ball;
With, fill the blak bowle
For Jayberdes sowle.
_Bibite multum:_
_Ecce sepultum_
_Sub pede stultum,_
_Asinum, et mulum!_
The deuill kis his _culum_! 60
Wit[h], hey, howe, rumbelowe,
_Rumpopulorum,_
_Per omnia secula seculorum! Amen._
_Requiem, &c._
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