_Per Fredericum Hely,_ _Fratrem de Monte Carmeli,_ _Qui condunt sine sale_ _Hoc devotum trigintale._ _Vale Jayberd, valde male!_ Adam Vddersall,[654] _Alias dictus_ Adam all a knaue, his Epitaph foloweth deuoutly; He was somtime the holy Baillyue of Dis. Of Dis _Adam degebat:_ _dum vixit, falsa gerebat,_ _Namque extorquebat_ _quicquid nativus habebat,_ _Aut liber natus; rapidus[655]_ _lupus inde vocatus:_ _Ecclesiamque satus_ _de Belial iste Pilatus_ _Sub pede calcatus_ _violavit, nunc violatus:_ 10 _Perfidus, iratus,_ _numquam fuit ille beatus:_ _Uddersall stratus_ _benedictis[656] est spoliatus,_ _Improbus, inflatus,_ _maledictis jam laceratus:_ _Dis,[657] tibi bacchatus_ _ballivus prædominatus:_ _Hic fuit ingratus,_ _porcus velut insatiatus,_ 20 _Pinguis, crassatus;_ _velut Agag sit[658] reprobatus!_ _Crudelisque Cacus_ _barathro, peto, sit tumulatus!_ _Belsabub his soule saue,_ _Qui jacet hic_, like a knaue! _Jam scio mortuus est,_ _Et jacet hic_, like a best. _Anima ejus_ _De malo in pejus.[659] Amen._ 30 _De Dis hæc semper erit camena,_ _Adam Uddersall sit anathema!_ _Auctore Skelton, rectore de Dis._ _Finis, &c. Apud Trumpinton scriptum[660] per Curatum ejusdem, quinto die Januarii Anno Domini, secundum computat. Angliæ, MDVII._ _Adam, Adam, ubi es?_ Genesis. Re. _Ubi nulla requies, ubi nullus ordo, sed sempiternus horror inhabitat._ Job. [639] _decollate_] Eds. “decolare.” [640] _haud_] Eds. “hod.” [641] _quondam_] Marshe’s ed. “quandam.” [642] _intra_] Eds. “infra.” [643] _tua_] Eds. “sua.” [644] _Idem, &c._] These lines follow _Ware the Hawk_ in all the eds. [645] _valent_] Eds. “volent.” [646] _Epithaphe, &c._] From Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568. [647] _all_] Ed. “ali.:” but compare p. 171. [648] _multinominis_] Ed. “maltimoniis.” [649] _populo_] The correction of the Rev. J. Mitford. Ed. “populus.” [650] _que Acheronta, &c. ... que dicax, &c._] Perhaps these passages ought to be arranged thus for the sake of the rhyme; _“que Acheronta boando_ _tonaret. Nunquam sincere,” &c._ ... _“que dicax mendax—_ _que, fuere Et mores tales,” &c._ But from the rest of the poem it seems that Skelton intended each hexameter to be cut only into two parts. [651] _socios_] Ed. “socias.” [652] _caput aut ovis_] Ed. “caput caput.” I give the conjectural reading of the Rev. J. Mitford. The rhyme suggests (but the metre will not allow) “bidentis.” [653] _incola_] Ed. “Nicolas.” [654] _Vddersall, &c._] Ed. “Vddersale:” but compare vv. 13, 32. In this passage I have adopted the arrangement proposed by the Rev. J. Mitford.—Ed. thus; “Adam Vddersale. alias dictus Adam all. a knaue his Epitaph. Foloweth deuoutly, He was somtime the holy baillyue of dis.”