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
[669] _precabitur_] Ed. “precabiturum.”
[670] _sancto_] Ed. “sāctā.”
_Mortuus est asinus,_
_Qui pinxit mulum:[671]_
_Hic jacet barbarus_;
The deuill kys his _culum_! _Amen._
_Hanc volo transcribas, transcriptam moxque remittas Pagellam; quia sunt
qui mea scripta sciunt._
[671] _pinxit mulum_] Corrected by the Rev. J. Mitford. Ed. “vixit
multum.” The progress of the error was evidently—pinxit, _vinxit_,
_vixit_. See notes.
_Redde_ { _Igitur quia sunt qui mala cuncta fremunt,[672]_
{ _Igitur quia sunt qui bona cuncta premunt._
_Nec tamen expaveo de fatuo labio,_
_Nec multum paveo de stolido[673] rabulo._
[672] _fremunt ... premunt_] So Editor of 1736. Ed. “frenuitur,”
“prenuitur.”
[673] _stolido_] Ed. “scolido.”
_Salve plus[674] decies quam[675] sunt momenta dierum!_
_Quot generum species,[676] quot res, quot nomina rerum,_
_Quot prati[677] flores, quot sunt et[678] in orbe colores,_
_Quot pisces, quot aves, quot sunt et[679] in æquore naves,_
_Quot volucrum pennæ, quot sunt tormenta gehennæ,_
_Quot cœli stellæ, quot sunt et[680] in orbe puellæ,_
_Quot sancti Romæ, quot sunt miracula Thomæ,_
_Quot sunt virtutes, tantas tibi[681] mitto salutes._
[674] _Salve plus, &c._] From Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568,
(where it is printed on the reverse of the title-page), collated with a
copy in Additional MSS. Brit. Mus. (4787, fol. 224), which is headed “Ex
Jo. Skeltono Poeta Laureato.”
[675] _quam_] So MS. In Marshe’s ed. a contraction, which the Editor of
1736 resolved into “quot.”
[676] _generum species_] MS. “_species generum_.”
[677] _prati_] MS. “pratis.”
[678] _et_] Not in Marshe’s ed.
[679] _et_] Not in Marshe’s ed.
[680] _et_] Not in Marshe’s ed.
[681] _tantas tibi_] So MS. Marshe’s ed. “tot vobis;” but compare v. 1.
“_Salve_,” &c.
ORATOR[682] REGIUS SKELTONIS[683] LAUREATUS IN SINGULARE MERITISSIMUMQUE
PRÆCONIUM NOBILISSIMI PRINCIPIS HENRICI SEPTIMI, NUPER STRENUISSIMI
REGIS ANGLIÆ, HOC EPITAPHIUM EDIDIT, AD SINCERAM CONTEMPLATIONEM
REVERENDI IN CHRISTO PATRIS AC DOMINI, DOMINI JOHANNIS ISLIPPÆ[684]
ABBATIS WESTMONASTERIENSIS[685] OPTIME MERITI, ANNO DOMINI MDXII. PRIDIE
DIVI[686] ANDREÆ APOSTOLI, &c.
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