_Diffamas patriam, qua non_ _est melior usquam._ _Cum cauda plaudis dum_ _possis, ad ostia pultas[740]_ _Mendicans; mendicus eris,_ _mendaxque bilinguis,_ _Scabidus, horribilis, quem_ _vermes sexque pedales_ _Corrodunt misere; miseris[741]_ _genus est maledictum._ Skelton, _nobilis poeta_. Gup, Scot, Ye blot: _Laudate_ _Caudate_, Set in better Thy pentameter. This Dundas, This Scottishe as, He rymes and railes That Englishmen haue tailes. 10 _Skeltonus laureatus,_ _Anglicus natus,_ _Provocat Musas_ _Contra Dundas_ _Spurcissimum[742] Scotum,_ _Undique notum,_ _Rustice fotum,_ _Vapide potum._ Skelton laureat After this rate 20 Defendeth with his pen All Englysh men Agayn Dundas, That Scottishe asse. Shake thy tayle, Scot, lyke a cur, For thou beggest at euery mannes dur: Tut, Scot, I sey, Go shake thy[743] dog, hey! Dundas of Galaway With thy versyfyeng rayles 30 How they haue tayles. By Jesu Christ, Fals Scot, thou lyest: But behynd in our hose We bere there a rose For thy Scottyshe nose, A spectacle case To couer thy face, With tray deux ase. A tolman[744] to blot, 40 A rough foted Scot! Dundas, sir knaue, Why doste thow depraue This royall reame, Whose radiant beame And relucent light Thou hast in despite, Thou donghyll knyght? But thou lakest might, Dundas, dronken and drowsy, 50 Skabed, scuruy, and lowsy, Of vnhappy generacion And most vngracious nacion. Dundas, That dronke asse, That ratis and rankis, That prates and prankes On Huntley bankes, Take this our thankes; Dunde, Dunbar,[745] 60 Walke, Scot, Walke, sot, Rayle not to far. [738] _Vilitissimus_] So, perhaps, Skelton wrote; but qy. “Vilissimus?”—This poem from Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568. [739] _spurcaque_] Ed. “spureaquæ.” [740] _pultas_] Ed. “pultes.” [741] _miseris_] Ed. “miseres.” [742] _Spurcissimum_] Ed. “Norpacissimum.” [743] _thy_] Qy. “thé?” but see notes. [744] _tolman_] See notes. [745] _Dunde, Dunbar_] Ed. “Dunde bar.” ELEGIA[746] IN SERENISSIMÆ PRINCIPIS ET DOMINÆ, DOMINÆ MARGARETÆ NUPER COMITISSÆ DE DERBY, STRENUISSIMI REGIS HENRICI SEPTIMI MATRIS, FUNEBRE MINISTERIUM, PER SKELTONIDA LAUREATUM, OBATOREM REGIUM, XVI. DIE[747] MENSIS AUGUSTI, ANNO SALUTIS MDXVI.