_Honorificatissimo,[768] amplissimo, longeque reverendissimo in Christo patri, ac domino, domino Thomæ, &c. tituli sanctæ Ceciliæ, sacrosanctæ Romanæ ecclesiæ presbytero, Cardinali meritissimo, et apostolicæ sedis legato, a latereque legato superillustri, &c., Skeltonis laureatus, ora. reg., humillimum dicit obsequium cum omni debita reverentia, tanto tamque magnifico digna principe sacerdotum, totiusque justitiæ æquabilissimo moderatore, necnon præsentis opusculi fautore excellentissimo, &c., ad cujus auspicatissimam contemplationem, sub memorabili prelo gloriosæ immortalitatis, præsens pagella felicitatur, &c._ A REPLYCACION AGAYNST CERTAYNE YONG SCOLERS ABIURED OF LATE, &c. _Argumentum._ _Crassantes nimium, nimium sterilesque labruscas,_ _Vinea quas Domini Sabaot non sustinet ultra_ _Laxius expandi, nostra est resecare voluntas._ _Cum privilegio a rege indulto._ Protestacion alway canonically prepensed, professed, and with good delyberacion made, that this lytell pamphilet, called the Replicacion of Skelton laureate, ora. reg., remordyng dyuers recrayed and moche vnresonable errours of certayne sophystycate scolers and rechelesse yonge heretykes lately abiured, &c. shall euermore be, with all obsequious redynesse, humbly submytted vnto the ryght discrete reformacyon of the reuerende prelates and moche noble doctours of our mother holy Churche, &c. _Ad almam Universitatem Cantabrigensem, &c._ _Eulogium consolationis._ [Sidenote: Cantabrigia Skeltonidi laureato primam mammam eruditionis pientissime propinavit.] _Alma parens O Cantabrigensis,_ _Cur lacrymaris? Esto, tui sint_ _Degeneres hi filioli, sed_ _Non ob inertes, O pia mater,_ _Insciolos vel decolor esto._ _Progenies non nobilis omnis,_ _Quam tua forsan mamma fovebat._ _Tu tamen esto Palladis almæ_ _Gloria pollens plena Minervæ,_ _Dum radiabunt astra polorum:_ _Jamque valeto, meque foveto,_ _Namque tibi quondam carus alumnus eram._ [Sidenote: Zebub musca inflativa sibilans ab austro, quæ intumescere facit hæresiarchas contra fidem orthodoxam, &c. h. il. Eruditionis exordium in tenera audacique juventa temperatæ moderationis frenum postulat. Alioquin scientia effrenata inflataque spuma elationis, quod dulce venenum est, subtiliter intoxicat interimitque incautum possessorem suum, &c. h. il. Non sit igitur tibi, Philologia, ratione intemperatæ loquacitatis suæ,[769] inordinatæ dicacitatis, incogitatæ procacitatis, in singultum et scrupulum cordis tui, &c. h. il. Eloquentiam sine sapientia prodesse nunquam, obesse plerumque, satis constat evidenter i. veterum rhetoris.]