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
Howe yong scolers nowe a dayes enbolned[770] with the flyblowen blast
of the moche vayne glorious pipplyng wynde, whan they haue delectably
lycked a lytell of the lycorous electuary of lusty lernyng, in the moche
studious scolehous of scrupulous Philology, countyng them selfe clerkes
exellently enformed and transcendingly sped in moche high connyng, and
whan they haue ones superciliusly caught.
[Sidenote: Rhetoricari incomposite, logicari meticulose, philosophari
perfunctorie, theologisari phrenetice, arguit in concionatore, nedum
lucidum intervallum, sed continuam pertinacemque mentis alienationem,
fæculentam, amurcatam, temulentam, &c. hæc il. Vos ergo elephantice
evangelizantes, tanquam anseres strepentes intercanoros olores, relegamus
ad tres grues bacchato Bromio initiatos, pro foribus Vinitoris, propter
fluenta Thamisiæ. Ubi poti potati cum fasciculo inambusto ambustum
futurum fasciculum pensitate, &c. hæc il.]
A lytell ragge of rethorike,
A lesse lumpe of logyke,
A pece or a patche of philosophy,
Than forthwith by and by
They tumble so in theology,
Drowned in dregges of diuinite,
That they iuge them selfe able to be
Doctours of the chayre in the Uyntre
At the Thre Cranes,
To magnifye their names: 10
But madly it frames,
For all that they preche and teche
Is farther than their wytte wyll reche.
Thus by demeryttes of their abusyon,
Finally they fall to carefull confusyon,
To beare a fagot, or to be enflamed:
Thus are they vndone and vtterly shamed.
_Ergo_
_Licet non enclitice,_
_Tamen enthymematice,_
_Notandum imprimis,_
_Ut ne quid nimis._
_Tantum pro primo._
[Sidenote: Stoicam sectam Zenon primus instituit. Juvenes sanguinolenti,
propter libidinem dominandi et gloriam famæ, frequenter fieri solent
seditiosi. hæc Dias. Perihermenias, Latine interpretatio, &c. Porphyrius
floruit Athenis tempore Gordiani imperatoris CC.XLIX. &c. Analytica,
libri priorum et posteriorum Aris. Topica, i. liber totalis de totalibus
locis, &c. Presumere, est non audenda facere, &c. De idolatria[771] lege
Hieronymum ad Jovenianum, &c. Idolatria dictio composita ex idolo (quod
est simulacrum) et latria (quod est cultura) apud nos, &c. De latria,
hyperdulia, dulia, quid sanctitas apostolica cum Constantino magno
Constantinopoli ordinavit in concilio Latrensi, manifeste reperies et
infra.]
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