That glorious mayde Mary; That glorious mayde and mother, So was there neuer another But that princesse alone, To whom we are bounde echone 260 The ymage of her grace To reuerence in euery place. [Sidenote: Convenio vos, O Machomitani, &c.] I saye, ye braynlesse beestes, Why iangle you suche iestes, In your diuynite Of Luthers affynite, To the people of lay fee, Raylyng in your rages To worshyppe none ymages, Nor do pylgrymages? 270 I saye, ye deuyllysshe pages, Full of suche dottages, Count ye your selfe good clerkes, And snapper in suche werkes? [Sidenote: Convenio vos, O dæmoniaci meridiani, &c.] Saynt Gregorie and saynt Ambrose, Ye haue reed them, I suppose, Saynt Jerome and saynt Austen, With other many holy men, Saynt Thomas de Aquyno, With other doctours many mo, 280 Whiche _de latria_ do trete; They saye howe _latria_ is an honour grete, Belongyng to the Deite: To this ye nedes must agre. But, I trowe, your selfe ye ouerse What longeth to Christes humanyte. [Sidenote: Nota de latria, hyperdulia, dulia, quid pro sancto sanxitum est Constantinopoli ab ecclesia catholica et apostolica iterum infringere; quid hoc sibi vult, fasciculum consulite inflammatum, &c.] If ye haue reed _de hyperdulia_, Than ye knowe what betokeneth _dulia_: Than shall ye fynde it fyrme and stable, And to our faithe moche agreable, 290 To worshyppe ymages of sayntes. Wherfore make ye no mo restrayntes, But mende your myndes that are mased; Or els doutlesse ye shalbe blased, And be brent at a stake, If further busynesse that ye make. [Sidenote: O medici, mediam pertundite venam.] Therfore I vyse you to forsake Of heresy the deuyllysshe scoles, And crye Godmercy, lyke frantyke foles. _Tantum pro secundo._ _Peroratio ad nuper abjuratos quosdam hypotheticos hæreticos, &c._ _Audite, viri Ismaelitæ, non dico Israelitæ;_ _Audite, inquam, viri Madianitæ, Ascalonitæ;_ _Ammonitæ, Gabaonitæ, audite verba quæ loquar._ _Opus evangelii est cibus perfectorum;_ _Sed quia non estis de genere bonorum,_ _Qui caterisatis[774] categorias cacodæmoniorum,_ _Ergo_ _Et reliqua vestra problemata, schemata,_ _Dilemmata, sinto anathemata!_ _Ineluctabile argumentum est._ A confutacion responsyue, or an ineuytably prepensed answere to all waywarde or frowarde altercacyons that can or may be made or obiected agaynst Skelton laureate, deuyser of this Replycacyon, &c. Why fall ye at debate 300 With Skelton laureate, Reputyng hym vnable To gainsay replycable Opinyons detestable Of heresy execrable? [Sidenote: Tota erras via, si doctos poetas (illis autem non desunt charismata) arguis de inscitia. h. il.]