Effecte energiall, As Grekes do it call, Of suche an industry, 370 And suche a pregnacy, Of heuenly inspyracion In laureate creacyon, Of poetes commendacion, [Sidenote: Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo.] That of diuyne myseracion [Sidenote: Sedibus ætheriis spiritus iste venit. h. Ovi.] God maketh his habytacion In poetes whiche excelles, And soiourns with them and dwelles. [Sidenote: Dona Dei, carmen nitidum, facundia præstans,] By whose inflammacion Of spyrituall instygacion 380 [Sidenote: Mittitur ex astris, a superisque datur. hæc Bapt. Man.] And diuyne inspyracion, We are kyndled in suche facyon With hete of the Holy Gost, Which is God of myghtes most, That he our penne dothe lede, [Sidenote: Tarda nescit molimina Spiritus Sancti gratia. hæc Hierony.] And maketh in vs suche spede, That forthwith we must nede With penne and ynke procede, Somtyme for affection, Somtyme for sadde dyrection, 390 Somtyme for correction, [Sidenote: Lingua mea calamus scribæ velociter scribentis. h. psal.] Somtyme vnder protection Of pacient sufferance, With sobre cyrcumstance, Our myndes to auaunce To no mannes anoyance; Therfore no greuance, I pray you, for to take, In this that I do make Agaynst these frenetykes, 400 Agaynst these lunatykes, Agaynst these sysmatykes, Agaynst these heretykes, Nowe of late abiured, Most vnhappely vred: For be ye wele assured, That frensy nor ielousy Nor heresy wyll neuer dye. [Sidenote: Hæc psalmista.] _Dixi iniquis, Nolite inique agere; et delinquentibus, Nolite exaltare cornu._ _Tantum pro tertio._ _De raritate poetarum, deque gymnosophistarum, philosophorum, theologorum, cæterorumque eruditorum infinita numerositate, Skel. L. epitoma._ [Sidenote: Quæ fiunt inter sociabus[778] sicut Achates, h. Gag. &c.] _Sunt infiniti, sunt innumerique sophistæ,_ _Sunt infiniti, sunt innumerique logistæ,_ _Innumeri sunt philosophi, sunt theologique,_ _Sunt infiniti doctores, suntque magistri_ _Innumeri; sed sunt pauci rarique poetæ._ _Hinc omne est rarum carum: reor ergo poetas_ _Ante alios omnes divino flamine flatos._ _Sic Plato divinat, divinat sicque Socrates;_ [Sidenote: Lege Valerium Maximum de insigni veneratione poetarum.] _Sic magnus Macedo, sic Cæsar, maximus heros_ _Romanus, celebres semper coluere poeta[s]._ Thus endeth the Replicacyon of Skel. L. &c. [768] _Honorificatissimo, &c._] The portion of this piece given on the present page forms the title-page of the original edition by Pynson, n. d. [769] _suæ_] Ed. “tuæ.” (Compare p. 179, l. 1., where Skelton uses “_sua_” for “ejus.”) [770] _enbolned_] Ed. “enbolmed.” [771] _idolatria_] For “idololatria:” see Du Cange in v.