With that of the boke losende were the claspis: The margent was illumynid all with golden railles And byse, enpicturid with gressoppes and waspis, With butterfllyis and fresshe pecoke taylis, Enflorid with flowris and slymy snaylis; 1160 Enuyuid picturis well towchid and quikly; It wolde haue made a man hole that had be ryght sekely, To beholde how it was garnysshyd and bounde, Encouerde ouer with golde of tissew fyne; The claspis and bullyons were worth a thousande pounde; With balassis and charbuncles the borders did shyne; With _aurum musicum_ euery other lyne Was wrytin: and so she did her spede, Occupacyoun, inmediatly[1780] to rede. _Occupacyoun redith and expoundyth sum parte of Skeltons bokes and baladis with ditis of plesure, in as moche as it were to longe a proces to reherse all[1781] by name that he hath compylyd, &c._ [Sidenote: Honor est benefactivæ operationis signum: Aristotiles. Diverte a malo, et fac bonum: Pso. Nobilis est ille quem nobilitat sua virtus: Cassianus. Proximus ille Deo qui scit ratione tacere: Cato. Mors ultima linea rerum: Horat.] Of your oratour and poete laureate 1170 Of Englande, his workis[1782] here they begynne: _In primis_ the Boke of Honorous Astate; Item the Boke how men shulde fle synne; Item Royall Demenaunce worshyp to wynne;[1783] Item the Boke to speke well or be styll; Item to lerne you to[1784] dye when ye wyll; [Sidenote: Virtuti omnia parent: Salust. Nusquam tuta fides: Virgilius. Res est soliciti plena timoris amor: Ovid. Si volet[1785] usus, quem penes, &c.: Horace.] Of Vertu also the souerayne enterlude; The Boke of the Rosiar; Prince Arturis Creacyoun; The False Fayth that now goth, which dayly is renude; Item his Diologgis of Ymagynacyoun; 1180 Item Antomedon[1786] of Loues Meditacyoun; Item New Gramer in Englysshe compylyd; Item Bowche[1787] of Courte, where Drede was begyled; [Sidenote: Non est timor Dei ante oculos eorum: Psalmo. Concedat laurea linguæ: Tullius. Fac cum consilio, et in æternum non peccabis: Salamon.] His commedy, Achademios callyd by name; Of Tullis Familiars the translacyoun; Item Good Aduysement, that brainles doth blame; The Recule ageinst Gaguyne of the Frenshe nacyoun; Item the Popingay, that hath in commendacyoun Ladyes and gentylwomen suche as deseruyd, And suche as be counterfettis they be reseruyd; 1190 [Sidenote: Non mihi sit modulo rustica papilio: Vates. Dominare in virtute tua: Pso. Magnificavit eum in conspectu regum: Sapient. Fugere pudor, verumque fidesque: In quorum subiere locum fraudesque, dolique, Insidiæque, et vis, et amor sceleratus habendi: Ovid. Filia Babylonis misera: Psalmo.]