He is not[1839] wyse ageyne the streme that stryuith; Dun is in the myre, dame, reche me my spur; Nedes[1840] must he rin that the deuyll dryuith; When the stede[1841] is stolyn, spar the stable dur; A ientyll hownde shulde neuer play the kur; It is sone aspyed where the thorne prikkith; And wele wotith the cat whos berde she likkith; [Sidenote: Lumen ad revelationem gentium: Pso. clxxv.[1842]] With Marione clarione, sol, lucerne, _Graund Juir_, of this Frenshe prouerbe olde, 1440 How men were wonte for to discerne By candelmes day what wedder shuld holde; But Marione clarione was caught with a colde colde,[1843] (_anglice_ a cokwolde,)[1844] And all ouercast with cloudis vnkynde, This goodly flowre with stormis was vntwynde; [Sidenote: Velut rosa vel lilium, O pulcherrima mulierum, &c.: Cantatecclesia.] This ieloffer ientyll, this rose, this lylly flowre, This primerose pereles, this propre vyolet, This columbyne clere[1845] and fresshest of coloure, This delycate dasy, this strawbery pretely set, With frowarde frostis, alas, was all to-fret! 1450 But who may haue a[1846] more vngracyous[1847] lyfe Than a chyldis birde and a knauis wyfe? [Sidenote: Notate verba, signata mysteria: Gregori.] Thynke what ye wyll Of this wanton byll; By Mary Gipcy, _Quod scripsi, scripsi:_ _Uxor tua, sicut vitis,_ _Habetis in custodiam,_ _Custodite sicut scitis,_ _Secundum Lucam, &c._ 1460 [Sidenote: Nota penuriam aquæ, nam canes ibi hauriunt ex puteo altissimo.] Of the Bonehoms of Ashrige besyde Barkamstede, That goodly place to Skelton moost kynde, Where the sank[1848] royall is, Crystes blode so rede, Wherevpon he metrefyde after his mynde; A pleasaunter place than Ashrige is, harde were[1849] to fynde, As Skelton rehersith, with wordes few and playne, In his distichon[1850] made on verses twaine; _Fraxinus in clivo frondetgue viret sine rivo,[1851]_ _Non est sub divo similis sine flumine vivo;_ [Sidenote: Stultorum infinitus est numerus, &c.: Ecclesia. Factum est cum Apollo esset Corinthi: Actus Apostolorum. Stimulos sub pectore vertit Apollo: Virgilius.] The Nacyoun of Folys he left not[1852] behynde; 1470 Item Apollo that whirllid vp his chare, That made sum to snurre[1853] and snuf in the wynde; It made them to skip, to stampe, and to stare, Whiche, if they be happy, haue cause to beware In ryming and raylyng with hym for to mell, For drede that he lerne them there A, B, C, to spell. _Poeta Skelton._ [Sidenote: Fama repleta malis pernicibus[1854] evolat alis, &c.]