[1458] _A ryght delectable tratyse vpon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell, &c._] From Faukes’s ed. 1523, collated with Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568, (in which it is entitled _The Crowne of Lawrell_), and with fragments of the poem among the Cottonian MSS. _Vit._ E.X. fol. 200. The prefatory Latin lines are from Faukes’s ed., where they are given on the back of the title-page, and below a woodcut portrait headed “_Skelton Poeta_,” (see _List of Editions_, in Appendix to _Account of Skelton_, &c.): they are not in Marshe’s ed. nor in MS. [1459] _retrogradant_] Marshe’s ed. “retrograunt.” [1460] _orbicular_] So Marshe’s ed. and MS. Faukes’s ed. “orbucular.” [1461] _plenarly_] So MS. Eds. “plenary.” [1462] _On_] So Marshe’s ed. and MS. Faukes’s ed. “One.” [1463] _sylt_] So Marshe’s ed. and MS. Faukes’s ed. “fylt.” [1464] _now_] So MS. Not in eds. [1465] _forster_] MS. “foster.” [1466] _well_] Not in MS. [1467] _purpose_] MS. “proces.” [1468] _fell_] MS. “fille.” [1469] _not wele tell_] So MS. Eds. “_not tell_” and “nat _tell_.” [1470] _aduysed_] MS. “auysid.” [1471] _wondersly_] MS. “wonderly.” [1472] _it_] So MS. Eds. “that.” [1473] _inmortall_] Marshe’s ed. and MS. “immortall:” but here and elsewhere Faukes’s ed. has the former spelling. [1474] _Quene of Fame_] Opposite this line MS. has a marginal note, partly illegible, and partly cut off, “_Egida concussit p ... dea pectore porta ..._” [1475] _Renownyd_] MS. “Renowmmyd.” [1476] _scyence_] Marshe’s ed. “sciences.” [1477] _lenen_] So Marshe’s ed. Faukes’s ed. and MS. “lene.” [1478] _beseche_] MS. “beseke.” [1479] _Not_] Marshe’s ed. “Nat.” [1480] _you gaue me a ryall_] Marshe’s ed. “ye,” &c. MS. “ye yave _me_ in roiall.” [1481] _his tyme he_] So MS. Eds. “he his tyme.” [1482] _embesy_] MS. “enbissy.” [1483] _they were the_] So Marshe’s ed. and MS. Faukes’s ed. “_the were they_.” [1484] _grete lake_] Marshe’s ed. “a _lacke_” (having in the preceding line “slacke”). [1485] _the sugred_] MS. “thensugerd.” [1486] _Elyconis_] Faukes’s ed. “Elycoms.” Marshe’s ed. “Heliconis.” [1487] _not_] Marshe’s ed. “nat.” [1488] _aduysid_] MS. “auysid.” [1489] _that_] MS. “for _that_.” [1490] _rin not_] Marshe’s ed. “ren nat.” [1491] _Better_] So Marshe’s ed. and MS. Faukes’s ed. “Bete.” [1492] _pullishe_] So MS. Eds. (with various spelling) “publisshe.” [1493] _so_] Not in MS. [1494] _not_] Marshe’s ed. “nat.” [1495] _accorde_] MS. “corde.” [1496] _not an hundreth_] Marshe’s ed. “nat _an_ hundred.” [1497] _For certayne enuectyfys_] MS. “_For_ that he enveiyd.” [1498] _wrote_] MS. “wrate.” [1499] _vpon_] So Marshe’s ed. Faukes’s ed. and MS. “on.” [1500] _not_] Marshe’s ed. here and in the next line “nat.” [1501] _abyde_] MS. “byde.” [1502] _parablis_] Faukes’s ed. “paroblis.” Marshe’s ed. “parables.” [1503] _ageyne_] Marshe’s ed. “agaynst.” [1504] _ther_] MS. “that.” [1505] _coniecture_] So Marshe’s ed. and MS. Faukes’s ed. “conuecture.”