Skeltonus grauidam reddebat forte puellam, Insigni forma quæ peperit puerum. Illico multorum fama hæc pervenit ad aures, Esse patrem nato sacrificum puero. Skeltonum facti non pœnitet aut pudet; ædes Ad sacras festo sed venit ipse die: Pulpita conscendit facturus verba popello; Inque hæc prorupit dicta vir ille bonus; Quid vos, O scurræ, capit admiratio tanta? Non sunt eunuchi, credite, sacrifici: O stolidi, vitulum num me genuisse putatis? Non genui vitulum, sed lepidum puerum; Sique meis verbis non creditis, en puer, inquit; Atque e suggesto protulit, ac abiit.” p. 103. From _A Treatise Against Jvdicial Astrologie. Dedicated to the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Egerton Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale, and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Councell. Written by John Chamber, one of the Prebendaries of her Maiesties free Chappell of Windsor, and Fellow of Eaton College._ 1601. 4to. “Not much vnlike to merrie Skelton, who thrust his wife out at the doore, and receiued her in againe at the window. The storie is well known how the bishop had charged him to thrust his wife out of the doore: but that which was but a meriment in Skelton,” &c. p. 99. “So that the leape yeare, for any thing I see, might well vse the defence of merie Skelton, who being a priest, and hauing a child by his wife, euerie one cryed out, Oh, Skelton hath a child, fie on him, &c. Their mouthes at that time he could not stop: but on a holy day, in a mery mood, he brought the child to church with him, and in the pulpit stript it naked, and held it out, saying, See this child: is it not a pretie child, as other children be, euen as any of yours? hath it not legs, armes, head, feet, limbes, proportioned euery way as it shuld be? If Skelton had begot a monster, as a calfe, or such like, what a life should poore Skelton haue had then? So we say for the leape yeare, if it had changed the nature of things, as it is charged, how should it haue done then to defende itselfe?” p. 113. From _The Life of Long Meg of Westminster: containing the mad merry prankes she played in her life time, not onely in performing sundry quarrels with diuers ruffians about London: But also how valiantly she behaued her selfe in the warres of Bolloingne._ 1635. 4to. (Of this tract there is said to have been a much earlier edition. I quote from the reprint in _Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana_, 1816.) “CHAP. II. Containing how he [the carrier] placed her in Westminster, and what shee did at her placing.