[170] _euer to incroche_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “ouer _to_,” &c. MS. gives this line and the next thus: “_And more to_ encrese _was_ myne entent And _not_ beynge ware who _shuld it ocupye_.” [171] _full_] So _Mir. for Mag._ Not in eds. or MS. [172] _Wyndsore_, _Eltam,_ &c.] This line and the next given thus in MS.: “_Wynsore_ and eton _and many oder mo_ As Westmynster _Eltham_ and sone _went I from all_.” And so, with slight variation, in Nash’s _Quaternio_: see notes. [173] _my_] So _Mir. for Mag._ Not in eds. or MS. [174] _wandred_] _Mir. for Mag._ “wythered.” [175] _For I_, &c.] MS.: “Now are we _departid_ [i. e. parted] onto _domys day_.” [176] _Seyth a man is but_, &c.] Day’s ed. “Seeth _a man is_ nothing _but_,” &c. Marshe’s ed. “Sythe _a man is_ nothing _but_,” &c. _Mir. for Mag._ “Saying _a man is but_,” &c. MS. “Seinge _a man ys a sak of_ sterqueryte.” [177] _Were not_] So Lant’s ed. and _Mir. for Mag._ Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “Where no.” Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “Wher no.” MS. “Was _not_.” [178] _This_] _Mir. for Mag._ “Thus;” but see note. [179] _Nor nought_, &c.] _Mir. for Mag._: “For _nought would conserue mee here in_ this _place_.” MS.: “Ne _nougt wold concerue me my place_.” [180] _Humbly_] So other eds. Kynge and Marche’s ed. “Humble.” [181] _thy_] Other eds. “his.” POETA SKELTON[182] LAUREATUS LIBELLUM SUUM METRICE ALLOQUITUR. _Ad dominum properato meum, mea pagina, Percy,_ _Qui Northumbrorum jura paterna gerit;_ _Ad nutum celebris tu prona repone leonis_ _Quæque suo patri tristia justa cano.[183]_ _Ast ubi perlegit, dubiam sub mente volutet_ _Fortunam, cuncta quæ malefida rotat._ _Qui leo sit felix, et Nestoris occupet annos;_ _Ad libitum, cujus ipse paratus ero._ [182] _Poeta Skelton_, &c.] From Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568, collated with a copy of the poem in a MS. vol now in the British Museum (_MS. Reg._ 18. D ii. fol. 165), which formerly belonged to the fifth Earl of Northumberland, son of the nobleman whose fate is here lamented: vide _Account of Skelton_, &c. This elegy was printed by Percy in his _Reliques of An. Engl. Poet._ (i. 95, ed. 1794), from the MS. just mentioned. [183] _cano_] So MS. Not in Marshe’s ed. SKELTON LAUREAT VPON THE DOULOUR[U]S DETHE AND MUCHE LAMENTABLE CHAUNCE OF THE MOST HONORABLE ERLE OF NORTHUMBERLANDE. I wayle, I wepe, I sobbe, I sigh ful sore The dedely fate, the dolefulle desteny Of hym that is gone, alas, without restore, Of the bloud royall descending nobelly; Whose lordshyp doutles was slayne lamentably Thorow treson, again him compassed and wrought, Trew to his prince in word, in dede, and thought.