Pithy pleasaunt and profitable workes of maister Skelton, Poete Laureate. Nowe collected and newly published. Anno 1568
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Pithy pleasaunt and profitable workes of maister Skelton, Poete Laureate. Nowe collected and newly published. Anno 1568
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Skelton, John, 1460?-1529.
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Imprinted at London :: In Fletestreate, neare vnto saint Dunstones churche by Thomas Marshe,
[1568]
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"Pithy pleasaunt and profitable workes of maister Skelton, Poete Laureate. Nowe collected and newly published. Anno 1568." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12291.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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A prayer to the father of heauen.
O Radiant luminary of light interminableCelestiall father, potenciall God of mightOf heauen and earth. O lorde incōperableOf al perfections the essenciall most perfighteO maker of mankind, that formed day and nightWhose power imperial, cōprehēdeth euery placeMine hart, my mind, my thought, my hole deliteIs after this lyfe, to se thy glorious face.
Whose magnificence, is incomprehensibleAl argumentes of reason, whiche far doth excedeWhose de••te doutles, is indiuisibleFrom whō al goodnes, and vertue doth procede
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Of thy support, al creatures haue nedeAssist me good Lord, and graunt me of thy graceTo liue to thy pleasure, in word thought & dedeAnd after this lyfe to see thy glorious face.
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