Vilitissimus Scotus dundas allegat caudas contra, Angligenas
Caudatos Anglos, spurcissime Scote quid effers?
Effrons es, quo quae sons: mendax, tua spureaquae bucca est.
Anglicus a tergo
Caudant gerit.
Est canis ergo.
Anglice caudate
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,
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Cape caudam
Ne cadat a te.
Ex causa caude
Manet Anglica
Gens siue laude.
Skeltō nobilis Poeta,
Gup Scot. ye blot,
Laudate Caudate
Set in better
Thy pentameter
This dundas
This Scottishe as
He rymes and railes
That Englishmē haue failes.
Skeltonus laureatus,
Anglicus natus,
Prouocat musas
Contra Dundas
Norpacissimum Scotum,
Vndiquae notum,
Rusticè fotum
Vapidè potum,
Skelton Laureat
After this rate
Defendeth with his pen
All Englysh men. Agayn dundas
That Scottishe asse
Shake thy tayle Scot lyke a cur,
For thou beggest at euery mannes dur.
Diffamas patriam qua non est melior vsqm
Cum cauda plaudis dum possis ad hostia pultes
Mendicans mendicus eris, mendax quae bilinguis,
Scabidus horribilis, quē vermes sex quae pedales
Corrodunt misere, miseres genus est maledictum.
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Tut Scot I sey
Go shake thy dog hey
Dundas of Galaway
With thy versyfyeng rayles
How they haue tayles.
By Iesu Christ, fals scot yu lyest,
But behynd in our hose
We bere there a rose
For thy Scottyshe nose,
A spectacle case
To couer thy face
With tray deux ase
A tolman to blot
A rough foted Scot
Dundas sir knaue
Why doste thow depraue,
This Royall Reame,
Whose radiant beame
And relucent light
Thou hast in despite
Thou donghyll knyght
But thou lakest might
Dundas, dronken, and drowsy
Skabed scuruy and lowsy
Of vnhappy generacion
And most vngracious nacion.
Dundas that dronke asse
That ratis and rankis
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That prates and prankes
On huntley bankes
Take this our thankes
Dunde bar,
Walke Scot
Walke sot
Rayle not to far.