Pithy pleasaunt and profitable workes of maister Skelton, Poete Laureate. Nowe collected and newly published. Anno 1568

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Title: Pithy pleasaunt and profitable workes of maister Skelton, Poete Laureate. Nowe collected and newly published. Anno 1568
Author: Skelton, John, 1460?-1529.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: In Fletestreate, neare vnto saint Dunstones churche by Thomas Marshe,; [1568]
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Poeta Skelton answereth.

I thāke you goodly maistres to me most benign
That of your bountie so well haue me assured
But my request is nat so great a thynge
That I ne force what thoughe it be discured
I am nat wounded but that I may be cured
I am nat laden of lyddyrnes with lumpes
As dased doterdes that dreame in their dumpes.