Lenuoy.
Go litell quaire
Demeane you faire
Take no dispaire
Though I you wrate
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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"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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After this rate
In englisshe letter
So muche the better
welcome shall ye
To some men be
For latin warkes
Be good for clarkes
Yet nowe and then
Some latin men
May happely loke
Upon your boke
And so procede
In you to rede
That so in dede
your fame may sprede
In lengthe and brede
But that I drede
you shall haue nede
you for to spede
To harnes bryght
By force of might
Agaynst enuy
And obloquy
And wote ye why
Nat for to fyght
Agaynst dispyght
Nor to derayne
Batayle agayne
Scornfull disdayne
Nor for to chyde
Nor for to hyde
You cowardly
But courteisly
That I haue pende
For to defende
Under the banner
Of all good maner
Under protection
Of sad correction
with toleration
And support acion
Of reformacion
If they can spye
Circumspectly
Any worde defaced
That myght be rased
Els ye shall praye
Them that ye may
Continue styll
with theyr good wyll.
Adserenissimam maiestatem regiam, pariter cū dūo Cardinalilegato a latere honorisicatissimo▪ &c.