Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited John Skelton collection.
Content:
Of the death of the noble prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth
Poeta Skelton laureatus libellum suum metrice alloquitur
Tetrastichon ad Magistrum Rukshaw
The Bowge of Courte
Phyllyp Sparowe
The tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng
Poems against Garnesche
Against venemous tongues
How euery thing must haue a tyme
Prayer to the Father of Heauen
To the Seconde Parson
To the Holy Gooste
“Woffully araid,”
“Now synge we, as we were wont,”
“I, liber, et propera, regem tu pronus adora,”
The maner of the world now a dayes
Ware the Hauke
Epithaphe. A Deuoute Trentale for old John Clarke
“Diligo rustincum cum portant,”
Lamentatio urbis Norvicen
In Bedel,
“Hanc volo transcribas,”
“Igitur quia sunt qui mala cuncta fremunt,”
“Salve plus decies quam sunt momenta dierum,”
Henrici Septimi Epitaphium
Eulogium pro suorum temporum conditione, tantis principibus non indignum
Tetrastichon veritatis
Against the Scottes
Vnto diuers people that remord this rymynge,
Chorus de Dis contra Scottos
Chorus de Dis, &c. super triumphali victoria contra Gallos
Vilitissimus Scotus Dundas allegat caudas contra Angligenas
Elegia in Margaretæ nuper comitissæ de Derby funebre ministerium
Why were ye Calliope embrawdred with letters of golde?
Cur tibi contexta est aurea Calliope?
The Boke of Three Fooles
A replycacion agaynst certayne yong scolers abiured of late
Magnyfycence, a goodly interlude and a mery
Colyn Cloute…
Speke, Parrot
Why come ye nat to Courte
Howe the douty Duke of Albany, lyke a cowarde knyght, ran awaye shamfully,
Poems attributed to Skelton:
Verses presented to King Henry the Seventh at the feast of St. George
The Epitaffe of the moste noble and valyaunt Jaspar late Duke of Beddeforde
Elegy on King Henry the Seventh
Vox populi, vox Dei
The Image of Ipocrysy…
