SKELTONIS APOSTROPHAT AD DIVUM JOHANNEM DECOLLATUM, IN CUJUS PROFESTO FIEBAT HOC AUCUPIUM.

O memoranda dies, qua, decollate [639] Johannes,

Aucupium facit, haud [640] quondam [641] quod fecerit, intra [642]

Ecclesiam de Dis, violans tua [643] sacra sacrorum!

Rector de Whipstok, doctor cognomine Daucock,

Et dominus Wodcock; probat is, probat hic, probat hæc hoc.

Libertas veneranda piis concessa poetis

Dicendi est quæcunque placent, quæcunque juvabunt,

Vel quæcunque valent justas defendere causas,

Vel quæcunque valent [645] stolidos mordere petulcos.

Ergo dabis veniam.

Quod Skelton, laureat.

This tretise devysed it is

Of two knaues somtyme of Dis.

Though this knaues be deade,

Full of myschiefe and queed,

Yet, where so euer they ly,

Theyr names shall neuer dye.

Compendium de duobus versipellibus, John Jayberd, et Adam all [647] a knaue, deque illorum notissima vilitate.