[17] Songs and Carols (Percy Society, xxiii.), song xxx.
[18] Songs and Carols (Percy Society, xxiii.) lxxvi.
[19] Hist. MSS. Com. ix. 174.
[20] Book of Precedence, 106. “Money maketh merchants, I tell you, over all.” Skelton’s Poems (ed. Dyce) i. 277.
“‘Though some be clannere than some, ye see well,’ quoth Grace,
That all craft and connyng came of my gift.”
—Passus xxii. 252-3.
“Son, if thou wist what thing it were,
Connynge to learn and with thee to bear,
Thou would not mis-spend one hour,
For of all treasure connynge is the flower;
If thou wilt live in peace and rest
Hear and see and say the best.”
Book of Precedence, 69. Another rhyme gives the lesson in ruder form.