Undique cantabor tamen et celebrabor ubique,
Inclita dum maneat gens Anglica. Laurus[1456] honoris,
Quondam regnorum regina et gloria regum,
Heu, modo marcescit, tabescit, languida torpet![1457]
Ah pudet, ah miseret! vetor hic ego pandere plura 10
Pro gemitu et lacrimis: præstet peto præmia pæna.
[875] Colyn Cloute] From the ed. by Kele, n. d., collated with the ed. by Kytson, n. d., with Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s Workes, 1568, and with a MS. in the Harleian Collection, 2252. fol. 147.
[876] consurget, &c.] Eds. “consurgat,” &c. MS. “resurgat ad malignantes.”
[877] for delyte] MS. “for to endyte.”
[878] for] So Marshe’s ed. Other eds. and MS. “for to.”