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.”