With balassis and charbuncles the borders did shyne;
With aurum musicum euery other lyne
Was wrytin: and so she did her spede,
Occupacyoun, inmediatly[1780] to rede.
Occupacyoun redith and expoundyth sum parte of Skeltons bokes and baladis with ditis of plesure, in as moche as it were to longe a proces to reherse all[1781] by name that he hath compylyd, &c.
Honor est benefactivæ operationis signum: Aristotiles. Diverte a malo, et fac bonum: Pso. Nobilis est ille quem nobilitat sua virtus: Cassianus. Proximus ille Deo qui scit ratione tacere: Cato. Mors ultima linea rerum: Horat.
Of your oratour and poete laureate 1170
Of Englande, his workis[1782] here they begynne:
In primis the Boke of Honorous Astate;
Item the Boke how men shulde fle synne;