Et cantu diabolico,

With pollers and piller,

And al hir well willers,

And ther to dwel euer:

And thus wil I leaue hir.”


From Phylogamus, 12mo, without date or printer’s name—of which the title-page and five leaves are preserved in a volume of Ballads and Fragments in the British Museum. The late Mr. Douce has written below the title-page “Probably by Skelton;” but it is certainly not his.

“Gyue place, ye poetes fine,

Bow doune now & encline;

For nowe yᵉ Muses nyne,