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,