[183] cano] So MS. Not in Marshe’s ed.


SKELTON LAUREAT
VPON THE
DOULOUR[U]S DETHE AND MUCHE LAMENTABLE CHAUNCE OF THE MOST HONORABLE ERLE OF NORTHUMBERLANDE.

I wayle, I wepe, I sobbe, I sigh ful sore

The dedely fate, the dolefulle desteny

Of hym that is gone, alas, without restore,

Of the bloud royall descending nobelly;

Whose lordshyp doutles was slayne lamentably

Thorow treson, again him compassed and wrought,

Trew to his prince in word, in dede, and thought.