And famously proclamed?
She is worthy to be enrolde
With letters of golde.
Car elle vault. 1260
Per me laurigerum Britonum Skeltonida vatem[458]
Laudibus eximiis merito hæc redimita puella est:
Formosam cecini,[459] qua non formosior ulla est;
Formosam potius quam commendaret Homerus.
Sic juvat interdum rigidos recreare labores,
Nec minus hoc titulo tersa Minerva mea est.