[543] sua gesta libellus] Ed. of Day, “sua libellus.” Ed. of Marshe, “sua facta libellus.” (The Latin at the end of this poem not in Rand’s ed.)


POEMS AGAINST GARNESCHE.

SKELTON LAURIATE[544] DEFEND[ER] AGENST M[ASTER] GARNESCHE CHALENGER, ET CETERA.

Sithe ye haue me chalyngyd, M[aster] Garnesche,

Ruduly revilyng me in the kynges noble hall,

Soche an odyr chalyngyr cowde me no man wysch,[545]

But yf yt war Syr Tyrmagant that tyrnyd with out nall;[546]

For Syr Frollo de Franko was neuer halfe so talle.