Of viper’s venome, why dost carp?

Why are my verses by thee weigh’d

In a false scale? may truth be said?

Whilst thou to get the more esteem

A learned Poet fain wouldst seem,

Skelton, thou art, let all men know it,

Neither learned, nor a Poet.”

[104] Vol. i. 419.

[105] See vol. i. 361.

[106] See Notes, vol. ii. 318.