Syr sumner, now ye haue lost your crowne. 180
Quod Skelton laureate, oratoure to the Kynges most royall estate.
Scotia,[723] redacta in formam provinciæ,
Regis parebit nutibus Angliæ:
Alioquin, per desertum Sin, super cherubim,
Cherubin, seraphim, seraphinque, ergo, &c.
[699] Skelton Laureate against the Scottes] The following pieces, called forth by the battle of Flodden, and the lines on the Battle of the Spurs annexed to them, are from the ed. of Kynge and Marche of Certaine bokes compyled by mayster Skelton, n. d., collated with the same work, ed. Day, n. d., ed. Lant, n. d., and with Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s Workes, 1568.
[700] Branxton] Day’s ed. “Branxion.”
[701] Floddon] So Marshe’s ed. Other eds. “Folddon.”
[702] not] Lant’s ed. “nat.”