The Poetical Works of John Skelton, Volume 2 (of 2)

by John Skelton

So many bullys of pardon puplysshyd and shewyd;

So myche crossyng and blyssyng, and hym all beshrewde;

Suche pollaxis and pyllers, suche mvlys trapte with gold;— 510

Sens Dewcalyons flodde in no cronycle ys told.

Dixit, quod Parrot.

Crescet in immensum me vivo Psittacus iste;

Hinc mea dicetur Skeltonidis inclyta fama.

Quod Skelton Lawryat,
Orator Regius.
34.]

[1] Speke, Parrot] From the ed. by Lant of Certayne bokes compyled by mayster Skelton, &c., n. d., collated with the same work ed. Kynge and Marche, n. d., and ed. Day, n. d.; with Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s Workes, 1568; and with a MS. in the Harleian Collection, 2252. fol. 133, which has supplied much not given in the printed copies, and placed between brackets in the present edition. The marginal notes are found only in MS.

[2] The boke, &c.... Speake, Parrot] So Marshe’s ed. Not in other eds.