v. 597.
Unguibus ire parat loca singula livida curvis
Quam modo per Phœbes nummos raptura Celæno]
The whole of this “Cacosyntheton ex industria” is beyond my comprehension. Here Skelton has an eye to Juvenal;
“Nec per conventus nec cuncta per oppida curvis
Unguibus ire parat nummos raptura Celæno.”
Sat. viii. 129.
v. 601. Spreto spineto cedat saliunca roseto] Here he was thinking of Virgil;
“Lenta salix quantum pallenti cedit olivæ,
Puniceis humilis quantum saliunca rosetis.”