Qui toties magno resonabat pectore Christum,
Doctor & Interpres fidus Evangelij:
Qui mores hominum multum sermone disertæ
Formarat, vitæ sed probitate magis:
Quique Scholam struxit celebrem cognomine Jesu,
Hac dormit tectus membra Coletus humo.
Floruit sub Henrico 7. & Henrico 8.
Reg. Obiit An. Dom. 1519.
Disce mori Mundo, vivere disce Deo.
John Skelton (whom we mentioned before) whose Writings were for the most part Satyrical, mixing store of Gall and Copperas in his Ink, having fell foul upon Mr. Lilly in some of his Verses, Lilly return'd him this biting Answer;