John Skelton : the complete English poems / John Skelton
dc.contributor | Waite, Gregory, 1954- Department of English University of Otago Dunedin |
dc.contributor.author | Skelton, John, 1460?-1529 |
dc.coverage.placeName | Harmondsworth |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:53:06Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:53:06Z |
dc.date.created | 1480-1529 |
dc.date.issued | 1988-06-30 |
dc.identifier | ota:1237 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1237 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1237 |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 |
dc.subject.other | Poems |
dc.title | John Skelton : the complete English poems / John Skelton |
dc.type | Text |
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<T Dol Dethe>
~%Poeta $Skelton %Laureatus %Libellum %Suum %Metrice %Alloquitur\
%Ad %dominum %properato %meum, %mea %pagina, $Percy,\
%Qui $Northumbrorum %iura %paterna %gerit;\
%Ad %nutum %celebris %tu %prona %repone %leonis\
%Queque %suo %patri %tristia %iusta %cano.\
%Ast %ubi %perlegit, %dubiam %sub %mente %volutet\
%Fortunam, %cuncta %que %malefida %rotat.\
%Qui %leo %sit %felix, %et $Nestoris %occupet %annos;\
%Ad %libitum %cuius %ipse %paratus %ero.\|
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$Skelton Laureat Upon the Dolorus Dethe\
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and Muche Lamentable Chaunce \
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of the Mooste Honorable Erle of $Northumberlande\=
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I wayle, I wepe, I sobbe, I sigh ful sore\
The dedely fate, the dolefulle destenny\
Of hym that is gone, alas, withoute restore,\
Of the blode royall descendinge nobelly;\
Whos lordshepe doutles was slayne lamentably\
Thorow treson, ageyn hym compassyd and wrought,\
Trew to his prince in word, in dede, and thought.\
Of hevenly poems, O $Clyo, calde by name\
In the college of mu . . .