LAUREATI SKELTONIDIS IN DESPECTU MALIGNANTIUM DISTICHON.
_Quamvis insanis, quamvis marcescis inanis,_ _Invide,[540] cantamus: hæc loca plena jocis.[541]_ _Bien men souuient._
_Omnes fœminas, quæ vel nimis bibulæ sunt, vel quæ sordida labe squaloris, aut qua spurca[542] fœditatis macula, aut verbosa loquacitate notantur, poeta invitat ad audiendum hunc libellum, &c._
_Ebria, squalida, sordida fœmina, prodiga verbis,_ _Huc currat, properet, veniat! Sua gesta libellus[543]_ _Iste volutabit: Pæan sua plectra sonando_ _Materiam risus cantabit carmine rauco._
[474] _Here after foloweth_, &c.] From the ed. by Kynge and Marche of _Certaine bokes compyled by mayster Skelton_, n. d., collated with the same work, ed. Day, n. d., and ed. Lant, n. d., with Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568, and occasionally with the comparatively modern ed. of _Elinovr Rummin_ by Rand, 1624.
[475] _Grained_] So eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand). Eds. of Kynge and Marche, and of Lant, “Greuyned.”
[476] _huckels_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “buckels.”
[477] _Lyke as they were_, &c.] This line not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand).
[478] _Legged_] So Rand’s ed. Other eds. “Legges.”
[479] _iolly fet_] Lant’s ed. “Joyly _fet_.” Marshe’s ed., (and Rand’s ed.), “_iolly_ set.”
[480] _doth it_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “it dothe.”
[481] _For_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “And.”
[482] _gytes_] Marshe’s ed. “getes.” (Rand’s ed. “geetes.”)
[484] _That wey_] So Lant’s ed., (and Rand’s ed.) Other eds. “_That_ they _way_.”
[485] _in_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “_in_ a.”
[486] _Capped_] Lant’s ed. “Lapped”—rightly, perhaps.
[487] _as a gose_] So eds. of Day, and Marshe. Eds. of Kynge and Marche, and of Lant, “_as_ she _gose_.”
[488] _blanket_] So Lant’s ed. (Rand’s ed. “blanked.”) Other eds. “blauket.”
[489] _Ouer the falowe_] Not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand.)
[491] _port sale_] So Lant’s ed. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “pore _sale_.” Day’s ed. “poore _sale_.” Marshe’s ed. “poorte _sale_.” (Rand’s ed. “pot-_sale_.”) See notes.
[492] _on_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “of.”
[493] _vnlased_] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “vnbrased.”
[494] _Some huswyues_, &c.] This line not in eds. of Day, and Marshe. (Rand’s ed. “And some all unlaced.”)