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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.

Finis.

Quod Skelton, Laureat.

[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.”)

[483] pletes] Qy. “plytes?”

[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.)

[490] dwelt] Qy. “dwels?”

[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.”)

[495] It … it] Qy. “That … that?”

[496] My] Lant’s ed. “Myne.”

[497] hogges] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “dogges.”

[498] His rumpe, &c.] This line not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand).

[499] Agaynst] Day’s ed. “Againe.”

[500] dyrt] So Lant’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.) Other eds. “drit.”

[501] into] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “in.”

[502] mytyng] Eds. of Kynge and Marche, and of Lant, “nytyng.” Day’s ed. “nittinge.” Marshe’s ed. “nittine.” (Rand’s ed. “mittine.”) See notes.

[503] fonny] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “fanny.”

[504] Instede of coyne, &c.] In Skelton’s Workes, 1736, the passage is thus exhibited:

“Some instede of coine and monny

Will come and brynge her a conny

Or else a pot with honni

Some a knife and some a spone

Some brynge their hose, some ther shone.”

[505] ran] Rand’s ed. “run,”—rightly, perhaps.

[506] Start] So Rand’s ed. Other eds. “Some start,” the eye of the original compositor having caught the word “Some” from the preceding line.

[507] haruest] So Day’s ed. Other eds. “heruest,” “hernest,” “harnest.”

[508] Layde] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “Laye,” and “Lay.”

[509] Some brought, &c.] This line not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand.)

[510] sallowe] So Lant’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.) Other eds. “swallowe.”

[511] stale] Eds. “stare.” See notes.

[512] met] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “meate.”

[513] sayne] Lant’s ed. “sayde.”

[514] the peace] Eds. “the dronken peace” (except Rand’s ed., which has “a drunken,” &c.): but no doubt the word “dronken” crept into the original edition by a mistake of the compositor, his eye having caught it in the following line. See notes.

[515] fyll] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “fell.”

[516] bones] Day’s ed. “bornes.”

[517] fylly] Marshe’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.) “silly.” See notes.

[518] brought] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “brought vp.”

[519] stubbed] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “stubbled.”

[520] walnuttes] So Lant’s ed. (Rand’s, “walnuts.”) Other eds. “walnutes” and “waluntes.”

[521] stynkes] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “stynges.”

[522] Burdeou] Eds. of Kynge and Marche, and of Lant, “burde on.” Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “bourde on.” (Rand’s ed. “bord on.”)

[523] She] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “Some.”

[524] They] Day’s ed. “The.”

[525] wretchockes] Day’s ed. “wrethockes.” Marshe’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.), “wrethocke.”

[526] dregges] So Marshe’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.) Other eds. “dragges.”

[527] And] Not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand).

[528] thy] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “the.”

[529] wide] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “wyse.”

[530] hedes] Eds. “heddes” and “heds.”

[531] Some of, &c.] The line which rhymed with this has dropt out.

[532] And of, &c.] The line which rhymed with this has dropt out.

[533] fysgygge] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “sysgygge.”

[534] hyght] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “high.”

[535] croppy] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “coppy.”

[536] swynged] Marshe’s ed. “swinge.”

[537] lege de moy] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “lege moy.”

[538] awne] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “owne,” and “one.”

[539] fyngers] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “fynger.”

[540] Invide] Eds. “Inuidi.”

[541] jocis] Eds. “locis.”

[542] qua spurca] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “quam spuria.”

[543] sua gesta libellus] Ed. of Day, “sua libellus.” Ed. of Marshe, “sua facta libellus.” (The Latin at the end of this poem not in Rand’s ed.)