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Ad dominum properato meum, mea pagina, Percy,

Qui Northumbrorum jura paterna gerit;

Ad nutum celebris tu prona repone leonis

Quæque suo patri tristia justa cano.[183]

Ast ubi perlegit, dubiam sub mente volutet

Fortunam, cuncta quæ malefida rotat.

Qui leo sit felix, et Nestoris occupet annos;

Ad libitum, cujus ipse paratus ero.

[182] Poeta Skelton, &c.] From Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s Workes, 1568, collated with a copy of the poem in a MS. vol now in the British Museum (MS. Reg. 18. D ii. fol. 165), which formerly belonged to the fifth Earl of Northumberland, son of the nobleman whose fate is here lamented: vide Account of Skelton, &c. This elegy was printed by Percy in his Reliques of An. Engl. Poet. (i. 95, ed. 1794), from the MS. just mentioned.

[183] cano] So MS. Not in Marshe’s ed.