In joy triumphaunt the heuenly yerarchy,[209] With all the hole sorte of that glorious place, His soull mot receyue into theyr company, Thorow bounty of Hym that formed all solace; Wel of pite, of mercy, and of grace, The Father, the Sonn, and the Holy Ghost, In Trinitate one God of myghtes[210] moste!
_Non sapit, humanis qui certam ponere rebus_ _Spem cupit: est hominum raraque ficta fides._
[184] _commonn_] So MS. Marshe’s ed. “cominion.”
[185] _slee_] MS. “slo,”—as in v. 35 (yet both Marshe’s ed. and MS. have “sleest” in v. 123).
[186] _world_] So MS. Marshe’s ed. “wold.”
[188] _o[w]ne_] MS. “awne” (yet Percy gives “owne”).
[189] _holp_] MS. “help” (yet Percy gives “holp”).
[190] _you_] MS. “ye” (yet Percy gives “you”).
[194] _backis_] So MS. Marshe’s ed. “backe.”
[195] _Of whos [life] they_, &c.] So Percy. Marshe’s ed. “_Of_ whome _they_,” &c. MS. “_Of whos they_,” &c.
[196] _ther_] So both Marshe’s ed. and MS. Percy printed the line thus;
“Take up whos wolde for _them_, they let hym ly.”
[199] _cruelly_] MS. “cruell” (yet Percy gives “cruelly”).
[200] _lande_] MS. “sande” (yet Percy gives “lande”).
[201] _Prouydent_] So MS. Marshe’s ed. “Prudent.”
[202] _far_] So Percy. MS. and Marshe’s ed. “for.”
[205] _the_] Omitted by Percy, though both in MS. and Marshe’s ed.
[206] _lordes_] So MS. rightly, making the word a dissyllable (yet Percy prints “lords”). Marshe’s ed. “lords.”
[208] _withouten_] So MS. Marshe’s ed. “without.”
[209] _yerarchy_] So Percy. Both Marshe’s ed. and MS. “gerarchy.”
[210] _myghtes_] So MS. (yet Percy prints “myghts”). Marshe’s ed. “myghts.”
TETRASTICHON[211] SKELTON. LAUREATI AD MAGISTRUM RUKSHAW, SACRÆ THEOLOGIÆ EGREGIUM PROFESSOREM.
_Accipe nunc demum, doctor celeberrime Rukshaw,_ _Carmina, de calamo quæ cecidere[212] meo;_ _Et quanquam[213] placidis non sunt modulata camenis,[214]_ _Sunt tamen ex nostro pectore prompta pio._
[211] _Tetrastichon_, &c.] Follows the elegy on the Earl of Northumberland both in Marshe’s ed. and in the MS.
[212] _cecidere_] Marshe’s ed. and MS. “occidere.”
[213] _quanquam_] Marshe’s ed. and MS. “quaqua.”
[214] _camenis_] So MS. Marshe’s ed. “carmenis.”
_A comely coystrowne, that curyowsly chawntyd, and curryshly cowntred, and madly in hys musykkys mokkyshly made agaynste the ix Musys of polytyke poems and poettys matryculat._