[149] “My lamented friend Mr. William Collins, whose Odes will be remembered while any taste for true poetry remains, shewed me this piece at Chichester, not many months before his death: and he pointed it out as a veryrare and valuable curiosity. He intended to write the HISTORY OF THE RESTORATION OF LEARNING UNDER LEO THE TENTH, and with a view to that design, had collected many scarce books. Some few of these fell into my hands at his death. The rest, among which, I suppose, was this INTERLUDE, were dispersed.”
In the _Garlande of Laurell_ (vol. i. 408, sqq.) Skelton enumerates many of his compositions which are no longer extant.
_Verses presented to King Henry the Seventh at the feast of St. George celebrated at Windsor in the third year of his reign_—first printed by Ashmole (see vol. ii. 387 of the present work).
_The Epitaffe of the moste noble and valyaunt Jaspar late Duke of Beddeforde_, printed by Pynson, 4to, n. d. (see vol. ii. 388.)
_Elegy on King Henry the Seventh_—an imperfect broadside (see vol. ii. 399).
_Merie Tales Newly Imprinted & made by Master Skelton Poet Laureat. Imprinted at London in Fleetstreat beneath the Conduit at the signe of S. John Euangelist, by Thomas Colwell_, 12mo, n. d. (see the preceding Appendix.) Warton, _Hist. of E.P._ ii. 336 (note), gives the date 1575 to these Tales,—on what authority I know not.
_Of the death of the noble prince, Kynge Edwarde the forth._ In a vol. belonging to Miss Richardson Currer, which has furnished a stanza hitherto unprinted (vol. i. 1).
_Vpon the doulourus dethe and muche lamentable chaunce of the most honorable Erle of Northumberlande. MS. Reg. 18 D ii._ fol. 165 (vol. i. 6).
_Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale. Fairfax MS.,—Add. MSS._ (Brit. Mus.) 5465, fol. 109 (vol. i. 28).
_Poems against Garnesche. MS. Harl._ 367, fol. 101. Now for the first time printed (vol. i. 116).
“_Wofully araid_,” &c. _Fairfax MS.,—Add. MSS._ 5465, fol. 76 and fol. 86 (Brit. Mus.): and MS. copy in a very old hand on the fly-leaves of _Boetius de Discip. Schol. cum notabili commento, Daventrie_, 1496, 4to (in the collection of the late Mr. Heber), which has supplied several stanzas hitherto unprinted (vol. i. 141).
“_I, liber, et propera, regem tu pronus adora_,” &c. _MS. C.C.C._—No. ccccxxxii. of Nasmith’s _Catal._ p. 400 (vol. i. 147).