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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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::144 'Y/r. JOHN SKELTON,He isin suche elacyonOf his exaltacyon, 480And <strong>the</strong> supportacyonOf our souerayne lorde,That, God <strong>to</strong> recorde,He ruleth all at wyll,Without reason or skyll485How be it <strong>the</strong> primordyallOf his wretched originall,And his base progeny,And his gresy genealogy,He came <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sank royall, 490That was cast out <strong>of</strong> a bochers stall.Bot how euer he was borne,]\Ien wolde haue <strong>the</strong> lesse scorne,If he coulde consyderHis birth and ro\\Tne <strong>to</strong>geder, 495And call <strong>to</strong> his myndeHow noble and how kyndeTo him he ha<strong>the</strong> foundeOur souereyne lorde, chyfe groundeOf all this prelacy, 500And set hym noblyIn great auc<strong>to</strong>ryte,Out <strong>from</strong> a low degre,Whiche he can nat se :For he was, parde, 505No doc<strong>to</strong>r <strong>of</strong> deuinyte,Nor doc<strong>to</strong>r <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> law.Nor <strong>of</strong> none o<strong>the</strong>r sawBut a poore maister <strong>of</strong> arte,God wot, had lytell parte 510Of <strong>the</strong> quatriuials,^

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