TO MY LORDE CARDYNALS RIGHT NOBLE GRACE, &c.
_Lenuoy._
Go, lytell quayre, apace,
In moost humble wyse,
Before his noble grace,
That caused you to deuise
This lytel enterprise;
And hym moost lowly pray,
In his mynde to comprise
Those wordes his grace dyd saye
Of an ammas gray.
_Ie foy enterment en sa bone grace._
[257] _Howe the douty Duke of Albany, &c._] From Marshe’s ed. of
Skelton’s _Workes_, 1568.
[258] _so_] Qy. “sore?”
[259] _thousande_] Ed. “thausande.”
[260] _thy dogge_] Qy. “thé, dogge?” but see notes.
[261] _Nor no batayle, &c._] The Editor of 1736 chose to give this
passage thus;
“Nor _a_ batayle mayntayne
_With our_ stronge captayne
_For you_ ran,” &c.
[262] _hors_] Ed. “fors.”
[263] _pounde_] Ed. “pouned.”
[264] _saue_] Ed. “_saua_.”
[265] _faytes_] Qy. “factes?”
[266] _frugalite_] Ed. “fragalite.”
[267] _And to spende, &c._] This line and the next transposed in ed.
[268] _worlde_] Ed. “worlds.”
[269] _Skelton Laureat, obsequious et loyall_] Perhaps these words are a
portion of the superscription to the _Lenuoy_ which follows. The _Lenuoy_
itself does not, I apprehend, belong to the poem on the Duke of Albany.
See _Account of Skelton, &c._