HONORIFICATISSIMO, Amplissimo, longeque reverendissimo in Christo patri: Ac domino, domino THOME etc. Tituli sanctae Ceciliae, sacrosanctae Romanae ecclesiae presbytero Cardinali meritissimo, et Apostolice sedis legato. A latereque legato superillustri etc. Skeltonis laureatus Ora, reg. Humillimum, dicit obsequium cum omni debita reverentia, tanto tamque magnifico digna principe sacerdotum, totiusque justitiae equabilissimo moderatore. Necnon presentis opusculi fautore excellentissimo etc. Ad cuius auspicatissimam contemplationem, sub memorabili prelo gloriose inmortalitatis presens pagella felicitatur etc.,  
¶ A replication against certain young scholars/ abjured of late etc.  

ARGUMENTUM.  
CRassātes nimium, Nimium sterilesque labruscas  
(Vinea quas dni, sabaot non sustinet ultra  
Laxius expandi) nostra est resecare voluntas.   
¶ Cum privilegio a rege in dulto.   

Protestation always canonically prepensed/ professed/ and with good dely/ beration made/ that this little Pamphilet (called the Replication of Skelton laureate) Ora. reg. Remording divers recrayed and much unreasonable errors/ of certain sophisticate scholars and reckless young heretics/ lately abjured etc. Shall evermore be (with all obsequious readiness) humbly submitted unto the right discrete reformation of the reverend prelate's and moche noble doctors/ of our mother holy church etc.   

¶ Ad almam universitatem Cantabrigensem etc.  
¶ Eulogium consolationis.  

ALma parens. O. Cantabrigensis  
Cur lachimaris? Esto/ tui sint  
Degeneres hi. 
Contabrigia/ skeltonidi lau reato primatu mammam erudi●ionis p●ētis sime ꝓpin●uit  Filioli/ sed  
Non obinertes (O pia mater)  
Insciolos vel decolor esto.  
Progenies non nobilis omnis  
Quam tua forfan/ mamma fovebat:  
Tu tamen esto/ Palladis alme  
Glotia pollens plena Minerue  
Dum radiabunt astra polorum:  
jamque ualeto/ meque foueto.   
Namque tibi quondam/ carus alumnus eram.   


Zebub musca inflativa sibulans ab austro/ qintumescere sacit heresiarchas country fidem ortad●●●ā etc. h. il. Eruditionis exordisi in tencra audacique iwents temperate moder●tionis frenum postulat. Elioquin scientia effrenote inflataque spsi ●la tiō●● qd dulceo venens● est subr●●ter intoricat interunitque● can●um possessorsi sufis etc. h il. ●●ou sit ig●i● ti●● Philosogia (ratione intemperate loquacitar●. tue inordinate dicacitac●. icogitate ꝓcacitotis in singul●ū et serupulun cord, tui etc. h. il. Eloquen tiam sine so●tet●a ꝓdesse ●sique/ ob esse plersique sa●is constat evident i veterum rethove. Rhetoricari incompostie. Logicari meticulose. Philosophari ꝑfunc●oue. Theologisari frenetice. Arguit inconcionatore (ne dum ●ucidum interuallum) sed continuam ꝑtinacemque mentio altenationem/ feculentam/ an●●● catam/ temulen tam etc. hec ien. Vos 〈◊〉 cliphantice evamgelisantes tanque auseres strepentes inter canoros olores. Relegemus ad tres grues bacchato bromio iniciatos pro foribus Vinitoris propter fluenta Thamisie. Vbi poti potati es● fasciculo ●nambusto ambustum futurum fasciculum pensitate etc. hec ien.  How young scholars now a days enbolmed w the Flyblowen blast of the moche vain glorious pippling wind. When they have delectably lyeked a little of the liquorous electuary of lusty leruing/ in the much studious school house of scrupulous Philosogy. Counting themself clerks exellently informed and transcendigly sped in moche high cunning/ & when they have once suꝑciliusly caught.  

¶ A little rag of Rhetoric  
A less lump of logic  
A piece or a patch of Philosophy  
Than forthwith by and by  
They tumble so in Theology  
Drowned in dregs of Divinity  
That they judge themself able to be  
Doctors of the Chair in the Vyntre  
At the three Crames  
To magnify their names  
But madly it frames.   

¶ For all that they preach and teach  
Is farther than their wit will reach  
Thus by demeryttes of their abusion  
Finally they fall to careful confusion  
To bear a Faggot or to be inflamed  
Thus are they undone & utily shamed.  
ERGD.   

Licet non enclitice. tamen enthyme matice  
Notandum inprimis.  ne quid nimis.   
¶ Tantum pro primo.   

OVer this. 
Stoicam sectan zenon ●muo istu●it.  For a more ample process to be farther delated & continued/ and of every true christenman laudably to be employed justified/ and constantly maintained. 
iwenes sanguino lenti propter libidinem dominandi et gloriam fame/ frequenter fieri folent sediciosi. hec dias.  A touching the tetrical Theologisation of these demi divines and Stoical studiantes/ and frisca jolly yonke rkyns/ moche better bayned than bray/ ned/ basked and baththed in their wild but blyng and boiling blood/ Fervently reboyled with the in fatuate flames of their reckless youth and witless wantonness/ embraced and enterlased with a moche fantastical frenzy of their insensate sensua light. 
Perihermōia● lafoy tie inc pretatio. etc.  surmised unsurely in their Perihermeniall principles/ to prate and to preach proudly and lewdly/ and loudly to lie. 
Porphirius floruit Athemo tempore Gordiani imperatoris. CC. rlir. etc. Analitica Ubri priorum ce posteriorun. or●. Topica i liber to talis de totalibus locis etc. Presumere est non audenda facere. etc. De Idolatris lege Hieronimum ad Ioueuianum etc. ydolatria bictio compolita ex ydolo (qd est simulacrum) et latria (qd est cultura) apud nos etc. De latria/ iperdulia/ dulta/ quid san critas aposto●ica/ cum Constantino magno Constantino poli ordinavit in cōsi●o Latriensi manifest repe●ies/ et infra.  And yet they were but feebly informed in master Porphiris problems/ & have waded but weakly in his three manner of clerkly works. analytical/ Topical/ and Logycall. Howbeit they were puffed so full of vainglorious pomp and surcudant elation/ that popholy & peevish presumption provoked them to publish & to preach to people imprudent perilously: how it was Idolatry to offer to images of our blessed lady/ or to prey and go on pilgrimages/ or to make oblations to any images of saints in churches/ or else where.   

¶ Against which erroneous errors/ odious/ orgulyous/ and Flyblowen opinions etc.  

IN the honour of our blessed Lady  
And her most blessed Baby  

Convenio vos o/ publici iniuriatores sancte et apostolice ecclesle. etc.  I purpose for to reply  
Against this horrible heresy  
Of these young heretics that stink unbrent  
Whom I now summon and content  
That lewdly have their time spent  

O. ꝓdigiosa ꝓgenics qualem/ de filio qri habere misericordiam? cuius marrē insiciamini esse matren mie. canit tamen universalis ecclesta. Salue regina maf●niser icordic. etc.  In their study abominable  
Our glorious Lady to disable  
And heinously on her to babble  
With language detestable  
With your lips polluted  
Against her grace disputed  
Which is the most clear Crystal  
Of all pure cleanness virginal  
That our saviour bare  
Which us redeemed from care.   

¶ I say thou mad March Hare  
I wonder how ye dare  
Open your jangling jaws  

Convenio vo● o/ Ariant/ juliano apostata execrabiliores. etc.  To preach in any claws  
Like prating popping daws  
Against her excellence  
Against her reverence  
Against her pre-eminence  
Against her magnificence  
That never died offence.   

¶ ye heretics recrayed  
Wot ye what ye said/  
Of Marry/ mother and mayed  

Convenio vos o/ spurcissimi/ o/ vilissimi. oh/ nequissimi ob trectatores matris xpi etc.  With bawdry at her ye brayed  
With bawdy words unmeet  
your tongues were to fleet  
your sermon was not sweet  
ye were nothing discrete  
ye were in a drunken heat  
Like haretykes confettred  

Convenio vos o/ insensati literarum professores. etc.  ye count yourself weal lettered  
your learning is stark nought  
For shamefully ye have wrought  
And to shame yourself have brought.   


Convenio vos o/ jebuseij. oh/ judei. oh/ Cananeij. oh/ phariseij. etc.  ¶ Because ye her mysnamed  
And would have her defamed  
your madness she attamed  
For ye were worldly shamed  
At Paul's cross openly  

Non vacat (o. contemptores marianis) non vacat (inquam) qd digna factis recepistjoin veipare virgins Conceptio ne. etc. hec 〈◊〉.  All men can testify  
There like a sort of sots  
ye were fain to bear faggots  
At the feast of her Conception  
ye suffered such correction.   

¶ Sive per Equivocum  
Sive per Vnivocum  
Sive sic/ sive not so  
ye are brought to. Lo/ lo/ lo/  

Convenio vos o/ Malesoni/ vani/ prophani/ christiani.  Se where the Heretics go  
witless wandering to and fro  
With. Te/ he. Ta/ ha. Bo/ ho/ bo/ ho.  
And such wondringes many more  
alas/ ye wretches ye may be woe  
ye may sing weal away  
And curse both night and day  
When ye were bred and borne  
And when ye were priests shorn  

Convenio vos o/ Hussi●ni etc.  Thus to be laughed to scorn  
Thus tattered and thus torn  
Thoro we your own folly  
To be blown with the fly  
Of horrible heresy  
Fayne ye were to reny  
And mercy for to cry  
Or be brende by and by  
Confessing how ye died lie  
In preaching shamefully.   

¶ yourself thus ye discured  
As clerks vnassured  
With ignorance obscured  
ye are unhappily bred  

Convenio vos o/ Lutherian●  In your Dialeticall  
And principles Silogisticall  
If ye to remembrance call  
How Sillogisari  
Non est ex particulari  
Necque negativis  
Recte concludere/ si vis: 
Necque non neque l●g●●.   
Et cetera id genus  
ye could not Cordetenus:  
Nor answer Verbotenus  
When prelacy you opposed  
your hearts than were hosed  
your relations reposed  

Quoniam ignorantibus suppocitiones veritates propositionsi non relucent. etc.  And yet ye supposed  
Respondere ad quantum  
But ye were Confusetantum  
Surrendering your suppositions  
For there ye mist you quosshons.   

¶ would god/ for your own ease  

Warpocrates digie● labifs in presso admopuit silentium fieri in Isidis templo. etc.  That wise Harpocrates  
Had your mouths stopped  
And your tongues cropped  
When ye logic chopped  
And in the Pulpete hopped  
And foolishly there fopped  
And porisshly forth popped  
your sysmaticate saws  
Against god's laws  

S●t preteres nonnulli hutus farm/ de quibus hic non est ●err●d● locus  And showed yourself daws  
ye argued arguments  
As it were upon the elenkes  
De rebus apparentibus  
Et non existentibus  
And ye would appear wise  
But ye were foolish nice  
yet be means of that byse  
ye died provoke and tyse  
Oftnar than ones ortwyse  
Many a goodman  
And many a good woman  
By way of their devotion  
To help you to promotion  
Whose charity weal regarded  
Can not be unrewarded.   

¶ I say it for no sedition  

Convenio vos o. ●erodi●ni.  But under patient tuition  
It is half a superstition  
To give you exhibytion  
To maintain with your skoles  
And to prove yourself such fools  
Some of you had ten pound  
Therewith for to be found  
At the university  

Obscu●●● serc●stino●.  Employed which might have be  
much better other ways  
But as the man says  
The blind eateth many a fly  
What may be meant here by  
ye may soon make construction  

Erfructibus corum cognosce●●s eo●. etc.  With right little instruction  
For it is an ancient brute  
Such apple tre●suche fruit  
What should I prosecute  
Or more of this to clatter  
Return we to our matter.   


Sublimius equo aucupī●guni. etc.  ¶ ye soored over high  
In the hierarchy  
Of jovenyans heresy  
your names to magnify  
Among the scabbed skies  

Connenio vos o wichl●ftifte.  Of wycliffes fless he flies  
ye strynged so Luther's lute  
That ye dawns all in a suit  
The heretics ragged ray  
That brings you out of the way  
Of holy churches lay  
ye shayle/ inter enigmata  
And inter paradigmata  
Marked in your cradles  
To bear faggots for babyls  
And yet some men say  
How ye are this day  
And be now as ill  
And so ye will be still  
As ye were before  
What should I reckon more.   

¶ Men have you in suspicion  
How ye have small contrition  
Of that ye have myswrought  

Convenio vos o verbosi Sophiste etc.  For if it were well sought  
One of you there was  
That laughed when he did pass  
With his faggot in procession  
He counted it for no correction  
But with scornful affection  
Took it for a sport  
His heresy to support  
Where at a thousand gazed  
As people half a mased  
And thought in him small grace  
His folly so to face.   

¶ Some judged in this case  
your penance took no place  
your penance was to light  

Convenio vos o diabolic● dogma●ste etc.  And thought/ if ye had right  
ye should take further pain  
To resort again  
To places where ye have preached  
And your lollardy learning teached  
And there to make relation  
In open predication  
And knowledge your offence  
Before open audience  
How falsely ye had surmised  
And devyllysshely devised  
The people to seduce  
And chase them thorough the muse  
Of your naughty counsel  
To hunt them in to hell  
With blowing out your horns  
Full of mockysshe scorns  
With chating and rechating  
And your busy prating  

Sunt pl●tiqui 〈◊〉 sed ●on a 〈…〉 contu●●●●●euec 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 etc.  Of the gospel and the pystels  
ye pike out many thistles  
And bremely with your bristles  
ye cobble and ye clout  
Holy scripture so about  
That people are in great doubt  
And fear/ least they be out  
Of all good Christian order  
Thus all thing ye disorder  
Thorough out every bordr.   

¶ It had been much better  
ye had never learned letter  

Convenio vo● male docti logiste. etc.  For your ignorance is greater  
I make you fast and sure  
Than all your literature:  
ye are but lydder logici  
But moche worse Isagogici  
For ye have induced a sect  
With heresy all infect  
Wherefore ye are well checte  
And by holy church correct  
And in manner as abject  
For evermore suspect  
And banished in effect  
From all honest company  
Because ye have eaten a fly  
To your great vyllony  
That never more may die.   

¶ Come forth ye pope holy  
Full of melancholy  

Convenio vo● o. Ipocrise etc.  your mad hypocrisy  
And your idiosy  
And your vain glory  
Have made you eat the fly  
puffed full of heresy  
To preach it Idolatry  
Who so doth magnify  
That glorious maid Mary  

Maledictio mariana descendat sup capita vestra. oh/ heretici cretici frenetici etc.  That glorious maid and mother  
So was there never another  
But that Princess alone  
To whom we are bound eachone  
The image of her grace  
To reverence in every place   

¶ I say ye brainless beasts  
Why jangle you such jests  
In your divinity  
Of Luther's affinity  

Convenio vo● o● Machomitani. etc.  To the people of lay fee  
Raising in your rages  
To worship none images  
Nor do pilgrimages  
I say ye devyllysshe pages  
Full of such dottages  
Count ye yourself good clerks  
And snapper in such works.   

¶ Saint Gregory and saint Ambrose  
ye have read them I suppose  
Saint Jerome and saint Austen  
With other many holy men  

Convenio vo● o/ demoninet meridiani. etc.  Saint Thomas de Aqu●no  
With other doctors many more  
Which/ de (Latria) do treat  
They say how (Latria) is an honour great  
Belonging to the deite  
To this ye needs must agree  
But I trow yourself ye over see  
What longeth to Christ's humanity  

nota de latria Hiꝑdulia/ dulia/ quid ꝑ sancte ●anxitū est Constantinopoli ab ecc●ia catholica et apostolica iterum in fringere (quid hoc sibi vult) fasciculun con sul●te inflammatum. etc.  If ye have reed/ de (Hiperdulia)  
Than ye know what betokeneth (Dulia)  
Than shall ye find it firm and stable  
And to our faith much agreeable  
To worship images of saints  
Wherefore make ye no more restrayntes  
But mend your minds that are mased  
Or else doubtless ye shallbe blazed  
And be brent at a stake  
If further business that ye make  

O. medici mediam pertundite venam.  Therefore I vyse you to forsake  
Of Heresy the devilish scoles  
And cry godmercy like frantyke fools.    

¶ Tantum pro secundo.  
¶ Peroratio ad nuper abiuratos quosdam Hipoteticos hereticos. etc.  

AVdite viri Ismaelite (non dico) Israelite  
Audite (inquam) viri madionite/ ascolonite  
Amonite/ Gabionite/ Audite verba que loquar.   

¶ Opus Euangelii est cibus perfectorum.  
Sed quia non estis/ de genere bonorum  
(Qui caterisatis categorias/ Cacodemoniorum)  
E R G O.  
¶ Et reliqual vestra problemata. Scemata.  
Dilemata. Sinto anathemata.  
Ineluctabile argumentum. Est.   
¶ A confutation responsyve/ or an inevytably prepensed answer/ to all way ward or froward altercations// that can or may be made or objected against Skelton laureate/ devyser of this Replication. etc.   


WHy fall ye at debate  
With Skelton Laureate  
Reputing him unable  
To gainsay replycable  
opinions detestable  

Lota crra● via s● doctor poeta● (●lli● autem non de sunt carismata) argu●o de inscitia. h. ill.  Of Heresy execrable  
ye say that Poetry  
May not fly so high  
In Theology  
Nor Analogy  
Nor Philology  
Nor Philosophy  
To answer or reply  
Against such Heresy.  

Would ret et propheta ꝑ di usi Hierony● s●●●●a●●●enl●● 〈◊〉 in n●bil● catalogo poe ta●si l●●● o●u/ ut 〈◊〉 ifra etc. hec●l.  Wherefore by and by  
Now consequently  
I call to this reckoning  
david that royal king  
Whom Hieronymus  
That doctor glorious  
Doth both write and call  

Uos igif omnes irrisores/ contemptoresque poetarum erubescite eum ignominosa verecundia eriticiosaque confuslo operiat facies vestras. hecil.  Poet of poets all  
And Prophet principal  
Thus may not be remorded  
For it is weal recorded  
In his epistle ad Paulinum  
Presbytarum divinum  
Where word for word ye may  
Reed/ what Jerome there doth say.   
David (inquit) Siphonides noster/ Pindarus et Alcheus/ Flaccus quoque/ Catullus/ atque Serenus/ Christum lira personat/ et in decachordo psalterio ab inferis excitat resurgentem. Hec Higher.  

¶ The english.  

¶ King David the prophet/ of prophets pricipal  
Of poets chief poet/ say't Jerome doth wright  
Resembled to Symphonides/ that poet lyrical  
Among the Greeks/ most relucent of light  
In that faculty: which shined as Phoebus' bright  
Like to Pyndarus/ in glorious poetry  
Like unto Alcheus/ he doth him magnify.   

¶ Flaccus nor Catullus/ with him may not compare  
Nor solemn Serenus/ for all his armony  
In metrical muses/ his harping we may spare  
For david our poet/ harped so meloudiously  
Of our savy our Christ/ in his decacorde psautry  
That at his resurrection/ he harped out of hell  
Old patriarkis & prophetis/ in heaven whim to dwell     

¶ Return we to our former process.  

THan/ if this noble king  
Thus can harp and sing  
With his harp of prophecy  
And spiritual poetry  
As saint Jerome saith  
To whom we must give faith  
Warbling with his strings  
Of such Theological things  
Why have ye than disdain  

Fama matricul●ta. i. scripta in quade cartula imortalitatio et see dula g●●e in●arcesciblis etc. b. il  At poets. And complain  
How poets do but feign.  
ye do much great outrage  
For to disparaged  
And to discourage  
The fame matryculate  
Of poets laureate.  
For if ye sadly look  
And wesely read the book  
Of good advertisement  
With me ye must consent  
And infallibly agree  

Energiss grece latin ef●●cax operatio. In●noque quo dam spiritus impulsu inopt nabiliter ougi nata. etc.  Of necessity  
How there is a spiritual  
And amysteriall  
And amysticall  
Effect Energiall  
As Greeks do it call  
Of such an industry  
And such a pregnacy  
Of heavenly inspiration  
In laureate creation  

Est delis in nobis agsrāri calestianto illo sedibus ei he rils spsis ●●e venit. h. Qui.  Of poctes' commendation  
That of divine myseration  
God maketh his habitation  
In poets which excels  
And sojourns with them and dwells   


Dona dei carmen nitidum facundia p̄●iās. Wittitur er astris a superisque dat. hec Bapt. Wan.  ¶ By whose inslammation  
Of spiritual inslygation  
And divine inspiration  
We are kindled in such fashion  
With heat of the Holygost  
Which is god of mights most  
That he our pen doth lead  

Larda nescit molymina spiritus sancti gratia hec Dierony.  And maketh in us such speed  
That forth with we must need  
With pen and ink proceed  
Sometime for affection  
Sometime for sad direction  
Sometime for correction  
Sometime under protection  

Lingua mea calamus scribe velociter scribenti●. h. psal.  Of patient sufferance  
With sober cyrcumstance  
Our minds to advance  
To no man's annoyance  
Therefore no grenance  
I pray you for to take  
In this that I do make  
Against these frenetykes  
Against these lunatykes  
Against these Sysmatykes  
Against these Heretics  
No we of late abjured  
Most unhappily ured  
For be ye weal assured  
That Frenzy nor jealousy  
Nor Heresy. will never die.   
D I X I.  

¶ Iniquis. Nolite inique agere/  
et delinquentibus. Nolite exaltare. 
He psalmista.    
C O R N V.   

¶ Tantum pro tertio.  
¶ De raritate poetarum/ deque Gimnosophistarun Philosophorun/ Theologorum/ ceterorumque eruditorun. Infinita numerositate Skel. L. Epitoma.  

SVnt infiniti. Sunt innumerique Sophiste  
Sunt infiniti/ sunt innumerique Logiste  
Innumeri sunt Philosophi/ sunt Theologique  

Que sunt to too so●iabus slcut ●chates. h. Gag. etc.  Sunt infiniti Doctores/ suntque Magistri.  
Innumeri: sed sunt pauci/ Rarique Poet.  
Hinc omne est rarum carum/ Reorergo Poetas.  
Ante alios omnes divino flamine flatos  
Sic Plato divinat. Divinatsicque Socrates. 
Lege Valer● 'em Warimun de is●gni vene ravone po●t● rum.   
Sic magnus Macedo/ sic caesar maximus Heros  
Romanus/ celebres semper coluere Poeta.   
¶ Thus endeth the Replication of Skel. L. etc. Imprited by Richard Pynson/ printer to the kings most noble grace.   printer's or publisher's device