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John Skelton Poems
- Cuncta Licet Cecidisse Putas D...
- To Mistress Margaret Hussey MERRY Margaret ...
- The Tunning Of Elenor Rumming Tell you I chyll, If that ye ...
- With Lullay, Lullay With lullay, lullay, like a child, Thou ...
- A Ballad Of The Scottsysshe Ky... Kynge Jamy, Jomy your joye ...
- The Book Of Phillip Sparrow Pla ce bo, Who is there, ...
- A Lawde And Prayse [a laude and prayse made for our ...
John Skelton possibly born in Diss Norfolk, was an English poet.
Education
He is said to have been educated at Oxford. He certainly studied at Cambridge, and he is probably the "one Scheklton" mentioned by William Cole as taking his M.A. degree in 1484. In 1490, William Caxton writes of him, in the preface to The Boke of Eneydos compyled by Vyrgyle, in terms which prove that he had already won a reputation as a scholar. "But I pray mayster John Skelton," he says, "late created poete laureate in the unyversite of Oxenforde, to oversee and correct this sayd booke ... for him I know for suffycyent to expowne and englysshe every dyffyculte that is ... more »
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Cuncta Licet Cecidisse Putas Discrimina Rerum
Cuncta licet cecidisse putas discrimina rerum,
Et prius incerta nunc tibi certa manent,
Consiliis usure meis tamen aspice caute,
Subdola non fallat te dea fraude sua:
Saepe solet placido mortales fallere vultu,
Et cute sub placida tabida saepe dolent;
Ut quando secura putas et cuncta serena,
Anguis sub viridi gramine saepe latet.
Though ye suppose all jeperdys ar paste,
And all is done that ye lokyd for before,
Ware yet, I rede you, of Fortunes dowble cast,
For one fals poynt she is wont to kepe in store,
And vnder the fell oft festered is the sore:
That ...
