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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A04363) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 8270) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 483:11) The epitaffe of the moste noble [and] valyaunt Iasper late duke of Beddeforde Skelton, John, 1460?-1529, attributed name. [20] p. R. Pynson, [London : [1496]] Printer deduced from printer's device, McKerrow 9a, on verso of leaf B4, noted in STC; publication date from Duff. Incorrectly attributed to John Skelton. In verse. Signatures: a⁶ B⁴. Formerly STC 22605. Verso of leaf B4, which contains printer's device, not filmed. Reproduction of the original in the Pepys Library. eng Bedford, Jasper Tudor, -- Duke of, 1431?-1495 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. eebo The epitaffe of the moste noble [and] valyaunt Iasper late duke of Beddeforde. [no entry] 1496 20 3219 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.11 B The rate of 3.11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2002-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-08 Sampled and proofread 2003-01 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2003-02 Sampled and proofread 2003-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

crucifixion of Christ with the two thieves

The Epitaffe of the moste noble & valyaunt Iasper late duke of Beddeforde .

Rydynge al alone with sorowe sore encombred . In a frosty fornone / faste by seuernes syde . The wordil beholdynge / wherat moche I Wondred To se the see & sonne / to kepe both tyme and tyde . The ayre ouer my hede / so wonderfully to glyde . Color ficcio . And howe saturne by circumference borne is aboute . Whiche thynges to beholde / clerely me notyfyde One verray god to be / therin to haue no dowte And as my fantasy flamyd in that occupacyon . fruteles / deuoyde of all maner gladnes Of one was I Ware / into greate desolacyon . To the erthe prostrate rauynge for madnes By menys so inmoderate / encreased was his sadnes That by me can not be compyled His dedly sorowe / and dolorous dystres Lyfe in hym / by deth / so ny Was exiled Hym better to beholde / so ferre oute of frame Nerre I nyghed / farsyd with fragyllyte wherwith Smert I perceyued he called was by name which ouer haukes & houndes had auctoryte . Though the roume vnmete were for his pouer degre yet fortune so hym farthered to his lorde wherfore him to lye in soch perplexite . what it myghte mene / I gan to my sylfe recorde I shogged him I shaked him I ofte aboute him Wente . And al to knowe / Why so care / his carayn hyued His temples I rubbyd and by the nose him hente Al as in vayne Was / he coude nat be reuyued . He waltered / he wende / and With him silfe stryued . Such countenaunce contynuynge / but or I parte the place Vp his hede he caste whan his woful goste aryued . Those Wordes saynge with righte a pytous face . O sorowe sorowe beyonde al sorowes sure . Metricus pumus . Color . repeticio . All sorowes sure surmountynge / lo. To Which payne no pure may endure Endure may none such dedely wo. Wo alas ye inwrapped for he is go . Go is he Whose valyaunce to recounte . To recounte all other it dyd surmounte . Gone is he alas that redy was to do . Eche thynge that to nobes required . Metricus secundus . C. recitacio simplex . Gone is he alas that redy Was to do . Eche thynge that curtesye of him desyred . Whose frowarde fate falsely was conspyred . By antraphos vnasured & her vngracyous charmys . Iaspar I mene is gone mars son in armys . He that of late regnyd in glory . With grete glosse buttylly glased . M. iii. C. narracio . NoWe lo we vnder fote doth he ly . With wormys ruly rente and rasyd His carayne stynkynge his fetures fasyd . Brother and vncle to kynges yesterday . Nowe is he gone and lafte vs as mased . Closed here lyeth he in a clote of clay . Shal he come agayne / a nay nay . Where is he become I can not discusse . Than with the prophet may We say . Non inuentus est locus eius . Restynge in him Was honoure with sadnesse . Curtesy kyndenesse With great assuraunce . Dispysynge vice louynge al way gladnesse . Metricus quartus e● retrogradiens . Color discripcio . Knyghtly condicyons feythful alegeaunce Kyndely demenoure gracyous vtteraunce . Was none semelyer feture ne face . Frendely him fostered quatriuial aliaunce . Alas yet dede nowe arte thou iaspar alas . wherfore sorowe to oure sorowe / none can be founde . Ne cause agayne care to mollyfy oure monys . Alas the payne For his body and goste Metricus quintus That we loued moste . In a graue in the grounde Deth depe hath drounde Amonge robel and stonys Wherfore complayne .. Complayne complayne who can complayne . For I alas past am compleynte . To compleyne wyt can not sustayne . Deth me with doloure so hath bespraynt M. vi . For in my syghte . Oure lorde and knyghte Contrary to righte . Deth hath ateynte . As the vylest of a nacyon . Deuoyde of consolacyon . By cruel crucyacyon . He hath combryd hym sore . M. vii . C. iteracio He hath him combryd sore . That fraunce and englonde bere byfore . Armys of both quarteryd . And with hony soyte was garteryd . Se howe he is nowe marteryd . Alas for sorowe therfore . Alas for sorowe therfore . Oute and Weleaway . For people many a score . For him shal yel and rore . Alas that we were bore . To se this dolorous day . With asshy hue compleyne also I cry . Ladyes / damosels mynyonat & gorgayse . Knyghtes aunterus of the myghty monarchy . Complayne also for he that in his dayes . To enhaunce wonte was your honoure youre prayse . Nowe is he gone of erthly blysse ryfyld . For dredeful deth withouten delayse . Ful dolorously his breth hath stifild . Terys degoutynge also complayne complayne . Houndes peerles / haukes withoute percialyte . Sacris / faucons / heroners hautayne . C. transsumpcio . For nowe darked is youre pompe / youre prodogalyte . youre plesures been past vnto penalyte . Of with your rich caperons / put on your mourning hodes For iaspar your prynce by proporcyon of qualyte . Paste is by deth / those daungerous flodys . He that manhode meyntened / & magnamynite His blasynge blys nowe is with balys blechyd M. viii . Throgh dethes croked & crabbed cruelte . In doloure depe nowe is he droWned & drechyd . His starynge standerde that in stoures strechyd With a sable serpente / nowe set is on a wall . His helme heedles / cote corseles / woful and wrechyd . With a swerde handeles there hange they all . Gewellys of late / poysyd at grete valoyre . He ded they desolate of euery membre . Stykynge on stakes as thynges of none shaloyre For the corse that they couched / cast is in sendre . By cruel compulsyon caused to surrendre . M. ix . Lyfe vp to deth / that al ouerspurneth . O se howe this worlde tourneth . Some laugheth some mourneth . yet ye prynces precyous and tendre . Whyle that ye here in glory soiourneth . The deth of our mayster rue to remembre . O turmentoure / traytoure / torterous tyraunte . So vnwarely oure duke haste thou slayne C. exclamacio . That Wyt and mynde are vnsuffycyaunte . Agayne thy myschyf malyce to mayntayne We that in blysse wonte Were to bayne With fortune flotynge moste fauourably . Nowe thorow thrylled & persyd with payne . Langoure we in feruente exstasy . O murtherer vnmesurable withouten remors . Monstruus of entayle aborryd in kynde . Thou haste his corse dystressed by force . C. reproba cio. Whos parayle alyue thou can not fynde . Howe durst : hou his flessh and spyryte vnrynde . Dissendynge fro Cyzyle Ierusalem and Fraunce . O bazalyke bryboure with iyes blynde . Sore may thou rue thy vtterquidaunce Thou haste berafte / I say the erthly ioye Of one broder & vncle to kynges in degre . Lynyally descendynge fro eneas of troye . Grete vncle and vncle to prynces thre . Brother to a saynte by Way of natyuyte Vncle to another / whom men seketh blyue . Blynde croked lame / for remedyes hourly . Thus god that bromecod had gyuen a prerogatyue . And yet thou dolorous deth / to the herte hast him stynged . Wenest thou felon / such murther to escape I say the brewtors of Wales on the Wyl be reuenged For thy false conspyracy and froWarde fate C. newgacio . We his seruauntes also sole disconsolate . Haste thou lafte / so that creatures more maddyr . In erthe none Wandreth atWene senit & naddyr . Wherfore to the felde / to the felde / on With plate & male . Beest / byrde / foule / eche body terrestryal . M. x. Seke we this murtherer him to assayle . Vnafrayde ioyne in ayde / ye bodyes celestyal . Herry saynt / with iyes faynte / to the also I cal . for thy brothers sake / help deth to take / that al may on him wond for & he reyne by drift sodeyne / he Wil ech kynd encumbre . Dethe . Fouconer thou arte to blame . And oughte take shame . To make suche pretense . M. xi . C. ꝓsopopeya . For I deth hourly . May stande truly . At ful lawful defence Deth hath no myghte . Do wronge ne righte . Fauoure frende ne fo. But as an instrumentes At commaundemente . Whether to byde or go . I am the instromente Of one omnipotente That knowest thou fyrme and playne . wherfore fro dethe Thy wo and wreth I Wolde thou shulde reteyne . And agayne god For thy bromecod Batayle to darayne . Than if it be ryghte / most of myght / thy godhed I acuse . For thy myght / contrary to right / thou doste gretly abuse . M. xii . C. Introductio . Katyffes vnkīd / thou leuest behind / paynīs turkes & iewis & our maist gret / thou gaue wormes to ete wrō gretly I muse Is this wel done / answer me sone / make lorde thyn excuse Dyd thou disdayne that he shuld rayne / was that els the cause . In his rayne he was moste fayne / to mynest thy lawes Than certayn & thou be playn / & stedfaste in thy sawes . Euery knyght that doth right / ferynge drede ne awes M. xiii . C. onomotopeya . Of thy face bryghte / shal haue a syghte / after this worldly wawes . Than gode lorde / scripture doth record / verefieng that cause that our bromcod With the gode god / in heuen shal rest & pause For first of nought thou him wroght of thy special grace And Wers than noght him also boght / in caluery in that place M. xiiii . C. ꝓbacio . Thou by thoght / oft he were broght / With satanas to trace . yet lorde to haue pyte thou oght / on the pycture of thy face we / neyther he / dampned to be / willyngly thou wist noght . M. xv . yet dampned shal he & we be / if thy mercy helpe nought . Discrecion hast thou gyuen ꝑde / what Wold we more ought After deth to lyue with the / if we offende nought There is a cause yet of oure care / thou creatoure alofte . That thy gospel doth declare / which I forgete noughte HoWe vnwarly our Welfare / fro vs shal be broughte By deth that none wyl spare / lorde that knowe we noughte M. xvi . In syn drowned if we dare / & so sodenly be coughte Than of blysse ar we bare / that fylleth me ful of thoughte Thou knowest lorde best thy sylfe Man is but duste stercorye and fylthe Of him sylfe vnable . Saue only of thy specyal grace A soule thou made to occupye place . To make man ferme and stable . C degressio which man to do as thou ordeyned . With fendes foule / shal neuer be payned . But in blysse be perdurable . And if he do the contrarye After this lyfe than shal he dye . M. xvii : Fendes to fede vnsaciable . For which fendys foule thou made a centre . In which centre / thou made an entre That such that to breke thy commaundementes Wolde auenter Theder doWne shulde dessende . But oure maister whan deth hym trapte . In pure perseueraunce so was Wrapte . That thou inuisyble his speryte thyder rapte Where thy sheltrons him shal defende . If We nat offende He wyl purchace . A gloryous place . At oure laste ende To se his face . we shal assende M. quatrinalis . C. transuersio . By his grete grace . If we nat offende . Thou haste enuapored I say alofte . The soule of iasper that thou wroughte . Seruyce to do latrial . And why lorde I dyd the reproue . Was for perfyte zele and loue . To the nat preiudicyal . For lorde this I knowe exprsse This worldly frute is bytternesse . Farcyd With wo and payne . Lyfe ledynge dolorously in distresse Shadowed with dethes lykenesse . As in none certayne . yet me semeth lo thou art non of tho that vs so shuld begyle He is nat yet ded / I lay my hed thou hast him hid for a while And al to proue / who doth him loue / & Who wil be vnkynd C. neugacio Thou hast in led layde him a bed this trow I in my mynd for this we troW / & thou dost know / as thy might is most That him to dye / to soWe & hye / it were to grete a lost . And he be dede this knowe I very right Thou saw lorde this erth corrupt with fals adulacyon . And thought it place vnmete for iaspar thy knyght . wherfore of body and soule / thou made seperacyon . Preantedate seynge by pure predestynacyon . C. excusacio . Whan his lyfe here shulde fyne and consum . Wherfore lorde thus ende I my dolorous exclamacyon Thy godenes knewe what was beste to be done . As a prynce penytente and ful of contricion . M. xviii . C. conclusio . So dyed he / we his seruauntes can recorde . And that he may haue euerlastynge fruicyon . We the beseche gloryous kynge and lorde For the laste leson that he dyd recorde . To thy power he it aplyed / saynge tibi omnes . As a hye knyghte / in fidelyte / fermely moryd Angeli celi et potestates . Wherwith payne / to the herte him boryd And lyfe him lefte / gyuynge deth entres Whiche lyfe in comparyson of thyne : Is as poynt in lyne / or as instant in tyme . For thou were / and arte / and shal be al tyme In thy silfe reynynge by power diuyne Makynge gerarcyiis thre / and orders nyne The to deifye Wherfore we crye . Suffer nat iaspar to dye . But to lyue For enternally that he shal lyue . Is oure byleue . And than moste craftely dyd combyne . Another heuen called cristalline . So the thyrde stellyferal to shyne . M. xix . C. prolongacio . Aboue thy skye . Wherfore we crye Suffer nat iaspar to dye But to lyue . For eternally that he shal lyue . Is oure byleue . Moreouer in a zodiake / pure and fyne . Synys . xii . thou set for a tyme . And them nexte in cercle and lyne Saturne thou set / iupiter and mars citryne . Contect and drye . Wherfore / we crye . Suffer nat iaspar to dye . But to lyue . For eternally that he shal lyue . Is oure byleue . Than to peryssh thorouthryll & myne . The mystes blake and cloudes tetryne . Tytan thou set clerely to shyne . The worldes iye . Wherfore we crye . vt supra yet in their epycercles to tril & tWyne . Retrograte / stacyoner / directe as a lyne . Venus thou set marcury & the mone masseline . Nexte fyre / and ayre so sotyl of engyne . The to gloryfye Wherfore we crye Suffer nat iaspar to dye . But to lyue . For eternally that he shal lyue . Is oure byleue . Water and erth with braunch and vine . And so thy werkes to ende and fyne . Man to make thou dyd determyne , Of whome cam I. wherfore I cry & the supplye . Suffer nat iaspar to dye . But to lyue . For eternally that he shal lyue . Is oure byleue . With him to comford at all tyme . Thou ioyned the sex than of frayle femynyne Which by temptacyon serpentyne . Theyre hole sequele broughte to ruyne . By ouergrete folye . Wherfore we crye . Suffer nat iaspar to dye . But to lyue . For eternally that he shal lyue . Is oure byleueue . Than of thy godenes thou dyd enclyne flessh to take of thy moder and virgyne . And vs amonge in payne and famyne . Dwalte and taughte thy holy doctryne . Vulgurly Wherfore we crye . Suffer nat iaspar to dye . But to lyue . For eternally that he shal lyue . Is oure byleue . Tyl a traytoure by false couyne . To pylat accused the at pryme . So taken slayne / and buryed at complyne . Rose agayne of adam redemynge the lyne . By thy infynyte mercy . For whych mercy . Incessantly we crye And the supplye Suffer nat our lorde to dye But to lyue . For eternally that he shal lyue . Is oure byleue .
Lenuoy . Kynges / prynces / remembre whyle ye may . Do for your silfe for that shal ye fynde . M. xx . Executours often maketh delay . The body buryed the soule sone oute of mynde . Marke this Wel / and graue it in youre mynde . Howe many grete estates gone are before . And hoWe after ye shal foloWe by course of kynde . Wherfore do for youre silfe / I can say no more . Though ye be gouernours moste precious in kynde . Caste downe your crounes and costely appareyle . Endored With golde / and precyous stones of ynde . For al in the ende lytyl shal auayle . Whan youre estates deth lyketh to assayle your bodyes bulgynge with a blyster sore Than Withstande shal neyther plate ne mayle . Wherfore do for youre silfe / I can say no more . There is a vertue that moost is auaunsed Pure perseueraunce called of the porayle . By Whome al vertues are enhaunsed . Which is not Wonne but by diligente trauayle . Ware in the ende / for and that vertue fayle . Body and soule than are ye forlore Wherfore if ye folowe Wyll holsom counsayle . Do for youre silfe I can say no more . Kynges prynces moste souerayne of renoune . Remembre oure maister that gone is byfore . This Worlde is casual / nowe vp / nowe downe . Wherfore do for your silfe I can say no more .
Amen . Honor tibi deus / gloria / et laus . Qd Smerte maister de ses ouzeaus .