Honorificatissimo, amplissimo, longeq[ue] reuerendissimo in Christo patri: ac domino, domino Thome &c ... A latereq[ue] legato superillustri &c. Skeltonis laureatus ora, reg. humillimum, dicit obsequium ... A replycacion agaynst certayne yong scolers, abiured of late [et]c. Argumentum. Crassa[n]tes nimiu[m], nimiu[m] sterilesq[ue] labruscas (vinea quas d[omi]ni, sabaot non sustinet ultra laxius expandi) nostra est resecare uoluntas. Cum priuilegio a rege indulto. Replycacion agaynst certayne yong scolers Skelton, John, 1460?-1529. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A12292 of text S111027 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 22609). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 28 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 11 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A12292 STC 22609 ESTC S111027 99846459 99846459 11428 2248522271

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HONORIFICATISSIMO , Amplissimo , longeque reuerendissimo in Christo patri : Ac domino , domino THOME &c. Tituli sanctae Ceciliae , sacrosanctae Romanae ecclesiae presbytero Cardinali meritissimo , et Apostolice sedis legato . A latereque legato superillustri &c. Skeltonis laureatus Ora , reg. Humillimum , dicit obsequium cum omni debita reuerentia , tanto tamque magnifico digna principe sacerdotum , totiusque iustitiae equabilissimo moderatore . Necnon presentis opusculi fautore excellentissimo &c. Ad cuius auspicatissimam contemplationem , sub memorabili prelo gloriose inmortalitatis presens pagella felicitatur &c ,

A replycacion agaynst certayne yong scolers / abiured of late &c.

ARGVMENTVM . CRassātes nimium , Nimium sterilesque labruscas ( Vinea quas dni , sabaot non sustinet ultra Laxius expandi ) nostra est resecare uoluntas .

Cum priuilegio a rege in dulto .

PRotestacion alway canonically prepensed / professed / and with good dely / beracion made / that this lytell Pamphilet ( called the Replication of Skelton laureate ) Ora. reg. Remordyng dyuers recrayed and moche vnresonable errours / of certayne Sophystycate scolers and rechelesse yonge heretykes / lately abiured &c. Shall euermore be ( with all obsequious redynesse ) humbly submytted vnto the ryght discrete reformacyon of the reuerende prelates and moche noble doctours / of our mother holy churche &c.

Ad almam vniuersitatem Cantabrigensem &c. Eulogium consolationis . ALma parens . O. Cantabrigensis Cur lachimaris ? Esto / tui sint Degeneres hi. Contabrigia / skeltonidi lau reato primatu māmam erudi●ionis p●ētis sime ꝓpin●uit Filioli / sed Non obinertes ( O pia mater ) Insciolos uel decolor esto . Progenies non nobilis omnis Quam tua forfan / mamma fouebat : Tu tamen esto / Palladis alme Glotia pollens plena Minerue Dum radiabunt astra polorum : Iamque ualeto / meque foueto .

Namque tibi quondam / carus alumnus eram .

Zebub musca inflatiua sibulās ab austro / q̄intumescere sacit heresiarchas contre fidem ortad●●●ā &c. h. il . Eruditionis exordisi in tencra audacique iuuents temperate moder●tionis frenum postulat . Elioquin scientia effrenote inflataque spsi ●la tiō●● qd dulceo venens● est subr●●ter intoricat interunitque● can●um possessorsi sufi &c. h il . ●●ou sit ig●i● ti●● Philosogia ( ratione intemperat● loquacitar● . tue ●ordinate dicacitac● . icogitate ꝓcacitotis in singul●ū et serupulū cord , tui &c. h. il . Eloquen tiam sine so●tet●a ꝓdesse ●sique / ob esse plersique sa●is constat euident .i. veterum rethoue . Rhetoricari incōpostie . Logicari meticulose . Philosophari ꝑfunc●oue . Theologisari frenetice . Arguit inconcionatore ( ne dum ●ucidum interuallum ) sed continuam ꝑtinacemque mentio altenationem / feculentam / an●●● catam / temulen tam &c. hec il . Vos 〈◊〉 cliphantice euāgelisātes 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 &c. hec il . HOwe yong scolers nowe a dayes enbolmed w the Flyblowen blast of the moche vayne glorious pipplyng wynde . Whan they haue delectably lyeked a lytell of the lycorous electuary of lusty leruyng / in the moche studious scole hous of scrupulous Philosogy . Countyng them selfe clerkes exellently enformed and trāscendigly sped in moche high connyng / & whan they haue ones suꝑciliusly caught .

A lytell ragge of Rethorike A lesse lumpe of Logyke A pece or a patche of Philosophy Than forthwith by and by They tumble so in Theology Drowned in dregges of Diuinite That they iuge them selfe able to be Doctours of the Chayre in the Vyntre At the thre Crames To magnifye their names But madly it frames . For all that they preche and teche Is farther than their wytte wyll reche Thus by demeryttes of their abusyon Finally they fall to carefull confusyon To beare a Fagot or to be enflamed Thus are they vndone & vtily shamed . ERGD . Licet non enclitice . tamen enthyme matice Notandum inprimis . Vt ne quid nimis .

Tantum pro primo .

OVer this . Stoicam sectam zenon ●muo istu●it . For a more ample processe to be farther delated & contynued / and of euery true christenman laudably to be enployed iustifyed / and constantly mainteyned . Iuuenes sanguino lenti propter libidinem dominandi et gloriam fame / frequenter fieri folent sediciosi . hec dias . A touchyng the Tetrycall Theologisacion of these demy diuines and Stoicall studiantes / and frisca ioly yonke rkyns / moche better bayned than bray / ned / basked and baththed in their wylde but blyng and boyling blode / Feruently reboyled with the in fatuate flames of their rechelesse youthe and wytlesse wontonnesse / enbrased and enterlased with a moche fantasticall frenesy of their insensate sensua lyte . Perihermōia● la tie inc pretatio . &c. Surmysed vnsurely in their Perihermeniall principles / to prate and to preche proudly and leudly / and loudly to lye . Porphirius florui● Athemo tempore Gordiani imperatoris . CC. rlir . &c. Analitica Ubri priorum ce posteriorum . or● . Topica .i. liber to talis de totalibus locis &c. Presumere est non audenda facere . &c. De Idolatris lege Hieronimum ad Ioueuianum &c. ydolatria bictio cōpolita ex ydolo ( qd est simulacrum ) et latria ( qd est cultura ) apud nos &c. De latria / iperdulia / dulta / quid san critas aposto●ica / cum Constantino magno Constantino poli ordinauit in cōsi●o Latriensi manifeste repe●ies / et infra . And yet they were but febly enformed in maister Porphiris problemes / & haue waded but weakly in his thre maner of clerkly workes . Analeticall / Topicall / and Logycall . Howbeit they were puffed so full of vaynglorious pompe and surcudant elacyon / that popholy & peuysshe presumpcion prouoked them to publysshe & to preche to people imprudent perilously : howe it was Idolatry to offre to ymages of our blessed lady / or to pray and go on pylgrimages / or to make oblacions to any ymages of sayntes in churches / or els where .

Agaynst whiche erronyous errours / odyous / orgulyous / and Flyblowen opynions &c. IN the honour of our blessed Lady And her most blessed Baby Conuenio vos o / publici iniuriatores sancte et apostolice ecclesle . &c. I purpose for to reply Agaynst this horryble heresy Of these yong heretikes that stynke vnbrent Whom I nowe sommon and content That leudly haue their tyme spent O. ꝓdigiosa ꝓgenics qualem / de filio q̄ritis habere misericordiam ? cuius marrē insiciamini esse matrem mie . canit tamen vniuersalis ecclesta . Salue regina maf●niser icordic . &c. In their study abhomynable Our glorious Lady to disable And heynously on her to bable With langage detestable With your lyppes polluted Agaynst her grace disputed Whiche is the most clere Christall Of all pure clennesse virgynall That our Sauyour bare Whiche vs redemed from care . I saye thou madde Marche Hare I wondre howe ye dare Open your ianglyng iawes Conuenio vo● o / Ariant / Iuliano apostata execrabiliores . &c. To preche in any clawes Lyke pratynge poppyng dawes Agaynst her excellence Agaynst her reuerence Agaynst her preemynence Agaynst her magnifycence That neuer dyde offence . ye heretykes recrayed Wotte ye what ye sayed / Of Mary / mother and mayed Conuenio vos o / spurcissimi / o / vilissimi . o / nequissimi ob trectatores matris xpi &c. With baudrie at her ye brayed With baudy wordes vnmete your tonges were to flete your sermon was nat swete ye were nothyng discrete ye were in a dronken hete Lyke haretykes confettred Conuenio vos o / insensati literarum professores . &c. ye count your selfe wele lettred your lernyng is starke nought For shamefully ye haue wrought And to shame your selfe haue brought . Conuenio vos o / Iebuseij . o / Iudei . o / Cananeij . o / phariseij . &c. Bycause ye her mysnamed And wolde haue her defamed your madnesse she attamed For ye were worldly shamed At Poules crosse openly Non vacat ( o. cōtēptores mariani ) non vacat ( inquam ) qd digna factis recepistioī veipare virginis Conceptio ne . &c. hec 〈◊〉 . All men can testifye There lyke a sorte of sottes ye were fayne to beare Fagottes At the feest of her Concepcion ye suffred suche correction . Siue per Equiuocum Siue per Vniuocum Siue sic / siue nat so ye are brought to . Lo / lo / lo / Conuenio vos o / Malesoni / vani / prophani / christiani . Se where the Heretykes go Wytlesse wandring to and fro With. Te / he . Ta / ha . Bo / ho / bo / ho. And suche wondringes many mo Helas / ye wreches ye may be wo ye may syng wele away And curse bothe nyght and day Whan ye were bredde and borne And whan ye were preestes shorne Conuenio vos o / Hussi●ni &c Thus to be laughed to skorne Thus tattred and thus torne Thoro we your owne foly To be blowen with the flye Of horryble heresy Fayne ye were to reny And mercy for to crye Or be brende by and by Confessyng howe ye dyde lye In prechyng shamefully . your selfe thus ye discured As clerkes vnassured With ignorance obscured ye are vnhappely bred Conuenio vos o / Lutherian● In your Dialeticall And principles Silogisticall If ye to remembrance call Howe Sillogisari Non est ex particulari Necque negatiuis Recte concludere / si vis : Necque non neque l●g●● . Et cetera id genus ye coude nat Cordetenus : Nor answere Verbotenus Whan prelacy you opposed your hertes than were hosed your relacions reposed Quoniam ignorantibus suppocitiones veritates propositionsi non relucent . &c. And yet ye supposed Respondere ad quantum But ye were Confusetantum Surrendring your supposycions For there ye myst you quosshons . wolde god / for your owne ease Warpocrates digie● labifs in presso admopuit silentium fieri in Isidis templo . &c. That wyse Harpocrates Had your mouthes stopped And your tonges cropped Whan ye Logyke chopped And in the Pulpete hopped And folysshly there fopped And porisshly forthe popped your sysmaticate sawes Agaynst goddes lawes S●t preteres nonnulli hutus farme / de quibus hic non est ●err●d● locus And shewed your selfe dawes ye argued argumentes As it were vpon the elenkes De rebus apparentibus Et non existentibus And ye wolde appere wyse But ye were folysshe nyse yet be meanes of that byse ye dyde prouoke and tyse Oftnar than ones ortwyse Many a goodman And many a good woman By way of their deuocion To helpe you to promocion Whose charite wele regarded Can nat be vnrewarded . I saye it for no sedicion Conuenio vos o. ●erodi●ni . But vnder pacient tuicyon It is halfe a supersticyon To gyue you exhibycion To mainteyne with your skoles And to proue your selfe suche foles Some of you had ten pounde Therwith for to be founde At the Vnyuersyte Obscu●●● serc●stino● . Employed whiche myght haue be Moche better other wayes But as the man sayes The blynde eteth many a flye What may be ment here by ye may soone make construction Erfructibus corum cognosce●●s eo● . &c. With right lytell instruction For it is an auncyent brute Suche apple tre●suche frute What shulde I prosecute Or more of this to clatter Retourne we to our matter . Sublimius equo aucupī●guni . &c. ye soored ouer hye In the Ierarchy Of Iouenyans heresy your names to magnifye Among the scabbed skyes Cōnenio vos o wichl●ftifte . Of wycliffes fless he flyes ye strynged so Luthers lute That ye dawns all in a sute The heritykes ragged ray That bringes you out of the way Of holy churches lay ye shayle / inter enigmata And inter paradigmata Marked in your cradels To beare fagottes for babyls And yet some men say Howe ye are this day And be nowe as yll And so ye wyll be styll As ye were before What shulde I recken more . Men haue you in suspicion Howe ye haue small contrycion Of that ye haue myswrought Conuenio vos o verbosi Sophiste &c. For if it were well sought One of you there was That laughed whan he dyd pas With his fagot in processyon He counted it for no correction But with scornefull affection Toke it for a sporte His heresy to supporte Where at a thousande gased As people halfe a mased And thought in hym smale grace His foly so to face . Some iuged in this case your penaunce toke no place your penaunce was to lyght Conuenio vos o diabolic● dogma●ste &c And thought / if ye had right ye shulde take further payne To resorte agayne To places where ye haue preched And your lollardy lernyng teched And there to make relacion In open predycacion And knowlege your offence Before open audyence Howe falsely ye had surmysed And deuyllysshely deuysed The people to seduce And chase them thorowe the muse Of your noughty counsell To hunt them in to hell With blowyng out your hornes Full of mockysshe scornes With chatyng and rechatyng And your busy pratyng Sunt pl●tiqui 〈◊〉 sed ●on a 〈…〉 contu●●●●●euec 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 &c. Of the gospell and the pystels ye pyke out many thystels And bremely with your bristels ye cobble and ye clout Holy scripture so about That people are in great dout And feare / leest they be out Of all good Christen order Thus all thyng ye disorder Thorowe out euery bordr . It had ben moche better ye had neuer lerned letter Conuenio vo● male docti logiste . &c. For your ignorance is gretter I make you fast and sure Than all your lytterature : ye are but lydder logici But moche worse Isagogici For ye haue enduced a secte With heresy all infecte Wherfore ye are well checte And by holy churche correcte And in maner as abiecte For euermore suspecte And banysshed in effect From all honest company Bycause ye haue eaten a flye To your great vyllony That neuer more may dye . Come forthe ye pope holy Full of melancoly Conuenio vo● o. Ipocrise &c. your madde Ipocrisy And your idiosy And your vayne glorie Haue made you eate the flye Pufte full of heresy To preche it Idolatry Who so dothe magnifye That glorious mayde Mary Maledictio mariana descendat sup capita vestra . o / heretici cretici frenetici &c. That glorious mayde and mother So was there neuer another But that Princesse alone To whom we are bounde echone The ymage of her grace To reuerence in euery place I saye ye braynlesse beestes Why iangle you suche iestes In your diuynite Of Luthers affynite Conuenio vo● o● Machomitani . &c. To the people of lay fee Raysyng in your rages To worshyppe none ymages Nor do pylgrymages I saye ye deuyllysshe pages Full of suche dottages Count ye your selfe good clerkes And snapper in suche werkes . Saynt Gregorie and saynt Ambrose ye haue reed them I suppose Saynt Ierome and saynt Austen With other many holy men Conuenio vo● o / demoninet meridiani . &c. Saynt Thomas de Aqu●no With other doctours many mo Whiche / de ( Latria ) do trete They saye howe ( Latria ) is an honour grete Belongyng to the deite To this ye nedes must agre But I trowe your selfe ye ouer se What longeth to Christes humanyte nota de latria Hiꝑdulia / dulia / quid ꝑ sancte ●anxitū est Constantinopoli ab ecc●ia catholica et apostolica iterum in frīgere ( quid hoc sibi vult ) fasciculum con sul●te inflāmatum . &c. If ye haue reed / de ( Hiperdulia ) Than ye knowe what betokeneth ( Dulia ) Than shall ye fynde it fyrme and stable And to our faithe moche agreable To worshyppe ymages of sayntes Wherfore make ye no mo restrayntes But mende your myndes that are mased Or els doutlesse ye shal be blased And be brent at a stake If further busynesse that ye make O. medici mediam pertundite venam . Therfore I vyse you to forsake Of Heresy the deuyllysshe scoles And crye godmercy lyke frantyke foles .
Tantum pro secundo . Peroratio ad nuper abiuratos quosdam Hipoteticos hereticos . &c. 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 confutacion responsyue / or an ineuytably prepensed answere / to all way warde or frowarde altercacyons / / that can or may be made or obiected agaynst Skelton laureate / deuyser of this Replycacyon . &c.

WHy fall ye at debate With Skelton Laureate Reputyng hym vnable To gainsay replycable Opinyons detestable Lota crra● via s● docto● poeta● ( ●lli● autem non de sunt carismata ) argu●o de inscitia . h. il . Of Heresy execrable ye saye that Poetry Maye nat flye so hye In Theology Nor Analogy Nor Philology Nor Philosophy To answere or reply Agaynst suche Heresy . Would ret et propheta ꝑ di usi Hierony● s●●●●a●●●enl●● 〈◊〉 in n●bil● catalogo poe ta●si l●●● o●u / vt 〈◊〉 ifra &c. hec●l . Wherfore by and by Nowe consequently I call to this rekenyng Dauyd that royall kyng Whom Hieronymus That doctour glorious Dothe bothe write and call Uos igif omnes irrisores / contēptoresque poetarum erubescite eum ignominosa verecundia eriticiosaque cōfuslo operiat facies vestras . hecil . Poete of poetes all And Prophete princypall Thus may nat be remorded For it is wele recorded In his pystell ad Paulinum Presbytarum diuinum Where worde for worde ye may Rede / what Ierome there dothe say .

DAuid ( inquit ) Siphonides noster / Pindarus et Alcheus / Flaccus quoque / Catullus / atque Serenus / Christum lira personat / et in decachordo psalterio ab inferis excitat resurgentem . Hec Hier̄ .

The Englysshe . Kyng Dauid the ꝓphete / of ꝓphetes pricipall Of poetes chefe poete / sa it Ierome dothe wright Resembled to Symphonides / that poete lyricall Among the Grekes / most relucent of lyght In that faculte : whiche shyned as Phebus bright Lyke to Pyndarus / in glorious poetry Lyke vnto Alcheus / he dothe hym magnify . Flaccus nor Catullus / with hym may nat compare Nor solempne Serenus / for all his armony In metricall muses / his harpyng we may spare For Dauyd our poete / harped so meloudiously Of our sauy our Christ / in his decacorde psautry That at his resurrection / he harped out of hell Olde patriarkis & prophetis / in heuen whim to dwell
Returne we to our former processe . THan / if this noble kyng Thus can harpe and syng With his harpe of prophecy And spyrituall poetry As saynt Ierome saythe To whom we must gyue faythe Warblyng with his strynges Of suche Theologicall thynges Why haue ye than disdayne Fama matricul●ta . i. scripta in quad● cartula imortalitatio et see dula g●●e in●arcesciblis &c. b. il At poetes . And complayne Howe poetes do but fayne . ye do moche great outrage For to disparage And to discorage The fame matryculate Of poetes laureate . For if ye sadly loke And wesely rede the boke Of good aduertysement With me ye must consent And infallibly agre Energis grece latine ef●●cax operatio . In●noque quo dam spiritus impulsu inopt nabiliter ougi nata . &c. Of necessyte Howe there is a spyrituall And amysteriall And amysticall Effecte Energiall As Grekes do it call Of suche an industry And suche a pregnacy Of heuenly inspyracion In laureate creacyon Est delis in nobis agsrāri calestianto illo sedibus ei he rils spsis ●●e venit . h. Qui. Of poctes commendacion That of diuyne myseracion God maketh his habytacion In Poetes whiche excelles And soiourns with them and dwelles Dona dei carmen nitidum facundia p̄●iās . Wittitur er astris a superisque dat . hec Bapt. Wan . By whose inslammacion Of spyrituall inslygacion And diuyne inspyracion We are kyndled in suche facyon With hete of the Holygost Whiche is god of myghtes most That he our penne dothe lede Larda nescit molymina spiritus sancti gratia hec Dierony . And maketh in vs suche spede That forth with we must nede With penne and ynke procede Somtyme for affection Somtyme for sadde dyrection Somtyme for correction Somtyme vnder protection Lingua mea calamus scribe velociter scribenti● . h. psal. Of pacient sufferance With sobre cyrcumstance Our myndes to auaunce To no mannes anoyance Therfore no grenance I pray you for to take In this that I do make Agaynst these frenetykes Agaynst these lunatykes Agaynst these Sysmatykes Agaynst these Heretykes No we of late abiured Most vnhappely vred For be ye wele assured That Frensy nor Ielousy Nor Heresy . wyll neuer dye .

D I X I.

Iniquis . Nolite inique agere / et delinquentibus . Nolite exaltare . Hee psalmista .

C O R N V.

Tantum pro tertio .

De raritate poetarum / deque Gimnosophistarū Philosophorum / Theologorum / ceterorumque eruditorum . 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 . &c Sunt infiniti Doctores / suntque Magistri . Innumeri : sed sunt pauci / Rarique Poete . Hinc omne est rarum carum / Reorergo Poetas . Ante alios omnes diuino flamine flatos Sic Plato diuinat . Diuinatsicque Socrates . Lege Valer● um Warimū de is●gni vene rauone po●t● rum . Sic magnus Macedo / sic Cesar maximus Heros Romanus / celebres semper coluere Poeta .

Thus endeth the Replicacyon of Skel . L. &c. Imprited by Richard Pynson / printer to the kyngis most noble grace .

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