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The Poetical Works of John Skelton: with notes, and some account of the
author and his writings. Ed. Dyce, A. 2 vols. 1843. [Standard
edition. ]
Masteres anne I am your man published in E. Stud. XXXVII, p. 29, by
Fr. Brie.
Recule against Gaguyne, beginning: How darest thow swere or be so bolde
also . . . , printed in E. Stud. xXXVII, p. 32, by Fr. Brie.
MSS.
Colyn Cloute. MS Harl. 2252, fol. 147. –Fragment in MS Lansdown 762,
fol. 75.
Edwarde the forth, Of the death of the noble prince, Kynge.
Gagayne, Recule ageinst. MS Trinity College, Cambridge, 0. 2. 53, fol. 165 b.
Garlande of Laurell. MS Cotton. Vitellius E. x, fol. 200.
Garnesche, Poems against. MS Harl. 367, fol. 101.
Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale. Fairfax M$. -Add MSS (Brit. Mus. ),
5465, fol. 109.
Masteres anne. Trinity College, Cambridge, R. 3. 47 (on fly-leaf).
Northumberlande, Vpon the doulourds dethe and muche lamentable chaunce
of the most honorable Erle of. MS Reg. 18, D ii, fol. 165.
Rose both White and Rede, The, . . . Records of the Treasury of the Receipt
of the Exchequer. B. 2. 8 (pp. 67-69).
Speke, Parrot. MS Harl. 2252, fol. 133.
Unpublished: Translation of Diodorus Siculus, MS 357, Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge. (Edition for the E. E. T. 8. in preparation. )
.
Brie, Friedrich. Skelton Studien. (E. Stud. XXXVII, pp. 1-86. )
Koelbing, Arthur. Zur Charakteristik John Skelton's. Stuttgart, 1904.
Lee, S. Dictionary of National Biography, vol. LII, pp. 327-332.
Rey, Albert. Skelton's satirical poems in their relation to Lydgate's Order of
Fools, Cock Lorell's Bote and Barclay's Ship of Fools. Berne, 1899.
Saintsbury, G. A History of English Prosody. 1906. Vol. 1, pp. 240 ff
.
Thümmel, Arno. Studien über John Skelton. Leipzig-Reudnitz, 1905.
EARLY GERMAN INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Arber, Edward. English Reprints. William Roy and Jerome Barlow.
Rede me and be not Wrothe. 1528. 1895.
A Proper Dyalogue betwene a Gentillman and a Husbandman, etc.
1530. 1895.
Black, W. H. The Enterlude of John Bon and Mast Person. Peroy Society.
1852.
E. L. III.
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Collected and edited, with Introductions and Notes. 1866. (Vols. III
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CHAPTER V
THE PROGRESS OF SOCIAL LITERATURE IN
TUDOR TIMES
:
BOTES, TESTAMENTS, FRATERNITIES, DANCES OF DEATH, ETC.
Cock Lorell's Bote. Wynkyn de Worde, c. 1510. Fragment in Garrick Coll.
B. M. Rptd in Maidment's Publications, XLVI, 1840; Percy Society by
E. F. Rimbault, xxx, 1843; Boxburghe Club, XIII, 1817. [Cock Lorell
quoted in S. Rowlands's list of professional rogues but not in Harman's.
Among the numerous allusions to this character, Ben Jonson's is the most
important, i. e. Cooke Laurell (rptd Roxburghe Coll. , vol. II, p. 445 and
Peroy Folio MS, 1867), in which Cock invites the Devil to dinner, the
menu, fit for such a guest, involving satire on social types. ]
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the Sixteenth Century, Cambridge, 1886; Pt 11, chap. 6.
Geiler, J. (von Kaisersberg). Navicula, sive speculum fatuorum, cum figuris.
Argent. , 1511. Le grand nauffraige des folz, qui sont en la nef dinsipi-
ence navigeans en la mer de ce monde, livre de grand effect, profit,
utilité, valeur, honneur et moralle vertu, à l'instruction de toutes gens.
Paris: Denys Janot, s. d. Pimlyco, or, Runne Red-cap. Busbie, J. and
Loftis, G. 1609. Rptd in Antient Drolleries (No. 2), Oxford, 1891; The
hospitall of incurable fooles, erected in English, Bellifant, E. , 1600
(Trans, from T. Garzoni).
The Galley late come into Englande from Terra Nova, laden with Phisitiens
Apothecaries and Chirurgiens. Quoted by J. Halle but not elsewhere
alluded to.
(1) Latin Origins of Testaments.
Testamentum Grunnii Corocottae Porcelli. Described by Alex. Brassicanus
(German grammarian, d. 1539) from MS at Mayence. Rptd, Fani, 1505;
included in Facetiae Domenichi, 1548; and Nugae Venales, 1741. Pro-
bably influenced Wyl Bucke and The Passion of the Fox. Grunnias.
leaves the different parts of his body to those likely to appreciate the
bequests; his teeth go to the quarrelsome, his tongue to lawyers and the
rope he brought from the forest to the cook to hang himself withal.
Testamentum Canis. Facetiae Poggii. First printed, 1470.
Testamentum ludicrum Sergii Polensis Parasiti. (Diction marks the be-
ginning of decadence. ) Rptd by Domitins Brusoni: Facetiarum
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(2) Their Development in French Literature.
Cf. Testament de Monseigneur des Barres, 1488; Sensuyt le Testament
de Taste Vin, Roy des Pions, C. 1488 (a goliardio extravagance from which
Danbar drew some traits for the Testament of Mr Andro Kennedy); Le
Grant Testament de Villon et le petit, 1489; Le Testament D’Anthoine de
Leve, translate dytalien en langue francoyse, 1536 (? ) (Brunet); À lampoon
on Antonio de Leyva, in which, amongst other burlesque bequests, he
leaves his ulcers 'aux Millanoys, Lucquoys et Pietmontoys,' similar in spirit
to the Testament of the Earl of Pembroke, 1650, and the Testament of the
Marquis of Argyle, 1661 (? ); Le Testament de Martin Leuter, n. d. ; Le testa-
ment fin Rubin de Turquie, maigre Marchand eontrefaisant sotie . . . n. d. ; Le
Testament de Henri de Valoys, recommandé à son amy Jean d'Espernon,
avec un coq-a-l’asne, 1589; Testament de l'Union, attached to the Satyre
Ménippée (ed.
1594) in which the Sainte Union suffering from mortal sick-
ness makes a testament in the spirit of the Wyll of the Deayll; Le
Bragardissime et joyeux Testament de la Bière, 1611, dedicated to drunkards
in view of the feastings of the Carême. Testament de Bachus trouvé au
cabinet d'un des plus fameux poëte (sic) de ce temps, 1649.
Vide Peignot, G. Testamens anciens et modernes. Dijon, 1829.
(3) Scotch and English Testaments.
Colyn blowbols Tesiament. MS Rawlinson, C. 86 fol. 106 (Bodl. ). Re-ed.
Halliwell, J. O. , Nagae Poeticae, 1844; and Hazlitt, W. C. , Early Popular
Poetry, vol. I, 1864. The tract recalls the goliardic drinking songs.
Heresye's Testament. Mentioned in the W yll of the Devyll but not else-
where found; probably suppressed.
Hunting of the Hare with her last Wyll and Testament (a ballad), The. Ptd
by Coles, F. , Vere, T. and Wright, J. (Bodl. ).
Jyl of Brentford's (or Breyntfords) Testament, by Copland, R. , n. d. Re-ed.
Furnivall, F. J. , 1871.
Last will and testament of Doctors Commons, The. n. p. 1641.
Last Will and Testament of Philip Herbert . . . vulgarly called Earl of
Pembroke and Montgomery, who died of Foole-age. Jan. 28th, 1650.
Nodnol. 1650.
Last Will and Testament, with his character, The Marquis of Argyle's. 1661 (? ).
Both these are political lampoons of the type of Antoine de Leve.
Passion of the Fox, The. W. de Worde, 1530. Re-ed. W. C. Hazlitt in
Fugitive Poetical Tracts, vol. 1, 1875. Composed by a chantry priest at
Mere, who, losing a pet fox, is carried away in a dream to the
mountain of sleep, where Morpheus tells him how his favourite strayed
from home and was hunted and killed. The priest is shown a roll in
which the fox's testament is written, the animal, after the manner of
Grunnius Corocotta, bequeathing the parts of his body with poetic and
satiric discrimination : his eyes to the blind, his ears to the deaf,
My obedyens to every good wyfe
My fast holdynge to hym that wyll make stryfe,
My lepes and skyppes of great quycknes
I gyve to servauntes in theyr busynes.
Testament of the Hawthorne, The Second ed. of Totteľ's Miscellany, 1557.
Wyl Bucke his Testament. Copland, W. , c. 1550. Re-ed. by Haslewood, J. ,
Chiswick Press, 1827, and Halliwell, J. O. , Contributions to the Literature
of the 16th and 17th cents. , 1851. The buck, when dying, bequeaths
the portions of his body to different departments of the kitchen service.
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Wyll of the Devyll, The Powell, H. , n. d. Rptd at close of 16th cent. by
Jones, R. , who added the Devil's 'x detestable commandements. Re-ed.
in J. P. Collier's Illustrations of Early English Popular Literature,
1862-3, vol. I, and Furnivall, F. J. , 1871, with Jūl of Breyntford's Testa-
ment. Besides the Krankheit der Messe, the tract is similar to the
Testament D'Antoine de Love and perhaps suggested the Testament de
l'Union. It borrows an episode from Arlotto's Facetie (1520).
Cf. also Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, Dunbar's Testament of
Mr Andro Kennedy, Lyndsay's Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane
Lordis Papyngo and Gascoigne’s Dan Bartholmew of Bath.
Orders and Fraternities.
A new Ballad against Unthrifts. Ptd by John Alde. This ballad, besides
enumerating different forms of extravagance which end in ruin, contains
a direct allusion to the figure of a 'bote,' in the stanza suggestive of the
beggar books:
Then some to Newgate doo take ship,
Sailing ful fast up Holborne Hil,
And at Tiborn their anckers picke,
Ful sore indeed against their wil.
XX Orders of Callettes or Drabbys. Alex. Lacye. 1562-3.
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for ever by Cock Lorell. Ptd by Awdeley, with the Fraternitye of
Vacabones, 1565. Rptd by Viles, E. and Furnivall, F. J. , Shakespeare
Lib. , 1907.
Who liveth so merry in all this land ? Registered 1557-8. Rptd in Wit and
Drollery, (X) Jovial Poems, 1661, 1682, p. 252; Wit and Mirth or Pills
to purge Melancholy, vol. 1 (1698 and 1707); Chappell, W. , Popular
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La dāse macabre. Guy Marchant. 1485. Danse macabre des femmes et le
debat du corps et de lame. Guyot Marchant. 1486. Cy est la nouvelle
danse macabre des hommes dicte miroer salutaire de toutes gens. Gayot
Marchant. 1490. A large number of adaptations and imitations followed
these during the 16th cent.
Authorities :
Bibliophile Jacob (Lacroix, P. ). Danse macabre histoire fantastique do
XV° siècle. Paris. 1832.
Langlois, E. H. Essai sur les Danses des Morts. Rouen. 1852.
Peignot, E. G. Recherches sur les Danses des Morts. Dijon. 1826.
(2) English Dances of Death.
The Shaking of the Sheets or the Dance of Death. MS copy, B. M. (Add.
MSS. No. 15,225) in which it is ascribed to Thomas Hill. Entered at
Stationers' Hall 1568-9 to Awdeley. (Vide J. P. Collier's extracts from
Registers of Stationers' company (1557–70), 1848, vol. 1, p. 195. ) Rptd
by Chappell, W. , Popular Music of the Olden Time, 1855-9, vol. 1, p. 85.
[Illustrated ballads concerning dances and songs of death are described
in A Coll. of 79 Black Letter Ballads and Broadsides, 1559-97, Joseph Lilly,
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Authorities.
Disraeli, I. Curiosities of Literature: History of the Skeleton of Death.
1791-1834 ff.
Douce, F. Dance of Death . . . with a dissertation on the several repre-
sentations of that subject. 1833.
Massmann, H. -F. Literatur der Todtentäntze. Leipzig. 1840.
Wright, T. History of Caricature and Grotesque. 1865. Chap. XIII.
SATIRES ON WOMEN.
(1) Medieval Origins.
Contempt for female character is primarily monastic. Influence of the East
is also unmistakable (cf. the position of women in the Arabian Nights).
A MS of the 13th cent. describes them, amongst other things, as
necessarium malum, naturalis temptatio, desiderabilis calamitas, domesti-
cum periculum, delectabile detrimentum. The scholastic jongleurs
adopted the same view though in a different spirit (Wright, T. , History
of Caricature and Grotesque, chap. x) especially in Golias de conjuge
non ducenda, which was translated into French at beginning of 14th
cent. (MS Harl, 2253, fol.