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SKELTON. LAVreate Oratoris Regis tertius. |
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Quid detur tibi aut quid apponatur tibi ad linguam dolosam? Psalm. Cxlij. |
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Deus destruet te, in finem euellet te, et emigrabit te de tabernaculo tuo. et radicem tuam de terra viuentium. Psal. lxvii. |
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AL maters wel pondred, and wel to be regarded | |||
How shuld a fals lying tung then be rewarded | |||
Such tunges shuld be torne out by the harde rootes | |||
Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes. | |||
Dilexisti omnia verba precipitationis lingua dolosa. vbi. s. etc. |
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5 | For as I haue rede in volumes olde | ||
A fals lying tunge is harde to withholde. | |||
A sclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a skolde | |||
Worketh more mischiefe than can be tolde. | |||
That if I wist not to be controlde | |||
10 | Yet somwhat to say I dare well be bolde | ||
How some delite for to lye, thycke and threfolde. | |||
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Ad sannam hominem redigit comite et graphice. |
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For ye said, that he said, that I said, wote ye what | |||
I made (he said) a windmil of an olde mat. | |||
If there be none other mater but that, | |||
15 | Than ye may commaunde me to gentil Cok-wat. | ||
Hic notat (purpuraria arte) intextas literas Romanas in amictibus post ambulonum ante et retro. |
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For before on your brest, and behind on your back, | |||
In Romaine letters I neuer founde lack. | |||
In your crosse-rowe nor Christ-crosse you spede, | |||
Your Pater-noster, your Aue, nor your Crede. | |||
20 | Who-soeuer that tale vnto you tolde, | ||
He saith vntruly, to say, that I would | |||
Controlle the cognisaunce of noble men: | |||
Either by language, or with my pen. | |||
Pedagogium meum de sublimiori Minerua constat esse. ergo. etc. |
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My scole is more solem, and somwhat more haute | |||
25 | Than to be founde in any such faute. | ||
Pedagogium meum male sanos maledicos (sib[i]lis sibilis] sibulis M; manibus] mantibus M , conplosisque manibus) explodit. etc.
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My scoles are not for vnthriftes vntaught, | |||
For frantick faitours half mad, and half straught | |||
But my learning is of an-other degree, | |||
To taunt theim like liddro[n]s, lewde as thei bee | |||
Laxent ergo antemnan elationis sue inflatam sig:
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30 | For though some be lidder and list for to rayle, | ||
Yet to lie vpon me they can not preuayle. | |||
Then let them vale a bonet of their proud sayle. | |||
And of their taunting toies rest with il hayle. | |||
Nobilitati ignobilis cedat vilitas. etc. |
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There is no noble man wil iudge in me, | |||
35 | Any such foly to rest or to be. | ||
I care muche the lesse what-euer they say, | |||
For tunges vntayde be renning a_stray. | |||
But yet I may say safely, so many wel lettred | |||
Embraudred enlasid together, and fettred. | |||
40 | And so litle learning, so lewdly alowed: | ||
What fault find ye herein but may be auowed? | |||
But ye are so full of vertibilite, | |||
And of frenetyke folabilite. | |||
And of melancoly mutabilite. | |||
45 | That ye would coarte, and enforce me. | ||
Nothing to write, but hay-the-gy of thre. | |||
And I to suffre you lewdly to ly, | |||
Of me, with your language full of vilany. | |||
Sicut nou[acu]la nouacula] nouocla M acuta fecisti dolum, vbi. s.
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Malicious tunges, though they haue no bones, | |||
50 | Are sharper then swordes, sturdier then stones. | ||
Lege philostratum de vita tyanei Apollonij. |
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Sharper then raysors, that shaue and cut throtes. | |||
More stinging then scorpions that stang Pharaotis | |||
Venenum aspidum sub labiis eorum. Ps. |
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More venemous and much more virulent, | |||
Then any poysoned tode, or any serpent. | |||
ref.ed: 139 | |||
Quid peregrinis egemus exemplis, ad domestica recurramus. etc. li. ille. |
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55 | Such tunges vnhappy hath made great diuision. | ||
In realmes, in cities, by suche fals abusion. | |||
Of fals fickil tunges, suche cloked collusion. | |||
Hath brought nobil princes to extreme confusion. | |||
Quicquid loquantur vt effeminantur ita effantur. etc. |
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Somtime women were put in great blame, | |||
60 | Men said they could not their tunges atame. | ||
But men take vpon theim nowe all the shame. | |||
With skolding and sklaundering make their tungs lame | |||
Nouarum rerum cupidissimi. captatores. delatores. adulatores. inuigilatores. deliratores. etc. id. genus li. ille. |
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For men be now tratlers a[n]d tellers of tales, | |||
What tidings at Tot[nam], what newis in wales? Totnam] Totman M | |||
65 | What shippis are sailing to Scalis_malis | ||
And all is not worth a couple of nut-shalis | |||
But lering and lurking here and there like spies. | |||
The deuil tere their tunges and pike out their ies. | |||
Then ren they with lesinges, and blow them about. | |||
70 | With he wrate suche a bil withouten dout. | ||
With, I can tel you what such a man said, | |||
And you knew all, ye would be ill apayd. | |||
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De more vulpino gannientes ad aurem, fictas fabellas fabricant. li. ille. |
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But if that I knewe what his name hight, | |||
For clatering of me, I would him sone quight. | |||
75 | For his false lying, of that I spake neuer, | ||
I could make him shortly repent him for euer. | |||
Although he made it neuer so tough, | |||
He might be sure to haue shame ynough. | |||
Cerberus horrendo baratri latrando, sub antro. Te rodatque voret lingua dolosa (precor) |
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ref.ed: 140 | |||
A fals double-tunge is more fiers and fell, | |||
80 | Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel | ||
Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write, | |||
Of fals double-tunges in the dispite. | |||
¶ Recipit se scripturum opus sancte, laudabile, acceptabile, numemorabileque, et nimis honorificandum. | |||
¶ Disperdat dominus vniuersa labia dolosa et linguam magniloquam. |