Of All Nacyons Vnder The Heuyn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B BCBCCAA BDBDDBB EBEBBFF F F ABB FBFFFFF FAFAAGG BABAAHE CBCBBAA FEFEEAA CACAACC| Skelton Laureate agaynste a comely Coystrowne that curyowsly chawntyd And curryshly cowntred And madly in hys Musykkys mokkyshly made Agaynste the ix Musys of polytyke Poems Poettys matryculat | A |
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| Of all nacyons vnder the heuyn | B |
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| Of all nacyons vnder the heuyn | B |
| These frantyke foolys I hate most of all | C |
| For though they stumble in the synnys seuyn | B |
| In peuyshnes yet they snapper and fall | C |
| Which men the viii dedly syn call | C |
| This peuysh proud thys prendergest | A |
| When he is well yet can he not rest | A |
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| A swete suger lofe sowre bayardys bun | B |
| Be sumdele lyke in forme shap | D |
| The one for a duke the other for dun | B |
| A maunchet for morell thereon to snap | D |
| Hys hart is to hy to haue any hap | D |
| But for in his gamvt carp that he can | B |
| Lo Iak wold be a Ientylman | B |
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| Wyth hey troly loly lo whip here Iak | E |
| Alumbek sodyldym syllorym ben | B |
| Curyowsly he can both counter knak | E |
| Of Martyn swart all hys mery men | B |
| Lord how perkyn is proud of hys Pohen | B |
| But ask wher he fyndyth among hys monacordys | F |
| An holy water clarke a ruler of lordys | F |
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| He can not fynd it in rule nor in space | F |
| He solfyth to haute hys Trybyll is to hy | - |
| He braggyth of hys byrth that borne was full bace | F |
| Hys musyk withoute mesure to sharp is hys my | - |
| He trymmyth in hys tenor to counter pyrdewy | A |
| Hys dyscant is besy it is withoute a mene | B |
| To fat is hys fantsy hys wyt is to lene | B |
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| He lumbryth on a lewde lewte roty bully Ioyse | F |
| Rumbyll downe tumbyll downe hey go now now | B |
| He fumblyth in hys fyngeryng an vgly good noyse | F |
| It semyth the sobbyng of an old sow | F |
| He wold be made moch of he wyst how | F |
| Wele sped In spyndels and turnyng of tauellys | F |
| A bungler a brawler a pyker of quarellys | F |
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| Comely he clappyth a payre of clauycordys | F |
| He whystelyth so swetely he makyth me to swete | A |
| His descant is dasshed full of dyscordes | F |
| A red angry man but easy to intrete | A |
| An vssher of the hall fayn wold I get | A |
| To poynte this proude page a place and a rome | G |
| For Iak wold be a Ientylman that late was a grome | G |
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| Iak wold Iet and yet Iyll sayd nay | B |
| He counteth in his countenaunce to checke with the best | A |
| A malaperte medler that pryeth for his pray | B |
| In a dysh dare he rush at the rypest | A |
| Dremyng in dumpys to wrangyll to wrest | A |
| He fyndeth a proporcyon in his prycke songe | H |
| To drynk at a draught a larg a long | E |
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| Nay iape not with hym he is no small fole | C |
| It is a solempne syre and a solayne | B |
| For lordes and ladyes lerne at his scole | C |
| He techyth them so wysely to solf and to fayne | B |
| That neyther they synge wel prycke songe nor playne | B |
| Thys docter deuyas commensyd in a cart | A |
| A master a mynstrell a fydler a farte | A |
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| What though ye can cownter Custodi nos | F |
| As well it becomyth yow a parysh towne Clarke | E |
| To syng Sospitati dedit Egros | F |
| Yet bere ye not to bold to braule ne to bark | E |
| At me that medeled nothyng with youre wark | E |
| Correct fyrst thy self walk be nought | A |
| Deme what thou lyst thou knowyst not my thought | A |
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| A prouerbe of old say well or be styll | C |
| Ye are to vnhappy occasyons to fynde | A |
| Uppon me to clater or els to say yll | C |
| Now haue I shewyd you part of your proud mynde | A |
| Take thys in worth the best is behynde | A |
| Wryten at Croydon by Crowland in the Clay | C |
| On Candelmas euyn the Kalendas of May | C |
John Skelton
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