Note 76 — THE PROLOGUE.
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This is noticed by the satirist Roy, in his invective against Wolsey:
Before him rydeth two prestes stronge, And they beare two crosses right longe, Gapinge in every man’s face: After them follow two lay-men secular, And each of them holdinge a pillar In their hondes, insteade of a mace. Then followeth my lord on his mule Trapped with gold, &c.
Dr. Wordsworth, misled by Anstis, has erroneously attributed this satire to Skelton, confounding it probably with that writer’s
“Why come ye not to court.”
See note at the end of the Life.