Note 1458 — A RYGHT DELECTABLE TRATYSE VPON A GOODLY GARLANDE OR CHAPELET OF LAURELL,[1458] BY MAYSTER SKELTON, POETE LAUREAT, STUDYOUSLY DYUYSED AT SHERYFHOTTON CASTELL, IN THE FORESTE OF GALTRES, WHEREIN AR COMPRYSYDE MANY AND DYUERS SOLACYONS AND RYGHT PREGNANT ALLECTYUES OF SYNGULAR PLEASURE, AS MORE AT LARGE IT DOTH APERE IN THE PROCES FOLOWYNGE.
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A ryght delectable tratyse vpon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell, &c.] From Faukes’s ed. 1523, collated with Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s Workes, 1568, (in which it is entitled The Crowne of Lawrell), and with fragments of the poem among the Cottonian MSS. Vit. E.X. fol. 200. The prefatory Latin lines are from Faukes’s ed., where they are given on the back of the title-page, and below a woodcut portrait headed “Skelton Poeta,” (see List of Editions, in Appendix to Account of Skelton, &c.): they are not in Marshe’s ed. nor in MS.