Note 1093 — COLYN CLOUTE.[875] HERE AFTER FOLOWETH A LITEL BOKE CALLED COLYN CLOUTE, COMPYLED BY MAYSTER SKELTON, POETE LAUREATE.
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haue none] MS. has “alone;” and omits the seventy-eight lines which follow. Among the Lansdown MSS. (762. fol. 75) I find the subjoined fragment:
“Som men thynke that ye shall haue penaltie for youre Inyquytie Note well what to saye yf yt please the not onely yt is good for astrollogy ffor tholomy tolde me the sonn somtyme to be In a Signe called ariotte assendam ad dextram when Scorpio is descendyng affatuall fall of one that syttys now on trone and rewles all thynge alone your tethe whet on this bone Amonge you euery chone And lett colen clowte alone. The profecy of Skelton 1529.”
(The name originally written “Skylton.”)