Note 650 — SKELTONIS APOSTROPHAT AD DIVUM JOHANNEM DECOLLATUM, IN CUJUS PROFESTO FIEBAT HOC AUCUPIUM.
Reading edition
que Acheronta, &c. ... que dicax, &c.] Perhaps these passages ought to be arranged thus for the sake of the rhyme;
“que Acheronta boando tonaret. Nunquam sincere,” &c. ... “que dicax mendax— que, fuere Et mores tales,” &c.
But from the rest of the poem it seems that Skelton intended each hexameter to be cut only into two parts.