Note 103 — SOME ACCOUNT OF SKELTON AND HIS WRITINGS.
Reading edition
See Weever’s Fun. Monum. p. 498. ed. 1631; Stowe’s Collections, MS. Harl. 540. fol. 57; and Fuller’s Worthies (Norfolk), p. 257. ed. 1662. “And this,” says Fuller, “I will do for W. Lilly, (though often beaten for his sake,) endeavour to translate his answer:
“With face so bold, and teeth so sharp, Of viper’s venome, why dost carp? Why are my verses by thee weigh’d In a false scale? may truth be said? Whilst thou to get the more esteem A learned Poet fain wouldst seem, Skelton, thou art, let all men know it, Neither learned, nor a Poet.”