well as the latter one of
1641, or 1684; inasmuch as this first impression, of the
date of 1563, is said by Hearne to be "omnium optima:" see
his Adami de Domerham, _Hist. de reb. gest. Glaston._, vol.
i., p. xxii. I also learn, from an original letter of
Anstis, in the possession of Mr. John Nichols, that "the
late editions are not quite so full in some particulars, and
that many things are left out about the Protector Seymour."]

LOREN. Skelton and Roy are in my library;[316] but who is RAMSAY?

[Footnote 316: Vide p. 226, ante.]

LYSAND. He wrote a comical poetical satire against the Romish priests,
under the title of "_A Plaister for a galled Horse_,"[317] which
Raynald printed in a little thin quarto volume of six or seven pages.

[Footnote 317: In Herbert's _Typographical Antiquities_,
vol. i., p. 581, will be found rather a slight notice of
this raw and vulgar satire. It has, however, stamina of its
kind; as the reader may hence judge:

Mark the gesture, who that lyst;
First a shorne shauelynge, clad in a clowt,
Bearinge the name of an honest priest,
And yet in no place a starker lowte.
A whore monger, a dronkard, ye makyn him be snowte--
At the alehouses he studieth, till hys witte he doth lacke.
Such are your minysters, to bringe thys matter about:
But guppe ye god-makers, beware your galled backe.

Then wraped in a knaues skynne, as ioly as my horse,
Before the aulter, in great contemplacion
Confessinge the synnes of his lubbrysh corse
To god and all saynctes, he counteth hys abhomination
Then home to the aulter, with great saintification
With crosses, and blesses, with his boy lytle Jacke:
Thus forth goeth syr Jhon with all his preparation.
But guppe ye god-makers, beware your galled backe.

Then gloria in excelsis for ioye dothe he synge
More for his fat liuinge, than for devocion:
And many there be that remember another thinge
Which syng not wyth mery hart for lacke of promocion
Thus some be mery, some be sory according to their porcion
Then forth cometh collects, bounde up in a packe,
For this sainct and that sainct, for sickenes, and extorcion
But guppe ye god-makers, beware your galled backe.