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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John Skelton (1460?–1529)

Skelton, John. An early English satirical poet; born about 1460; died in 1529. He was academical laureate at Cambridge and Oxford, and afterward was appointed by Henry VII. tutor to Prince Henry, afterward Henry VIII. He wrote many poems of a jocular and satirical nature, among which are ‘Philip Sparrow,’ the lament of a maiden over the loss of her pet bird; ‘Colin Clout,’ a satire on the clergy; ‘Speke, Parrot’; ‘Why Come ye Nat to Courte,’ an attack on Cardinal Wolsey.