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Of the Example of Virtue, written by the same authour, and printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1530, this is the first stanza:

The first piece of Skelton, most of whose poems were written between 1509 and 1529, begins thus:

The reader has now before him specimens of ancient poetry, during a period of near two hundred years; that is, for a century before the pretended Thomas Rowley is said to have written, and for near a century afterwards. They are for the most part taken from the commencement of Rh