ABSTRACT

Skelton desire to see his vaine and learning, an Epitaph vpon King Henry the seauenth at Westminster will discover it.

22. 'A BANQUET OF JESTS' ON THE NEGLECT OF SKELTON

From 'A Banquet of Jests', f5th impression1 (1639) (STC 1370). This work is a collection of prose jests. The lines below come from the prefatory Printer to the Reader, A 5V. They do not occur in the first edition of the work in 1630.