beautye

Updated: May 23, 2025

His contemporary, John Skelton, mingled the old fashions with the new classical learning. But his later poems were mostly written in a verse of his own invention, called after him Skeltonical. This was a sort of glorified doggerel, in short, swift, ragged lines, with occasional intermixture of French and Latin. Her beautye to augment.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson