And in my mind I have comprised. Of the proud Scot, King Jemmy, To write some little tragedy, For no manner consideration Of any sorrowful lamentation, But for the special consolation Of all our royal English nation.
John Skelton, 'When the Scot was Slain' (c. 1513), The Complete Poems of John Skelton, ed. Philip Henderson (1931), p. 166