And Master Alisander that Chanon was er
Imaked was of Gloucestre Abbot thulk yer.
Viz. 7 Reg. Regis _Johannis_.

But this may be understood of _Alexander Theologus_, who was contempory
with him: and was Abbot of St. _Maries_ in _Cirencester_ at the time of
his death.

Bishop _Godwin_, in his Catalogue of the Bishops of _Lincoln_, maketh
mention of a passage of wit betwixt him and _Phillip Repington_ Bishop
of _Lincoln_, the latter sending the Challenge.

_Et niger & Nequam cum sis cognomine Nequam,
Nigrior esse potes, Nequior esse nequis_.

Both black and bad, whilest _Bad_ the name to thee,
Blacker thou may'st, but worse thou canst not be.

To whom _Nequam_ rejoyned,

Phi _not a foetoris_, Lippus _malus omnibus horis_,
Phi _malus_ & Lippus, _totus malus ergo_ Philippus.

Stinks are branded with a _Phi, Lippus_ Latin for blear-eye,
_Phi_ and _Lippus_ bad as either, then _Philippus_ worse together.

A Monk of St. _Albans_ made this Hexameter allusively to his Name:

_Dictus erat_ Nequam, _vitam duxit tamen aquam_.