Epigram 30 (Melus was taught to speake, to read, to ...)

Melus was taught to speake, to read, to write.
Yet clerkly sooth he can do none of these.
He learned Logicke and Arithmetique.
Yet neither brauls nor ciphers worth a peaze.
The musicke schoole did teach him her sweet art.
He dealt with Rhetorique and Astrologie.
Yet nether can he chaunt it for his part,
Ne can he tell a tale, or prophesie,
And yet he ides as scholerlike (tis thought)
As neuer any: yet was neuer taught.