Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 1472

DIMEV 1472

IMEV 882

NIMEV 882

From the time of Brut auctors do specify

John Lydgate, ‘The Kings of England sithen William Conqueror’

Note: Ringler Jr. (1992)

XRingler Jr., William A. Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript 1501-1558. London: Mansell, 1992; prepared and completed by Michael Rudick and Susan J. Ringler

TM 452; revised version, with fifteen introductory stanzas, then as 5731

Author(s): John Lydgate

Title(s): The Kings of England sithen William Conqueror

Subjects: kings of England

Versification: — seven-line — ababbcc

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: London, British Library Harley 372, ff. 51-53v

First Lines:

FRoom tyme of brute auctours do specefye
two hundrid & fowre & twenty be successioun…

Last Lines:

…of vertuous liff and chose hym for his knyht
long to reioissh and regne heere in his riht

Note: Lydgate, Kings of England, preceded by fifteen introductory stanzas for the kings from Alfred to Harold, then continues with William the Conqueror as in 5731; with names of the kings in outer margins beside each stanza; ends ‘explicit’ (f. 53v).

Editions:

MacCracken, Henry Noble, ed. John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. II: Secular Poems. EETS o.s. 192 (1934); repr. 1961: 710-16.

2.Source: London, British Library Lansdowne 210, ff. 14v-42v

First Lines:

from tyme of Brewte awtoris do specyfye
ij C kyngis & xxiiij by succesyon…

Last Lines:

…of vertuos lyfe god chose hym for hys knyght
Long to reioesse and reyn in hys ryght

Note: Interspersed through a prose chronicle.

Attributed Author: Versus of Iohn Lydgate monke of bery (f. 14v)

3.Source: Peterborough, Peterborough Central Library Ailred of Rievaux, Life of Edward and Confessor , ff. 49-52v

First Lines:

From tyme of Brute Autors don specyfye
ijCC xxiiij yerys by succession…

Last Lines:

…To reigne in Englond [ ] yere
Beryed at Chertsey thus sayth myn aucter

Note: Interspersed through a prose chronicle

Attributed Author: Versus of Iohn Lydgate monke of bery (f. 14v)

hinder: adj.¹ and noun.² A. adj.¹ 1. Situated behind, at the back, or in the rear; posterior. (Notwithstanding its comparative form, it does not differ in sense from hind, but is more frequently used. Cf. YON adv., YONDER adv., adj., pron., and n.) hinder gate, postern gate. 2. Of time. a. Last past, ‘last’; as in this hinder day yesterday, this hinder night last night, yesternight. OED

priven: verb To deprive (sb.) of (sth.), deny (sb. sth.); ppl. prived, bereaved, bereft of, deprived of; without; (b) ~ of (from), to deprive (sb. of sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb. from sth.); prived of (from), deprived of (sth.), bereft of; lacking, without; ben of god priving, be a robber of goods; (c) to depose (sb.), dismiss; ~ of (from), deprive (sb.) of (power, kingdom, etc.), remove or dismiss (sb.) from (office or position); (d) to take (sth.) away; prevent (sth.), deny, oppose; weaken (the body); -- also without obj. MED