English song against the Flemings, perhaps by John Lydgate — five 8-line
stanzas (ababbcbc) inserted in a prose ‘Brut’ chronicle
Note: For authorship, see
MacCracken (1910)
XMacCracken, Henry Noble.
“A New Poem by Lydgate.”
Anglia
33 (1910): 283-6
.
Author(s): John Lydgate (?)
Subjects: Flemings, song against; historical poems
Versification: —
eight-line —
ababbcbc
1.Source: London, Lambeth Palace Library 84, f. 201
v
First Lines:[o]ff stryvys new and fraudulent falsnesse
Who so lyst to seek out
þe cheef occasioun…
Last Lines:…Thy cowardly flyght cokenay of achaumpyoun
Whyche darst not
fyght and canst so well malygne
Attributed Title: And in despyte of þe flemynges an Englishman made this english yn
baladdys (f. 201)
Editions: Brie, Friedrich,
ed.
The Brut, or the Chronicles of England.
EETS
o.s. 131 (1906), 136 (1908); repr. 1987: 600-1; repr.
MacCracken (1934)
XMacCracken, Henry Noble.
John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. II: Secular Poems.
EETS
o.s. 192 (1934); repr. 1961
.