The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Library 21
Number 4513-6
1. f. 25
rb Rome no thing is peer to theeIn praise of Rome — one quatrain in Trevisa’s translation of
Higden’s Polychronicon (Book 1, chap. 24) — in
quatrains
Number 2392-6
2. f. 26
rb If the stone is oneRiddling couplets inscribed on a pillar, in John Trevisa’s translation of
Higden’s Polychronicon (Book I, Cap. 24)
Number 6726-6
3. f. 27
ra With four horse all snow whiteA couplet from Ovid, Ars amatoria i.114, in Trevisa’s translation
of Higden’s Polychronicon (Book 1, chap. 25).
Number 1231-6
4. f. 27
ra Every night there a cockVerses on a table of brass, in Trevisa’s translation of Higden’s
Polychronicon (Book 1, ch. 24) — five cross-rhymed
quatrains
Number 3801-6
5. ff. 37-39
v Now the book taketh on hand‘Of the londe of Wales’, a verse description of Wales in
Trevisa’s translation of Higden’s Polychronicon (Book I, Chap. 38)
— 460 lines in doggerel couplets
Number 5041-6
6. ff. 40
vb-41
ra Strange men that needethPeaceful England — 26 lines in couplets, in Trevisa’s translation
of Higden’s Polychronicon (Book I, chap. 41)
Number 660-6
7. f. 42
rb As much as gnawsA translation of lines in Virgil in Trevisa’s translation of
Higden’s Polychronicon (Book II, Cap. 44) — two couplets
Number 2748-6
Number 5556-1