The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:London, British Library Cotton Tiberius D.VII, Part 1
Number 4513-3
1. f. 20
v 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 4342-3
Number 2392-2
3. f. 22
If the stone is oneRiddling couplets inscribed on a pillar, in John Trevisa’s translation of
Higden’s Polychronicon (Book I, Cap. 24)
Number 1231-3
4. f. 23
r1 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 6726-3
5. f. 23
r2 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 5041-3
6. f. 39
Strange men that needethPeaceful England — 26 lines in couplets, in Trevisa’s translation
of Higden’s Polychronicon (Book I, chap. 41)
Number 660-3
7. f. 40
v As much as gnawsA translation of lines in Virgil in Trevisa’s translation of
Higden’s Polychronicon (Book II, Cap. 44) — two couplets
Number 2748-2