The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:London, British Library Harley 1900
Number 4513-4
1. f. 60
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 4342-4
Number 2392-3
3. f. 61
v If the stone is oneRiddling couplets inscribed on a pillar, in John Trevisa’s translation of
Higden’s Polychronicon (Book I, Cap. 24)
Number 6726-4
4. f. 62
v 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 1231-4
5. f. 62
v 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 3801-4
6. ff. 74
v-77
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 5041-4
7. f. 78
Strange men that needethPeaceful England — 26 lines in couplets, in Trevisa’s translation
of Higden’s Polychronicon (Book I, chap. 41)
Number 660-4
8. f. 79
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 2748-3