The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:London, British Library Stowe 65
Number 4513-5
1. f. 16
ra 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 4342-5
Number 1231-5
3. f. 17
va 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 6726-5
4. f. 17
vb 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 3801-5
5. ff. 27
ra-28
rb 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 5041-5
6. ff. 29
ra-29
rb Strange men that needethPeaceful England — 26 lines in couplets, in Trevisa’s translation
of Higden’s Polychronicon (Book I, chap. 41)
Number 660-5
7. f. 30
ra As much as gnawsA translation of lines in Virgil in Trevisa’s translation of
Higden’s Polychronicon (Book II, Cap. 44) — two couplets
Number 2748-4