The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Oslo and London, Schøyen Collection 194 [olim Penrose 12]
Number 6726-9
Number 3801-7
2.
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 2748-8
Number 5041-7
4.
Strange men that needethPeaceful England — 26 lines in couplets, in Trevisa’s translation
of Higden’s Polychronicon (Book I, chap. 41)
Number 4513-8
5.
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 4342-7
Number 2392-7
7.
If the stone is oneRiddling couplets inscribed on a pillar, in John Trevisa’s translation of
Higden’s Polychronicon (Book I, Cap. 24)
Number 1231-8
8.
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 660-8
9.
As much as gnawsA translation of lines in Virgil in Trevisa’s translation of
Higden’s Polychronicon (Book II, Cap. 44) — two couplets