Elegy for the Emperor Frederick, in Part VII of Fabyan’s
Chronicle, translating a Latin couplet that precedes it, Septima Pars, Henrici
Tercii — one stanza rhyme royal, translating two lines of Latin which
precede
Note: For an
epitaph which precedes this, see
2356.
Subjects: chronicles, verse in; elegies; translations
Versification: —
seven-line —
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1.Source: STC 10659.
Fabyan, Robert ,
New Chronicles of Englande and of Fraunce, Pynson, 1533 , vol. II, ff. xxiiii-xxv
First Lines:Fre fretyth this worlde and de condoundith all
Hyghe thynges of
honour into depenesse derke…
Last Lines:…And cus with swerde all thynge doth manace
And this is
Frederyke all devoyde of grace
Attributed Title: In Septima Pars, Henrici Tercii
Editions: Ellis, Sir Henry,
ed.
The New Chronicles of England and France in Two Parts. repr. of Robert
Fabyan, New Chronicles, Pynson 1516 (STC 10659).
London: Rivington, 1811: 335.