John Crophill’s Loving Cups, an alewives’ poem — eight 8-line
stanzas with a concluding 6-line stanza
Author(s): John Crophill
Subjects: drinking songs
Versification: —
eight-line, six-line
1.Source: London, British Library Harley 1735, ff. 48-49
First Lines:ffrere Tomas Stanfelde
God al megthete hem It
ȝelde…
Last Lines:…Scharyte most com be hend
And ellys wyll nought be þi
frend
Note: Folio number reflects the most recent foliation.
Attributed Author: my name is crophill (f. 49, part of the poem); quod Iohn Crophill (f.
49)
Editions: Robbins, Rossell Hope.
“John Crophill’s Ale-Pots.”
Review of English Studies
n.s. 20 (1969): 182-9: 188.