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Here lieth of error the prince if ye will ken
Epitaph for Llewellen, giving him a negative character, translating four lines
of Latin verse which precedes it, in Part VII of Fabyan’s Chronicle,
Septima Pars, Edwardi Primi — one stanza rhyme royal
Note: Formerly included under
6322; for
an epitaph giving positive character, which precedes this, see
4160.
Subjects: chronicles, verse in; epitaphs; Llewellen
Versification: —
seven-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, Eng. 766, f. 111
v
Transcription:Here lieth of Errour þe prince if ye will ken
Theef & Robber
and traytour to Inglishmen
A dym brond A Sect of wers ill
God of
Walshmen Cruell without Skyll
In sleyng the good and ledar of the
badde
lastly Rewardid as he deseruyd hadd
Of Troians blode the draste
& not Sede
A Rote of ffalshode An cawse of many Ill dede
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 10659.
Fabyan, Robert ,
New Chronicles of Englande and of Fraunce, Pynson, 1533
First Lines:Here lyeth of errour the prynce if ye wyll ken
Thefe and robbour and
traytour to Englysshmen…
Last Lines:…Of Troyans blode the drastes and nat sede
A rote of falshode
and cause of many yll dede
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: 388.
2.Source: STC 10662.
Fabyan, Robert ,
The chronicle of Fabyan whiche he hym selfe nameth the concordaunce of
historyes, nowe newely printed, [and] in many places corrected, as to the dylygent reader it may
apere. 1542. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, [London]: Printed by Iohn Reynes, dwellynge
at the sygne of saynte George in Pauls churcheyarde, [1542] , sig. kk.5
vb
First Lines:Here lyeth of errour the prince yf ye wyll ken
Thefe and robbour
& traytour to Englyshmen…
Last Lines:…Of Troyans blode the drastes and not sede
A rote of falshode
and cause of many euyl dede