Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 247

DIMEV 247

Against miscreants the Emperor Sigismond

Verse accompanying a soteltie at the coronation of Henry VI (1432), in Fabyan’s Chronicle; Part VII, Septima Pars, Henrici Sexti — two 8-line stanza

Note: Formerly included under 3151; see also 2046.

Subjects: pageant verses; Henry VI, coronation; Henry V; Denis, saint; Virgin Mary, prayers to; chronicles, verse in

Versification: — eight-line — ababbcbc

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, Eng. 766, ff. 355-355v

First Lines:

Agayn miscreauntes the Emperour Sigismonde
Hath shewed his myght which is Imperiall…

Last Lines:

…Born by discent and by title of Right
Iustly to Reigne In Englond and in ffraunce

Print Witnesses:

1.Source: STC 10659. Fabyan, Robert , New Chronicles of Englande and of Fraunce, Pynson, 1533 , vol. II, f. 189

First Lines:

Agayne myscreauntes the emperour Sygysmunde
Hath shewyd his myght whiche is imperyall…

Last Lines:

…Borne by discent and by tytle of ryght
Iustly in reygne in Englande and in Fraunce

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: 601.

MacCracken, Henry Noble, ed. John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. II: Secular Poems. EETS o.s. 192 (1934); repr. 1961: 623-4.

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. Iii.4va

First Lines:

Again miscreauntes þe emperour Sigismund
Hath shewed his might whiche is imperiall…

Last Lines:

…Borne by discent and by title of right
Iustly to reigne in Englande and in Fraunce

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: 601.

MacCracken, Henry Noble, ed. John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. II: Secular Poems. EETS o.s. 192 (1934); repr. 1961: 623-4.

priven: verb To deprive (sb.) of (sth.), deny (sb. sth.); ppl. prived, bereaved, bereft of, deprived of; without; (b) ~ of (from), to deprive (sb. of sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb. from sth.); prived of (from), deprived of (sth.), bereft of; lacking, without; ben of god priving, be a robber of goods; (c) to depose (sb.), dismiss; ~ of (from), deprive (sb.) of (power, kingdom, etc.), remove or dismiss (sb.) from (office or position); (d) to take (sth.) away; prevent (sth.), deny, oppose; weaken (the body); -- also without obj. MED