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:
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.4
va
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.