Mnemonic for remembering the saints’ days in each month, one quatrain per
month — 48 lines in couplets if complete
Subjects: calendars; saints’ days; mnemonics
Versification: —
two-line —
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1.Source: STC 19767.3.
Perottus, Nicolaus,
Grammatica nicolai Perrotti cum textu iodoci Badii Ascensii, de
Worde, 1512 , sig. A.1
v
First Lines:…stantly thre kynges came by nyght
by an hye [ ] lyght
and
tho will grase any good wyne
paul calde for thomas
allquine…
Last Lines:…oswald forthe with saynt victor
with george and marke to do so
no more…
Note: Added by a hand of mid-sixteenth century to the Huntington Library copy,
P. B. 82241; with headings for each month, ‘Ianuerye hath xxxi
dayes’, ‘Februarye hathe xxviii dayes’, etc.; incomplete, ends
with heading for May (‘Maye hathe xxxi dayes’); written as
prose.
Editions: Hanna, Ralph,
ed.
“The Index of Middle English Verse and Huntington Library Collections: A
Checklist of Addenda.”
Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America
74 (1980): 235-58: 258.