DIMEV 3522
Mirror to the church and of the country the strength
Epitaph of Chilperic placed on his tomb by a bishop of Paris, in Part V of
Fabyan’s Chronicle, Part V, cap. 117, translating Latin verse which
precedes it — three stanzas rhyme royal
Subjects: chronicles, verse in; epitaphs
Versification: —
seven-line —
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Print Witnesses:
1.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] , sigs. i.4
rb-i.4
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First Lines:Myrrour to the churche and of the countrey the strength
Compassion
of gylty to them shewynge mercy…
Last Lines:…By vertue whereof he lyke a conquerour
Of the highe heuyn nowe
sitteth in the tower
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: 93.