DIMEV 3821
Now would I fain
Prologue to Volume II of Fabyan’s Chronicle, in praise of London
and its officers, Part VII, cap. 246 — twelve 8-line stanzas, aaabcccb, and two
8-line stanzas, ababbcbc
Note: Formerly listed under
6322.
Subjects: chronicles, verse in; prologues, to prose texts
Versification: —
eight-line —
aaabcccb, ababbcbc
Manuscript Witnesses:
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 10659.
Fabyan, Robert ,
New Chronicles of Englande and of Fraunce, Pynson, 1533 , vol. II, f. i
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: 293-5.
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] , sigs. a.1
rb-a.1
vb
First Lines:Nowe wolde I fayne
In wordes playne…
Last Lines:…This cytie to prayse in eche degre
As it shoulde duely aske of
ryght
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: 293-5.