Ballade on King John of England, King Philip of France, and Emperor Otto,
inserted in Part VII of Fabyan’s Chronicle, Septima Pars, Johannis — three
stanzas rhyme royal
Subjects: chronicles, verse in; kings of England; John, king; Otto IV, king of Germany; Philip II, king of France
Versification: —
seven-line —
ababbcc
Macaronic: Latin
Bibliographic Ghosts:
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] : not in 1542 version.
1.Source: STC 10659.
Fabyan, Robert ,
New Chronicles of Englande and of Fraunce, Pynson, 1533 , vol. II, ff. 16-17
First Lines:O quem mirabilia good Lord thy werkes been
In punysshement of
synners by thy myght wondersly…
Last Lines:…Wherefore I maye conclude in factis horum
That multa sunt
flagella peccatorum
Note: In Part VII of Fabyan’s Chronicle, Septima Pars,
Johannis.
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: 322-3.
Wilson, Richard Middlewood.
The Lost Literature of Medieval England.
London: Methuen, 1952: 194 (first stanza only).