‘The lamentacioun off quene Elyȝabeth’, A.D. 1503, ascribed to
Thomas More — twelve stanzas rhyme royal, with Latin lines and refrain,
‘…lo here I lye’.
Ringler Jr. (1992)
XRingler Jr., William A.
Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript
1501-1558.
London: Mansell, 1992; prepared and completed by
Michael
Rudick
and
Susan J.
Ringler
TM 1257.
Note: Formerly 4263.3.
Author(s): Thomas More (attrib.)
Title(s): The lamentacioun off quene Elyȝabeth
Subjects: Elizabeth of York, queen; laments
Versification: —
seven-line —
ababbcc
Macaronic: Latin
2.Source: London, British Library Sloane 1825, f. 88
v-89
v
First Lines:O you that putt youre trust and convidence
In worldely Ioye and
ffrayle Prosperyte
that leve here as you shuld never hence
Remember deth
and loke vp here to me…
Last Lines:…I me commend to thy Infenyte mercye
shewe to thy seruaunt for
lo nowe here I lye
Note: Added to blank leaves at end of volume by a hand of the sixteenth
century; first word (in a few cases first two words) of each stanza written in
larger script in left margin beside first line of each.
Attributed Title: O You that putt youre trust & convydence (f. 88v, written by
scribe immediately above first line in slightly larger script)
1.Source: STC 18076.
More, Thomas,
Workes in the Englyssh Tonge, ed. Rastell, Tottell, 1557
Facsimiles: Campbell, William Edward,
ed.
The English Works of Sir Thomas More.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1927: 335-7.
Editions: Chambers, Edmund Kerchever.
The Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1932, and subsequent editions: 15.