DIMEV 4477
Rich of goods strong in virtue in triumph clear shining
Epitaph of King Clodoveus, in Part V of Fabyan’s Chronicle, Part
V, cap. 99, translating Latin verse which precedes it — two stanzas rhyme
royal
Subjects: chronicles, verse in; Augustine of Canterbury, saint, life of; 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] , sig. g.5
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First Lines:Ryche of Goodes stronge in vertue in triumphe clere shynynge
Kynge
Clodoueus this temple bylt of stone…
Last Lines:…He was a noble Duke and therwith of great myght
And in Fronte
of Batayll was euer the firste knyght
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: 74.