Thomas Hoccleve, ‘Balade…au tres noble Roy H[enry] le
V’ — a virelai of five 8-line stanzas, with the same rhyme
throughout
Author(s): Thomas Hoccleve
Title(s): ‘Balade…au tres noble Roy H[enry] le V’
Subjects: Henry V; virelais
Versification: —
eight-line —
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1.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 111 [olim Phillipps 8151], ff. 26-27
First Lines:The Kyng of Kynges regnyng ouer al
Which stablisshid hath in
eternitee…
Last Lines:…Byseechyng vn to god þat to his pay
Yee may gouerne your
hy dignitee
Attributed Title: Ceste balade ensuante feust faite au tres noble Roy Henri le
Vt que dieu pardoint le iour que les seigneurs de son Roialme
lui firent lour homages a Kenyngton (f. 26)
Facsimiles: Burrow, John, and A. I. Doyle, eds.
Thomas Hoccleve: A Facsimile of the Autograph Verse
Manuscripts.
EETS
s.s. 19 (2002).
Editions: Furnivall, Frederick James,
ed.
Hoccleve’s Works: The Minor Poems. vol. 1.
EETS
e.s. 61 (1892); repr. with
Gollancz (1925)
XGollancz, Israel.
Hoccleve’s Works: The Minor Poems. vol. 2. EETS
e.s. 73 (1925); repr. with 61, 1970
73; rev. J.
Mitchell and A. Ian Doyle, 1970: 1.39-40.