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The morrow following Tiburtius and Valerian
Verses on the terrible snow storm of 22 Edward I, translating five lines of Latin verse which precede them, in Part VII of Fabyan’s Chronicle, Septima Pars, Edwardi Primi — one 8-line stanza (ababbcbc)
Note: Formerly included under 6322.
Subjects: chronicles, verse in; weather; translations
Versification: — eight-line — ababbcbc
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]


Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, Eng. 766, f. 118v
Transcription:
The morow ffolowyng Tiburce & Valerian
The blissid Seyntis of Snow ffill such plentye
That at that day was no lyvyng man
That myght Remembre of So grete quantyte
The Northyn wynde blew with such ffyerste
That howse treis with herbis it ovircast
And many other harmys by land & eke by see
Of that wynde cam the while that it did last


Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 10659. Fabyan, Robert , New Chronicles of Englande and of Fraunce, Pynson, 1533 , vol. II, f. 69
Transcription:
The morowe folowynge Tiburce and Valerian
The blessyd seyntes of snowe fyll suche plentie…
…And many other harmes by lande and eke by see
Of that wynde came the whyle that it dyd laste
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: 394.