Verses on William Courtenay, Chancellor of Oxford, who was burned as a heretic,
translating a Latin couplet which precedes them, in Part VII of Fabyan’s
Chronicle, Septima Pars, Henrici Quarti — one stanza rhyme
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Subjects: chronicles, verse in; Courtenay, William, Chancellor of Oxford; Lollardy
Versification: —
seven-line —
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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]
1.Source: STC 10659.
Fabyan, Robert ,
New Chronicles of Englande and of Fraunce, Pynson, 1533 , vol. II, f. 163
First Lines:The peruerse heretyke though that he do brenne
And from this worlde
be rasyd vtterly…
Last Lines:…What force though sathan with his eternall payne
Do hym
rewarde syn he wyll nat refrayne
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: 574-5.