Osbern Bokenam, ‘Life of St. Elizabeth’ — Prologue in
couplets and rhyme royal; Life in eight-line stanzas
Author(s): Osbern Bokenam
Title(s): ‘Life of St. Elizabeth’
Subjects: Elizabeth, saint, life of; saints’ lives
Versification: —
two-line, seven-line, eight-line —
aa, ababbcc
1.Source: London, British Library Arundel 327, ff. 172-182
v
First Lines:The yer of grace who lyst attende
As seyth Ianuence in hys golden
legende…
Last Lines:…And whan she shal passþ from þis owtlaury
Of god hyr
brynge to þe contemplacyoun
Attributed Author: Translated into englys be a doctor of dyuyinte clepyd Osbern
Bokenam…Wrytyn in Cambryge by hys sonn ffrer Thomas Burgh (index, f.
193)
Attributed Title: The prologue in to seynt Elyzabeth lyf (rubric, f. 172) The lyf of seynt
Elizabeth (index, f. 193)
Editions:
Clive, Edward Gerbert,
earl of Powis.
Osbern Bokenham, The lyvys of seyntys.
Roxburghe Club
5. London: Nicol, 1835: 271-304.
Horstmann, Carl.
Osbern Bokenams Legenden
Heilbronn: Hennnger, 1883: 237-66.
Serjeantson, Mary Sidney,
ed.
Osbern Bokenham: Legendys of Hooly Wummen.
EETS
o.s. 206 (1938); repr. 1988: 257.