DIMEV 5824
IMEV 3671
NIMEV 3671
Thou First Mover that causest all thing
John Lydgate, an Invocation to St. Anne — eleven stanzas rhyme
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Author(s): John Lydgate
Subjects: Anne, saint; saints, prayers to
Versification: —
seven-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 59 (SC 6943), ff. 44
v-45
v
First Lines:THowe first moever þat causest euery thinge
To haue his keping
thorughe þy provydence
And rightfully art called lorde and
kyng
Havinge þe lordship of eche intelligence…
Last Lines:…He graunte vs mercy in þis exyle here
Sith he vs bought
with his blode so dere
Attributed Title: Here begynneþe a devoute Invocacoun to sainte Anne by þat
solempne Religious Lidegate made at þe commaundement of my ladye Anne
Countasse of Stafford (f. 44v)
2.Source: London, British Library Addit. 16165, ff. 247-248
First Lines:Þou first moeuer þat causest euery thing
To haue his
keping thoroughe prouyndence…
Last Lines:…He graunt vs mercy in his exyle heere
Sich he vs bought with
his blood so deer
Attributed Author: by Lidegate (f. 247)
Attributed Title: Invocation by Lidegate to Saynte Anne (f. 247)
Editions: MacCracken, Henry Noble,
ed.
John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. I: Religious Poems.
EETS
e.s. 107 (1911; repr. 1961): 130-3.