John Lydgate, ‘On the English title of Henry VI to the Crown of
France’, translated from the French of Laurence Calot — 329 lines in
couplets
Note: Formerly 3808 when incorrectly alphabetized after ‘true’; for
translation from Calot, see
Floran (1909)
XFloran, Mary.
“Document relatif à l’entrée du roi d’Angleterre
Henry VI à Paris en 1431.”
Revue des études historiques
75 (1909): 411-15
, 411.
Author(s): John Lydgate; Laurence Calot
Title(s): ‘On the English title of Henry VI to the Crown of France’
Subjects: translations; Henry VI; France, crown of; historical poems
Versification: —
two-line —
aa
1.Source: London, British Library Harley 7333, ff. 31
rb-32
vb
First Lines:TRouble hertis to sette in quyete
And make folkys their language for
to lette
Last Lines:God him graunt oonly of his grace
Of mercy þere for to haue a
place
Attributed Title: Here begynneth A remembraunce of a peee dengre / How that the kyng of
Englond Henry the sext / is truly borne heir vnto the Corone of ffraunce / by
lynyall Successioun als wele on his ffader / side Henry the fifthe whom god
assoil as by / Kateryne quene of Englond his modir whom god assoile made by
lydygate John the monke / of Bury at Parys by þe instaunce of my lord / of
Warrewyk (f. 31rb, rubric); Here endith þe genologie of kyng
henry þe Sext… (f. 32vb, rubric)
Editions:
Wright, Thomas,
ed.
Political Poems and Songs relating to English History, composed during
the period From the Accession of Edward III to that of Richard III.
2 vols.
Rolls Series
14 (1859, 1861); repr. Kraus, 1965: 2.131-40.
MacCracken, Henry Noble,
ed.
John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. II: Secular Poems.
EETS
o.s. 192 (1934); repr. 1961: 613-22.