Fragment beginning of a Lydgatean love poem — one eight-line
stanza
Subjects: lament, lovers’; lover’s lament; fragments
Versification: —
eight-line —
ababbcbc
1.Source: London, British Library Harley 4999, f. 228
v
Transcription:Whan phebus resplendysaunte in the hye region
and wyth hys goldyn
beamys withdre hys lumynarey
ffrom the cold moysture fr drery scorpyon
seassyd
seassyd I had my lodgyng to rest in
sagittary
Intdrew me that tyme all Nid & solytary
from compenyes
comfort my wyt obnubylate
a langoure vnlyste caused me thenghtes to
varye
attemptyng my sad mynd thys way to recreate
Note: Added by a hand of late fifteenth or sixteenth century to blank page at
end of statutes, possibly only the first stanza to a longer poem.