To the reader — one stanza rhyme royal following the
colophon
Subjects: bookplates; epilogues; colophons
Versification: —
seven-line —
ababbcc
1.Source: STC 5084.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,
Canterbury Tales, R. Pynson, [1492] , sig. A.2
v
Transcription:Who soo euyr on thys boke do rede
remembyr Saham pryst of bury
town
weche mad executor John do hym mede
hys goodys to spende with good
deuocyon
Robert Stylyard parson of ffynyngham
Weche gaff thys boke to
Ele lee to pray
ffor the seyd Saham sumtyme when she may
Note: John Rylands Library copy, Rylands 10002.
Editions: Gillespie, Alexandra.
Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their
Books 1473–1557.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007: 91.