Thomas Hoccleve, ‘La Court de bone compaignie’, to Henry Somer
— ten stanzas rhyme royal
Author(s): Thomas Hoccleve
Title(s): ‘La Court de bone compaignie’
Subjects: Somer, Henry; court life; friendship
Versification: —
seven-line —
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1.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 111 [olim Phillipps 8151], ff. 41
v-43
First Lines:Worsshipful sir and our freend special
And felawe in this cas we
call yow…
Last Lines:…But keepith wel your tourne how so befall
On thorsday next on
which we awayte all
Attributed Title: Ceste balade ensuyante feust par la Court de bone compaignie enuoiee a
lonure sire Henri Sommer Chaunceller de leschequer & vn de la dicte
Court (f. 41v)
Facsimiles: Burrow, John, and A. I. Doyle, eds.
Thomas Hoccleve: A Facsimile of the Autograph Verse
Manuscripts.
EETS
s.s. 19 (2002).
Editions:
Mason, George,
ed.
Poems by Thomas Hoccleve Never Before Printed.
London: Roworth, 1796: 65.
Furnivall, Frederick James,
ed.
Hoccleve’s Works: The Minor Poems. vol. 1.
EETS
e.s. 61 (1892); repr. with
Gollancz (1925)
XGollancz, Israel.
Hoccleve’s Works: The Minor Poems. vol. 2. EETS
e.s. 73 (1925); repr. with 61, 1970
73; rev. J.
Mitchell and A. Ian Doyle, 1970: 644.