

159) b Honour and Joy helthe and prosperyte (5 stanzas) In the margin are added in a later hand (Stowe's) indications of the pictures illustrating the poem.Ī company of men going toword (?) this bycorne.Ī woman devouryd in ye moudthe of Chichevache.Ī longe horned beaste slender (and) leane wt sharpe tethe.Īn old man wt a baston on his bake manasyng ye beaste for devouringe of his wyffe. 157) b Bicorn and Chichevache, by LydgateĮxplicuit Balades of Bycorn and Chicheuache 157) Now fresshe floure to me that ys so bryght 156) b Of theyre nature they gretly theym Delyte And graunt hem thy regioun and blysse celestiall. Moralyse a similitude who lyst theyr balades sew.Įnds. 154) The end of the poem Go lytyl boke which begins on Here endeth the exclamacioun of the Deth of Pyte. 114) Here begynneth the Boke called the legend of ladyes

the baladys of the ix worthyes of ladyes. Ouercame and venquysshed theym in batayle.Įxpl. Prefulgent in pretyoussnes O synope the quene.Įnds. Graunt eternall ioy after thy last sentence. When Phebus in the Crabbe had nere hys cours ronne. 67) b Here foloweth the Interpretacion of the names of goddys and goddesses as ys rehersyd in ys tretyse folowyng as poetis write The vnware woo that commeth on gladnesse.īetter ys to dy then lyue in suche penaunce. 67) Two 7-line stanzas, marked vacat as being a fragment. Here endeth the book of Assemble de Damys. Rede well my dreme for now my tale ys doon. See Skeat, Chaucerian and other pieces, p.38. Here begynneth the Boke called Assemble de Damys. Thou shall hym know bi visage pale and wan. Natura pingues isti sunt atque jocantes.Įnds. Dethe all consumythe which may not be denyed. … lackyng volunte for theyr dew penaunce.Ī tretis of the iiij seasons of the yere that is to say ver, estas, authumnus, and yemps (copieyd by Iohn Lydgate as aperyeth in his book of ye secretes to alysaunder from aristotyll]. 41r-45v) George Ashby, A prisoner's reflections Incipit: … graunt these louers wy, and thus endeth my tale. 26-40v) Guystard and Seiesemonde Incipit: O short þe lyfe, þe craft so long to lerne… 17-25) Here foloweth the parlement of Byrdes reducyd to loue Incipit: Isdom is more in prise þen gold in cofers.… 12-16) The tale of the cok that founde a precyous stone groundyd by Isopus the phylosopher of Rome, that yche man shuld take in gree suche as god sent (suivi de trois autres fables), extraits des Isopes fabules de John Lydgate Incipit: Neminis omissa doleas, nec omne quod audis 9) The tale of þe byrde and the chorle of thre notable and gret wysdoms groundyd vppon these ij verses followyng that ys to wete Incipit: O lytyl boke for dredefull ys thy message… Ll lust and lykyng I begyn to lede ( inscrit au-dessus: leue)… ye alle that ben or haue byn in dyssease… beauteuous braunche floure of formosyte… 1) Seven Philosophers, poème anglais de 8 strophes 1) Festum Natalis Domini, poème anglais en 4 septains
