[831] Ex. his picturesque "London Lickpenny."
[832] Same idea as in Villon; refrain:
All stant in chaunge like a mydsomer rose,
Halliwell, "Selections from Lydgate," 1840, p. 25.
[833] "Lydgate's Æsopübersetzung," ed. Sauerstein; "Anglia," 1866, p. 1; eight fables. He excuses himself:
Have me excused, I was born in Lydegate,
Of Tullius gardyn I entrid nat the gate. (p. 2.)
O ye maysters, that cast shal yowre looke
Upon this dyté made in wordis playne,
Remembre sothely that I the refreyn tooke
Of hym that was in makyng soverayne,
My maister, Chaucier, chief poete of Bretayne.
Halliwell, "Selections from ... Lydgate," 1840, p. 128. Similar praise in the "Serpent of Division" (in prose). See L. Toulmin Smith, "Gorboduc," Heilbronn, 1883, p. xxi.
[835] The British Museum possesses a splendid copy of it (Royal 18 D ii., with miniatures of the time of the Renaissance, see above, p. [303]). The E.E.T.S. is preparing, 1894, an edition of it; there exist previous ones, the first of which is of 1500, "Here begynneth ... the Storye of Thebes," London, 4to.