[836] "Lydgate's Temple of Glas," ed. J. Schick, 1891, 8vo, Early English Text Society.
[837] First edition: "Here begynnethe the boke calledde John Bochas, descrivinge the Falle of Princes." [1494], folio.
Myn hand gan tremble, my penne I felte quake ...
I stode chekmate for feare whan I gan see,
In my way how little I had runne.
"Fall of Princes," prologue to Book iii., Schick, "Story of Thebes," p. cv.
[839] Example, fight between Ulysses and Troilus:
He smote Ulyxes throughout his viser ...
But Ulyxes tho lyke a manly man,
Of that stroke astoned not at all,
But on his stede, stiffe as any wall,
With his swerde so mightely gan race,
Through the umber into Troylus face,
That he him gave a mortal wounde,
of which, naturally, Troilus does not die. "The auncient historie ... of the Warres, betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans," London, 1555, 4to, Book iii., chap xxii. First edition, 1513. The work had been composed for Henry V. and at his request. Thomas Heywood gave a modernised version of it: "The Life and Death of Hector," 1614.
[840] Ed. Zupitza, Early English Text Society.
[841] A selection of his detached poems, mixed with many apocryphal ones, was edited by Halliwell: "A Selection from the minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate" (Percy Society), 1840, 8vo.