Political, religious, and love poems. Some by Lydgate, Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Ms. no. 306, and other sources, with a fragment of The Romance of Peare of Provence and the fair Magnelone, and a sketch, with the prolog and epilog, of The Romance of the knight Amoryus and the Lady Cleopes,

ded. And for my curtesie I was put to þe Soudenys house, & was made vssher of halle; & þen died þe Souden & his heire, And I wedded his wiff. & so I was souden. & þen died my wiff; and I wedded þe Emperourys doughtter, & was Emperour bi here, & bycome Souden of Surry. but I sende gretyng to Henry kynge of England, þe frenshe womman sone. & so be þat he wol wed my doughter, I wel becom cristen, & alle my meyne, And wol gef hym iij Milions of gold, And delyuere hym þe holy cros, with al þe Reliques in my kepyng; And I shal make hym Emperour of xxxvij kynges cristen, þat is, Anglond, Fraunce, Irland, Scotland, Denmark, norwey, portu|gale, Cicile, Sipres, Spayn, Swhen, Sastel, Orsorial, beme, hungry, Magon, Naples, Cschresy; And to stonde with hym agaynst alle Cristen kynges. Writen in þe yere of youre gret god, my cosyn. MCCCCxvj yere. [[Mr. James Gairdner, of the Record Office, tells me that 'Henry kynge of England, þe frensh womman son,' can only mean Henry VI., born in 1421, son of Cathe|rine, daughter of Charles VI. of France. Henry's marriage with Margaret of Anjon, suggested by the Earl of Suffolk in 1444, took place in 1445. Mr. Gairdner therefore thinks the date of 1416 (the third of Henry V.) a mistake of the copier of the MS. In this Mr. G. E. Cokayne agrees, and would fix the date at 1436, believing that "þe frensh womman son" would not have been used after her death, in 1438. But the difficulty is to settle what the Proclamation is intended to satirize. The possession of Jerusalem, Joppa, the Holy Rood, etc., the being Souden of Surre or Syria, and the like, point to the Sultan. The Porter of Paradise, the Cousin of Christ, the opposition to Lollardy, might have been thought to hint at the Pope, if the marriages (unless allegorical ones are alluded to) did not prevent that. Professor Brewer suggests Anti|christ, that is, the representative of the Antichristian powers. The allusion to Lollardy may point to Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham's rising, for which he was executed Dec. 25, 1417. "Curiously enough, Henry III. was also King of England for some time during the lifetime of his mother, a French woman; ]

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Title: Political, religious, and love poems. Some by Lydgate, Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Ms. no. 306, and other sources, with a fragment of The Romance of Peare of Provence and the fair Magnelone, and a sketch, with the prolog and epilog, of The Romance of the knight Amoryus and the Lady Cleopes,
Author: Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,
Canvas: Page 13
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., limited,; 1866, re-edited 1903.
Subject terms: English poetry

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