McCracken’s
Lydgate Canon, E.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02
vi and vil, and
6th series, vols. VIII, ix and x. ]
CHAPTER VIII
THE ENGLISH CHAUCERIANS
LYDGATE (chief works).
Aesop. Ed. by P. Sanerstein in Anglia, ix.
Albon and Amphabel. Printed by John Hertford. St Albans, 1534.
Assembly of Gods. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498 and afterwards.
Cambridge facsimile reprint of c. 1500 ed. , 1906. Reprinted by Pynson,
n. d. , and twice by Robert Redman in 4to and 16mo, the latter dated
1540. Edited for E. E. T. S. by Triggs, 0. L. 1896.
Churl and the Bird, The. Twice printed by Caxton (1st ed. reprinted in
facsimile, Cambridge, 1906), twice by Wynkyn de Worde, once by Pynson.
Partly in Halliwell.
Complaint of the Black Knight. Printed by W. de Worde. Also in editions
of Chaucer from Thynne (1532) onwards till discovered to be Lydgate's
by Shirley's testimony.
Court of Sapience. Printed by Caxton c. 1481.
Divers ballades and shorter poems. Also included in older edd. of Chaucer.
Falls of Princes. First printed by Pynson in 1494; later edd. 1527, 1554
(Tottel) and John Wayland's 1558.
Flower of Courtesy. Printed in edd. of Chancer from Thynne (1532) to
Chalmers.
Guy of Warwick. Printed in part in the Percy Folio by Furnivall, F. J. and
Hales, J. W. , 1868; completely by Zupitza, J. , Vienna, 1873; and by
Robinson, F. N. , Harvard Studies and Notes, v.
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468
Bibliography
Horse, Goose and Sheep. Twice printed by Caxton, once at least by Wynkyn
de Worde. Cambridge facsimile reprint of c. 1499 ed. , 1906. Reprinted
partly in Halliwell, Minor Poems (v. inf. ) and in Roxburghe Club edd.
Margaret's entry into London, Verses for queen. Not now extant.
Minor Poems (44). Ed. by J. 0. Halliwell for Percy Society. 1840.
Nightingale Poems, Two. Ed. by 0. Glauning for E. E. T. S. 1900.
Our Lady, The Life of. Printed by Caxton (1484? ). Again in 1531. Included
by C. E. Tame in 2nd part of Early English Religious Literature. 1871-9.
Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, The. Printed in extract by Miss K. J. Cust
after N. Hill in The Ancient Poem of Guillaume de Guilevile . . . com-
pared with the Pilgrim's Progress of John Bunyan. 1858. Completely
for E. E. T. S. by F. J. Furnivall and Miss K. Locock in three parts.
1899-01-04. (For Deguileville himself, see ed. Sturzinger, J. J. , Rox-
burghe Club, 1893. ]
Reason and Sensuality. Ed. by Sieper, E. , E. E. T. S. 2 parts. 1901-3.
St Edmund and Fremund. In C. Horstmann's Altenglische Legenden. Neue
Folge. Heilbronn, 1881. No. 20.
St Giles. In Horstman, ibid. No. 19.
St Margaret. In Horstman, ibid. No. 21.
Secreta Secretorum or Secrets of Philosophers (finished by Burgh). Printed
for the first time by E. E. T. S. Ed. Steele, R. 1894.
Stans Puer ad Mensam (Rules of Breeding). Printed by Caxton (c. 1479? ),
and four (? ) times by Wynkyn de Worde (n. d. ? 1518 and 1524) as well as
often in later manuals of behaviour. Reprinted from MS in Wright and
Halliwell's Reliquiae Antiquae, 1, 1845, and in Hazlitt's Early Popular
Poetry of England, 111, 1866.
Temple of Glass. Printed by Caxton c. 1477. Cambridge facsimile reprint,
1905. Reprinted by Wynkyn de Worde, 1498 ? -1500? ; and twice after-
wards at no great interval: by Pynson, existing only in fragments, about
the same time; and by Berthelet, J. with no date. Edited with elaborate
apparatus (the fullest at present existing for the study of Lydgate) by
Schick, J. , E. E. T. S. 1891.
Testament. Printed by Pynson. Reprinted in Halliwell.
Thebes, The Story of. Printed by W. de Worde n. d. but added by Stow to
the 1561 ed. of Chaucer and thenceforward included in edd. of that poet
to the time of Chalmers.
Troy Book. First printed by Pynson in 1513; secondly by R. Braham in
1555. Modernised by T. Heywood as Life and Death of Hector in
1614. Reprint begun by E. E. T. S. Part 1, 1906, ed. Bergen, H.
Prose. The Damage and Destruction of Realms. Printed by Treverys
c. 1520.
Besides the editions noticed above (especially Schick's Temple of Glass, and
Zupitza) and the portions appartenant in the various histories of English
Literature, including Morley's English Writers, vi, consult Gray's
Metrum; Warton, History of English Poetry, 11. (ed. Hazlitt); Ritson,
Bibliographia Poetica u. s. ; Courthope, History of English Poetry, 1, 1895;
Gregory Smith, The Transition Period, Edinburgh, 1900; and the present
writer's History of English Prosody, I, 1906. See also Sidney Lee's
bibliography of Lydgate in the D. of N. B. , for MSS, fuller lists, etc. ,
and also H. N.
McCracken’s Lydgate Canon, E. E. T. S. 1908, referred to
below.
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469
OCCLEVE.
No early editions except The Letter of Cupid, and perhaps one, or two
more, in the early edd. of Chaucer.
De Regimine Principum. Ed. Wright, T. Roxburghe Club, 1860.
Poems. Ed. Mason, G. 1796.
Tale of Jonathas, included by W. Browne in the Shepherds Pipe. 1614.
Works. E. E. T. S. I and 11. 1892-7. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. The editorial
matter of these contains the fullest information and discussion yet given
as to 0. ; and something as to him will generally be found in the neigh-
bourhood of notices of Lydgate, e. g. in Ten Brink, Hist. Eng. Lit. , vol. 11,
Eng. trans. pp. 212 ff.
BENEDICT BURGH.
Aristotle's A B C, in Babees Book, ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1868.
Christmas Game, A. , in Wright's Christmas Carols, Peroy Society, 1841 (also
by Furnivall in N. and Q. 1868).
Great and Little Cato. Printed three times by Caxton. Facsimile reprint of
1477 ed. princeps. Cambridge, 1906.
Secrets of the Philosophers (with Lydgate). Ed. Steele, R. E. E. T. S. 1894.
Part printed by Halliwell in Lydgate's Minor Poems and by Ashmole
in Theatrum Chemicum.
GEORGE ASHBY.
Poems. Ed. Bateson, M. E. E. T. 8. 1899. MSS in Trinity College and
University Libraries, Cambridge.
HENRY BRADSHAW.
Life of St Radegund. Printed by Pynson, n. d.
Life of St Werburgh. Printed by Pynson, 1521. Reprinted by Chetham
Society (ed. Hawkins, E. , Manchester, 1848) and E. E. T. S. (ed. Horst-
mann, C. ), 1887.
GEORGE RIPLEY AND OTHER ALCHEMISTS.
The standard collection, not superseded yet, is Elias Ashmole's Theatrum
Chemicum Britannicum. 1652. More than once reprinted.
OSBERN BOKENAM.
Saints' Lives. Ed. for Roxburghe Club (1835) and by Horstmann, C. (Heil-
bronn, 1883).
CHAUCERIANA.
In early edd. of Chaucer as above, more or fewer. The most important
except the Tale of Beryn (Chaucer Society, ed. Furnivall and Stone, 1884)
in the seventh and supplementary volume of W. W. Skeat's Works of
Chaucer, Oxford, 1897.
For critical and other apparatus on the minor poets after Occleve see edd.
mentioned and the general authorities cited under Lydgate, especially
Morley's English Writers, vi, adding, for the Chanceriana, the passages
appurtenant in edd. of Chaucer and books on him. The most important
monograph is that on The Origin and Sources of the Court of Love,' by
W. A. Neilson, Harvard, 1899.
(For Thomas Usk's Testament of Love, found in Chaucer edd. from Thynne
onwards, see Bradley, H. , Athenaeum, 6 February 1897, and in Engl.
Stud. XXIII, 437; and Skeat, W. W. , Chaucerian and other pieces, 1897. ]
## p. 470 (#488) ############################################
470
Bibliography
Since the chapter on the Chaucerians was printed and the above biblio-
graphy was composed, the long desired revision of Ritson's list of Lydgate's
works has appeared in the form of a lecture to the Philological Society
by Henry Noble McCracken. This introduces important variations in the
canon, such formerly accepted works as London Lickpenny being, for in-
stance, excluded. The list must henceforward be taken into serious account
by all Lydgate students. Its author puts it forth in no dictatorial manner.
But, as it proceeds on the premiss that 'Lydgate was always smooth,' im-
poses arbitrary rime tests and disqualifies such positive testimony as that
of Hawes to his master's work, it is evident that there must be room for
considerable difference of opinion as to the probable correctness of this re-
vision.
CHAPTER IX
STEPHEN HAWES
EDITIONS.
Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu. (Wynkyn de
Worde, 1512. )
Here foloweth a compendyous story, and it is called the exemple of verta,
in the whiche ye shall fynde many goodly
storys & naturall dysputacyons
bytwene foure ladyes named Hardynes, Sapyence, Fortune, and Nature.
Compyled by Stephyn Hawys one of ye gromes of the most honorable
chambre of oure souerayne lorde kynge Henry the . vii. And prýted . xx.
day of Apryll. Anno dñi. M. CCCCC. XXX. (Wynkyn de Worde. ]
The Passetyme of Pleasure, or the History of Graunde Amoure and la Bel
Pucel, conteining the Knowledge of the Seven Sciences and the Course
of Mans Life in this Worlde. (Wynkyn de Worde, 1509. ]
The History of Graund Amoure and La Bel Pucell, called The Pastime of
Pleasure, Conteynyng the Knowledge of the Seven Sciences, and the
Course of Mans Life in this Worlde. Invented by Stephen Hawes,
Grome of Kyng Henry the Seventh his chamber. Anno Domini, 1555.
[Richard Tottel. ]
The Pastime of Pleasure: An Allegorical Poem. Reprinted from the edition
of 1555. Ed. Wright, Thomas. Percy Society. 1845.
The couercyon of swerers (on a riband). [Wynkyn de Worde, 1509. ]
CA Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost
naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eight. [Wynkyn de Worde, n. d. ]
The Conversyon of Swerers: A Joyfull Medytacyon to all Englonde of the
Coronacyon of Kynge Henry the Eyght. Ed. Laing, David. Abbotsford
Club. Edinburgh, 1865.
Comfort of Louers. Emprynted by me Wynkyn de Worde. [n. d. ]
ILLUSTRATIVE WORKS.
Bale, John. Illustrium Maioris Britanniae Scriptorum Catalogus. 1 vol.
Basileae. Apud Joannem Oporinum. 1557-9. The 1548 edition of
Bale does not mention Hawes.
Browning, E. B. The Greek Christian Poets, and the English Poets. 1863.
Minto, W. Characteristics of English Poets. Edinburgh and London.
1874, 1885.
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471
Morley, Henry. English Writers. Vol. VII. 1891.
Saintsbury, G. Flourishing of Romance and Rise of Allegory. Edinburgh
and London. 1897.
A History of English Prosody. Vol. 1. 1906.
Schick, J. Introduction to Lydgate's Temple of Glas. E.
6th series, vols. VIII, ix and x. ]
CHAPTER VIII
THE ENGLISH CHAUCERIANS
LYDGATE (chief works).
Aesop. Ed. by P. Sanerstein in Anglia, ix.
Albon and Amphabel. Printed by John Hertford. St Albans, 1534.
Assembly of Gods. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498 and afterwards.
Cambridge facsimile reprint of c. 1500 ed. , 1906. Reprinted by Pynson,
n. d. , and twice by Robert Redman in 4to and 16mo, the latter dated
1540. Edited for E. E. T. S. by Triggs, 0. L. 1896.
Churl and the Bird, The. Twice printed by Caxton (1st ed. reprinted in
facsimile, Cambridge, 1906), twice by Wynkyn de Worde, once by Pynson.
Partly in Halliwell.
Complaint of the Black Knight. Printed by W. de Worde. Also in editions
of Chaucer from Thynne (1532) onwards till discovered to be Lydgate's
by Shirley's testimony.
Court of Sapience. Printed by Caxton c. 1481.
Divers ballades and shorter poems. Also included in older edd. of Chaucer.
Falls of Princes. First printed by Pynson in 1494; later edd. 1527, 1554
(Tottel) and John Wayland's 1558.
Flower of Courtesy. Printed in edd. of Chancer from Thynne (1532) to
Chalmers.
Guy of Warwick. Printed in part in the Percy Folio by Furnivall, F. J. and
Hales, J. W. , 1868; completely by Zupitza, J. , Vienna, 1873; and by
Robinson, F. N. , Harvard Studies and Notes, v.
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30-2
## p. 468 (#486) ############################################
468
Bibliography
Horse, Goose and Sheep. Twice printed by Caxton, once at least by Wynkyn
de Worde. Cambridge facsimile reprint of c. 1499 ed. , 1906. Reprinted
partly in Halliwell, Minor Poems (v. inf. ) and in Roxburghe Club edd.
Margaret's entry into London, Verses for queen. Not now extant.
Minor Poems (44). Ed. by J. 0. Halliwell for Percy Society. 1840.
Nightingale Poems, Two. Ed. by 0. Glauning for E. E. T. S. 1900.
Our Lady, The Life of. Printed by Caxton (1484? ). Again in 1531. Included
by C. E. Tame in 2nd part of Early English Religious Literature. 1871-9.
Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, The. Printed in extract by Miss K. J. Cust
after N. Hill in The Ancient Poem of Guillaume de Guilevile . . . com-
pared with the Pilgrim's Progress of John Bunyan. 1858. Completely
for E. E. T. S. by F. J. Furnivall and Miss K. Locock in three parts.
1899-01-04. (For Deguileville himself, see ed. Sturzinger, J. J. , Rox-
burghe Club, 1893. ]
Reason and Sensuality. Ed. by Sieper, E. , E. E. T. S. 2 parts. 1901-3.
St Edmund and Fremund. In C. Horstmann's Altenglische Legenden. Neue
Folge. Heilbronn, 1881. No. 20.
St Giles. In Horstman, ibid. No. 19.
St Margaret. In Horstman, ibid. No. 21.
Secreta Secretorum or Secrets of Philosophers (finished by Burgh). Printed
for the first time by E. E. T. S. Ed. Steele, R. 1894.
Stans Puer ad Mensam (Rules of Breeding). Printed by Caxton (c. 1479? ),
and four (? ) times by Wynkyn de Worde (n. d. ? 1518 and 1524) as well as
often in later manuals of behaviour. Reprinted from MS in Wright and
Halliwell's Reliquiae Antiquae, 1, 1845, and in Hazlitt's Early Popular
Poetry of England, 111, 1866.
Temple of Glass. Printed by Caxton c. 1477. Cambridge facsimile reprint,
1905. Reprinted by Wynkyn de Worde, 1498 ? -1500? ; and twice after-
wards at no great interval: by Pynson, existing only in fragments, about
the same time; and by Berthelet, J. with no date. Edited with elaborate
apparatus (the fullest at present existing for the study of Lydgate) by
Schick, J. , E. E. T. S. 1891.
Testament. Printed by Pynson. Reprinted in Halliwell.
Thebes, The Story of. Printed by W. de Worde n. d. but added by Stow to
the 1561 ed. of Chaucer and thenceforward included in edd. of that poet
to the time of Chalmers.
Troy Book. First printed by Pynson in 1513; secondly by R. Braham in
1555. Modernised by T. Heywood as Life and Death of Hector in
1614. Reprint begun by E. E. T. S. Part 1, 1906, ed. Bergen, H.
Prose. The Damage and Destruction of Realms. Printed by Treverys
c. 1520.
Besides the editions noticed above (especially Schick's Temple of Glass, and
Zupitza) and the portions appartenant in the various histories of English
Literature, including Morley's English Writers, vi, consult Gray's
Metrum; Warton, History of English Poetry, 11. (ed. Hazlitt); Ritson,
Bibliographia Poetica u. s. ; Courthope, History of English Poetry, 1, 1895;
Gregory Smith, The Transition Period, Edinburgh, 1900; and the present
writer's History of English Prosody, I, 1906. See also Sidney Lee's
bibliography of Lydgate in the D. of N. B. , for MSS, fuller lists, etc. ,
and also H. N.
McCracken’s Lydgate Canon, E. E. T. S. 1908, referred to
below.
## p. 469 (#487) ############################################
Chapter VIII
469
OCCLEVE.
No early editions except The Letter of Cupid, and perhaps one, or two
more, in the early edd. of Chaucer.
De Regimine Principum. Ed. Wright, T. Roxburghe Club, 1860.
Poems. Ed. Mason, G. 1796.
Tale of Jonathas, included by W. Browne in the Shepherds Pipe. 1614.
Works. E. E. T. S. I and 11. 1892-7. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. The editorial
matter of these contains the fullest information and discussion yet given
as to 0. ; and something as to him will generally be found in the neigh-
bourhood of notices of Lydgate, e. g. in Ten Brink, Hist. Eng. Lit. , vol. 11,
Eng. trans. pp. 212 ff.
BENEDICT BURGH.
Aristotle's A B C, in Babees Book, ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1868.
Christmas Game, A. , in Wright's Christmas Carols, Peroy Society, 1841 (also
by Furnivall in N. and Q. 1868).
Great and Little Cato. Printed three times by Caxton. Facsimile reprint of
1477 ed. princeps. Cambridge, 1906.
Secrets of the Philosophers (with Lydgate). Ed. Steele, R. E. E. T. S. 1894.
Part printed by Halliwell in Lydgate's Minor Poems and by Ashmole
in Theatrum Chemicum.
GEORGE ASHBY.
Poems. Ed. Bateson, M. E. E. T. 8. 1899. MSS in Trinity College and
University Libraries, Cambridge.
HENRY BRADSHAW.
Life of St Radegund. Printed by Pynson, n. d.
Life of St Werburgh. Printed by Pynson, 1521. Reprinted by Chetham
Society (ed. Hawkins, E. , Manchester, 1848) and E. E. T. S. (ed. Horst-
mann, C. ), 1887.
GEORGE RIPLEY AND OTHER ALCHEMISTS.
The standard collection, not superseded yet, is Elias Ashmole's Theatrum
Chemicum Britannicum. 1652. More than once reprinted.
OSBERN BOKENAM.
Saints' Lives. Ed. for Roxburghe Club (1835) and by Horstmann, C. (Heil-
bronn, 1883).
CHAUCERIANA.
In early edd. of Chaucer as above, more or fewer. The most important
except the Tale of Beryn (Chaucer Society, ed. Furnivall and Stone, 1884)
in the seventh and supplementary volume of W. W. Skeat's Works of
Chaucer, Oxford, 1897.
For critical and other apparatus on the minor poets after Occleve see edd.
mentioned and the general authorities cited under Lydgate, especially
Morley's English Writers, vi, adding, for the Chanceriana, the passages
appurtenant in edd. of Chaucer and books on him. The most important
monograph is that on The Origin and Sources of the Court of Love,' by
W. A. Neilson, Harvard, 1899.
(For Thomas Usk's Testament of Love, found in Chaucer edd. from Thynne
onwards, see Bradley, H. , Athenaeum, 6 February 1897, and in Engl.
Stud. XXIII, 437; and Skeat, W. W. , Chaucerian and other pieces, 1897. ]
## p. 470 (#488) ############################################
470
Bibliography
Since the chapter on the Chaucerians was printed and the above biblio-
graphy was composed, the long desired revision of Ritson's list of Lydgate's
works has appeared in the form of a lecture to the Philological Society
by Henry Noble McCracken. This introduces important variations in the
canon, such formerly accepted works as London Lickpenny being, for in-
stance, excluded. The list must henceforward be taken into serious account
by all Lydgate students. Its author puts it forth in no dictatorial manner.
But, as it proceeds on the premiss that 'Lydgate was always smooth,' im-
poses arbitrary rime tests and disqualifies such positive testimony as that
of Hawes to his master's work, it is evident that there must be room for
considerable difference of opinion as to the probable correctness of this re-
vision.
CHAPTER IX
STEPHEN HAWES
EDITIONS.
Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu. (Wynkyn de
Worde, 1512. )
Here foloweth a compendyous story, and it is called the exemple of verta,
in the whiche ye shall fynde many goodly
storys & naturall dysputacyons
bytwene foure ladyes named Hardynes, Sapyence, Fortune, and Nature.
Compyled by Stephyn Hawys one of ye gromes of the most honorable
chambre of oure souerayne lorde kynge Henry the . vii. And prýted . xx.
day of Apryll. Anno dñi. M. CCCCC. XXX. (Wynkyn de Worde. ]
The Passetyme of Pleasure, or the History of Graunde Amoure and la Bel
Pucel, conteining the Knowledge of the Seven Sciences and the Course
of Mans Life in this Worlde. (Wynkyn de Worde, 1509. ]
The History of Graund Amoure and La Bel Pucell, called The Pastime of
Pleasure, Conteynyng the Knowledge of the Seven Sciences, and the
Course of Mans Life in this Worlde. Invented by Stephen Hawes,
Grome of Kyng Henry the Seventh his chamber. Anno Domini, 1555.
[Richard Tottel. ]
The Pastime of Pleasure: An Allegorical Poem. Reprinted from the edition
of 1555. Ed. Wright, Thomas. Percy Society. 1845.
The couercyon of swerers (on a riband). [Wynkyn de Worde, 1509. ]
CA Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost
naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eight. [Wynkyn de Worde, n. d. ]
The Conversyon of Swerers: A Joyfull Medytacyon to all Englonde of the
Coronacyon of Kynge Henry the Eyght. Ed. Laing, David. Abbotsford
Club. Edinburgh, 1865.
Comfort of Louers. Emprynted by me Wynkyn de Worde. [n. d. ]
ILLUSTRATIVE WORKS.
Bale, John. Illustrium Maioris Britanniae Scriptorum Catalogus. 1 vol.
Basileae. Apud Joannem Oporinum. 1557-9. The 1548 edition of
Bale does not mention Hawes.
Browning, E. B. The Greek Christian Poets, and the English Poets. 1863.
Minto, W. Characteristics of English Poets. Edinburgh and London.
1874, 1885.
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471
Morley, Henry. English Writers. Vol. VII. 1891.
Saintsbury, G. Flourishing of Romance and Rise of Allegory. Edinburgh
and London. 1897.
A History of English Prosody. Vol. 1. 1906.
Schick, J. Introduction to Lydgate's Temple of Glas. E.
