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Rh Of John Lydgate’s Historie of Troye, which was finished about the year 1420, this is the beginning: [edit. 1555.]

The Hystorie of King Boccus and Sydracke, &c. printed in 1510, and written by Hugh Campeden in the reign of Henry VI. i.e. some time between the year 1423 and 1461, begins thus:

Of Thomas Chestre’s poems, entitled Sir Launfale, written about the same time, these are the first lines:

The first lines that I have met with of Hardynge’s Chronicle of England unto the reign of king Edward the Fourth, in verse, [composed about the year 1470, and printed in 1543, 4to] are as follows: Rh