LYDGATE HIS BOOK TO THE
ft^EARL I H B I
IHE tn^ompaLiri iri'g picture, is taken from a drawing
inserted in a manuscript in the British Museum.
B l S . Harl. No. 4826), executed apparently in the
[Wei£n-3|[|1I( in j l i p td f Henry ;
older
Kmumin a tion M m t wj^cguTemporary
^ \ i lh tile' picture affords
t :-us f| fifteenth
a n d t o , the poc^Yf B u T i ggmVI'AVl^^f is stated
rlintptlic’ fen^tec ^ o r thwfpii turo is 1 Lulgati. jroPYtjrtn1 <{illet?',yH
B ?j]griine, Minto; fe&Earle !of al ’illungmitmii wa«* no|
|lc>uJ>E attar hed to thrfiu^.sentation < Op^ of BMMpplo thus which
I t has p ^ ^l^yysfed*1'tliat-thyfe The Haitian manuicriptYrom
which rhave taktii ourijDgrgraugj Hmtaim tT^HCcrrahff’CT^Kfimuiid,
Imdvih^p^qem on ilnV^'V1 lijirm-ni WX1;!,1,■■!1 *1 l‘-D‘l-‘ 1 t ' •' with
jot' •O.cOuye:*1. '1 Stowe enumerates^^among» wnrhs^thek;.^ PilcriMftn.igc of
ftho World, hv the rojntman<Jem(.nt olf ,tPh^ E ad^^pKSi^li>bi.l^ieAlE4-'!2.(w^w^^c^
|s nM-doubt the .book to which, oiir ’ i i i f n i V . d ' ”'^e[n'§5j \>’lii' h' is
lhus;g^tablivshe,(lf Warton ^Mi-story ofyEraylnOi p.
S ^L ^ d it.) ascribes to Lydgalc, witj ^ -ec rmng Jiwti^^m^.m^^r>oom witfi a
gopiewhat similar title, pi^ffi^^^SOsixton a^l^estmplteri'i] i Tl’S'3,''i^ ^ ^® >yl1
premage of the^Sowl^fe^islafid tin fr> yif.'1!1 r e n ^ ^ ’ kccoiding
t ? ^ e end, this work mas ^ebiw | ^ p ^ p ^ lfo Vigyl&of'tSeint
IBartholomew,” in the "year Ml$.:j;
[ pilgrim in |tor picture'is only„an emblematic al peonage mfiffk
standing beside him, and holding ^n^ i l Le^of the ! 1» : Tljlle arl
fcf Salisbury, as is well' k n o w n n the prime JWlifo, slain ^at^&piege\of
Orleans in 1428, only two y ^ ^ ^ t e r the
inemorandum be^ correct. L \c ^ ||.^ ^ » ^ ^ ^ ^ ^& ite d as a man in the vigour
b f age, as we mightj^tuppose ‘Kim t o * a l l tth&t^vo can i|filect
delating to his history. We only
<a native of the he
^ H | | « I 1 the’ Mend dfi Chaluc^^^^SMI&l£S|y^ ^ ^ m y S i ^ ‘.nltiva.tion
b f poetry; that fie waS ’altnonls ot/Burv,'. and that was patro- 111 ■^•nS Kfdry Y. "fhe t|fte of his birth and ^mf>sof his death are
Equally unknown. In a poem- v ritteh» |jj|| later than he cpmplains of