. The old cryes of London. the Early English Text Society (London,1911), throws doubt upon it. The Professor writes : London Lickpenny is extant in two forms, of which thepoorer and later one is always printed. Miss Hammond, in her parallel text print in Anglia,Vol. xix. ? [should be xx.], 4Oof.,shows that an eight-line versionhas been turned into a seven-lineone, by simple omission of thefourth, fifth, or seventh MS. antedates Stowstime, who owned the older version.(The copy is in Stows own hand.)Style and rhyme1 are utterly atvariance with Lydgates practice,and it is impossible
. The old cryes of London. the Early English Text Society (London,1911), throws doubt upon it. The Professor writes : London Lickpenny is extant in two forms, of which thepoorer and later one is always printed. Miss Hammond, in her parallel text print in Anglia,Vol. xix. ? [should be xx.], 4Oof.,shows that an eight-line versionhas been turned into a seven-lineone, by simple omission of thefourth, fifth, or seventh MS. antedates Stowstime, who owned the older version.(The copy is in Stows own hand.)Style and rhyme1 are utterly atvariance with Lydgates practice,and it is impossible therefore toaccept Stows unsupported wordwith regard to this poem, thoughevery friend of Lydgate, if therebe such, will give it up once wrote a poem onthis theme, Amor Vincit anyone read this poem andthen ask himself whether, on theword of a worthy collector a century later, he will believe that the same man wrote LondonLyckpenny. (From H. N. MacCracken, The Lydgate Canon,pp. xliii. and xliv.). Come buy ibmc buy of rat iBirch>He«h and Green, neat bttttr be:ThtfttYCi are a!i bound fur::Come M»kis,bt!7 Bf sonw will ftill Eraser Shooei ID »kc fbrBroeaK;Come b»2»w oak* skin au jour t&n?, 1 Gonn : come, 10 ; chauncerie : me, 34 ; by: why, 53 ; prime : dyne, 58 ; people :simple, 74 ; grete : specie, 86. OF This seems rather to weaken Lydgates claim, and yet on theauthority of Sir Sidney Lee, in the Dictionary of National Biography, itappears that the Corporation of the City acknowledged Lydgates merit,and invited him to celebrate Civic Ceremonies in verse. He wrote aBallade to the Sheriffs and Aldermen of London on a May Day at adinner at Bishops Wood, and he devised Pageants for both the Mercersand the Goldsmiths Companies in honour of William Estfield, who wasMayor in 1429 and 1437. TheChapter of St. Pauls also commissionedhim to write verses to be inscribedbeneath a pictorial representation in theCloisters o
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