John Lydgate, The Horse the Ghoos and the Sheep (1477)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1477
Author
John Lydgate Note: 11/10/2005
Book title
[The horse the ghoos & the sheep]
Publication place
Westminster
Printer
William Caxton
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
fauna
Summary
(a) Explicit "Thus endeth the horse the ghoos & the sheep" (verse; 1r-14v); (b) Implicit "Hit is ful hard to knowe ony estate" (verse; 15r-16r); (c) "an Herde of hertes a Murther of crowes" (phrase list; 16v-17v); (d) "An hare in his forme a Crane displayd" (18r)
Language
headwords: English
Incipit
Ontreversies / plees and discordes
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: an Herde of hertes a Murther of crowes
sample: an Herde of hertes a Murther of crowes
STC
17018
Catalog
Duff, E. Gordon. "Early Printed Books to 1558." Bibliotheca Pepysiana. Part II. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1914. 261. view record
Other editions
1478: STC 17019 (Caxton);
1495: STC 17020 (Wynkyn de Worde);
1500: STC 17022 (Wynkyn de Worde)
1495: STC 17020 (Wynkyn de Worde);
1500: STC 17022 (Wynkyn de Worde)
Facsimiles
Lydgate , John. A lytell treatyse of the horse, the sheep, and the ghoos / by John Lydgate; printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde about 1499. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1906. view record
Lydgate, John. The Chorle and the Birde. The Hors the Shepe & the Ghoos. Roxburghe Club. London: Shakespeare Press, by W. Bulmer, 1822. view record
Lydgate, John. The Chorle and the Birde. The Hors the Shepe & the Ghoos. Roxburghe Club. London: Shakespeare Press, by W. Bulmer, 1822. view record
Criticisms
Bühler, C. F. "Lydgate's Horse, Sheep and Goose and Huntington MS. HM 144." Modern Language Notes 55.8 (1940 December): 563-69. view record
Blake, Norman. "Caxton's Language." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 67 (1966): 122-32. view record
Howorth, H. H. "The Importance of Caxton in the History of the English Language." The Athenaeum (1894 November; 1895 March): 715-16, 284. view record
Sandved, A. O. Studies in the Language of Caxton's Malory and that of the Winchester Manuscript. Oslo and New York: Norwegian Universities Press and Humanities Press, 1968. view record
Blake, Norman. "Caxton's Language." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 67 (1966): 122-32. view record
Howorth, H. H. "The Importance of Caxton in the History of the English Language." The Athenaeum (1894 November; 1895 March): 715-16, 284. view record
Sandved, A. O. Studies in the Language of Caxton's Malory and that of the Winchester Manuscript. Oslo and New York: Norwegian Universities Press and Humanities Press, 1968. view record
