E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Lydgate, John
(b. Suffolk, not later than 1370; d. 1460). “The Hystory, Sege, and Destruccyon of Troye” (1513); “The Story of Thebes” (1561); “The Falls of Princes” (1494); and several minor works, including “The Werke of Sapience;” “The Lyf of Our Ladye;” “The Chorle and the Byrde;” “A Lytell Treatise of the Horse, the Shepe, and the Goos;” “Proverbes;” “The Temple of Glass;” and “The Cronycle of all the Kynges Names.”
