The complete works of John Gower, volume 4 : $b The Latin worksGower, John
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The complete works of John Gower, volume 4 : $b The Latin works
Gower, John
Poetry
This conclusion seems to be made up out of the piece beginning
‘Henrici quarti’ in the Trentham MS. (see p. 365 of this volume)
combined with the prose heading of the corresponding lines as
given by CHG. It may be observed here that the Trentham version
of this piece is also given in MS. Cotton, Julius F. vii, f. 167,
with the heading ‘Epitaphium siue dictum Iohannis Gower Armigeri
et per ipsum compositum.’ It is followed by the lines ‘Electus
Cristi--sponte data,’ which are the heading of the _Praise of
Peace_.
FORMER EDITIONS. The _Vox Clamantis_ was printed for the Roxburghe Club
in the year 1850, edited by H. O. Coxe, Bodley’s Librarian. In the same
volume were included the _Cronica Tripertita_, the lines ‘Quicquid homo
scribat,’ &c., the complimentary verses of the ‘philosopher,’ ‘Eneidos
Bucolis,’ &c., and (in a note to the Introduction) the poem ‘O deus
immense,’ &c. In T. Wright’s _Political Poems_, Rolls Series, 14, vol.
i. the following pieces were printed: _Carmen super multiplici Viciorum
Pestilencia_, _De Lucis Scrutinio_, ‘O deus immense,’ &c., _Cronica
Tripertita_. In the Roxburghe edition of Gower’s _Cinkante Balades_
(1818) were printed also the pieces ‘Rex celi deus,’ and ‘Ecce patet
tensus,’ the lines ‘Henrici quarti,’ a variation of ‘Quicquid homo
scribat,’ &c. (see p. 365 of this edition). Finally the last poems
‘Vnanimes esse,’ ‘Presul, ouile regis,’ ‘Cultor in ecclesia,’ and
‘Dicunt scripture’ were printed by Karl Meyer in his dissertation _John
Gower’s Beziehungen zu Chaucer &c._ pp. 67, 68.
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