Selected Works of John Lydgate
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The Floure of Curtesye (c.1401)

[The Flower of Courtesy]

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - TEAMS


The Troy Book (written c.1412-1420; pub. 1513)

[aka The Siege of Troy]

*1906 ed. Vol I - Internet Archive
*1906 ed. Vol II - Internet Archive
*Selections - TEAMS


The Lyf of our Lady (written c.1420-22?; pub. 1484)

[The Life of our Lady (Stella Maris)]

*[O thoughtful hearté, plunged in distress]


The Siege of Thebes (written c. 1421-22; pub. 1495)

[aka The Story of Thebes]

*Introduction - TEAMS
*Prologue - TEAMS
*Prologue - Harvard

*Prima Pars - TEAMS
*Secunda Pars - TEAMS
*Tercia Pars - TEAMS


Saint Austin at Compton (c. 1420-40)

*Introduction - TEAMS
*Complete - TEAMS
*Complete - Google Books


The Life of Saint Margaret (written c. 1426? MS. 8 Henry VI; 1430)

*Complete - TEAMS


The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (1426)

[by John Lydgate, A.D. 1426, from the French of Guillaume de Deguileville;
edited by F.J. Furnivall (1899-1904). 3 vols.]

*Part I - Internet Archive
*Part II - Internet Archive
*Part III - Internet Archive


Lydgate's Disguising at Hertford Castle (written c.1427; pub. 1998)

*Complete - Project Gutenberg


The Fall of Princes (wr. 1431-1438; pub. 1527)

[Here begynneth the boke of Johan Bochas, discryuing the falls of princes,
princesses and other nobles, translated into Englysshe by John Lydgate monke
of Bury begynnyg at Adam and Eve and endyng with King Johan of Fraunce taken
prisoner at Poyters by prince Edwarde
]

*Introduction - Literary Encyclopedia

*[All Stands in Change Like a Midsummer Rose]
*[Bk 1: Canace Condemned to death, to her brother]
*[Bk 1: Of mighty Sampson] - Harvard
*[Bk 7: Description of the Golden Age]
*[Transcription of an Episode[ - UVictoria
*[Dance Macabre from the Ellesmere MS.] NB: several pages - Martin Hagstrøm


The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund (c.1433)

*Complete - The Canon of John Lydgate Project

The Chorle and the Birde (pub. 1477)

[The Churl and the Bird]

*Complete - Google Books


The Temple of Glas [Glass] (pub. 1477)

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - Google Books


The Horse, the Goose, and the Sheep (pub. 1499)

*Complete - Google Books


Here begynnys the mayng or disport of Chaucer (pub. 1508)

[aka The Complaint of the Black Knight;
or, The Complaint of a Lover's Life
]

*Complete - National Library of Scotland
*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - TEAMS


London Lickpenny

[aka London Lackpenny;
British Library MS Harley 542 fols. 102r-104r]

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - TEAMS


The Pain and Sorrow of Evil Marriage (pub. 1530)

[The payne and sorowe of evyll maryage.
Translation of De conjuge non ducenda]

*Complete - TEAMS


Dietary: or Rules for Health

*[Excerpts] - Google Books


Lydgate's Verses on the Kings of England

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - British History Online


Venus-Mass (c. 1450)

[Bodleian MS. Fairfax 16]

*Complete - Google Books


Merita Missæ

[Cotton MS. Titus, A. xxvi, fol. 154. (c. 1470)]

*Complete - Google Books


Vertue of the Masse (pub. 1520)

[Harleian MS. 2254]

*[Entryng the chirche]
*[Be ware ye pristis]
*[The offeratory next comyng]
*[The sanctus sunge thries]


Virtutes Missarum

[Harleian MS. 3954. fol. 76, col. 2.]

*[Excerpt] - Google Books


Testament of John Lydgate (pub. 1520)

[Here begynneth the testament of John Lydgate monke
of Berry: which he made hymselfe, by his lyfe dayes
.]

*Complete - Google Books

*[Lyk a Lambe Offryd in Sacrifice]


Secrets of Old Philosophers (unfinished at his death, completed by Burgh)

[aka Secrees of Old Philisoffres: A Version of the 'Secreta Secretorum']

*Complete - Google Books
*[2nd Epistle of Alexander to Aristotle] - Harvard



Lydgate's Minor Poems


Lydgate's Minor Poems: The Two Nightingale Poems (1446)

(Otto Glauning, ed. 1900)

*Complete - Internet Archive


A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate

(J. O. Halliwell-Phillips, ed. 1840)

*Complete - Google Books


A Balade in Commendation of our Lady

*Complete - Google Books


To my Soverain Lady

*Complete - Google Books


Epithalamium for Gloucester

*Complete - Harvard


Ballad of Good Counsel

*Complete - Google Books


Beware of Doubleness

*Complete - Google Books


A Goodly Balade

*Complete - Google Books


Go Forth, King

*Complete - Google Books


The Greatful Dead
*Complete - Google Books



Anonymous Works Attributed to Lydgate

The Assembly of Gods (pub. 1498)

[aka, The Accord of Reason and Sensuality in the Fear of Death;
the interpretacon of the names of goddis and goddesses]

*Introduction - TEAMS
*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - Project Gutenberg


Beware (The Blynde Eteth Many a Flye) (pub. 1561)

[aka A Balade : Warning Men to Beware of Deceitful Women]

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - TEAMS


Prohemy of a Mariage Betwixt an Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail (written c. 1430)

*Complete - TEAMS


The Siege of Harfleur and the Battle of Agincourt (1415)

*Complete - Google Books

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