Libelle of Englyshe Polycye

The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye (or Libel of English Policy) is a fifteenth-century poem written in English. The work exists in two redactions: the first was composed after the siege of Calais in 1436 but before the end of 1438, and a second edition of the work before June 1441. This second edition was probably revised again.[1] Nineteen manuscripts contain the Libelle, which consists of about 1,100 lines in rhyming couplets, with a proem in rhyme-royal and a stanzaic envoi that differs between the poem's two editions.[2]

  1. ^ Frank Taylor has suggested a third edition ("Some Manuscripts of The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye").
  2. ^ Sobecki, Sebastian (2010). "Bureaucratic Verse: William Lyndwood, the Privy Seal, and the Form of The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye". New Medieval Literatures. 12: 251–288. doi:10.1484/J.NML.1.102188. ISSN 1465-3737.