‘Alionor Cobhame conspyryd the kynges deth’: The Magic Trial of Eleanor Cobham, 1441
My clerks called up and downAll was but mischief that they meant;Our sovereign lord and king with crownHim to destroy was our attempt.Almighty God omnipotent,He knew full well our cruelty;Look, for such harms I am now ruined –All women may be warned by me. ((John Lydgate, ‘The Lament of the Duchess of Gloucester, 1441’, in Rossell H. Robbins (ed.), Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (New York, 1959), 178. I have edited the Middle English text into Modern English with the help o...
Publication Details
- Journal
- Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)
- Published
- 2024-10-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.58079/12lox
- Primary Topic
- Medieval Literature and History
- Type
- article
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- 0.00