minstrel: An early naval ballad

[Ellen Rawson]

--- Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> wrote:


> 
> The primary source is "in a manuscript of the time
> of Henry VI. in the
> library of Trinity College, Cambridge, R. iii. 19."

The following source agrees with the above, but goes
on to state "containing Poems chiefly by Lydgate and
Chaucer, written in the reign of Henry VI. on paper".
Okay, of course, Chaucer was dead before Henry VI, but
Lydgate is a possibility. ;)

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ta49L88Fmc4C&pg=PA2-IA6&lpg=PA2-IA6&dq=%22Men+may+leve+all+gamys%22+chaucer&source=web&ots=uC_ZPlHUTm&sig=EhZNIN1xvRygO6ek7OT_nltJN4E&hl=en

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