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    John Lydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451) was an English monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Lydgate's poetic output is prodigious...
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    but Lydgate has a ballad on the subject. 'Chichevache' literally means 'niggardly' or 'greedy cow'." In the early fifteenth century John Lydgate wrote...
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  • Look up Lydgate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lydgate may refer to: John Lydgate (1370–1451), English monk and poet John Mortimer Lydgate (1854–1922)...
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    Troy Book is a Middle English poem by John Lydgate relating the history of Troy from its foundation through to the end of the Trojan War. It is in five...
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    works of art relating to Edmund include Abbo's Passio Sancti Eadmundi, John Lydgate's 15th-century Life, the Wilton Diptych, and a number of church wall paintings...
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    authors of more respectable works such as John Lydgate's religious and historical literature. John Lydgate and Thomas Occleve were among the first critics...
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  • outlook despite having been christened. In 1412, the English priest John Lydgate observed in Troy Book, "For naturelly blod wil ay of kynde / Draw unto...
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    1869 and 1870: the novel "Middlemarch" (which focused on the character of Lydgate) and the long story "Miss Brooke" (which focused on the character of Dorothea)...
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  • Siege of Thebes is a 4716-line poem written by John Lydgate between 1420 and 1422. Lydgate composed the Siege of Thebes directly following his composition...
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    and sales patter appearing in a ballad, entitled London Lyckpeny by John Lydgate probably written in the late 1300s and first performed around 1409. Shakespeare...
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