Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 38
pose him to be at that date from all that we can collectrelating to his history. But the history of Lydgate is very obscure. We onlyknow that he was a native of the town from which he took his name, that hewas in his youth the friend of Chaucer, who encouraged him in the cultivationof poetry, that… … his oolde dayes, which giving to his expression a proper latitude, wouldagree very well with the age represented in this portrait made in 1426, twentyyears before. The date commonly given as that of his death, 1482, is quiteinadmissible. It is very remarkable that so little should be known of a man…
Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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