5. Item, a book lent Midelton, and therein is _Belle Da[me sans]
Mercy_; _the Parliament of Birds_; _Ballad ... of Guy and Colbronde_;
_of the Goose_ ... _the Disputation between Hope and Despair_; _... Mare
haunts_; _the Life of Saint Cry[stofer]_.
6. A red book that Percival Robsart gave me _... of the Meeds of
the Mass_; _the Lamentation of Childe Ypotis_;[39] _a prayer to the
Vernicle_;[40] [a book] called _the Abbey of the Holy Ghost_.
[33] A romance of the fourteenth century, first printed by Wynkyn de
Worde (1509-1528).
[34] Chaucer's _Troilus and Cressida_.
[35] Possibly Chaucer's _Legend of Good Ladies_.
[36] Possibly Chaucer's _Parliament of Fowls_.
[37] A poem by Lydgate (_circa_ 1370-1451). For a text of this poem see
Early English Text Society, Extra Series, lx. (1891).
[38] An anonymous ballad of the fourteenth century.
[39] In this ballad Ypotis = Epictetus (see Horstmann's _Altenglische
Legenden_ (1881)).
[40] The "Vernicle," or "Veronica Kerchief" was one of the most popular
legends of the Middle Ages. Veronica, a lady of Jerusalem (afterwards
identified with the woman that had an issue of blood), seeing Christ
sinking beneath the burden of the Cross, wiped His face with a veil.
After this work of mercy the face of Christ was found imprinted on the
veil.
7. Item, in quires:--Tully _de Senectute_[41] in divers [places] whereof
there is no more clear written.
[41] Cicero's _De Senectute_.
8. Item, in quires:--Tully or Cypio[42] _de Ami[citia]_ left with
William Worcester.
[42] Scipio. In Cicero's dialogue, _De Amicitia_, the friendship of the
chief speaker, Gaius Lælius, with the younger Scipio, is taken as the
model of the theme. "Equidem ex omnibus rebus, quas mihi aut fortuna
aut natura tribuit, nihil habeo quod cum amicitia Scipionis possim
compare."