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Greetings!

I am in search of historical short poem (less than 50 words or so) that would work great for a peerage scribal project Im doing. I am looking to fill some space on my page so it will lead into the actual award text. If it matters, it is for a woman. I would prefer something historical or a shortened/trimmed version of a historical piece.

Graciously yours,

**Edit** ohh sorry.. just saw you were looking for a 14th Century Poem.
This one is 15th Century

What Peerage is it for?



Line 26 from Le Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc, Christine de Pizan 1429

"But for us, we never heard tell of such a great marvel, for all the brave men from the past cannot measure up in prowess against this woman who strives to cast out our enemies. But this is God's doing who counseled her, who from him received more courage than any man. "

If it is for a knighting



For Laurel: Line 4
But things have changed from great sorrow to new joy since the time I came here to stay, and, thank God, the lovely new season I so desired, the one called spring where everything renews itself, has turned dry land green.


For a Pelican:

23
How could one say more of anyone else or of the great deeds of the past? Moses, on whom God in His generosity bestowed many blessings and virtues, by a miracle led his people out of Egypt, without tiring of it. In the same way you have led us from evil, elected Maid!

Any particular language?

MJBlazek wrote:**Edit** ohh sorry.. just saw you were looking for a 14th Century Poem.
This one is 15th Century

What Peerage is it for?

15c would work too actually and it is for a Pelican.

~Roh

Karen Larsdatter wrote:Any particular language?

To stick with the "theme" Ive got running I would prefer English but it can be in Latin (it would need to have "religious" substance to the wording and can fit for "Use of Rome" part of the source Im recreating).

~Roh

Hmm. Well, that covers a lot, actually but what sprang to mind for me was the Seven Sages of Rome.

(If rhyming verse were not an issue, I would say to find a particularly inspiring heroine and/or lesson from Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, but I don't know where to get that in the original Italian. (Famous Women is a good English translation.) It's a series of stories Boccaccio tells of famous women, either noted because of their extraordinary virtue or because they were outrageously naughty, and provides a little moral for each. Some of them date back to ancient Rome and are retellings of stories from Ovid, Pliny, Livy, et al.)

Maybe a section of Gawain and the Green knight???

Wrechë man, why art thou prowde
That art of erthë makëd?
Hider ne broughtëst thou no shroude,
But poure thou come and naked.
When thy soule is faren out,
Thy body with erthe y-rakëd,
That body that was rank and loude
Of allë men is hatëd

From Medieval English Lyrics, 1200-1400.
The original is in the Bodelian Library.

It is a splendid cautionary poem, I'd have been delighted to have it on my Pelican letters Patent.

Robert de Canterbury, O.P.

Thanks everyone for your help! I have decided to leave the section blank and if the recipient wants a specific quote or short story I will callig it in. I was going to go with something Arthurian but nothing was really "speaking" to me.

~Roh