DIMEV 1258
IMEV 761
NIMEV 761
Far from thy kin cast thee
A moral saw — four monorhyming lines
Note: Ringler Jr. (1992)
XRingler Jr., William A.
Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript
1501-1558.
London: Mansell, 1992; prepared and completed by
Michael
Rudick
and
Susan J.
Ringler
, TM 400;
Ringler Jr. (1988)
XRingler Jr., William A.
Bibliography and Index of English Verse Printed 1476-1558.
London: Mansell, 1988
, TP
389.5.
Subjects: aphorisms
Versification: —
four-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: London, British Library Lansdowne 762, f. 16
v
Editions:
Wright, Thomas, and James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, eds.
Reliquiae Antiquae.
2 vols. London: Smith, 1845: 1.233.
Sisam, Celia, and Kenneth Sisam, eds.
The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1970: 566.
2.Source: London, British Library Printed Book IB.49408 (Alliaco1480), f. 34
v
Transcription:Fer fro thi kynsmen cast the
Wrath not thi neabors next the
In a
good corn contry thress the
& sit doune & rest the
Note: In a copy of
Petrus de Alliaco, Devotae Meditationes Circa Septem Psalmos Poenitentiales,
Bruges, Collard Mansion, 1480?
Editions: Bühler, Kurt.
“Middle English Apophthegms in a Caxton Volume: Libri impressi cum notis
manuscriptis X.”
English Language Notes
1 (1963-64): 81-4: 83.
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 3308.
Boke of Hawking, Hunting, and Blasing of Arms, [St Albans, 1486] , sig. f.5
v
Transcription:ffer from thy kynnysmen keste the
Wrath not thy neighborys next
the
In a goode carne cuntre threste the
And sitte downe Robyn and rest
the
Note: CUL shelfmark, Inc. 3. J. 4. 1. (3636).
Facsimiles:
Blades, William.
“Introduction.”
Facsimile edition of The Boke of Saint Albans by Dame Juliana
Berners.
London: Elliot Stock, 1881.
Hands, Rachel.
“Introduction.”
English Hawking and Hunting in The Boke of St Albans.
Oxford: University Press, 1975.
2.Source: STC 3309.
The Manere of Hawkyng and Huntyng and also of cote armours And of the blasynge of armys [and] The
treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle, de Worde, 1496 , sig. e.4
Transcription:Ferre from thy kynnesmen caste the
Wrath not thy neyghbours next
the
In a good corne countre threste the
And sytte downe Robyn and reste
the
Note: Princeton, University Library Z241.xB37.1496.
Editions: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall.
Typographical Antiquities. Revised Joseph Ames and William
Herbert.
4 vols. London: Bulmer, 1810, 1812, 1816, 1818: 2.59.