Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 2660

DIMEV 2660

IMEV 1587.3

NIMEV Dunbar

In vice most vicious he excels

William Dunbar, ‘Aganis treason: Epitaphe for Donald Owre’ — eight 6-line stanzas

Author(s): William Dunbar

Title(s): ‘Aganis treason: Epitaphe for Donald Owre’

Subjects: epitaphs; Owre, Donald

Versification: — six-line — aabbba

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ll.5.10, ff. 11-11v

First Lines:

IN vyce most vitious he excellis
That with þe vyce of treasoun mellis…

Last Lines:

…ay rinnis þe fox
quill he foott hais

Note: 8 x 6, aabbba.

Attributed Author: Quod dumbar (f. 11v)

2.Source: Cambridge UK, Magdalene College Pepys 2553, pp. 11-12

First Lines:

In wyce most vicius he excellis
That with þe wyce off tresoune mellis…

Last Lines:

…Ay rynnes the fox
quhille he fut hais

Attributed Author: Quod dumbar (p. 12)

Editions:

Craigie, William Alexander. The Maitland Folio Manuscript, Containing Poems by Sir Richard Maitland, Dunbar, Douglas, Henryson, and others. 2 vols. Scottish Text Society n.s. 7 (1919), 20 (1927); Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1919, 1927: 1.11-12.

3.Source: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 1.1.6 [Bannatyne MS], pp. 53-54

Facsimiles:

Fox, Denton, and William A. Ringler. The Bannatyne Manuscript: National Library of Scotland Advocates’ MS. 1.1.6 London: Scolar Press, in Association with The National Library of Scotland, 1980.

Editions:

Ramsay, Allan, ed. The Ever Green. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1724; repr. Ramsay and Early Scottish Poets, London, n.d.: 2.209.

Laing, David. The Poems of William Dunbar. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, 1834; Supplement, 1865: 1.135-6.

Paterson, James. The Works of William Dunbar. Edinburgh: Stillie, 1863: 150-1.

Murdoch, James Barclay. The Bannatyne Manuscript. 4 vols. in 11 parts, paged continuously. Hunterian Club 16, 32, 40, 46, 50, 55-56, 64-67 Glasgow: Anderson, 1873-1896: 4.1094-5.

Small, John, Ae. James George Mackay, George Powell McNeill, and Walter Gregor, eds. The Poems of William Dunbar. 5 pts. Scottish Text Society 2, 4, 16, 21, 29. Edinburgh, 1884-93: 2.190-1.

Schipper, Jakob. The Poems of William Dunbar. Vienna: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1894: 208-9.

Schipper, Jakob, ed. The Poems of William Dunbar. 4 vols. Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophische-Historische Klasse 40/2; 40/4; 41/4; 42/4. Vienna, 1892-93: 3.9-11.

Baildon, Henry Bellyse. The Poems of William Dunbar. Cambridge: University Press, 1907: 98-100.

Ritchie, W. Tod, ed. The Bannatyne Manuscript. 4 parts in 4 vols. Scottish Text Society 3rd ser. 5 (1928); n.s. 22 (1928); n.s. 23 (1930); n.s. 26 (1934) Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1928-34; ed. by Ritchie et al: 1.87.

MacKenzie, William Mackay. The Poems of William Dunbar. Edinburgh, 1932: 65-6.