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DIMEV 3258
IMEV 1984
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Lords if ye will listen to me / Of Crotey the noble city
A miracle of the Virgin Mary: the Saving of Crotey city — forty-three couplets
Subjects: Virgin Mary, miracles of; miracles
Versification: — two-line — aa



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Eng. poet. a.1 (SC 3938) [Vernon MS], ff. 124rc-124va
First Lines:
LOrdus ȝif ȝe wol lusten to me
Of Croteye þe noble Cite…
Last Lines:
…Nou ladi preye þi sone on hih
To alle cristene he graunte Merci. Amen.
Facsimiles:
Doyle, I. A., ed. The Vernon Manuscript. A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Eng. poet.a.1, with an introduction by A. I. Doyle. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987.
Scase, Wendy, and Nick Kennedy, eds. A facsimile edition of the Vernon manuscript: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. Poet. A. 1. Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 2011.
Editions:
Horstmann, Carl. “Altenglische Marienlegenden aus Ms. Vernon zum ersten Mal.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 56 (1876): 221-40: 223.
Horstmann, Carl, ed. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript, Part 1. EETS o.s. 98 (1892; repr. 1973): 138-41.
Boyd, Beverly May, ed. Middle English Miracles of the Virgin. New York: Columbia UP, 1955; San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1964: 30-2.