An ABC poem on morals and manners — 82 lines in doggerel couplets in hand
of Richard Kaye (sixteenth century)
Note: Cf.
2104;
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 162.
Author(s): Richard Kaye
Subjects: alphabetic poems; advice, moral; manners
Versification: —
two-line —
aa
1.Source: Oxford, Corpus Christi College copy of STC 1536, sigs. DD.7; DD.6
v-DD.6; CC.5; CC.4-CC.1; BB.8-BB.4
v
First Lines:And thou wyst what thyng yt were
Conyng to lerne and with the to
bere…
Last Lines:…Ihesu for thy endless mercy and thy bytter passion
Save vs fro
syn and shame and endless dampnacion
Note: Added to lower margins of a copy of
Bartholomeus Anglicus, a.k.a. Glanville, De Proprietatibus rerum, de Worde, 1495
, upside-down;
with verse introduction, ‘Here foloyth a proper tretyse / Althoughe yt goo
by a b c / yet in yt gud reason ys / Rede yt over and ye shall see’
(DD.7); verse as above begins DD.6v.
Editions: Milne, J. G., and Elizabeth Sweeting.
“Marginalia in a Copy of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’ ‘De
Proprietatibus Rerum’: A new version of the Nine Worthies.”
Modern Language Review
40 (1945): 85-9; “Further Marginalia from a Copy of
Bartholomaeus Anglicus,”
Modern Language Review 40 (1945): 237-45: 244-5.