Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 5640

DIMEV 5640

IMEV 3517

NIMEV 3517

Think of the latemost day when we shall faren

On Death — in monorhyming quatrains

Note: Cf. 6339.

Subjects: death

Versification: — four-line — aaaa

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 86 (SC 1687), ff. 198-200

First Lines:

Þench of þe latemeste dai hou we schulen fare
Hout of þisse worlde mid serewe and mid kare…

Last Lines:

…And lete hous hatie þe wou and louien þe riȝtte
And bringe hous at þen hendedai into heuene liȝtte amen

Note: 114 lines.

Facsimiles:

Tschann, Judith A., and Malcolm B. Parkes. “Introduction.” Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 EETS s.s. 16 (1996).

Editions:

Stengel, Edmund. Coducem Manu Scriptum Digby 86…. Halle: Orphanotrophei, 1871: 101.

2.Source: Oxford, Jesus College 29, Part II, ff. 182v-184v

First Lines:

I hereþ of one þinge þat ye owen of þenche
Ye þat weryeþ þat riche schrud and sytteþ on eurebence…

Last Lines:

…And lete vs hatye þat wouh and luuþe þat ryhte
And bringe vre saule to heoueriche lyhte

Note: 132 lines including sixteen introductory lines.

Editions:

Morris, Richard, ed. An Old English Miscellany: A Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred and Religious Poems of the Thirteenth Century. EETS o.s. 49 (1872); repr. 1988: 168-85.

3.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College B.14.39 (323), ff. 43v-45v

First Lines:

Þene latemeste dai wenne we sulen farren
vt of þisse worlde wid pine & wid care…

Last Lines:

…& lete us hatiin þat wawe & louien þat riste
and bring us at hure endesid in to houene liste

Note: 108 lines.

Editions:

Brown, Carleton Fairchild, ed. English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1932: 46-54.

4.Source: London, British Library Cotton Caligula A.IX, . 247

Note: 132 lines; sixteen introductory lines.

Editions:

Morris, Richard, ed. An Old English Miscellany: A Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred and Religious Poems of the Thirteenth Century. EETS o.s. 49 (1872); repr. 1988: 168-85.

Brown, Carleton Fairchild, ed. English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1932: 46-54.

Wright, Thomas, ed. The Owl and the Nightingale. Percy Society 11. London: Richard, 1843: App., 70-80.

Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Alt- und mittelenglische Anthologie. Berlin, 1954; 3rd ed.; trans. as Medieval English: a Old English and Middle English Anthology Berlin West, 1958: 231-3 (112 lines only).

priven: verb To deprive (sb.) of (sth.), deny (sb. sth.); ppl. prived, bereaved, bereft of, deprived of; without; (b) ~ of (from), to deprive (sb. of sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb. from sth.); prived of (from), deprived of (sth.), bereft of; lacking, without; ben of god priving, be a robber of goods; (c) to depose (sb.), dismiss; ~ of (from), deprive (sb.) of (power, kingdom, etc.), remove or dismiss (sb.) from (office or position); (d) to take (sth.) away; prevent (sth.), deny, oppose; weaken (the body); -- also without obj. MED