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Thou that sellest the word of God
Verses against the friars — three six-line stanzas
Note: For the reply of the friars see 305.
Subjects: friars, criticism/satire of
Versification: — six-line — aabccb



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Cambridge UK, St John’s College G.28 (195), f. 1v
First Lines:
Þou þat sellest þe worde of god
Be þou berfot be þou schod…
Last Lines:
…For money lowle ȝe lowte
Flatteringe boyþe more & lesse
Note: James (1913) considered part of same poem with 305.
Editions:
James, Montague Rhodes. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of St. John’s College, Cambridge. Cambridge: at the UP, 1913: 230 (first stanza and last four lines only).
Utley, Francis Lee. “The Layman’s Complaint and the Friar’s Answer.” Harvard Theological Review 38 (1945): 141-7: 144.
Robbins, Rossell Hope, ed. Historical Poems of the XIV and XV Centuries. New York: Columbia UP, 1959: 166.
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: 323.
Person, Henry Axel. Cambridge Middle English Lyrics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1953; rev. ed. 1962: 41-3.
Sisam, Celia, and Kenneth Sisam, eds. The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970: 410-11.