Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 6034

DIMEV 6034

IMEV 3782.5

NIMEV prose

To very God and to all true in Christ

Jack Upland — in very rough alliterative verse

Note: Cf. Reply by Friar Daw Tobias (6562), suggested by Skeat to be in prose. Also cf. Jack Upland’s Rejoinder (2778); non-source-specific editions are Speght (1602)

XSpeght, Thomas. The Workes of…Geffrey Chaucer. London, [A. Islip,] imp. G. Bishop, 1598; rev. ed. A. Islip, 1602 (STC 5077, 5080)

, ff. 348-350v (which is ed. Wright (1859)

XWright, Thomas. Political Poems and Songs relating to English History, composed during the period From the Accession of Edward III to that of Richard III. 2 vols. Rolls Series 14 (1859, 1861); repr. Kraus, 1965

, 2.16); Urry (1721)

XUrry, John. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: B. Lintot, 1721

, 500; Townshend (1843)

XTownshend, George. The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe…. London: Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley, 1843-49

, 2.357; Sibbald (1802)

XSibbald, John. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry…. 4 vols. Edinburgh and London, 1802

, 2.31-33 (extracts); Dean (1991)

XDean, James M. Six Ecclesiastical Satires. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University for TEAMS, 1991

Title(s): Jack Upland

Subjects: Wyclifite works; Church, criticism/satire of

Versification: — alliteration

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ff.6.2, ff. 71-80

Editions:

Heyworth, Peter L., ed. Jack Upland, Friar Daw’s Reply, and Upland’s Rejoinder. Oxford: OUP, 1968: (crit. ed.).

2.Source: London, British Library Harley 6641, ff. 1-25

First Lines:

To veri god & to alle trewe in crist
I Iacke vplonde make my moone þat anticrist…

Last Lines:

…& whanne ȝe asoilen þat I haue seide sadli in
truþe I schal asoile þee of þin ordre & saue þee to heuene

Note: Text very faded at end.

Editions:

Heyworth, Peter L., ed. Jack Upland, Friar Daw’s Reply, and Upland’s Rejoinder. Oxford: OUP, 1968: (crit. ed.).

Print Witnesses:

1.Source: STC 5098. Jack vp Lande compyled by the famous Geoffrey Chaucer, [[Southwark]: Prynted [by J. Nicolson] for Ihon Gough, [1536?]]

Editions:

Skeat, Walter William, ed. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. 7 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1894-7: 7.191.

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