Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 639

DIMEV 639

IMEV 379

NIMEV 379

As I yode on a Monday between Wyltinden and Walle

A ballad on the Scottish Wars — sixty-three quatrains

Note: Contains an early form of Erceldoune’s prophecy: see 620.

Subjects: prophecies, political

Versification: — four-line — abab

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: London, British Library Cotton Julius A.V, ff. 180-181v

First Lines:

Als y yod on a monnday by twene Wylunden and Walle
Me ane after brade waye ay litel man y mette with alle…

Last Lines:

…And þan sal reson raike and ride and wisdome be ware es best
And leaute sal gar leal habide and sithen sal hosbond men af rest

Note: T. (1853)

XT., E. “Poem, Supposed to be in the Lancashire Dialect,” The Retrospective Review 1 (May and Aug., 1853): 307-312, 419-20; signed “E. T.” (pp. 312, 420), in “Anecdota Literaria”

lists MS as Julius A.II.

Editions:

Ritson, Joseph, ed. Ancient Songs and Ballads from the Reign of King Henry the Second to the Revolution. 2 vols. London, 1829; re-ed. William Carew Hazlitt London, 1877: 1.40-50.

Wright, Thomas, ed. The Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft, in French Verse, from the Earliest Period to the Death of King Edward I. 2 vols. Rolls Series 47 (1866-68): 2.452-66.

Finlay, John, ed. Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads. Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne, 1808: 2.168 seq..

T., E. “Poem, Supposed to be in the Lancashire Dialect,” The Retrospective Review 1 (May and Aug., 1853): 307-312, 419-20; signed “E. T.” (pp. 312, 420), in “Anecdota Literaria” : 1.307-12.

Child, Francis James. English and Scottish Ballads. 8 vols. in 4, forerunner of next entry. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, also Little, Brown, 1857-58 et seq: 1.273-6.

Child, Francis James. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. 5 vols. in 10 parts. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882-98: no. 38, App., 1.333-4 (prophecies omitted).

Brandl, Alois Leonhard. Mittelenglische Sprach- und Literatureproben. 2nd ed. Berlin, 1917; repr. as Middle English Literature New York: Chelsea, 1949: 137.

hinder: adj.¹ and noun.² A. adj.¹ 1. Situated behind, at the back, or in the rear; posterior. (Notwithstanding its comparative form, it does not differ in sense from hind, but is more frequently used. Cf. YON adv., YONDER adv., adj., pron., and n.) hinder gate, postern gate. 2. Of time. a. Last past, ‘last’; as in this hinder day yesterday, this hinder night last night, yesternight. OED

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