Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 6588

DIMEV 6588

IMEV 4113

NIMEV 4113

Who will further him stretch

‘Hom dit a re prouver en Engleys’, an English proverb — one long irregular couplet in Le dite de hosebondrie by Walter de Henley

Note: Cf. 4291; for a variant occurring separately cf. 1907.

Subjects: aphorisms

Versification: — two-line — aa

Bibliographic Ghosts: London, College of Arms, Arundel 14: not found in this copy.

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Douce 98 (SC 21672), f. 188

2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson B.471 (SC 15516), f. 16v

3.Source: Oxford, Merton College 321, f. 153v

4.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Dd.7.6, Part II, f. 8vb

Transcription:

Wose strecches his fot forther than his clothes wylen rechen
In the strau his feet he mot strecchen

5.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Dd.7.14, f. 228vb

Transcription:

Ho se strecheȝ forther þan his whitel recheȝ
In þe strau his fet he mot streche

6.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Dd.9.38, f. 252va

Transcription:

Who þrosteȝ forþer þen his whitel Wolle reche
In þe strau his feet hee mot streche

Note: Written as prose.

7.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ee.1.1, f. 251ra

Transcription:

Wo þat strechet forþerre þan his wytel wyle reche
In þe straue his fet he mot streche

Editions:

Lamond, Elizabeth, ed. Walter of Henley’s Husbandry. London, New York: Longmans, Green, 1890: 4.

Mustanoja, Tauno F. How the Good Wife Taught her Daughter, etc. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Scuran, 1948: 75.

Mustanoja, Tauno F. “The Index of Middle English Verse: Corrections, Additions, Deletions.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 49 (1948): 126-33: 132.

8.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Hh.3.11, f. 77v

Transcription:

wo þat wole forthere hym stretche
þan hys wytel walle retche
In þe strau hys fot heȝ mot stretche

9.Source: Cambridge UK, Corpus Christi College 301, f. 69

Transcription:

Wo þe strekth vorther þane his hwitel wole areche
he ssall ligge in þe strawe

10.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College O.9.26 (1438), f. 99

Transcription:

Huo þat hym wole furthere strecche
þen hiis witel him reche
in the chaf his fet he mot streche

11.Source: London, British Library Addit. 6159, f. 222r1

Transcription:

Hwo þat wile forpere him stretche
þen his whitel wole retche
in þe chaf he mot him stretche

Attributed Author: Sire Walter de Henley (f. 222)

Attributed Title: Le dite de hosebounderie (f. 222)

12.Source: London, British Library Lansdowne 1176, f. 132

13.Source: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales Peniarth 92

14.Source: Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland MS 468 (formerly D.XI.1)

15.Source: Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Library Register J, p. 2001

Transcription:

hwo þat wille forþere strecche
þan his whitel wole reche
ine þe chaf he mot him strecche

Note: Written as prose.

Editions:

Historical Manuscripts Commission Ninth Report: Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Hon. The Marquis of Salisbury, K. G., etc., preserved at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. 24 vols. (1883-84, with addenda to 1976): App., 75.

16.Source: Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Library Register P, f. 139

Transcription:

And yitt him wole furthere streche
þan his witel him wole [?reche]
þe chaf his fet he mot streche

17.Source: London, Corporation of London Records Office [formerly Guildhall] Liber Horn

Note: A nineteenth-century transcript by H. T. Riley is Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Addit. 4026, f. 45.

18.Source: Untraced, Present whereabouts unknown olim Acland Hood, St. Audries, Somerset

Note: Hamer (1995)

XHamer, Richard. A Manuscript Index to the Index of Middle English Verse. London: British Library, 1995

lists as Unidentified, Missing or Destroyed.

19.Source: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale fr. 7011, f. 57v

Print Witnesses:

1.Source: STC 25007. Henley, Walter de, Boke of husbandry, [London: W. de Worde, 1508?]

2.Source: STC 25007.3. Henley, Walter de, The booke of thrift, containing a perfite order, and right methode to profite lands, and other things belonging to husbandry. Newly Englished, and set out by I.B. gentleman of Caen in France, London: Printed by Iohn Wolfe., 1589