Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 3118

DIMEV 3118

IMEV 1898

NIMEV 1898

Listeneth lordings lief and dear / Ye that will of the Sunday hear

‘þe visions of seynt poul’ — 346 lines in couplets

Note: For other versions, see 4814, 5491, 6112.

Subjects: Paul, saint; legends, of the afterlife

Versification: — two-line — aa

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Eng. poet. a.1 (SC 3938) [Vernon MS], ff. 230rc-231ra

First Lines:

Lustneþ lordynges leof and dere
Ȝe þat wolen of þe sonday here…

Last Lines:

…Bi wȝuche seruyse we may come
To vre lord god and wiþ him wone

Attributed Title: Þe visions of seynt Poul wan he was rapt in to paradys (f. 230vc)

Facsimiles:

Doyle, I. A., ed. The Vernon Manuscript. A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Eng. poet.a.1, with an introduction by A. I. Doyle. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987.

Scase, Wendy, and Nick Kennedy, eds. A facsimile edition of the Vernon manuscript: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. Poet. A. 1. Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 2011.

Editions:

Horstmann, Carl. “Die Vision der heiligen Paulus.” Englische Studien 1 (1877): 293-9: 295-9.

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: 223-32.

Horstmann, Carl, ed. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript, Part 1. EETS o.s. 98 (1892; repr. 1973): 251-60.

2.Source: London, British Library Addit. 22283 [Simeon], f. 32vb-32vc

First Lines:

Listneþ lordynges leof and dere
Ȝe þat wolen of þe sonday here…

Last Lines:

…And poul asked of hym þere
What Maner men þat þei were…

Note: Lines 1-124 only. Three folios missing following f. 32 (i.e., between the medieval foliation on the versos, in rubric roman numerals, ‘CCX’ and ‘CCXiiij’ on f. 33v).

Facsimiles:

Digital Facsimile of British Library MS Add. 22283 (‘Simeon’). 2014; http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_22283.

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

weir: noun 1. Warfare. a. A state or period of hostilities and combat existing between political groups, esp. realms or nations; also, specif. the warlike activity appropriate to knights, and also sometimes applied to the skills involved (see (3) below and cf. some quots. in 2 (1)). b. Hostilities, strife, etc. between (groups of) individuals pursuing private enmities. Dictionary of the Scots Language