Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 3596

DIMEV 3596

IMEV 2238.5

NIMEV 2238.5

My fellow for his sooth saw / hath lost his life and lieth full low

Rhyming comment of the second cock in the Story of the Three Cocks in the Gesta Romanorum — one couplet

Note: Cf. 4798 and 5235.

Title(s): Gesta Romanorum

Subjects: tales, beast; exempla; sermons, verse in

Versification: — two-line — aa

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ii.3.8, f. 61v

Transcription:

Þe cok seyþ in is sawe
þat for soþ slawe ys hys felawe, vel
þe cok seyþ for soþ sawe
Slawe is his felawe

Editions:

Erb, Peter C. “Vernacular Material for Preaching in MS Camb. Univ. Lib. Ii.III.8.” Mediaeval Studies 33 (1971): 63-84: 83.

2.Source: London, British Library Harley 5259, f. 60v2

Transcription:

My ffelawe for hys soth sawe
hath lost his lyfe and luthe ful lawe

Note: Written as prose.

Facsimiles:

Digital Facsimile of British Library Harley MS 525. https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Harley_MS_525.

Editions:

Herbert, John Alexander. Catalogue of Romances in the Department of MSS. in the British Museum. Vol. 3. London, 1910: 3.206.

3.Source: London, British Library Harley 7333, f. 180vb

Transcription:

the Cok seithe in his songe
that thow dost thin husbonde wronge
then the lady seyde
he shulde be dede
& so he was in dede

Editions:

Herrtage, Sidney John Hervon, ed. The Early English Version of the Gesta Romanorum. EETS e.s. 33 (1879); repr. 1962: 175.

4.Source: London, British Library Addit. 9066, f. 19v2

Transcription:

my felaw for his soth law
hath lost his lyf and lieth full lowe

Editions:

Herrtage, Sidney John Hervon, ed. The Early English Version of the Gesta Romanorum. EETS e.s. 33 (1879); repr. 1962: 175.

5.Source: London, Lambeth Palace Library 78, f. 143va2

Transcription:

My felaw for hys soth sawe
hath lorn hys lyfe and lyȝ ful lowe

Note: New from Wenzel (1974)

XWenzel, Siegfried. “Unrecorded Middle-English Verses.” Anglia 92 (1974): 55-78

, who regards this as couplet 2 of 5235.

Editions:

Wenzel, Siegfried. “Unrecorded Middle-English Verses.” Anglia 92 (1974): 55-78.

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