Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 4051

DIMEV 4051

IMEV 2553

NIMEV 2553

O soothfast sun of all brightness

Lydgate’s paraphrase of the Eight Verses of St. Bernard — in nine or eleven 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)

Note: Cf. 1508 for another version.

Author(s): John Lydgate

Title(s): Eight Verses of St. Bernard

Subjects: paraphrases; devotional verse; Saint Bernard

Versification: — eight-line — ababbcbc

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 683 (SC 798), ff. 27-29v

First Lines:

O sothfast sun of al brightnesse
Enlumyng with thy cleer lyght…

Last Lines:

…Tyl pes be leyd as ffor Ostage
That right and mercy may accorde

Note: Version I, 9 stanzas; each introduced by Latin prose text.

Attributed Title: These be the viij verse folwyng of hooly seynt Bernard who so euer seith hem euery day devoutly shal neuer be dampned but he may neuer be þe bolder to syne (f. 27)

Editions:

MacCracken, Henry Noble, ed. John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. I: Religious Poems. EETS e.s. 107 (1911; repr. 1961): 206-9.

2.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.1.3, Part XII, ff. 18v-19

First Lines:

O sothefast sonne of all bryghtnesse
Enlumyne with thy clere lyghte…

Last Lines:

…Make me a sygne through y godenesse
And marke me yn my forhede

Note: Six stanzas and first two lines of seventh, i.e. lines 1-50 only.

Attributed Title: Versus Barnardi (f. 18v)

3.Source: London, British Library Addit. 29729, ff. 126v-127v

First Lines:

O sothefast son of all bryghtnes
enlumen withe thy clere lyght…

Last Lines:

…And when I ere ageynst thy wyll
have mercy or thow do vengeance

Attributed Author: Iohn lydegat (f. 126v); Explicit lidgatt (f. 127v)

Attributed Title: Here begyneth verses of þe whiche þat lynge herry the v whom god assoyle by gret devocion vsyd in his chapell at his hyȝe masses by twene þe levacion and þe concecracion of þe sacrement / translatid by þe monke lydegat dan Iohn (f. 126v, by scribe, John Stow)

Editions:

MacCracken, Henry Noble, ed. John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. I: Religious Poems. EETS e.s. 107 (1911; repr. 1961): 209-11.

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