DIMEV 4184
Of Mantua am I beget and born
Gavin Douglas, ‘Mantua me gemit’ — three
couplets
Versification: —
two-line —
aa
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College O.3.12 (1184), f. 330
Transcription:Of mantua am I beget and borrn
In calabre decessit and forlorn
Now
stant I grave in Naplys þe Cite
Þat in my tyme wrait notabill
warkes thre
Of pasturage and eik of husbandry
And douchty chiftanys full
of chevalry
Note: Translates couplet above it, ‘Mantua me gemit: ‘Calabri
rapuere tenet me / Parthenope scriui Pastua rura
duces’.