Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 46

DIMEV 46

IMEV 35

NIMEV 35

A fox gan out of the wood go

Of the Vox and of the Wolf — 295 lines in couplets

Title(s): Of the Vox and of the Wolf

Subjects: fables

Versification: — two-line — aa

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 86 (SC 1687), ff. 138-140

First Lines:

A vox gon out of þe wode go
Afingret so þat him wes wo…

Last Lines:

…For he ne fond noneskunnes blisse
Nehof duntes forȝeuenesse

Attributed Title: Of þe vox and of þe wolf (f. 138)

Facsimiles:

Tschann, Judith A., and Malcolm B. Parkes. “Introduction.” Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 EETS s.s. 16 (1996).

Editions:

Wright, Thomas. A selection of Latin stories. Percy Society 8. London: Richard, 1842: xvi-xxvi.

Wright, Thomas, and James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, eds. Reliquiae Antiquae. 2 vols. London: Smith, 1845: 2.272-78.

Hazlitt, William Carew. Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England. London: J. R. Smith, 1864-6: 1.58-67.

Mätzner, Edouard Adolf Ferdinand. Altenglische Sprachproben, I: Poesie. Berlin: Wiedmann, 1867: 1.130.

McKnight, George Harley. Middle English Humorous Tales in Verse. Boston and London: Heath, 1913; repr. New York: Gordian, 1971: 25.

Cook, Albert Stanburrough. A Literary Middle English Reader. Boston and New York: Ginn, 1915: 188-98.

Brandl, Alois Leonhard. Mittelenglische Sprach- und Literatureproben. 2nd ed. Berlin, 1917; repr. as Middle English Literature New York: Chelsea, 1949: 114-18.

Dickins, Bruce, and Richard M. Wilson. Early Middle English Texts. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1951: 63-70.

Mossé, Fernand. A Handbook of Middle English. Tr. James A. Walker. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1952: 178-87 (omits lines 1-70).

Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Alt- und mittelenglische Anthologie. Berlin, 1954; 3rd ed.; trans. as Medieval English: a Old English and Middle English Anthology Berlin West, 1958: 487-8 (208 lines only).

Bennett, Jack Arthur Walter. Middle English Literature. Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986; ed. and completed by Douglas Gray : 67-76.

Sisam, Celia, and Kenneth Sisam, eds. The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970: 24-35.

Owen, Lewis J., and Nancy H. Owen, eds. Middle English Poetry: An Anthology. Indianapolis and NY: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971: 282.

Dunn, Charles W., and Edward T. Byrnes, eds. Middle English Literature. New York, 1973; 2nd ed. New York: Garland, 1990: 167-73.

Weimann, Klaus. Middle English Animal Literature. Exeter, 1975: 32.

Garbáty, Thomas, ed. Medieval English Literature. Lexington, MA, and Toronto: D. C. Heath, 1984.

Tschann, Judith A., ed. “A Critical Edition of Þe Vox and Þe Wolf from MS Digby 86.” Diss. State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1979 (DAI 40 (1980).5856A).