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Some time men readen that there was
‘De duobus veris amicis’ (in Sithia and Climonen, part of 699)
Title(s): ‘De duobus veris amicis’; South English Legendary
Subjects: friendship
Versification: — two-line — aa


Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Eng. poet. a.1 (SC 3938) [Vernon MS], ff. 92vc-93ra
First Lines:
Sum tyme men reden þat þer was
In a Cuntre clept Pictogoras…
Last Lines:
…Þis lyf endyted Seint Ambrose
On latyn tak hede to his purpose
Attributed Title: De duobus veris amicis (f. 92vc)
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. Sammlung altenglischer Legenden. Heilbronn: Henninger, 1878: 34.