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The man that is of woman I-bore
’Þre Messagers of Deeth’ — fifty-six quatrains
Subjects: death, approach of
Versification: — four-line — abab


Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Eng. poet. a.1 (SC 3938) [Vernon MS], ff. 297vc2-298rb
First Lines:
ÞE Mon þat is of wommon I bore
His lyf nis heere but a þrowe…
Last Lines:
…Graunt vs alle his blessyng
AMEN AMEN par charite
Attributed Title: A Tretys of þreo messagers of deþ (see 1945)
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. “Nachträge zu den Legenden 5: The Messengers of Death.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 79 (1887): 411-70: 432.
Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript, Part 2. EETS o.s. 117 (1901; repr. 1973): 2.443-8.
2.Source: London, British Library Addit. 22283 [Simeon], ff. 88vb-89ra
First Lines:
ÞE mon þat is of wommon I bore
His lyf nis here but a þrowe…
Last Lines:
…Þat here sitteþ in Trinite
Graunte vs alle his blessyng
Amen. Amen par Charite
Facsimiles:
Digital Facsimile of British Library MS Add. 22283 (‘Simeon’). 2014; http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_22283.
Editions:
Kaluza, Max. “Kleinere Publikationem aus mittelenglishe: Handschriften II, Die Boten des Todes.” Englische Studien 14 (1890): 165-88: 184.