DIMEV 1981
IMEV 1204
NIMEV 1204
Here is comen that no man wot
A dialogue in a Latin nemo joke with a Latin line between the two
English lines — a couplet tag in the Fasciculus morum
Subjects: sermons, verse in; dialogues
Versification: —
two-line? —
aa
Bibliographic Ghosts: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 568 (SC 1117), f. 43v
Manuscript Witnesses:
2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson C.670 (SC 12514), f. 64
v
Transcription:Here is comen þat no mon wot
…
ȝe ȝe þe
deuel in þy eye and row forthe þe boot
Editions: Wenzel, Siegfried.
Verses in Sermons: ‘Fasciculus morum’ and Its Middle
English Poems.
Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1978: 167.
8.Source: Eton, Eton College 34, Part II, f. 36
Transcription:here is comyn þat no mane woth
þe deuyl thyn eye row forthe
the bothe
Note: Written as prose with Latin between the two lines; f. 139 of continuous
foliation.