Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 1981

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:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 187 (SC 2090), f. 157v

Transcription:

Her ys y come þat no man wot
he payth best for hys frawt
row forth þe bote

2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson C.670 (SC 12514), f. 64v

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.

3.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 71/38, f. 45

Transcription:

here is comen þat noman woth
þe deuel in þi nye rowe forth þe both

Note: Single couplet, separated by Latin prose.

4.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 364/619, f. 59ra

Transcription:

Here is come þat mon wot
The deuyl in þyn eye row forthe þe bot

Note: Single couplet, separated by Latin prose.

5.Source: Cambridge UK, St John’s College F.22 (159), f. 79

Transcription:

Here is comen þat no man wot
þe deuyl in þi nee lat row forth bat

Note: Written as prose.

6.Source: Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Library Lit. D.14, f. 77

Transcription:

Here is one come þat no man wote
Ye þe deuyll in thyn eye Rowe forth the Boote

Note: Single couplet, separated by Latin prose. Written as prose.

7.Source: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library 82, f. 78

Transcription:

Here is come that noo man woote
ye the deele in thyne ee and rowe forth the book

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.

9.Source: Lincoln, Lincoln Cathedral Library 44 (A.2.13), f. 185

Transcription:

ȝe þe deuel in þyne eye and rowe forþe þe bote

10.Source: Spalding, Lincolnshire, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society M.J.B.14 [olim Maurice Johnson No. LIV], f. 69

Transcription:

Here is come that noman wate
ȝe the deuyll in þi nye rowe forth the bate

Note: Two lines separated by Latin prose; written as prose.

11.Source: Worcester, Worcester Cathedral Library F.19, f. 186vb

Transcription:

Here is comen þat no man wot
ȝe dew in þy nye & row forth þe both

Note: 1 x 2, separated, written as prose.

12.Source: Worcester, Worcester Cathedral Library Q.3, f. 70v

Transcription:

Here is come þat no man wote
þe deuell in þe ney rowe forþe þe bote

Note: Separated, written as prose.

13.Source: Rome, Vatican Ottoboni 626, f. 38v