Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 2061

DIMEV 2061

IMEV 1243

NIMEV 1243

Honoured be Thou blissful heaven Queen

Thomas Hoccleve, ‘The Angels’ Song’, in the English translation of the Pèlerinage de l’âme — two stanzas rhyme royal

Author(s): Thomas Hoccleve

Title(s): ‘The Angels’ Song’; Pèlerinage de l’âme

Subjects: songs; Virgin Mary

Versification: — seven-line — ababbcc

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 770 (SC 2552), f. 92va

First Lines:

HEried be þou blisful heuen quene
and worschepid mot þou be in euery place…

Last Lines:

…ffor þyn estate Imperial
No praising is þat may be peregal

Attributed Title: Song of þe purificacion (f. 92v)

2.Source: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 237, f. 125v

First Lines:

Honowred be þowe blestefull heuen queen
& worschipyd motte þowe be in euery place…

Last Lines:

…ffor vn to þyne asstaate ymperiall
No preysynge ys þat may be peregall

3.Source: Oxford, University College 181, f. 140

4.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 124/61, pp. 232-233

First Lines:

honoured be þu blysful heuen quene
& worschipid mot þu be in eueri place…

Last Lines:

…for to þyn estate Imperial
No preysyng is þat may be paregal

Attributed Title: the avngeles songe (p. 232)

5.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.1.7, f. 117

First Lines:

Honourid be þou blysful heuene qwene
And worchepid mote þou ben euery place…

Last Lines:

ffor vn to þin estat Imperyal
No preysing is þat may be paregal

Attributed Title: her endith þe drem of þe pilgrimage of þe soule (f. 124v)

6.Source: London, British Library Addit. 34193, f. 91

First Lines:

honoured be þou blistefull heuen quene
and worscheped mote þou be in euery place…

Last Lines:

…ffor vnto þi estate Imperiall
No presunge is þat may be eugale

Note: Written as prose.

7.Source: London, British Library Egerton 615, ff. 97-97v

First Lines:

HOnured be thu blisful heuene queen
And worschepid mot þu be in eueri place…

Last Lines:

…ffor vnto thin astate imperiall
To praisyng is þat may be peregall

Editions:

Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. “Hoccleve’s Works: The Regement of Princes and fourteen minor poems.” EETS e.s. 72 (1897); repr. 1988: xlvii-xlviii.

8.Source: Hatfield House, Marquess of Salisbury C.P. 270, unfoliated

9.Source: New York, New York Public Library Spencer 19 [olim Petworth 2], f. 124v

First Lines:

Honoured be þu blisful heuene quene
And worshiped mote þu ben in euery place…

Last Lines:

ffor vnto thyn estate imperiale
No praisyng is that may be paragale

Attributed Title: The aungeles song (f. 124v)

10.Source: Melbourne, State Library of Victoria *096/G94, f. 199v

Note: 3 additional stanzas.

Print Witnesses:

1.Source: STC 6473. Guillaume de Deguileville, Pylgremage of the Sowle, Caxton, 1483