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IMEV 1244
NIMEV 1244
Honoured be Thou blissful Lord above
Thomas Hoccleve, ‘The Song of Graces of All Saints’, in the English
translation of the Pèlerinage de l’âme — four stanzas rhyme
royal
Author(s): Thomas Hoccleve
Title(s): ‘The Song of Graces of All Saints’; Pèlerinage de l’âme
Subjects: songs
Versification: —
seven-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 770 (SC 2552), ff. 95
vb-96
ra
First Lines:HEryed be þou blisful lord aboue
þat vouched saue þis
iourne for to take…
Last Lines:…Had al refourmed lat vs syng & seyne
Honoured be þou
Ihesu souereyne
2.Source: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 237, ff. 130
v-131
First Lines:Heryed be þowe blessyd lorde a bove
That vowchid sawfe þis
Iourney for to take…
Last Lines:…Hadde all resownyd lette vs synge & seyn
Honowred be
þowe Ihesu souereyne
4.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 124/61, pp. 243-244
First Lines:honowred be þu blysful lord above
þat vowched saaf
þis iorne for to take…
Last Lines:…had reformed let vs synge & seyn
honowred be þow
Jhesu souereyne
Attributed Title: song of graces of alle holy seyntes vpon aster day (p. 243)
5.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.1.7, f. 121
v
First Lines:Honourid be þou blysful lord abo[ue]
That vouchid saf þis
Journy for to take…
Last Lines:…This may wel be clepid þe frut of he[ ]
The frut of deth
was wher of [ ]assayed…
Note: Missing letters transfer from facing page covers; lacks last 5 lines of
final stanza.
Attributed Title: her endith þe drem of þe pilgrimage of þe soule (f.
124v)
6.Source: London, British Library Addit. 34193, ff. 94-94
v
First Lines:Heriede be þou lorde aboue
þou vouchede saue þis
iorneye for to take…
Last Lines:…hade alle reformed lette hus singe and seyne
honourede be
þou ihesu souereyne
Note: Written as prose.
7.Source: London, British Library Addit. 37049, f. 76
v
Editions: Doty, Brant Lee,
ed.
“An Edition of British Museum MS Additional 37049: a Religious
Miscellany.”
Diss. Michigan State, 1969: 422-4.
8.Source: London, British Library Egerton 615, f. 101
First Lines:HOnured be thu blisfull lord a bove
That vowchidsaffe this iourny to take…
Last Lines:…Hadde reformed therefore lat vs seyne
Honured be thu Ihu souereyne
Note: Before last word of penultimate line, ‘synge,’ is written and then crossed through.
Editions: Furnivall, Frederick James,
ed.
“Hoccleve’s Works: The Regement of Princes and fourteen minor
poems.”
EETS
e.s. 72 (1897); repr. 1988: 1.
10.Source: New York, New York Public Library Spencer 19 [olim Petworth 2], ff. 129-129
v
First Lines:Honoured be thow blesful lord aboue
Þat fowchedest sauf this
iourney for to take…
Last Lines:…hadde refourmed ther fore let vs synge and seyne
honoured be
thow Ihesu souereyne
Attributed Title: The song of graces of alle holy seintes vpon ester day (f. 129)
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 6473.
Guillaume de Deguileville,
Pylgremage of the Sowle, Caxton, 1483