Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 2064

DIMEV 2064

IMEV 1246

NIMEV 1246

Honoured be Thou blissful Lord Jesu

Thomas Hoccleve, The Angels’ Second Song within Heaven, in the English translation of the Pèlerinage de l’âme — five stanzas rhyme royal

Author(s): Thomas Hoccleve

Title(s): Pèlerinage de l’âme; The Angels’ Second Song within Heaven

Subjects: illlustrations, verse accompanying

Versification: — seven-line — ababbcc

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 770 (SC 2552), f. 25vb

First Lines:

Honurid be þou blisful lord ihesu
and perisid mot þou be in euery place…

Last Lines:

…þat doon here deuoir as þei mai & can
now þaukid be þou ihesu god & may

Note: Four stanzas.

Attributed Title: The angellez song (f. 25v)

2.Source: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 237, ff. 49v-50

First Lines:

Honoured be þu blissefull lord Ihesu
And preysed be þu moste in euery place…

Last Lines:

…That done her devoyr as þei may & kan
Now þankyd be þu Ihesu god & man

Attributed Title: The Aungelles songe with inne heuen (f. 49v)

3.Source: Oxford, University College 181, f. 43

4.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 124/61, pp. 42-43

First Lines:

hOnoured be þu blisful lord Jhesu
And preysed mostow ben in euery place…

Last Lines:

…þat don þeire deuoyre as þai may & can
Thonkyd be þu Ihesu god & man

Note: Four stanzas.

5.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.1.7, f. 36

Transcription:

…That don þeir deuoyr as þei may can
Thankyd be þou Jhesu god and man

Note: Last 2 lines only.

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

6.Source: London, British Library Addit. 34193, f. 32v

First Lines:

Honourede be þou blistefull lorde ihesu
and preseide mot þou be…

Last Lines:

…þat do þair dener os þai may and can
Now thankede be þou ihesu gode and man

Note: Written as prose.

7.Source: London, British Library Addit. 37049, ff. 74v-75

Editions:

Doty, Brant Lee, ed. “An Edition of British Museum MS Additional 37049: a Religious Miscellany.” Diss. Michigan State, 1969: 414-16.

8.Source: London, British Library Egerton 615, ff. 31-31v

First Lines:

Honured be thu blisful lord Ihu
And preysed mote thu be in eueri place…

Last Lines:

…That done hire devoire as thei may & kan
Thanked be the Ihu god and man

Editions:

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

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

10.Source: New York, New York Public Library Spencer 19 [olim Petworth 2], ff. 40v-41

First Lines:

Honured be thow blisful lord Ihesu
And preysed mote thow be in euery place…

Last Lines:

…That don hir deuour as thei may & can
Thanked be thow Ihesu god and man

11.Source: Melbourne, State Library of Victoria *096/G94, f. 196

Print Witnesses:

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

Editions:

Cust, Katherine Isabella, ed. The booke of the pylgremage of the Sowle. London: Pickering, 1859; repr. New York: AMS, 1973: 48-9.