Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 2279

DIMEV 2279

IMEV 1365

NIMEV 1365

I sigh when I sing / for sorrow that I see

A song of the Passion — six 10-line stanzas

Subjects: Passion, carols/songs of

Versification: — ten-line — ababccbddb

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 2 (SC 1603), f. 6

First Lines:

Hi sike al wan hi singe
for sorue þat hi se…

Last Lines:

…for any worlde his win
þat was so der hi boyt

Editions:

Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. “Religious Poems from MS. Digby 2.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 97 (1896): 309-12: 308.

Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript, Part 2. EETS o.s. 117 (1901; repr. 1973): 753-4.

Sisam, Celia, and Kenneth Sisam, eds. The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970: 37-9.

Silverstein, Theodore, ed. Medieval English Lyrics. York Medieval Texts. London: Edw. Arnold, 1971: 34-6.

2.Source: London, British Library Harley 2253, f. 80ra

First Lines:

I syke when y singe
for sorewe þat y se…

Last Lines:

…þat haþ vs duere boht
he bring vs to wynne

Facsimiles:

Ker, Neil Ripley. “Introduction.” Facsimile of British Museum MS. Harley 2253. EETS o.s. 255 (1965).

Editions:

Wright, Thomas. Specimens of Lyric Poetry composed in England in the Reign of Edward the First. Percy Society 4. London: Richard, 1842: 85-7.

Böddeker, Karl. Altenglische Dichtungen des MS. Harl. 2253. Berlin: Weidmann, 1878: 210-124.

Cook, Albert Stanburrough. A Literary Middle English Reader. Boston and New York: Ginn, 1915: 455-7.

Brook, George Leslie. The Harley Lyrics. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1948; rev. ed. 1956; 3rd ed. 1964: 59-60.

Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Alt- und mittelenglische Anthologie. Berlin-Charlottenburg: E. Schütt, 1954: 294-5.

Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Alt- und mittelenglische Anthologie. Berlin, 1954; 3rd ed.; trans. as Medieval English: a Old English and Middle English Anthology Berlin West, 1958: 393.

Davies, Reginald Thorne. Medieval English Lyrics: a critical anthology. London, 1963; Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1964: 82-4.

Luria, Maxwell Sidney, and Richard L. Hoffman, eds. Middle English Lyrics. New York: Norton, 1974: 219-20.

Saupe, Karen, ed. Middle English Marian Lyrics. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University for TEAMS, 1998: 109-10; 236-7.

Fein, Susanna Greer, ed. The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 2. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009: Booklet 5, no. 62.

priven: verb To deprive (sb.) of (sth.), deny (sb. sth.); ppl. prived, bereaved, bereft of, deprived of; without; (b) ~ of (from), to deprive (sb. of sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb. from sth.); prived of (from), deprived of (sth.), bereft of; lacking, without; ben of god priving, be a robber of goods; (c) to depose (sb.), dismiss; ~ of (from), deprive (sb.) of (power, kingdom, etc.), remove or dismiss (sb.) from (office or position); (d) to take (sth.) away; prevent (sth.), deny, oppose; weaken (the body); -- also without obj. MED