Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 2298

DIMEV 2298

IMEV 1377

NIMEV see 399

I vow to God she makes great steer

A song of the English against Black Agnes of Dunbar, quoted in Wyntoun’s Chronicle (658) — two couplets (VIII. 4993)

Title(s): Chronicle

Subjects: Black Agnes of Dunbar; historical poems; chronicles, verse in

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: London, British Library Cotton Nero D.XI

Editions:

Amours, François Joseph. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun. 6 vols. Scottish Text Society. 50, 53-4, 56-7, 63 Edinburgh, London: Blackwood, 1903-14: 6.91.

Wilson, Richard Middlewood. The Lost Literature of Medieval England. London: Methuen, 1952: 231.

Wilson, Richard Middlewood. “More Lost Literature in Old and Middle English.” Leeds Studies in English 5 (1936): 1-49: 44.

2.Source: London, British Library Lansdowne 197

3.Source: London, British Library Royal 17 D.XX

Editions:

Laing, David, ed. The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland. 3 vols. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1872-79: 2.436.

MacPherson, David, ed. De orygynale cronykil of Scotland. London: Bensley, 1795.

4.Source: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.2.3, f. 401

Transcription:

I wow to god scho makis gret stere
þe scottis wench ploddere
Cum I aire or cum I lait
I fand Annes at þe ȝate

Note: At end of Book VIII, chapter 29.

5.Source: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.2.4, f. 354v

Transcription:

I wow to god scho beris hir weill
The scottis wenche with hir plodtill
ffor cum I air cum I lait
I fand Dayme annes at þe ȝait

Note: At end of Chapter CLXVIII.

6.Source: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library La.III.431 [olim Laing 431]

Transcription:

I wow to god scho makis gret stere
þe scottis wench ploddere
Cum I aire or cum I lait
I fand Annes at þe ȝate

Note: At end of Book VIII, chapter 29.

7.Source: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland 651 [olim Alexander Boswell], f. 251v

Transcription:

I wow to god scho beris hire wele
The scottis wenche with hire plodille
ffor cum I ayrly cum I layte
I fynd Dame Annes at the ȝhate

Note: At end of Chapter CLXVIII (viiixx viii).

8.Source: St Andrews, St Andrews University Library DA775.A6.W9, f. 304

Transcription:

I wow to god scho mais gret stere
Þe Scotts wenche ploddere
Cum I ayre cum I lat
I fynd annot at þe gat

Note: At end of Book VIII, ch. 29.

9.Source: Untraced, Present whereabouts unknown olim Colville

10.Source: Edinburgh, Weymyss Castle, Lord Weymyss Wyntoun’s Chronicle

Transcription:

I wowe to god scho mais gret stere
The Scottis wenche ploddeyr
Cum I are cum I lat
I fande Annote at þe ȝhat

Note: Book VIII, line 4993.

Editions:

Amours, François Joseph. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun. 6 vols. Scottish Text Society. 50, 53-4, 56-7, 63 Edinburgh, London: Blackwood, 1903-14: 6.90.