Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 2762

DIMEV 2762

IMEV 1644

NIMEV TP 979

It was a squire of low degree

The Squyer of Lowe Degre — 1132 lines in couplets

Note: For a shorter version in 170 lines see London, British Library Addit. 27879, ff. 444-6, ed. Hales and Furnivall (1867)

XJohn Wesley Hales, and Frederick James Furnivall. Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances. 3 vols. London: Trübner, 1867-68

, 3. 263.

Title(s): The Squyer of Lowe Degre

Subjects: romances

Versification: — two-line — aa

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: London, British Library Addit. 27879, pp. 444-446

Editions:

Hales, John Wesley, and Frederick James Furnivall, eds. Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances. 3 vols. London: Trübner, 1867-68: 3.263.

Mead, William Edward, ed. The Squyr of Lowe Degre.z Boston: Ginn, 1904.

Kooper, Eric, ed. Sentimental and Humorous Romances. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University for TEAMS, 2006: 173-9.

Print Witnesses:

1.Source: STC 23111.5. [The Squire of Low Degree], [de Worde, 1520?]

Note: Fragments: lines 1-60, 301-420.

Editions:

Mead, William Edward, ed. The Squyr of Lowe Degre.z Boston: Ginn, 1904.

2.Source: STC 23112. The Squyr of Lowe Degre, Copland, [1560?]

Editions:

Ritson, Joseph, ed. Ancient English Metrical Romances. 3 vols. London, 1802; rev. Edmund Goldsmid and repr. Edinburgh: Goldlsmid, 1884: 3.145-92.

Hazlitt, William Carew. Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England. London: J. R. Smith, 1864-6: 2.23-64.

Mead, William Edward, ed. The Squyr of Lowe Degre.z Boston: Ginn, 1904.

French, Walter Hoyt, and Charles Brockway Hale. Middle English Metrical Romances. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930: 721.

Sands, Donald B., ed. Middle English Verse Romances. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966: 251-78.

Sisam, Celia, and Kenneth Sisam, eds. The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970: 494-99 (lns. 739-854).

Kooper, Eric, ed. Sentimental and Humorous Romances. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University for TEAMS, 2006: 127-71.

hinder: adj.¹ and noun.² A. adj.¹ 1. Situated behind, at the back, or in the rear; posterior. (Notwithstanding its comparative form, it does not differ in sense from hind, but is more frequently used. Cf. YON adv., YONDER adv., adj., pron., and n.) hinder gate, postern gate. 2. Of time. a. Last past, ‘last’; as in this hinder day yesterday, this hinder night last night, yesternight. OED

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