Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 312

DIMEV 312

IMEV 166

NIMEV 166

All been he blithe / that to my song Lithe

The geste of King Horn — in couplets

Title(s): King Horn

Subjects: romances

Versification: — two-line — aa

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 108 (SC 1486), ff. 219va-228rb

First Lines:

Alle ben he bliþe
Þat come wilen liþe…

Last Lines:

…Nou ben he alle dede
God hem to heuene lede

Note: 1569 lines.

Editions:

Hall, Joseph. King Horn: A Middle-English Romance Oxford: Clarendon, 1901: 4-89.

Horstmann, Carl. “King Horn nach Ms. Laud 108.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 50 (1872): 39-58: 39.

2.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Gg.4.27 (Part 2), pp. 11a-25b

First Lines:

Alle beon he bliþe
Þat to my song lyþe…

Last Lines:

…Iesus þat is of heuene king
¡eue vs alle his suete blessing

Note: 1530 lines.

Facsimiles:

Parkes, Malcolm B., and Richard Beadle. “Introduction.” Poetical Works. Geoffrey Chaucer. A Facsimile of Cambridge University Library MS Gg.4.27. 3 vols Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979 (vol. 1); 1980 (vols. 2-3).

Editions:

Hall, Joseph. King Horn: A Middle-English Romance Oxford: Clarendon, 1901: 4-89.

French, Walter Hoyt, and Charles Brockway Hale. Middle English Metrical Romances. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930: 25.

Michel, Francisque, ed. Horn et Rimenhild. Bannatyne Club 80. Paris: Maulde et Renou, 1845: 259-338.

Lumby, Joseph Rawson, ed. King Horn, Floriz and Blaunchfleur, The Assumption of Our Lady. G. H. McKnight EETS 1901, o.s. 14 (1866); repr. 1990: 1943.

Mätzner, Edouard Adolf Ferdinand. Altenglische Sprachproben, I: Poesie. Berlin: Wiedmann, 1867: 1.209.

Morris, Richard, and Walter William Skeat, eds. Specimens of Early English , Pt. I, A.D. 1150-A.D.1300. Oxford: Clarendon, 1882, 2nd ed. 1885; Pt. II, A.D. 1298-A.D.1393, Oxford: Clarendon, 1872, 2nd ed. 1894; Pt. III. Orig. published separately, 1871: 1.237.

Zupitza, Julius. Alt- und mittelenglisches Uebungsbuch mit einem Wörterbuch. 8th ed. Vienna and Leipzig: Braumüller, 1907; 12th ed., ed. Albert Eichler. Wein: Braumüller, 1922: 126-30 (excerpt).

Allen, Rosamund, ed. King Horn: An Edition Based on Cambridge University Library MS Gg 4.27. New York: Garland, 1984.

Hertzman, Ronald B., Graham Drake, and Eve Salisbury, eds. Four Romances of England: King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, Athelston. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University for TEAMS, 1999.

3.Source: London, British Library Harley 2253, ff. 83r2-92v

First Lines:

Alle heo ben blyþe
þat tomy song ylyþe…

Last Lines:

Þon hue beoþ boþe dede
crist to heouene vs lede

Note: 1546 lines; written two lines of verse per line in MS.

Attributed Title: Her bygynneþ þe geste of Kyng Horn (f. 83)

Facsimiles:

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

Editions:

Hall, Joseph. King Horn: A Middle-English Romance Oxford: Clarendon, 1901: 4-89.

Ritson, Joseph, ed. Ancient English Metrical Romances. 3 vols. London, 1802; rev. Edmund Goldsmid and repr. Edinburgh: Goldlsmid, 1884: 2.91-155.

Wissmann, Theodor. Das lied von King Horn. Quellen und Forschungen 45. Strassburg: Trübner, 1881.

Dunn, Charles W., and Edward T. Byrnes, eds. Middle English Literature. New York, 1973; 2nd ed. New York: Garland, 1990: 114-49 (critical text).

Fein, Susanna Greer, ed. The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 2. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009: Booklet 5, no. 70.