Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 345

DIMEV 345

IMEV 191

NIMEV 191

All mankind turneth in wheel and that on wonder guise

A tag in the Fasciculus morum — one long couplet translating two Latin hexameters

Subjects: Fortune, wheel of; mutability; translations; sermons, verse in

Versification: — two-line — aa

Bibliographic Ghosts: Cambridge UK, St John’s College F.22 (159): not in this MS.

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 187 (SC 2090), f. 162ra

Transcription:

Al man kynde ys turnyd and went
And Pat yn wondyr gyse
For wennys hyt com aȝen hyt wente
Hyt abydyth yn noyn a fyse

Note: Written as a quatrain.

Editions:

Wenzel, Siegfried. Verses in Sermons: ‘Fasciculus morum’ and Its Middle English Poems. Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1978: 178.

2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 410 (SC 2305), f. 40v

Transcription:

Al monkyn turnyein wele
and þat on wonder gyse
ffro when it come aȝen it went
to dwell on all wyse

Note: Written as prose.

3.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 213 (SC 1045), f. 59v

Transcription:

Al mankynd turneþ in weel and þat oon wondere gise
for wheyne hit come aȝen hit went to dwelle on al wise

Note: Written as prose.

4.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson C.670 (SC 12514), f. 72v

Transcription:

All monkyn tornth in well and þat on wonder gyse
For wethen hit come aȝeyn hit wente to dwelle on all wyse

Editions:

Wenzel, Siegfried. Verses in Sermons: ‘Fasciculus morum’ and Its Middle English Poems. Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1978: 177.

5.Source: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library 82, f. 87v

Transcription:

All man kynde torneth to wele & þat on a wonder wyse
ffro whom hit cometh a ȝen hit weynth to dwelle on al wyse

6.Source: Lincoln, Lincoln Cathedral Library 44 (A.2.13), f. 189ra

Transcription:

Al mon kynde torne to wyl & þat on a wonder wyse
for when hit comþ a ȝen hit weynit do to dwel on al wyse

7.Source: Worcester, Worcester Cathedral Library F.19, f. 109rb

Transcription:

All mon kynne tornetgh in wele and i þat on wonder gyse
ffor were þat comen a gayn hit went to dwelle on alle wyse

Note: Written as prose.

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