Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 3462

DIMEV 3462

IMEV 2142

NIMEV 2142

Meekly Lordings gentle and free

Ipomadon (Version B) — 2346 lines in couplets

Note: For Version A see 4183.

Title(s): Ipomadon (Version B)

Subjects: romances

Versification: — two-line — aa

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: London, British Library Harley 2252, ff. 54-84

First Lines:

[M]ekely lordyngis gentyl and fre
Lystene a while and herken to me…

Last Lines:

…To þat blysse god bryng vs alle
That dyed on rode for grete & smalle

Note: Space left for enlarged initial, which was left blank.

Attributed Title: Explicet Ipomyden (f. 84)

Editions:

Weber, Henry William. Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries. 3 vols. Edinburgh: A. Carstalle, 1810: 2.281-365.

Kölbing, Eugen. Ipomedon.in drei englischen Bearbeitungen. Breslau: Koebner, 1889.

Bülbring, Karl Daniel. “Vier neue Alexanderbruchstücke.” Englische Studien 13 (1889): 145-56: 154-5 (two leaves of a printed fragment [c. 1580]).

Print Witnesses:

1.Source: STC 5732.5. Copland, Robert, The lady commaunded anone soone, [London: Wynkyn de Worde, ca. 1522]

2.Source: STC 5733. [The life of Ipomydon], [Enprynted at London in the Fletestrete: at the sygne of the Sonne by wynkyn de worde, [c. 1527]] , sigs. B.1-I.6v

First Lines:

…Of your court and your norture
He hath well lerned I you ensure
He wolde wende in to a straunge countre
More in seruyce for to be…

Last Lines:

…There as none other thynge may be
But ioye and blys game and gle
Unto that blys god brynge vs all
That dyed on a crosse for grete and small

Note: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library Acc. no. 20896; begins imperfectly due to lost first quire; immediately follows incomplete 2822; sig. B.3 mislabeled ‘H.iii’ and another out of order; ends, ‘Enprynted at London in the Flete strete at the sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de Worde’ sig. I.6v; but followed by one-stanza envoy by Copland: ‘GO lytell Iest vndepured of speche / Unto thy reders & alway me excuse / To take thy mater I hertly them beseche / Though þu rudely no other termes vse / This is thy copy thou can not refuse / Syth þe no wryter wolde take þe to amende / In this my labour I myght it not entende’, titled, ‘Lenvoye of Robert C[opland] the prynter’ (sig. I.6v); see Sánchez-Martí (2008)

XSánchez-Martí, Jordi. “Robert Copland and The Lyfe of Ipomydon.” Notes and Queries n. s. 55 (2008): 139-142

, 141.

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