DIMEV 377
IMEV 214
NIMEV 214
All that think to be shriven
‘Þe ten comaundementȝ’ — short
couplets
Title(s): ‘Þe ten comaundementȝ’
Subjects: Ten Commandments
Versification: —
two-line —
aa
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 463 (SC 1596), ff. 158
vb-159
v
First Lines:Alle þat thenke to beo shriuen
& out of dedly sinne to
liuen
Boþe men & wymmen…
Last Lines:…God lene vs sone rise
& ende in his suete
seruise
Note: Two columns per page, one in which two lines of text are written on a
single line in the column, the other in which a single line of text takes a line
in the column.
Attributed Title: Incipiunt decem precepta (bottom f. 158va)
Editions: Heuser, Wilhelm.
“With an O and an I.”
Anglia
27 (1904): 283-319: 197.