A General Prologue in one MS of the South English Legendary, with
special mention of ‘ȝeres day’ and Epiphany — twenty-six
lines
Title(s):
South English Legendary
Subjects: prologues; Epiphany; New Year
Versification: —
two-line —
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1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 108 (SC 1486), ff. 88-88
v
First Lines:Al þis bok is i maked of holi dawes and of holie mannes
liues
Þat soffreden for ore louerdes loue pinene manie and
riue…
Last Lines:…Ase it falleȝ a twelfte dai longe heo erore him
fouȝten
Gold and mirre and an sens In presaunt heo him
brouȝten
Note: This version ends this story/text four lines later than the usual,
including in this stody the first four lines of
4594, ending, ‘He let him martri þere
fore and oþere with him mo’.
Editions:
Horstmann, Carl.
“Die Legenden des ms. Laud 108.”
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und
Literaturen
4 (1872): 395-414: 405.
Horstmann, Carl,
ed.
The Early South-English Legendary.
EETS
o.s. 87 (1887; repr. 1987): 177-8.