‘A Penni Worthe of Witte’ — 400 lines in
couplets
Note: For another version, see
3117.5.
Title(s): ‘A Penni Worthe of Witte’
Subjects: adultery, tales of; tales, comic
Versification: —
two-line —
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1.Source: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.2.1 [Auchinleck MS], ff. 257
ra-259
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First Lines:…Of a chaunce ichil ȝou telle
Þat whilom in þis
londe bifelle…
Last Lines:…Þai ferd miri & so mot we
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Note: 400 lines in couplets; imperfect at beginning due to lost leaf, of which
only a stub remains (f. 256a); part of last line cut out with initial for next
work.
Attributed Title: [A penni]worþ [of wit]te (f. 256avb)
Editions:
Laing, David,
ed.
A Penni Worth of Witte, Florice and Blauncheflour….
Abbotsford Club
29. Edinburgh, 1857: 1-14.
Kölbing, Eugen.
“Vier Romanzen-Handschriften.”
Englische Studien
7 (1884): 101-25: 113-17.