Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 4193

DIMEV 4193

IMEV 2640

NIMEV 2640

Of my lady well me rejoice I may

Thomas Hoccleve, Humourous Praise of his Lady — a roundel, twenty-four lines

Author(s): Thomas Hoccleve

Title(s): Humourous Praise of his Lady

Subjects: lovers, praise of beloved; roundels

Versification: — roundel

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 744 [olim Ashburnham 133; olim Gollancz], f. 52v

First Lines:

Of my lady wel me reioise I may
hir golden forheed is ful narw & smal…

Last Lines:

…Hir comly body shape as a foot bal
And shee syngith ful lyk a papenJay

Note: Preceded by 6204 and 2034; followed by 406.

Attributed Title: Cest tout (f. 52); Cy ensuent trois chaunceons lune conpleynante a la dame monoie et lautre La response dele a cellui qui se conpleynt & la tierce la commendacion de ma dame (f. 51v)

Facsimiles:

Burrow, John, and A. I. Doyle, eds. Thomas Hoccleve: A Facsimile of the Autograph Verse Manuscripts. EETS s.s. 19 (2002).

Editions:

Gollanz, Israel, ed. “Three Chansons of Hoccleve.” The Academy 41 (1892): 542: 1.542.

Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. Hoccleve’s Works: The Minor Poems. vol. 1. EETS e.s. 61 (1892); repr. with Gollancz (1925)

XGollancz, Israel. Hoccleve’s Works: The Minor Poems. vol. 2. EETS e.s. 73 (1925); repr. with 61, 1970

73; rev. J. Mitchell and A. Ian Doyle, 1970: 1.xxxviii.

Gollancz, Israel, ed. Hoccleve’s Works: The Minor Poems. vol. 2. EETS e.s. 73 (1925); repr. with 61, 1970: 37-8.

Hammond, Eleanor Prescott. English Verse between Chaucer and Surrey. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1927: 68.

Bennett, Henry Stanley. England from Chaucer to Caxton. London: Methuen, 1928: 32.

Robbins, Rossell Hope. “Two Satirical Love Epistles.” Modern Language Review 37 (1942): 415-21: 419.

Robbins, Rossell Hope, ed. Secular Lyrics of the XIV and XV Centuries. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1955: 223.

Davies, Reginald Thorne. Medieval English Lyrics: a critical anthology. London, 1963; Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1964: 165.

hinder: adj.¹ and noun.² A. adj.¹ 1. Situated behind, at the back, or in the rear; posterior. (Notwithstanding its comparative form, it does not differ in sense from hind, but is more frequently used. Cf. YON adv., YONDER adv., adj., pron., and n.) hinder gate, postern gate. 2. Of time. a. Last past, ‘last’; as in this hinder day yesterday, this hinder night last night, yesternight. OED

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