Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 4296

DIMEV 4296

IMEV 2701

NIMEV 2701

Our antecestres that we should of read

The Actis and Deidis of the lllustere and Vailȝeand Campioun, Schir William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerslie — Eleven Books in couplets

Title(s): The Actis and Deidis of the lllustere and Vailȝeand Campioun, Schir William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerslie

Subjects: Wallace, William, sir; historical verse; history, family; Scots; Scotland

Versification: — couplets — aa

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.2.2, ff. 71-194v

First Lines:

[O]ur antecessowris þat we suld of reide
And hald in mynde þair nobille worthi deid…

Last Lines:

…Maide hell and erd and set in hewyn ab[u]f
That he wll grant off his der escand luff

Attributed Title: The Actis and Deidis of the Illustere and Vailȝeand Campioun Schir William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerlie (f. 71); Explicit vita nobilisimi defensorii Scotie videlicet Willelmi Wallace militis et vir… (f. 194v)

Editions:

Moir, James, ed. The Actis and Deidis of…William Wallace. Scottish Text Society 6-7, 17. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1889.

Gray, Douglas. The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose. Oxford: Clarendon, 1985: 154-6 (excerpt).

Print Witnesses:

1.Source: STC 13148. [Acts and deeds of Wallace. In Scots verse by Henry the Minstrel, purporting to derive from a Latin work by J. Blair], [Edinburgh: W. Chepman and A. Myllar, 1508?]

Note: Fragment: 18 leaves only.

Facsimiles:

The actis and deidis of schir W. Wallace, knicht of Ellerslie. Edinburgh: Lekpreuik, 1570 (STC 13149): appendix.

Editions:

Eyre-Todd, George. Early Scottish Poetry. Glasgow: W. Hodge, 1891: 190-220 (extracts).

Craigie, Sir William Alexander, ed. Facsimile of The Actis and Deidis of Schir William Wallace (Lekpreuik, 1570). New York: Scholars, 1939.

2.Source: STC 13149. The actis and deidis of the illuster and vailzeand campioun, Schir William Wallace, knicht of Ellerslie, [Imprentit at Edinburgh: Be Robert Lekpreuik at the expensis of Henrie Charteris, [and] ar to be sauld in his buith, or the north syde of ye gait abone [sic] the Throne, Anno. Do. M.D. LXX. [1570]] -194v

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