Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 4409

DIMEV 4409

IMEV 2775

NIMEV 2775

Pride that is overgart

‘Pride goes before destruction’ (6 lines), a tag in the Fasciculus morum

Note: Translates and versifies the thought preceding two Latin hexameters in the text.

Subjects: sermons, verse in; aphorisms; translations

Versification: — six-line — aabccb

Manuscript Witnesses:

Transcription:

Pryde þat is ouergart
algate has unquart
at þe latter ende
for whan pride gos by forn
shome shewes euermore
wende how he wende

Note: Written as prose.

Transcription:

Pruyde þat is ouergart
halgate hat vnquart
atte þe latter ende
ffor when pryde goith bi fore
schame seuet euermore
wende hou he wende

Note: Written as prose.

Transcription:

Pruyde þat is ouergart
Algate haþ vnquart
At þe latter ended
For when pryde goþ byfore
Schame sewyth euer more
Wende hou he wende

Editions:

Wenzel, Siegfried. Verses in Sermons: ‘Fasciculus morum’ and Its Middle English Poems. Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1978: 141.

Transcription:

pride þat is ouergairt
algat hath vnwhart
ffor where pride gose be fore
schame folowos euermore
Wende where he wende

Transcription:

Pryde þat ys vngart
algate hath vnquart
at þe latter ende
ffor when pryde goth be fore
Shame folowith euer more
vende were he whende

Transcription:

pride þat is ouere gayrt
al gate hait vn quart
at þe lattere ende
for qwanne pride goth be fore
schame suith euermore
wende quow ye wende

Transcription:

Pruyde þat is owgard
algate hat atte the lattere ende
for qwey Pryde goth be fore
schame sweth euer mor
wende how he whende

Note: Prosified and corrupt version, written as prose.

Attributed Author: quod Endyng (f. 4v)

Transcription:

Pryde that is ouergart
algate hathe on quart
at the last end fo
ffor when pryde goeth be fore
Schame sueth euer more
wende when he wende

Transcription:

Pryde þat is ouergart
algate haþ vnquart
at þe lat ende
ffo wonne pryde
goþ by fore schame
sywer euer more wend
howe we wend

Note: Written as prose; seven lines rhyming aabcdbb.

Transcription:

Prude þat is ouergart
algat hay [sic] vnquart
at þe later ende
ffor wenne prude got by fore
schame sewyt euer more
wende how a wende

Note: Written as prose.