Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 4496

DIMEV 4496

IMEV 2821.5

NIMEV C16

Right fain would I my acquaintance make

‘Sir Penny’ — seven 8-line stanzas

Note: Cf. 2489, 4361, 3209.

Title(s): ‘Sir Penny’

Subjects: satire; money

Versification: — eight-line — ababbcbc

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ll.5.10, ff. 40-40v

First Lines:

Ryt fane wald I my quentance mak
With sir pennie & waitt ȝe quhy…

Last Lines:

…That pure commounis can never obtene
And dayis lenth with him to speik

2.Source: Cambridge UK, Magdalene College Pepys 2553, pp. 330-331

First Lines:

Rycht fane wald I my quentance mak
withe Schir penny and wait ȝe quhy…

Last Lines:

…That pure commounis can never obtene
Ane dayis lenthe with him to speik

Editions:

Craigie, William Alexander. The Maitland Folio Manuscript, Containing Poems by Sir Richard Maitland, Dunbar, Douglas, Henryson, and others. 2 vols. Scottish Text Society n.s. 7 (1919), 20 (1927); Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1919, 1927: 1.399-400.

Ritchie, W. Tod, ed. The Bannatyne Manuscript. 4 parts in 4 vols. Scottish Text Society 3rd ser. 5 (1928); n.s. 22 (1928); n.s. 23 (1930); n.s. 26 (1934) Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1928-34; ed. by Ritchie et al: 3.35-6.

3.Source: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 1.1.6 [Bannatyne MS], ff. 144-144v

First Lines:

Rycht fane wald I my quentans mak
With schir penny and wat ȝe quhy…

Last Lines:

…That pure commownis can nocht obtene
ane dey to byd with him to speik

Facsimiles:

Fox, Denton, and William A. Ringler. The Bannatyne Manuscript: National Library of Scotland Advocates’ MS. 1.1.6 London: Scolar Press, in Association with The National Library of Scotland, 1980.

Editions:

Sibbald, John. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry…. 4 vols. Edinburgh and London, 1802: 3.227.

Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes. Ancient Scottish Poems. Edinburgh, 1770; repr. London, 1815: 193-5.

Ramsay, Allan, ed. The Ever Green. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1724; repr. Ramsay and Early Scottish Poets, London, n.d.: 1.27-30.

See Ritson (1821)

XRitson, Joseph. The Caledonian Muse. London: Triphook, 1821; orig. printed 1785

: 164.

Murdoch, James Barclay. The Bannatyne Manuscript. 4 vols. in 11 parts, paged continuously. Hunterian Club 16, 32, 40, 46, 50, 55-56, 64-67 Glasgow: Anderson, 1873-1896: 409.

Wright, Thomas, ed. The Latin Poems Commonly Attributed to Walter Mapes. Camden Society o.s. 16 (1841): 362.

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