Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 4859

DIMEV 4859

IMEV 3116.5

NIMEV Dunbar

Sir at this feast of beneficence

William Dunbar, ‘Quhone mony benefices vakit’ — three 5-line stanzas

Note: Cf. 4755.

Author(s): William Dunbar

Title(s): ‘Quhone mony benefices vakit’

Subjects: patronage, appeals for

Versification: — five-line — aabba

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ll.5.10, ff. 9v-10

First Lines:

Schir at þis fast of benefice
think þat small partis makis gvyt seruice…

Last Lines:

…Latt anes þe cop go round aboutt
And win the couanes bennisoune

Attributed Author: Quod dumbar (f. 10)

Editions:

Laing, David. The Poems of William Dunbar. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, 1834; Supplement, 1865: 1.156.

2.Source: Cambridge UK, Magdalene College Pepys 2553, pp. 7-8

First Lines:

Schir at this fest off benefyce
Think þatt small partis makis gryt serwyce…

Last Lines:

…Lat anes the cope go rownd abowt
and wein þe couenis benissoun

Attributed Author: Quod dumbar (p. 8)

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: 1.376-7.

Laing, David. The Poems of William Dunbar. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, 1834; Supplement, 1865: 1.156.

3.Source: Cambridge UK, Magdalene College Pepys 2553, p. 316

First Lines:

Schir at this fest Benefice
Think þat small partis makis grit Seruice…

Last Lines:

…Lat anis þe cop ga Round about
And wyn þe covanis banesoun

Note: Second occurrence in MS.

Attributed Author: Quod Dumbar quhone mony Benefices vakit (p. 316)

Editions:

Pinkerton, John, ed. Ancient Scottish Poems Never Before in Print. 2 vols. London and Edinburgh, 1786: 1.101.

Laing, David. The Poems of William Dunbar. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, 1834; Supplement, 1865: 1.156.

Small, John, Ae. James George Mackay, George Powell McNeill, and Walter Gregor, eds. The Poems of William Dunbar. 5 pts. Scottish Text Society 2, 4, 16, 21, 29. Edinburgh, 1884-93: 2.205.

Schipper, Jakob. The Poems of William Dunbar. Vienna: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1894: 255-6.

Schipper, Jakob, ed. The Poems of William Dunbar. 4 vols. Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophische-Historische Klasse 40/2; 40/4; 41/4; 42/4. Vienna, 1892-93: 3.57-8.

Baildon, Henry Bellyse. The Poems of William Dunbar. Cambridge: University Press, 1907: 126-7.

MacKenzie, William Mackay. The Poems of William Dunbar. Edinburgh, 1932: 27.