Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 4867

DIMEV 4867

IMEV 3117.7

NIMEV Dunbar

Sir John Sinclair be goeth to dance

William Dunbar, ‘Of a dance in the quenis chalmer’ — seven 7-line stanzas

Author(s): William Dunbar

Title(s): ‘Of a dance in the quenis chalmer’

Subjects: political poems; occasional verse; satire

Versification: — seven-line — aabbcbc

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ll.5.10, ff. 45-45v

First Lines:

Schir Johne Sinclair begowth to dance
ffor he was new cum owt of ffrance…

Last Lines:

…He stickit lyk ane tyk sum said
Ane mirrier dance mycht na man se

Attributed Author: Quod dumbar (f. 45v)

2.Source: Cambridge UK, Magdalene College Pepys 2553, pp. 340-341

First Lines:

Schir Ihon sinclair begowthe to dance
for he was new cum owt of france…

Last Lines:

…he stinckett lyk a tuk sum saed
a mirrear dance mycht na man see

Attributed Author: quod dunbar of a dance in þe que[nis] chalmer (p. 341)

Editions:

Pinkerton, John, ed. Ancient Scottish Poems Never Before in Print. 2 vols. London and Edinburgh, 1786: 1.94-5.

Sibbald, John. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry…. 4 vols. Edinburgh and London, 1802: 1.275-7.

Laing, David. The Poems of William Dunbar. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, 1834; Supplement, 1865: 1.119-20.

Paterson, James. The Works of William Dunbar. Edinburgh: Stillie, 1863: 164-6.

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: 2.199-200.

Schipper, Jakob. The Poems of William Dunbar. Vienna: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1894: 5.

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: 2.33-5.

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

Kinsley, James. William Dunbar, Poems. Oxford: Clarendon, 1958; repr. 1979: 83-5.

Bawcutt, Priscilla J., and Felicity Riddy, eds. Selected Poems of Henryson and Dunbar. Edinburgh: 1992: 173-5.

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