Sir Pers of Birmingham — in 6-line stanzas (aabccb)
Title(s): Sir Pers of Birmingham
Subjects: laments; Peter of Birmingham, lord Tethmoy, death of; Ireland, English settlement of
Versification: —
six-line —
aabccb
1.Source: London, British Library Harley 913, ff. 50-51
v
First Lines:Sith Gabriel gan grete
vre ledi mari swete…
Last Lines:…And god pardon ibouȝt
two hundred daies and
mo
Note: 132 lines; nineteenth-century transcript, London, British Library Addit. 20091, ff.
50v-57v.
2.Source: London, British Library Lansdowne 418, f. 88
First Lines:Sith Gabriell gan grete
Ure ladi mari swete…
Last Lines:…And god pardon ibroght
Two hundred daies & mo
Note: note: ‘Out of a smale olde book in parchment called the book of
Rosse or of Waterford’ (f. 88). This copy was made in 1608. Folio number
reflects the most recent foliation.
Editions:
Ritson, Joseph,
ed.
Ancient Songs and Ballads from the Reign of King Henry the Second to
the Revolution.
2 vols. London, 1829; re-ed.
William Carew
Hazlitt
London, 1877: 1.70-5.
Heuser, Wilhelm.
Die Kildare-Gedichte…
Bonner Beiträge zur Anglistik
14. Bonn: P. Hanstein, 1904: 161-4.