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Swart smoked smiths smattered with smoke
A satire against the blacksmiths — twenty-two long alliterative lines
Subjects: satires; estates literature; occupations
Versification: — alliteration



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: London, British Library Arundel 292, f. 71v
First Lines:
Swarte smekyd smeþes smateryd with smoke
drue me to deth wyth den of her dyntes…
Last Lines:
…Alle cloyd merys cryst hem gyue sorwe
may no man for brenwateris on nyghe hau hys rest
Editions:
Wright, Thomas, and James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, eds. Reliquiae Antiquae. 2 vols. London: Smith, 1845: 1.240.
Sisam, Kenneth. Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose. Oxford: Clarendon, 1921: 169-70.
Haupt, Moriz, and August Heinrich Hoffmann, eds. Altdeutsche Blätter. 2 vols. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1836, 1840: 1.396-401: 2.146-7.
Lindberg, H. “Satire on the Blacksmiths.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 101 (1898): 395-6: 395.
Coulton, George Gordon. Life in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: at the UP, 1931, and New York: Macmillan, 1931: 3.99 (mod.).
Robbins, Rossell Hope, ed. Secular Lyrics of the XIV and XV Centuries. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1955: 106.
Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Alt- und mittelenglische Anthologie. Berlin, 1954; 3rd ed.; trans. as Medieval English: a Old English and Middle English Anthology Berlin West, 1958: 475.
Speirs, John. Medieval English Poetry: the non-Chaucerian Tradition. London: Faber, 1957: 94-5.
Davies, Reginald Thorne. Medieval English Lyrics: a critical anthology. London, 1963; Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1964: 213.
Haskell, Ann Sullivan, ed. A Middle English Anthology. Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1969; 2nd ed. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1985: 342.
Oliver, Raymond. Poems Without Names: The English Lyric 1200-1500. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1970: 88-9.
Sisam, Celia, and Kenneth Sisam, eds. The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970: 372-3.
Silverstein, Theodore, ed. Medieval English Lyrics. York Medieval Texts. London: Edw. Arnold, 1971: 143.
Dunn, Charles W., and Edward T. Byrnes, eds. Middle English Literature. New York, 1973; 2nd ed. New York: Garland, 1990: 521.
Spearing, A. C., and J. E. Spearing. Poetry of the Age of Chaucer. London: Edward Arnold, 1974: 220.
Luria, Maxwell Sidney, and Richard L. Hoffman, eds. Middle English Lyrics. New York: Norton, 1974: 130.
Pearsall, Derek, ed. Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375-1575. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999: 399.