DIMEV 5436
IMEV 3448
NIMEV TM 1581
The plowman plucked up his plow
The Plowman’s Tale — 1380 alliterative lines in 8-line
stanzas (ababbcbc), including
Prologue
Note: Ringler lists prologue and tale separately:
Ringler Jr. (1992)
XRingler Jr., William A.
Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript
1501-1558.
London: Mansell, 1992; prepared and completed by
Michael
Rudick
and
Susan J.
Ringler
, TM 40, TM
1581;
Ringler Jr. (1988)
XRingler Jr., William A.
Bibliography and Index of English Verse Printed 1476-1558.
London: Mansell, 1988
, TP 47.5, TP 1818.
Title(s): The Plowman’s Tale
Subjects: allegories; birds, as speakers/narrators; Lollardy; clergy, criticism/satire of
Versification: —
eight-line, alliteration —
ababbcbc
Manuscript Witnesses:
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: Geoffrey Chaucer,
Workes, Thynne, 1532
Editions: Skeat, Walter William,
ed.
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
7 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1894-7: 7.147-90.
2.Source: STC 5069.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,
Workes, [R. Grafton f.], W. Bonham 1542
3.Source: STC 5075.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,
The workes of Geffrey Chaucer, newlie printed, with diuers
addicions, whiche were neuer in print before: with the siege and destruccion of the worthy citee of
Thebes, compiled by Ihon Lidgate, Monke of Berie. As in the table more plainly doeth appere,
[Imprinted at London: By Ihon Kyngston, for Ihon Wight, dwellyng in Poules Churchyarde], 1561
Editions:
Urry, John,
ed.
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
London: B. Lintot, 1721: 178.
Anderson, Robert.
The Works of the British Poets, or, Complete Edition of the Poets of
Great Britain.
13 vols. Vol. 1. Edinburgh, 1793; London, 1795: 1.218.
Chalmers, Alexander,
ed.
The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper.
London, 1810; repr. New York: Greenwood, 1969: 1.623-34.
4.Source: STC 5100.
The plouumans tale compylled by syr Geffrey Chaucher knyght, [Imprinted at London: In Paules
churche yarde at the sygne of the Hyll by Wyllyam Hyll, [1548?]]
Attributed Author: compylled by syr G. Chaucher