Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 5519

DIMEV 5519

IMEV 3495.3

NIMEV Dunbar

The wardrober of Venus bower [The wardraipper of Venus boure]

William Dunbar, ‘Of James Doig, kepar of the quenis wardrop’ — six quatrains with refrain ‘madam ȝe heff an dangerous dog’

Note: Cf. 3928.

Author(s): William Dunbar

Title(s): ‘Of James Doig, kepar of the quenis wardrop’

Subjects: Dog, James

Versification: — four-line — aabb

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ll.5.10, ff. 44-44v

First Lines:

The wardraipper of Venus boure
To gif a dowblett he is als doure…

Last Lines:

…His gang garris all ȝour chalmer shog
Madame ȝe haue ane dangerous [dog]

Attributed Author: Quod dumbar of James dog keiper of þe queins wardrop (f. 44v)

2.Source: Cambridge UK, Magdalene College Pepys 2553, p. 339

First Lines:

The wardraipper of wenus boure
to giff a doublett he is als doure…

Last Lines:

…his gang garris all ȝour chalmeris schog
madam ȝe heff a dangerous dog

Attributed Author: quod dunbar of Iames dog kepair of þe quenis wardrep (p. 339)

Editions:

Pinkerton, John, ed. Ancient Scottish Poems Never Before in Print. 2 vols. London and Edinburgh, 1786: 1.90-1.

Sibbald, John. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry…. 4 vols. Edinburgh and London, 1802: 1.278.

Laing, David. The Poems of William Dunbar. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, 1834; Supplement, 1865: 1.110.

“Ancient Scottish Poetry.” Blackwood’s Magazine 37 (1835): 287-318: 306.

Paterson, James. The Works of William Dunbar. Edinburgh: Stillie, 1863: 175.

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: 2.195.

Schipper, Jakob. The Poems of William Dunbar. Vienna: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1894: 200.

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: 1-2.

MacKenzie, William Mackay. The Poems of William Dunbar. Edinburgh, 1932: 61-2.

Kinsley, James. William Dunbar, Poems. Oxford: Clarendon, 1958; repr. 1979: 87.

Bawcutt, Priscilla J., and Felicity Riddy, eds. Selected Poems of Henryson and Dunbar. Edinburgh: 1992: 208.

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