DIMEV 5618
IMEV 3558.5
NIMEV 3558.5
These scattering Scots
A song of victory over the Scots inserted in the Brut Chronicles and
early prose chronicles
Note: For the Langtoft version see
1384;
non-source-specific editions by
Weever (1631)
XWeever, John.
Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great
Britaine.
London: T. Harper, 1631 (STC 25223); repr. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis
Terrarum; and NY: Walter Johnson, 1979
, 458;
bad key, 2.261;
Wilson (1936)
XWilson, Richard Middlewood.
“More Lost Literature in Old and Middle English.”
Leeds Studies in English
5 (1936): 1-49
, 44;
Scattergood (1974)
XScattergood, V. John.
“Revision in some Middle English Political Verses.”
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und
Literaturen
211 (1974): 287-99
, 288.
Subjects: chronicles, verse in; Scots, songs against; historical poems; songs, soldiers’
Versification: —
six-lines —
aabccb
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson B.171 (SC 11539), f. 108
Transcription:Thus scaterand Scottes
holde y for sottes
of wrenches
vnware
Erly in amornyng
in an euel tyming
went ȝe fro
Dunbarre
Note: Written as prose, in rubric as a heading.
Editions: Sisam, Celia, and Kenneth Sisam, eds.
The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1970: 58.
2.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ll.2.14, f. 153
v
Transcription:Thys scaterant scottes
holde I for sottes
of wrenches
vnware
Erly in a mornynge
in a fulle evill tymyng
comme ye from
donbare
Note: In the prose Brut, rubric, as a heading, written in
prose.
3.Source: London, British Library Cotton Galba E.VIII, f. 83
Transcription:Thesse skaterynge scottis
hold y for sottis
and wretchis
vnware
erly yn a mornynge
yn an yuyl tydynge
went þe fro
donbarre
Note: Written as prose.
Editions: Brie, Friedrich,
ed.
The Brut, or the Chronicles of England.
EETS
o.s. 131 (1906), 136 (1908); repr. 1987: 191.
11.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 133, f. 110
Transcription:Thes scaterynge Scottes
I holde ffor slottis
off wrenkis wn
warre
Erly in a mornynge
in a evil tymynge
Wente ȝee ffrome
Donbare
Note: In prose Brut; written as prose, in rubric; last folio in volume
as presently survives.
12.Source: New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library 494, f. 68
ra
Transcription:Þus skyterandes Scottis
halde y for sottes
of wrenches
vnwarre
Erly in a mornyng
In an euel tymynge
drif ȝe were fro
Dunbare
Note: In prose Brut; written as prose, underlined in red.
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 9991.
Chronicles of England, Caxton, 1480
2.Source: STC 10659.
Fabyan, Robert ,
New Chronicles of Englande and of Fraunce, Pynson, 1533
First Lines:These scaterande scottes
hold I for sottes…
Editions: Ellis, Sir Henry,
ed.
The New Chronicles of England and France in Two Parts. repr. of Robert
Fabyan, New Chronicles, Pynson 1516 (STC 10659).
London: Rivington, 1811: 398.
3.Source: STC 20724.
Rastell, John,
The pastyme of people The cronycles of dyuers realmys and most specyally
of the realme of Englond breuely co[m]pylyd [and] empryntyd in chepesyde at the sygne of the
mearemayd next to pollys gate. Cum priuilegio, [London: Printed by John Rastell, 1530?]
Editions: Ellis, Sir Henry,
ed.
The New Chronicles of England and France in Two Parts. repr. of Robert
Fabyan, New Chronicles, Pynson 1516 (STC 10659).
London: Rivington, 1811: 197.
4.Source: STC 10662.
Fabyan, Robert ,
The chronicle of Fabyan whiche he hym selfe nameth the concordaunce of
historyes, nowe newely printed, [and] in many places corrected, as to the dylygent reader it may
apere. 1542. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, [London]: Printed by Iohn Reynes, dwellynge
at the sygne of saynte George in Pauls churcheyarde, [1542] , sig. ll.5
va
Transcription:These scaterand Scottes
Holde wee for sottes
Of wrenches
vnware
Erly in a mornyng
In an eiuill timyng
Came thei to
Dunbarre
Editions: Ellis, Sir Henry,
ed.
The New Chronicles of England and France in Two Parts. repr. of Robert
Fabyan, New Chronicles, Pynson 1516 (STC 10659).
London: Rivington, 1811: 197.