Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 5618

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. 153v

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.

4.Source: Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, Eng. 530, f. 130v

Transcription:

Þeos skaterand skottes
holde we but Sottes
of wrenches vn ware
Eorly in a mornyng
In an yvel tyming
went þee ffrome Dunbare

Note: Written as prose in prose Brut.

5.Source: Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, Eng. 587, f. 70a

Transcription:

These scatering Scottes
holde I for sottes
of wrenches vnware
Erly in a mornyng
in a evyll tymyng
went þe ffrom dunbar

Note: In prose Brut; written as prose.

6.Source: Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, Eng. 766, f. 124

Transcription:

These scaterand Scottis
holde we ffor Sottis
Off wrenchis vnware
Erly In a mornyng
In an Evill tymyng
Cam they to Dunbare

Note: In Fabyan’s Chronicle; written as prose.

7.Source: Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, Richardson 35, f. 58va

Transcription:

Thes skateryng Scottes
Holde I for sottes
In one euyl tymyng
Went þei from donbare

Note: In prose Brut; written as verse; abbreviated 4-line version.

8.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 113 [olim Phillipps 8857], f. 84ra

Transcription:

These scatering skottis
Hold I for Sottis
for wrenchis vnware
Erly in an mornyng
in an euyl tyming
went þey fro dunbar

Note: In prose Brut; written as prose, in rubric.

9.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 131 [olim Buccleuch, Quaritch Cats. 303, 304], f. 81v

Transcription:

Thes scateryng Scottes
holde I for Sottes
of wrenkes vnware
That erely in an mornyng
In an evyll tymyng
come they fro Dunbar

Note: In prose Brut; written as prose, with virgules to mark line breaks.

10.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 136 [olim Phillipps 8858], f. 78v

Transcription:

Thus scaterand scottes
hold I for Sottes
of wrenches vnwarie
Erly yn a mornyng
in an euel tymyng
went ye fro dunbarre

Note: In prose Brut; written as prose, with virgules to mark line breaks.

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. 68ra

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.5va

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.