‘De Vita et conversacione Sancti Roberti juxta Knaresburge’
— 1164 lines in couplets, including a Prologue of 34 lines and an Epilogue of 154
lines
Note: Followed by three English metrical prayers, in couplets:
1702,
1717,
1751.
Title(s): ‘De Vita et conversacione Sancti Roberti juxta
Knaresburge’
Subjects: Knaresborough, Robert of, saint, life of
Versification: —
two-line —
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1.Source: London, British Library Egerton 3143 [olim Clumber], f. 39
v
First Lines:Thou luffly lord of ylkay lede
Crist þat we knaw by our
crede…
Last Lines:…To the whike he brynge þou all and me
Amen Amen per
charite
Attributed Title: De vita et conueracione sancti Roberti iuxta Knaresbride
(rubricated, f. 39v)
Editions:
Haslewood, Joseph,
ed.
The Metrical Life of Saint Robert of Knaresborough.
London: A. J. Valpy, 1824: 1-48.
Bazire, Joyce,
ed.
The Metrical Life of St. Robert of Knaresborough, together with the
other Middle English pieces in British Museum MS. Egerton 3143.
EETS
o.s. 228 (1953); repr. 1968: 42-72.