DIMEV 5845
IMEV 3687
NIMEV 3687
Thou shalt love God with heart entire
The Ten Commandments — ten quatrains; usually occurring in the
Speculum Christiani (Secunda Tabula), sometimes occurring
separately
Note: For an introductory couplet in some MSS see
2511; for two MSS which use a completely different version see
5843. For still another version
occurring separately with a unique stanza prefixed, etc., see
1768.
Subjects: Ten Commandments
Versification: —
four-line —
abab
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 61 (SC 2023), ff. 4-8
First Lines:Thou schalt loue god wyth hert entere
Wyth all thy lowle and all thy
myth…
Last Lines:…But kepe ay wele goddys byddyng
on kyrstyn feyth leue
stedfastly
2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 89 (SC 1886), f. 3
Note: Lacks st. 8 and 9.
Editions: Brown, Carleton Fairchild.
“The Towneley Play of the Doctors and the Speculum Christiani.”
Modern Language Notes
31 (1916): 223-6: 224-5.
3.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 423 (SC 2322), ff. 351
v-353
First Lines:Thow shalt loue god with hert enter
With all þi saule and all
þi might…
Last Lines:…But kepe ay wele goddys byddyng
and crysten faithe leue
stedefastly
Note: Intermixed with Latin prose.
4.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Douce 107 (SC 21681), ff. 51-53
First Lines:þou schalt lofe god with hert entere
With al þi sowle
& al þi myȝte…
Last Lines:…but kepe wel ay goddis bidding
& kristin fayth leue
stedfastly
Note: Inserted in Latin prose.
6.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Greaves 54 (SC 3826), ff. 1
v-8
v
First Lines:Thy holydayes kepe well also
ffro worly workys thu take thy
reste…
Last Lines:…But kepe euer well god ys byddyng
On cryst ys feythe lyue
stedfastly
Note: Lacks first two stanzas; each quatrain followed by an English prose
expansion.
11.Source: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 155, ff. 149
v-154
v
First Lines:Þu sall luf god with hert entere
With all thy saull & all
thy myght…
Last Lines:…Bot kepe ay wele goddis biddyng
& cristen faith leue
stedfastly
14.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ff.1.14, ff. 25
v-29
v
First Lines:Thou schall loue god with hert entere
Wyth all þi soule and all
þi myght…
Last Lines:…Bote kepe ay well godes byddyng
And cristen fayth leue
stedfastly
Attributed Title: Explicit spculum cristiani (f. 69)
15.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Hh.1.13, ff. 6
v-13
First Lines:Thou shalt loue god with hert entier
With alle thi soule and alle
þi myȝt…
Last Lines:…But kepe wele ay goddes biddynge
And cristen feith leeue
stedfastly
Note: Follows
2511 without
break.
16.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ii.1.26, ff. 88
v-91
First Lines:þu shalt love god with hert
with all þi soule & al
þi might
oþer god in no maner
þu shalt not haue be day
nor nyght…
Last Lines:…Bot kepe ay wele goddeȝ biddyng
and cristen faithe leve
stedfastly
Note: Occurring separately from Speculum Christiani; instead in a prose
tract De decem mandatis, interspersed with Latin prose text; first stanza
treated as a long-line couplet; others as quatrains rhyming abcb.
17.Source: Cambridge UK, Corpus Christi College 423, pp. 81-82
First Lines:Thow shalt love god with hart entere
With all thi sowle with all thy
myȝthe…
Last Lines:…Butte kepe ay welle goddes byddyng
On cristeyn faiȝth be
stedefastelye
Note: Occurring separately from Speculum Christiani.
Attributed Title: Sequitur de decem mandatis & de septem peccatis Capitalibus siue
mortalibus (p. 81)
18.Source: Cambridge UK, Jesus College Q.G.3 (51), ff. 4-7
v
First Lines:Þow shalt luf god with hert entere
With all thy saull & all
thy myght…
Last Lines:…Bot kepe ay wele goddes biddyng
And cristen fayth trow
stedfastly
Editions: Wright, Thomas, and James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, eds.
Reliquiae Antiquae.
2 vols. London: Smith, 1845: 1.49-50.
19.Source: Cambridge UK, Pembroke College 285, ff. 4-8
First Lines:Þu schalt loue god with hert entyre
With all þi soule and
all þi myghte…
Last Lines:…But kepe wel euere godes byddynge
And cristen feyth leue
stedefastly
Note: Preceded by
2511;
interspersed with Latin prose commentary.
20.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College B.15.40 (376), ff. 103
va-103A
va
First Lines:Thou schalt loue god entierly
With all þi soule and thy
myȝtt
Oure god in no maner sekurly
þu schalt nat haue by day
ne by nyȝtt…
Last Lines:…And in her nede þu schalt hem socour
And kepe to hem
godis holi obedy[ ]
Note: Stanzas 1-4 only.
Attributed Title: De decem mandatis (f. 103rb)
21.Source: Cambridge UK, St John’s College G.8 (176), ff. 5-10
v
First Lines:thow schalt loue god with hert entere
Wyþe all þi soule
and all þi myght…
Last Lines:…But kepe ay well goddes biddynge
And crysten fayth trowe
stedfastly
Note: Ten quatrains separated by Latin prose; preceded by 1491, separated by
Latin.
22.Source: London, British Library Addit. 10052, ff. 22
r2-27
First Lines:Thou shalt love god with herte entere
With alle thi soule and all
thy myght…
Last Lines:…But kepe well ar godys byddyng
And cristen fayth leve
stedefastly
23.Source: London, British Library Addit. 15237, ff. 11-14
First Lines:Thou shalt loue god with herte entere
With all thi soule and all thi
myght…
Last Lines:…But kepe ay wele goddis biddyng
And cristen faith leue
stedefastely
Note: Rubricated.
24.Source: London, British Library Addit. 21202, f. 6
v
First Lines:Thou shalt love god wyth hert entere
Wyth alle tby soule and alle
thy myght…
Last Lines:…But kepe welle ay godis byddyng
And cristen fayth leve
stedefastly
25.Source: London, British Library Addit. 22121, ff. 6
r2-12
v
First Lines:Thou schalt loue gode with hert entere
Wyth all thy sowle and all
thy myght…
Last Lines:…But kepe wel ay goddis byddyng
And cristen feyth love
stedfastely
Note: Rubricated.
26.Source: London, British Library Addit. 37049, f. 20
v
Note: Occurring separately from Speculum Christiani.
Editions: Doty, Brant Lee,
ed.
“An Edition of British Museum MS Additional 37049: a Religious
Miscellany.”
Diss. Michigan State, 1969: 127-9.
27.Source: London, British Library Harley 206, ff. 20
v2-25
First Lines:Thoue schat loue gode with hert entere
With all þi
saull and þi myght…
Last Lines:…Bot kye ally well godes byddyng
And
cristen faith leue stedfastly
Note: Passim, with one stanza on each leaf, recto and verso; ‘u’
of ‘saull’ in line 2 added above the line (f. 21v);
‘ay’ of penultimate line originally written ‘all’ and
corrected by scribe by subpunction and adding ‘y’ above the line (f.
25).
29.Source: London, British Library Harley 2250, ff. 51-52
First Lines:Thow shall luf god with herte entere
With all þi saule &
all þi myȝt…
Last Lines:…Bot kepe wele ay goddis byddyng
And cristenfayth leue
stydfastly
31.Source: London, British Library Harley 6580, ff. 6
v-11
v
First Lines:Thou schalte loue god with herte entiere
Wyth al thi saule and al
thy myght…
Last Lines:…bot kepe ay wele godes byddynge
And cristen feyth lufe
stedfastly
Editions: Holmstedt, Gustaf,
ed.
Speculum Christiani.
EETS
o.s. 182 (1933); repr. 1988: 16-37.
32.Source: London, British Library Harley 7578, f. 1
First Lines:Thow schalte lufe godde wyth herte entere
Whych all þy sawle
and all þy myght…
Last Lines:…But kepe wele ay goddes bydyngs
And crysten feyth leue
stedfastely
Note: Occurring separately from Speculum Christiani.
33.Source: London, British Library Lansdowne 344, ff. 7
v-13
First Lines:Þou schalt lou god with herte entere
with al þi sowle
& al þi myȝte…
Last Lines:…but kepe wel ay goddis bidding
& cristen feyth loue
stedefastli
Note: Written as prose and rubricated. Folios have been re-numbered to include
the flyleaves, and foliation here refers to the new numbers.
Editions: Holmstedt, Gustaf,
ed.
Speculum Christiani.
EETS
o.s. 182 (1933); repr. 1988: 16-37.
35.Source: London, British Library Sloane 1253, ff. 32
v-44
First Lines:Þou shalt love God with hert entere
With all þy soule
& all þy miȝte…
Last Lines:…But kepe þou well Goddis byddyng
And cristen feyth love
stedfastly
Note: Verses on the Ten Commandments (Decem precepta) intercalcated
with English quatrains on ff. 32v-44.
Editions: Diekstra, F. N. M.,
ed.
“Robert de Sorbon, the Speculum Christiani and the Visio
Sancto Pauli: Notes on British Library MS Sloane 1253.”
English Studies
73 (1992): 385-405: 396-7.
37.Source: Hereford, Hereford Cathedral Library P.7.7, ff. 184
va-187
rb
First Lines:þou schalt loue god with herte entere
With alle þi soule
& all þi myȝte…
Last Lines:…Bur kepe wele ay goddys byddyng
And cristen faythe leue stede
fastly
38.Source: Manchester, John Rylands Library Lat. 201, ff. 227-230
First Lines:Thow schalt loue god with herte entere
Wyth al þy sowle &
þy myȝt
Other god in no manere
Thow schalt non haue by day nor
nyȝt…
Last Lines:…but kepe wel ay godys byddyng
And crystyn fayth beleue
stedefastly
Attributed Title: Decem Mandata (f. 227)
Editions: Fawtier, E. C., and R. Fawtier.
“From Merlin to Shakespeare: Adventures of an English Prophecy.”
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
5 (1918-20): 388-92: 389.
40.Source: Ushaw, St Cuthbert’s College 28, ff. 35
v; 37; 38
v-39; 40; 41; 43; 44-44
v; 45
v; 46
v; 48
First Lines:þu shalt loue god with hert intere
with all þi soule &
al þi myght…
Last Lines:…but euer uele goddes biddyng
& on cristen feiþe leue
stedfastly
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 26012.
Wotton, John,
Speculum Cristiani, W. de Machlinia ad exp. H. Vrankenburgh, [1486?]
, sigs. a.viii-b.vii
First Lines:Thou schalt loue god with herte entiere
With alle thy soule and alle
thy might
Other god in no manere
Thou schalt not haue by daye ne
nyght…
Last Lines:…But kepe wel ay goddes bidding
And cristen faith kepe ay
stedfastly
Note: CUL Inc. 5.J.3.5 [3607].
Attributed Title: Incipit liber qui vocatur Speculum Cristiani (sig. a.ii; f. 1); Iste
Libellus impressus est in opulentissima Ciuitate Londoniarum per me Willelmum de
Machlinia ad instanciam necnon expensas Henrici Vrankenbergh mercatoris (last
folio, verso)