DIMEV 6095
IMEV 3818
NIMEV TM 1779
Two women in one house
Combinations for discord: a saw — two couplets
Subjects: proverbs; aphorisms
Versification: —
two-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Cambridge UK, Corpus Christi College 379, f. 17
v
Editions: James, Montague Rhodes.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge.
Cambridge: at the UP, 1912: 2.227.
2.Source: London, British Library Lansdowne 762, f. 16
v
Editions:
Wright, Thomas, and James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, eds.
Reliquiae Antiquae.
2 vols. London: Smith, 1845: 1.233.
Bühler, Kurt.
“Middle English Apophthegms in a Caxton Volume: Libri impressi cum notis
manuscriptis X.”
English Language Notes
1 (1963-64): 81-4: 83.
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 5758.
Gerard of Vliederhoven,
Cordiale quattuor novissimorum, [Westminster: William
Caxton], 24 March 1479
Editions: Bühler, Kurt.
“Middle English Apophthegms in a Caxton Volume: Libri impressi cum notis
manuscriptis X.”
English Language Notes
1 (1963-64): 81-4: 84 (from British Library IB 49408).
2.Source: STC 3308.
Boke of Hawking, Hunting, and Blasing of Arms, [St Albans, 1486] , sig. f.5
v
Transcription:[tw]o wyues in oon hous
too cattys and oon mous
[two do]gges and
oon boon
theis shall neuer accorde in oon
Note: CUL shelfmark, Inc. 3. J. 4. 1. (3636); part of page torn away in CUL
copy, with loss of text.
Facsimiles:
Blades, William.
“Introduction.”
Facsimile edition of The Boke of Saint Albans by Dame Juliana
Berners.
London: Elliot Stock, 1881.
Hands, Rachel.
“Introduction.”
English Hawking and Hunting in The Boke of St Albans.
Oxford: University Press, 1975.
Editions: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall.
Typographical Antiquities. Revised Joseph Ames and William
Herbert.
4 vols. London: Bulmer, 1810, 1812, 1816, 1818: 2.59.
3.Source: STC 3309.
The Manere of Hawkyng and Huntyng and also of cote armours And of the blasynge of armys [and] The
treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle, de Worde, 1496 , sig. e.3
v
Transcription:Two wyues in one hous
two cattys and one mous
Two dogges & one
bone
thyse shall neuer acorde in one
Note: Princeton, University Library Z241.xB37.1496.
4.Source: STC 5759.
Denis, the Carthusian,
Here after foloweth the prologue of the foure last thynges…,
[Enprynted atte westmystre]: [Wynkyn de Worde, 1496?]
Transcription:Two wyues in one hous
two cattys and one mous
Two dogges & one
bone
thyse shall neuer acorde in one