Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 6180

DIMEV 6180

IMEV 3857.5

NIMEV 3857.5

Weal and woe shall his horns blow

A lament after the death of Robert de Neville, A.D. 1280 — one quatrain

Note: Fragment, quoted in a lawsuit; formerly 3894.

Subjects: laments; historical poems; Neville, Robert de

Versification: — four-line

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: London, British Library Lansdowne 207, f. 434

Editions:

Ellis, Sir Henry, and Francis Douce. Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum. 2 vols. London, 1819: 2.76.

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. London: C. Richards, 1838: 1.283.

Stevick, Robert D., ed. One Hundred Middle English Lyrics. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964: 35.

Oliver, Raymond. Poems Without Names: The English Lyric 1200-1500. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1970: 115.

2.Source: York, York Minster Library XVI.I.12, ff. 219vb-220ra

Transcription:

wel qwa sal þir hornes blau
haly rod þi day
Nou is he dede and lies law
was wont to blau þaim ay

Note: Written as prose.

Editions:

Dodds, Madeleine Hope. “Northern Minstrels and Folk Drama.” Archaeologia Aelian 4th ser. 1 (1925): 121-46: 133.

Bad Key: Raine1939: 112.

Wilson, Richard Middlewood. “More Lost Literature in Old and Middle English.” Leeds Studies in English 5 (1936): 1-49: 49.

Dickins, Bruce, and Richard M. Wilson. Early Middle English Texts. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1951: 118.

Wilson, Richard Middlewood. The Lost Literature of Medieval England. London: Methuen, 1952: 187.

Hughes, Anselm, ed. The New Oxford History of Music. Volume 3: Ars Nova and the Renaissance. London, New York: Oxford UP, 1960: 3.114.

Cottle, Bas. “Review of Marguerite-Marie Dubois , La Littérature Anglaise du Moyen Age (500-1500). ” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 62 (1963): 201-2: 764.

Sisam, Celia, and Kenneth Sisam, eds. The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970: 552.

Reiss, Edmund. The Art of the Middle English Lyric. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1972: 94.

priven: verb To deprive (sb.) of (sth.), deny (sb. sth.); ppl. prived, bereaved, bereft of, deprived of; without; (b) ~ of (from), to deprive (sb. of sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb. from sth.); prived of (from), deprived of (sth.), bereft of; lacking, without; ben of god priving, be a robber of goods; (c) to depose (sb.), dismiss; ~ of (from), deprive (sb.) of (power, kingdom, etc.), remove or dismiss (sb.) from (office or position); (d) to take (sth.) away; prevent (sth.), deny, oppose; weaken (the body); -- also without obj. MED