Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 6339

DIMEV 6339

IMEV 3967

NIMEV 3967

When I think on doomsday full sore I me a-dread

On Doomsday — eleven monorhyming quatrains

Note: See also 5640.

Subjects: Doomsday; dialogues, death and man

Versification: — four-line — aaaa

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 86 (SC 1687), f. 197v-198

First Lines:

Uuen I þenke on domesdai wel sore mai me drede
Þer shal affter his werc eueric fongen mede…

Last Lines:

…ffor his holie nome and for hire swete herendinge
Þat hoe houre soule in to heuene bringe amen

Note: Omitting stanzas 7, 12-15, but adding two stanzas between 10 and 11.

Facsimiles:

Tschann, Judith A., and Malcolm B. Parkes. “Introduction.” Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 EETS s.s. 16 (1996).

Editions:

Stengel, Edmund. Coducem Manu Scriptum Digby 86…. Halle: Orphanotrophei, 1871: 96-101.

2.Source: Oxford, Jesus College 29, Part II, f. 182

Editions:

Morris, Richard, ed. An Old English Miscellany: A Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred and Religious Poems of the Thirteenth Century. EETS o.s. 49 (1872); repr. 1988: 162-85.

3.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College B.14.39 (323), f. 43

Editions:

Brown, Carleton Fairchild, ed. English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1932: 42-6.

4.Source: London, British Library Cotton Caligula A.IX, f. 246vb2-247rb

First Lines:

Hƿenne ich þenche of domes dai
Ful sore mie adrede…

Last Lines:

…For his holi nome and for hire herendinge
þat heo ure saƿle to heouen ge bringe

Note: Written as prose.

Facsimiles:

Digital Facsimile of British Library MS Cotton Caligula A IX. http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Caligula_A_IX.

Editions:

Morris, Richard, ed. An Old English Miscellany: A Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred and Religious Poems of the Thirteenth Century. EETS o.s. 49 (1872); repr. 1988: 162-85.

Brown, Carleton Fairchild, ed. English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1932: 42-6.

Wright, Thomas, ed. The Owl and the Nightingale. Percy Society 11. London: Richard, 1843: 67-80.

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