Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 661

DIMEV 661

IMEV 400

NIMEV 400

As much as was worship

A tag in the Fasciculus morum (Foster (1940)

XFoster, Frances Allen. “Some English Words from the Fasciculus Morum.” Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown. Percy Waldron Long New York: NYU Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1940: 149-57

, sermons no.5) — one couplet translating a sermon theme, 1 Macc. 1.42

Subjects: translations

Versification: — two-line — aa

Bibliographic Ghosts: Worcester, Worcester Cathedral Library F.19: not in this MS; Oxford, Lincoln College Lat. 52: not in this MS.

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 187 (SC 2090), f. 216ra

Transcription:

As moche as was hys worschyp
ȝut more was hys shameshep

Note: Written as prose.

2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 332 (SC 2243), f. 189va

Transcription:

Als muche as was his wirship
ȝit more was hys shenshippe

Note: Written as prose.

3.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 213 (SC 1045), f. 208

Transcription:

As myche as was wyrchepe
ȝyt more was ys schenchepe [sic]

Note: Written as prose.

4.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 568 (SC 1117), f. 117rb

Transcription:

As moche as was his worschup
ȝut more was his schameschep

Note: Written as prose.

5.Source: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 218, f. 238v

Transcription:

As moche as was hys worschep
ȝut more was hys schamschep

Editions:

Wenzel, Siegfried. Verses in Sermons: ‘Fasciculus morum’ and Its Middle English Poems. Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1978: 202.

6.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 71/38, f. 98v

Transcription:

As myche os was hys wrschepe
Ȝit more was hys schenchepe

7.Source: Cardiff, Cardiff Public Library MS. 3.174, f. 248v

8.Source: Durham, Durham University Library Cosin V.iv.2, f. 110

Transcription:

Als muche was his worship
ȝet more was his shenshippe

9.Source: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library 82, f. 286v

Transcription:

As mekel as was his wurscippe
Ȝut more was his schamchip

10.Source: Spalding, Lincolnshire, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society M.J.B.14 [olim Maurice Johnson No. LIV], f. 180

Transcription:

Also mekyll was his wirshippe
and yet more was his shameshyppe

Note: Written as prose.

11.Source: Rome, Vatican Ottoboni 626, f. 112v

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