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Whoso well thinks well may say
‘The Myrour of lewed men’ (a translation of the Chateau d’Amour with a Prologue of 14 lines) — 1261 lines in couplets
Note: Cf. 2809, 5131.
Title(s): Chateau d’Amour ; The Myrour of lewed men
Subjects: translations; treatises, devotional; instruction, religious
Versification: — two-line — aa


Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: London, British Library Egerton 927, ff. 1-29
First Lines:
WHo so wele thinkes wele may say
ffor of gode thoghtes comes gode dedes ay…
Last Lines:
…Thrugh his grace & mercy graunt vs that ioye to se
Now thre persones are all on god in trinite
Note: Followed by a couplet stating: ‘A munk made this myror only for lewed mennes sake / Thou that will se saule heke this thi myror thou take’ (f. 28).
Editions:
Cooke, Matthew. R. Grosseteste Carmina Anglo-Normannica. Caxton Society. London: J. R. Smith, 1852: (cf. Holthausen (1892) 393-8).
Hupe, H. “Robert Grosseteste’s Chasteau d’amour.” Anglia 14 (1892): 415-55: 427-55.
Horstmann, Carl, ed. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript, Part 1. EETS o.s. 98 (1892; repr. 1973): 407-42.
Sajavaara, K., ed. The Middle English Translations of Robert Grosseteste’s Chateau d’Amour. Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 32. Helsinki, 1967: 320.