Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 6755

DIMEV 6755

IMEV 4204

NIMEV 4204

With this ring I wed thee / and with this gold

The Marriage Pledge, generally found in most Manuals, in the Ordo ad facienda Sponsalia — in monorhyming lines

Note: Other manuals have a less rhythmical version of the Pledge; there are many printed Manuals with the tag; a York Manual is printed Henderson (1875)

XHenderson, W. G. Manuale et processionale ad usum insignis ecclesiae Eboracensis Surtees Society 63 (1875)

, xvi, 27; and a Welsh Manual, ib.168.

Subjects: marriage

Versification: — monorhyme

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson liturg. e.41 (SC 15840)

2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson liturg. e.44 (SC 15841)

3.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson liturg. d.5 (SC 15847)

4.Source: Oxford, University College 78

5.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ee.4.19, f. 24

Transcription:

Wyth þis ryng I wedde þe
And wyth þis gold and siluere I honoure þe
and wyth þis gyfte I dow þe

6.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Mm.1.15

7.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Mm.3.21, ff. 220rb-220va

Transcription:

With þis ryng ich þe wedde
and with my body ich þe honoure
and with al my golf iche þe dowe

8.Source: Cambridge UK, Peterhouse 222, f. ii

Transcription:

Wyth þis ryng y þe weddede
& þis gold & seluer y þe ȝeue
& wyth my body y þe worschepe
& wyth al my wordelyche catel y þe honoure

Note: Prosified and extended version

9.Source: London, British Library Addit. 30506, f. 27v

Transcription:

With þis ryng I þe wedde
and þis gold and siluer I þe ȝeue
and with al myn bodi I the worschepe
and with al myn wordlich catel I the honowre

Note: Written as prose

10.Source: Untraced, Present whereabouts unknown olim Coughton Court, sold Christie’s, 20 Dec. 1972

11.Source: Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Widener Library MS 1 [olim Brough Hall], f. 62v

Transcription:

Wyth þis ryng I wed[ ] þe
and wyth þis gold and syluere I honour þe
and wyth my gyftys I dow þe

12.Source: York, York Minster Library XVI.M.4, f. 20

Transcription:

Wyth þis ryng I wed þe
and wyth þis golde and siluer I honor þe
and with þis gyfte I dowe þe

Editions:

Henderson, W. G., ed. Manuale et processionale ad usum insignis ecclesiae Eboracensis Surtees Society 63 (1875): xvi, 27.

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