Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 928

DIMEV 928

IMEV 565

NIMEV 565

By deeds of Dyane I swear to thee

A wedding oath, a tag in the Fasciculus morum — one couplet translating ‘Iuro tibi sane per mistica sacra Dyane / Me tibi nupturam sponsam comitemque futuram’, which precedes it

Subjects: marriage, oath for; sermons, verse in; oaths; translations

Versification: — two-line — aa

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 410 (SC 2305), f. 24v

Transcription:

By dedys of dyane I swere to þe
Her after to take & wedde þe

Note: Written as prose.

2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 213 (SC 1045), f. 33v

Transcription:

By dedes of dyane I swere to þe
Here after to take & wedde þe

Note: Written as prose.

3.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 111 (SC 1550), f. 97v

Transcription:

Be dedys of dyane I swere to the
Here after to taken and wedden the

Note: Written as prose.

4.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson C.670 (SC 12514), f. 44

Transcription:

By dedes of [dyane] I swere to the
Her aftur to take and wedde the

Editions:

Silverstein, Theodore, ed. Medieval English Lyrics. York Medieval Texts. London: Edw. Arnold, 1971: 97.

5.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 71/38, f. 33v

Transcription:

By þe ath þat I swere to þe
here after to take & wedd þe

6.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 364/619, f. 39rb

Transcription:

Be dedys of diane I swere to þe
here after to taken & wedde þe

7.Source: Durham, Durham University Library Cosin V.iv.2, f. 23

Transcription:

By dedys of dyane I swere to þe
Her after to take and to wedde the

8.Source: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library 82, f. 52v

Transcription:

By dedes of dyane I swere to the
here after to take and wedde the

9.Source: Lincoln, Lincoln Cathedral Library 44 (A.2.13), f. 175rb

Transcription:

By dedys of dyan y swere to þe
here aftir to take and wedde þe

10.Source: Spalding, Lincolnshire, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society M.J.B.14 [olim Maurice Johnson No. LIV], f. 47

Transcription:

Be bedes of diane I swere to the
here after to take and wed þe

Note: Written as prose.

11.Source: Worcester, Worcester Cathedral Library F.19, f. 77va

Transcription:

By þe othe þat y swere þo to þe
here after to take & wedde me

Note: Written as prose.

12.Source: Rome, Vatican Ottoboni 626, f. 25v

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