• The Auchinleck Manuscript

þere., Anon ase þe apostles seghen,, Seint John wep wiȝ his eghen,, þai weren amaid alle., ‘John’ quad Peter ‘leue fere,, Whi makst þous foule chere,, What is þe bifalle?’, ‘Peter’ quad John ‘iwis,, Formest þou sschalt telle me þis:,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

of other versions of the so-called Battle Abbey Roll and the relation between the Auchinleck text and that published by John Leland in his De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea, see Smyser and the study by the Duchess of Cleveland, who resided

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Additional MS 36983. Manchester, John Rylands MS 45388 (Engl. 50). St John's College Cambridge MS 256. Bodleian Library MS 29430 (Additional C.220). Note: Morrill does not list four of the manuscripts (BL Add. 36983, Manchester John Rylands 45388, St John's

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

How þis child mourning sit?, Mete and drink he forȝit., Litel he eteȝ and lasse he drinkeȝ;, He nis no marchaunt as me þinkeȝ.’, To Florice þan spak ȝhe, ‘Child, ful of mourning I þe se,, þus far herinne þis

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

he nemnede þous þo., þe heremite, þat was holi of lif,, Hadde a soster þat was a wif;, A riche marchaunt of þat countre, Hadde hire ispoused into þat cite., To hire þat schild he sente þo, Bi his knaue

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þat loueȝ his hale,, Lestne wel Catones tale:, A burgeis was in Rome toun,, A riche man of gret renoun., Marchaunt he was of gret auoir, & had a wif was queint and fair., But sche was fikel vnder hir

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 11-line stanzas, rhyming ababababcbc. Ninth line is a single-stress bob which the copyist places in various positions. 3344 lines including lacunae (2 lines on f.281va, 12 lines on f.281vb, and 2 lines on f.285vb). Ends imperfect.

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

of the poem. A transcript of the opening 62 lines of a version of the poem was made by John Stow in the late 15th century, BL Harley MS 6223. A transcript of Auchinleck was made c.1800 for Sir Walter