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penitential impulse (as well as learned origins and the same 8-line abababab stanza form). Several other works in these later quires of Ashmole 61 also brood over mortality and the afterlife, most notably The Sinners Lament, The Adulterous Falmouth Squire,
speech, eating, and drinking, the Morning Prayer also suggests close connections to the courtesy material earlier in the first three quires, including Stans Puer ad Mensam and Dame Courtesy (items 7 and 8). Text These two poems appear together in
Sorrow" (IMEV 482) Anonymous, "The Lufaris Complaynt" (IMEV 564) Anonymous, "The Quare of Jealousy" (IMEV 3627.5) These poems fill three quires of the manuscript, 15 to 17, fols. 190-224, with The Kingis Quair taking up most of the first two.
the preceding text, How the Wise Man Taught His Son, and to the other conduct literature of the first three quires. This includes The Ten Commandments (item 6), and perhaps even the late addition of The Rules for Purchasing Land
text that follows, How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter, as well as the other items in the first three quires that concern proper manners (items 7 and 8) and fundamental Christian ethics (item 6). More broadly, the stanzas on
respectability, as well as its denunciation of drunkenness, the text closely relates to the behavioral treatises of the first three quires, including How the Wise Man Taught His Son, How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter, and Dame Courtesy (items
between the prose Life of Alexander and the alliterative Morte Arthure. The first two quires and most of the third contain Alexander. The fourth through sixth quires contain Morte Arthure, beginning on the first recto (fol. 53a). The third quire
targeted by How the Wise Man Taught His Son (item 3) and the other conduct literature of the first three quires. Text The text is quite corrupt, with some errors attributable to Rate and some to previous scribal practice. Ashmole
some clue. In the fifteenth-century book trade, publishers would sometimes "have poems or groups of related poems copied in loose quires which would then be held in stock and bound up to the taste of specific customers." 4 Lydgate's works
s.d. than come ther. So MS, Bl, Bev, PP. S: supplies xal after ther. 1 ff. Passion Play 2 (comprising quires S and T, and different paper than used for Passion Play 1) begins with fol. 164, which has signs
copied in 1489, forms the first. The Wallace is written on 124 vellum leaves, in single columns, distributed into 6 quires.] Early Printed Editions The Actis and Deidis of the Illuster and Vail3eand Campioun, Schir William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerslie.
13 x 82 inches (the original parch-ment sheets fused onto newer vellum sheets) arranged in quires of twelve leaves each, the ends of the quires being indicated by catch-words. The manuscript is written in two columns to the page, 47-48
bottom of fol. 40v are catchwords that xal be savyour. 197724 MS: written on different paper, same as paper for quires FM. 201 imcomparabyl. So MS, Bl, S. MP: incomparabyl. 211 now this. MS: now is this. 212 MS: a
the quires of the manuscript on the assumption that it is complete. Skeat's reconstruction in his edition (pp. is certainly wrong, for by actually counting the lines in Thynne's edition I find that Skeat assigned to the "first 10 quires"
chambre. 32 doif. Thynne: dull. 36 mend. Thynne: made. 40 quair. "Book" or perhaps "gathering," a book consisting of several quires, in which case the allusion might be specifically to Book V of Chaucer's Troilus. 42 worthie. Thynne: lusty. 48
feet, one of whose paws he holds carefully in his right hand. The volume comprises twenty-nine unpaginated leaves, with three quires (numbered ABC) of eight folios each (signed on the first four leaves of each quire), and a fourth quire
left margin mark Ysakar's lines (in a later hand). Clearly an attempt to identify or emphasize Ysakar's speeches for interpolated quires E and F. Fol. 51r is in a different hand, and fols. 1v through 52v (quire E) are blank.
text. Written on vellum leaves measuring 26 x 15 inches, the manuscript is composed of 155 folios, gathered in eight-leaf quires. The script is an Anglicana formata, with the characteristic double-lobed a, e, and g. The letter d is looped.
page of the dramatic script, shows significant wear, especially when compared to the other leaves that make up the three quires containing the Croxton play. This wear is likely the result of that pages having once been on the outside.