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THE Poems of Laurence Minot Have Been Preserved in a Single Manuscript of the Cottonian Collection, Galba, E This book belongs to THE CAMPBELL COLLECTION purchased with the aid of The MacDonald-Stewart Foundation and The Canada Council CAMPBELL COLLECTION THE POEMS OF LAURENCE MINOT OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY HUMPHREY M1LFORD M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY THE POEMS OF LAURENCE MINOT EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY JOSEPH HALL, M.A. HON. D.LITT., DURHAM UNIVERSITV ' ' PQ dedes of J>er hondes ]>orgh reames er ronnen THIRD EDITION OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1914 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION vii POEMS . ..... i NOTES -/ . .' . -, 37 APPENDIX , . 101 NOTES ON APPENDIX . ... 123 GLOSSARY . 130 : INDEX OF NAMES . i '-\. ... ). 153 WORDS EXPLAINED IN THE NOTES . i . - 155 INTRODUCTION THE Poems of Laurence Minot have been preserved in a single Manuscript of the Cottonian Collection, Galba, E. ix. It is a large parchment folio, written in two columns to the page. The following is a table of its contents : f. i a. Blank. On the verso is written Chaucer, Exemplar emendate scriptum, an inscription which led Tyrwhitt to look into the MS. and discover these poems (Ritson's Minot, pp. vii, viii). f. 2. A leaf inserted from a book of Hours, probably when the book was bound for Sir Robert Cotton. f. 3 a. Seven lines of the poem on the siege of Calais, which is written in full at the end of the MS., also an inventory of linen. The verso is blank. f. 4 a. 'Here bigyns Ywaine & Gaw-in,' printed in Rit- son's Metrical Romances, vol. i. pp. 1-169; an^ Ywain and Gawain, ed. Gustav Schleich. Oppeln und Leipzig, 1887. f. a. 'Ywain and makes God 25 Gawayn Jms endyng | grant vs al hys der^ blyssing, Amen.' ' f. b. of 25 Here bigyns }>e pn?ces J>e seuyn sages,' printed in The Seven Sages of Rome, ed. Killis Campbell. Boston, 1907. ' f. 48 b. A poem of 94 lines, beginning Al es bot a fanttuw J)t [we] with ffare, vs be houes ilka day hejjen make us forto wend fra werld naked & bare bot ^are | j)is | our wyndyng clathe with outen any gare,' printed in Englische Studien, xxi. pp. 201-204; and in Horst- man's Richard Rolle, ii. pp. 457, 8. f. 49 a. 'Here bigins prophecies of Merlin,' see pp. 103- III. Vlll INTRODUCTION 1 f. 50 b. 'Incipit narracio de domino denario [Sir Peny], printed in Ritson's Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry, Second Edition, pp. 103-108 ; Wright's Latin Poems of Walter and Mapes (Camden Society), pp. 359-61 ; Englische Studien, xxi. pp. 204-207. ' f. 51 b. A Rood Poem with the heading, Vos qui tr^nsitis : si crimina flere uelitis P<?^me tnmsite : sum | qui janua vite Bides a while and haldes and heres | ^oure pais what God him seluen sais on | hingand j>e rode,' printed in xxi. in Horst- Englische Studien, pp. 207-209 ; and man's Richard Rolle, ii. p. 457. At the end is written in a later hand ' de domino denario mani not | thinges to be reiected.' | f. 52 a. Minot's poems. * f. 57 b. Hie incipit euangelium nichodemi,' printed in the Middle-English Harrowing of Hell and Gospel of Nicodemus, ed. W. H. Hulme. E. E. T. S., E. S., no. C. London, 1907. (Contains a description of the MS., pp. xxii-xxv.) f. 67 a. A poem on the Seven Deadly Sins, printed in Cursor Mundi, pp. 1527-51. f. 69 a. A poem on Penance, printed in Cursor Mundi, pp. 1560-86. f. 73 b. A metrical exposition of the Lord's Prayer, also printed in Cursor Mundi, pp. 1437-55. This ends on f. a the verso is blank. 75 ; f. 76 a. The Pricke of Conscience, which has been taken by Dr. Morris as the basis of his edition of Hampole's poem printed for the Philological Society. f. H3b. The fly-leaf has some notes on the points of a ' horse, beginning, A horss hath xxv propertes \a\. ys to he hath off a of an ox.' Re- say | iiij lyon | iiij (See liquiae Antiquae, i. p. 232, for a similar scrap.) Then follows, in a later hand, a poem on the siege of Calais in it is in vol. ii. 1400 ; printed Reliquiae Antiquae, pp. 21-24. On the back of f. 144 is written Richard Chawfer (? for Chawser), from which was no doubt copied the misleading title of the volume. INTRODUCTION IX The handwriting of the MS. is of the first twenty years of the 1 fifteenth century . The evidence afforded by the poem printed at p. 101 would be in favour of a date immediately before the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. For the enthusiastic partisan of the conspirators against Henry the Fourth would hardly have written in such a strain after the battle which shattered the hopes of his party. At the utmost we cannot carry the composition of the concluding portion of this piece down later than 1407, and it is difficult to conceive of its being copied as it stands later than the date which marks the definitive triumph of Henry the Fourth. The Poems were printed for the first time by Ritson in 1795. The title-page of this scarce book is as follows : Poems on Interesting Events in the reign of King Edward III. written, in the year MCCCLII. by Laurence Minot. With a preface, disser- tations, notes and a glossary. London : Printed by T. Bensley, for T. Egerton, Whitehall, 1795. The editor's name does not appear anywhere in the volume. The preface is followed by two dissertations, (i) On the Scottish wars of King Edward III, and (2) On the Title of King Edward III to the Crown of France. The text follows the MS. closely and accurately. Pages 55-151 are occupied by notes, mostly historical, and largely consisting of extensive quotations from Berners' trans- lation of Froissart. The glossary, pp. 153-173, is followed by six pages of corrections and additional notes. A second edition, practically a reprint, was issued in 1825, with Ritson's name on the title. The poems were again printed by Wright, in his Political Poems and Songs relating to English History, where they occupy pp. 58-91 of the first volume. Lastly, they have been edited by Dr. Wilhelm Scholle as the fifty-second volume of Quellen und Forschungen, Strassburg. His book contains an 1 ' Seems to have been written in the time of Richard II or towards the close of the fourteenth century; and not, as [appeared to Warton, who knew nothing of the age of MSS. and probably never saw this, "in the reign of King Henry the Sixth,"' Ritson, Metrical Romances, iii. p. 229. Wright thinks we owe our copy of the poems to the interest awakened in the exploits of Edward the Third by Henry the Fifth's successes in France. (Political Poems, i. p. xxii.) X INTRODUCTION elaborate grammatical and metrical study of the poems, a normalized text, and a few notes. The first four songs are also edited i. the second and by Matzner, Sprachproben, pp. 320-7 ; ninth by Wiilker in his Altenglisches Lesebuch, i. pp. 77-80, the the first 108 lines of the seventh 159-61 ; third, fourth, and by Morris and Skeat, in Specimens of Early English, Part ii. pp. 126-37, 315-17; the first three by Emerson, in A Middle English Reader. A dissertation, principally on the grammar and historical interest of the author, was published by F. J. l Bierbaum at Halle in 1876 . A study of the Poems in their historic setting was contributed to the Programm of the Konigs- berg Realgymnasium by Max Dangel in 1888. Of the writer, nothing is known beyond his name, which he has given us in v. i and vii. 20. No further information can be gleaned from his poems about himself. He probably mentions a friend of his in v. 59. Three of his poems are connected with Yorkshire the of Baliol was ; expedition Edward organized there, and best chronicled by some monk connected with Meaux and in the Battle of Neville's Cross he a Bridlington ; gives special mention to the Archbishop of York, and in the last ballad he celebrates the exploit of a Yorkshire man. But in the absence of direct information about the author, it may be worth while to set down what is known about his of the same it some more contemporaries name ; may help fortunate searcher. The Minot family was, in the 1 4th century, connected mainly with the counties of York and Norfolk. Sir John Minot appears in a return of 1324 as a knight of York- shire (Parliamentary Writs, ii. p. 1174). In the first year of Edward the Third's reign he held three parts of a knight's fee in the Manor of Thresk from John Lord Mowbray (Calend. in Inquisit. post Mortem, ii. p. 6). In 1327, while resident the Wapentake of Brudeforth (Birdforth, N. Riding), he is asso- ciated with William Darrell in raising forces for Edward's 1 See also, ten Brink, English Literature (Eng. translation), i. pp. 322-4; Professor Herford's article in the Dictionary of National and in fri.ihmit.tel- Biography ; Alois Brandl, Spielmannsverhaltnisse englischer Zeit (Sitzungsberichte der k. prenssischen Akademie), xli. (1910). INTRODUCTION XI Scottish expedition of that year (Rotuli Scotiae, i, p. 223 a, and p. 657 a). He obtained a grant of free warren in Carlton, Calton, Hoton and Skipton-upon-Swale, in 1333 (Calend. Rot. Chart, p. 167).
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