Say Me, Viit in the Brom
Say Me, Viit in the Brom
Original Text
Trinity College Cambridge MS. 323, fol. 28r. Carleton Brown, ed., English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932): No. 21, pp. 32, 180-81. Carleton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins, The Index of Middle English Verse (New York, 1943): no. 3078. Z 2012 B86 General Reference Robarts Library.
3That min hosebonde
4Me louien wolde.
Notes
1] Say me: tell me. viit: wight, fellow. brom: yellow-flowered shrub or brushwood common to English pasture land. Back to Line
2] wou: how. sule: should. don: do, behave. Back to Line
5] tunke: tongue. Back to Line
6] haw: have. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1932
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2002
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