Thys Boke ys On

Anonymous, (1100 - 2010)

Original Text

St. John's College, Oxford, MS 76, fol. 5v; Rossell Hope Robbins, ed., Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952): no. 90, p. 85. PR 1203 S4 1952 Trinity College Library. Carleton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins, eds., The Index of Middle English Verse (New York, 1943): no. 3580. Z 2012 B86 General Reference Robarts Library.

1Thys boke ys on,

2 Crystys curs ys anodyr.

3He that sstellyth the ton,

4 I pray Good send hym the todyr.

Notes

1] At the end of the poem is written "quod [says] Iohannes Wryghtson". on: one (thing). Back to Line

3] ton: one. Back to Line

4] todyr: other. Back to Line

Publication Start Year

1952

RPO poem Editors

Ian Lancashire

RPO Edition

2002

Rhyme

abab