A Mumming at London:
Trinity R.3.20 Verses
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Folio 30 Recto (page 61)
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Cardinale vertues •Of alle vertues she is
pryncesse •
ffor by þe scales / of hir balaunces •
Sheo sette hem alle in
gouuernaunces •
She putteþe a syde / it is no dreede •
ffrensħip fauour and al kyns meede •
ffor rigħtful doome may not beo bougħt •
And Rigħtwysnesse Who can
espye •
Haþe neyþer hande ner yegħe •
She loste hir hande ful yore agoone •
ffor she resceyueþe gyfftes noone •
Noþer of freonde / neyþer of foo •
And she haþe lost hir sigħt al soo •
ffor of rigħt sheo dooþe provyde •
Nougħt for to looke on neyþer syde •
To hyegħe estate / ner lowe degree •
But dooþe to boþen al equytee •
And makeþe noon excepcyoun •
To neyþer part but of Raysoun •
And for þe pourpos of þis mater •
Of a Iuge yee shal heere •
Whicħ neuer his lyff of entent •
Þer passed no Iugement •
By his lippes of falsnesse •
Of whome þe story dooþe expresse •
Affter his deeþe / by acountes cleer •
More þane three hundreþe yeer •
His body as is made mencyoun •
Þe story telleþe it is no dreed •
But lyche a Roos / swoote an reed •
Mouþe and lippes werne yfounde •
Nougħt corrupte / but hoole and sounde •
In alle hees doomes of Ritħwysnesse •
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ffor þis lady / witħ þeos
balaunce • Notes
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To modern eyes this looks like an "m," but comparing it with the "r" glyph in "story" at line 28 or "three" at line 30 clarifies that this is an "r." ↩
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The EETS edition separates these but does not provide indication, as it does with the "to-" prefix elsewhere, that this is an editorial decision. While this is not necessarily wrong based on the example in BL Add. 29729 treating it as a plural flows better with the sense of the line. Additionally, it is another example of MacCracken making an editorial decision and not indicating that he's done so or his reasoning. This is important in this case because it's possible this is meant to be a plural form of the word rather than the noun followed by a verb. Compare this with "Iugementis" on the third line of the following page. Additional 29729 has "truth" without "is" or any indication that this is a plural form, but with only two witnesses the reasoning should be explained. ↩
The work on this manuscript witness was generously sponsored by a ZKS-Lendrum Fellowship in the Scientific Study of Manuscripts and Inscriptions at the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University. The transcription of this work is owned by the editor and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The images are owned by the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge and are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.