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INTRODUCTION.
XXXI
and from the Fathers in Speculum Christiani.1 Such a
collection the author of our poems utilised. Since the
actual collection employed is not determinable, an attempt
has been made in the notes to trace the sayings to their
originals. Some parallels have also been cited, possibly
to an excessive extent, and it would have been easy to
multiply citations. For Foly of Fulys, 104, cf. Arnulfi
Delicie Cleri, 619 :—
Prudens vix tacite summo subridet ab ore,
In risu fatuus quasi brutus rudit asellus.
Thewis, 63, 64 may be borrowed from Christine de Pisan,
Les enseignemens moraux, 73 :—
Card toy de delit non valable,
Eschives fait deshonnorable.
The debt to proverbial wisdom could also have been illus¬
trated more extensively—e.g., Wyntoun, viii. 3968 ff.:—
Auld men in thare prowerbe sayis,
Pryde gays before and schame alwayis
Folowys this on alsa fast,
And it owretakis at the last, (MS. Royal)
for Thewis, 52. Consail and Teiching, 372, could have been
compared with Christine de Pisan, Prouverbes moraulx,
84:—
Service a Court sy n’est une heritage,
Car souvent fault a petit d’avantaige,
or the form, more or less contemporary, preserved in the
MS. described in Bull. Soc. Anciens Textes, 1889, p. 101
Service de seigneur n’est pas heritage,
Mes ung(e) grant honneur a perillieux uzage.
The publication of the excellent Oxford Dictionary of
1 See also Holmstedt’s edition E.E.T.S. 182. p. 243, footnote 3.
XXXI
and from the Fathers in Speculum Christiani.1 Such a
collection the author of our poems utilised. Since the
actual collection employed is not determinable, an attempt
has been made in the notes to trace the sayings to their
originals. Some parallels have also been cited, possibly
to an excessive extent, and it would have been easy to
multiply citations. For Foly of Fulys, 104, cf. Arnulfi
Delicie Cleri, 619 :—
Prudens vix tacite summo subridet ab ore,
In risu fatuus quasi brutus rudit asellus.
Thewis, 63, 64 may be borrowed from Christine de Pisan,
Les enseignemens moraux, 73 :—
Card toy de delit non valable,
Eschives fait deshonnorable.
The debt to proverbial wisdom could also have been illus¬
trated more extensively—e.g., Wyntoun, viii. 3968 ff.:—
Auld men in thare prowerbe sayis,
Pryde gays before and schame alwayis
Folowys this on alsa fast,
And it owretakis at the last, (MS. Royal)
for Thewis, 52. Consail and Teiching, 372, could have been
compared with Christine de Pisan, Prouverbes moraulx,
84:—
Service a Court sy n’est une heritage,
Car souvent fault a petit d’avantaige,
or the form, more or less contemporary, preserved in the
MS. described in Bull. Soc. Anciens Textes, 1889, p. 101
Service de seigneur n’est pas heritage,
Mes ung(e) grant honneur a perillieux uzage.
The publication of the excellent Oxford Dictionary of
1 See also Holmstedt’s edition E.E.T.S. 182. p. 243, footnote 3.
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| Description | Edited, with an appendix of the other pieces from Cambridge University Library Manuscript. Kk. 1.5, no. 6, by R. Girvan. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood & Sons, 1939. Contents: Introduction.--Ratis raving.--The foly of fulys and the thewis of wysmen.--The consail and teiching at the vys man gaif his sone.--The thewis off gudwomen.--Documenta matris ad filiam.--Notes.--Appendix: 1. The craft of deyng. 2. Maxims of conduct. 3. Chaucer's Balade de bon conseil. 4. Balade attributed to James I. of Scotland. 5. The duty of work. 6. Dicta Salomonis. 7. The vertewis of the mess.--Glossary. 'Ratis raving' has been attributed to David Rate. |
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