A Mumming at Hertford:
Trinity R.3.20 Verses
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Folio 24 Verso (Page 48)
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Statuyt vsed / by confirmacyoun •
Processe and daate of tyme oute of mynde •
Recorde of Cronycles witnesse of hir kuynde •
þat wyves fraunchyse stonde hoole and entier •
And þat no man witħ stonde it ne witħdrawe •
Þat þer shoulde by nature in þeyre lyves •
Haue souerayntee / on þeyre prudent wyves •
Let men be ware þer fore / or þey beo bounde •
Þe bonde is harde / who soo þat lookeþe weel •
Some man were leuer fetterd beon in steel •
Raunsoun migħt / help / his peyne to aswaage •
And I knowe neuer nowher fer nor neer •
Man þat Was gladde / to bynde him prysonier •
Þougħe þat his prysoun his castell or his holde •
Was depeynted witħ asure or witħ golde. •
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Explicit • Notes
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It should be noted that unlike in other instances the nota mark appears only in this witness; Add. 29729 carries on with the speech without indicating any sort of new section. ↩
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MacCraken suggests a suspended "e" here, but there is nothing in the manuscript to support such a suspension, nor does it appear in Add. 29729 ↩
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The mark terminating "g" here differs from that seen in other glyphs in the witness. ↩
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This bracketing of "lyueþe" between two virgules happens in both the Trinity R.3.20 witness and in the Add. 29729 witness. It is likely carried over from their shared exemplar. ↩
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