Early English Text Society. - Lydgates Minor Poems. the Two Nightingale Poems. Edited by Otto Glauning

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____________ EDITED FROM THE MSS.
WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY
BY
OTTO GLAUNING, PH.D.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY
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1900 Extra Series, LXXX. _________________ RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON & BUNGAY.

Dedicated TO MY PARENTS. ABOUT two generations ago the works of Lydgate were very little known even among scholars in Middle-English literature, and the monk of Bury had little credit as a poet. of the Introduction to his excellent edition of the Temple of Glas. This fundamental work itself stands at the end of this period; and in it, for the first time, nothing has been neglected which could give a vivid picture of Lydgates life and works as a whole; and his qualities as a poet have found a more favourable judgment than before.

The edition of the Temple of Glas has therefore served, in a way, as a basis for all the following publications of works of Lydgate. To give a brief account of the further progress made in the study of Lydgate, I include in the following list all the editions of works of the monk, published in this second period, as far as they have come to my knowledge: STEELE, Robert, Lydgate and Burghs Secrees of old Philisoffres. A version of the Secreta Secretorum. Edited from the Sloane MS. 2464, with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. (Publications of the Early English Text Society, Extra Series, LXVI.) London, 1894.

TRIGGS, Oscar Lovell, The Assembly of Gods: or The Accord of Reason and Sensuality in the Fear of Death by John Lydgate. Edited from the MSS. with Introduction, Notes, Index of Persons and Places, and Glossary. (Publications of the Early English Text Society, Extra Series, LXIX.) London, 1896. KRAUSSER, Emil, Lydgates Complaint of the Black Knight. Text mit Einleitung und Anmerkungen.

Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der philosophischen Doctorwrde der philosophischen Fakultt der Universitt Heidelberg. [Sonderabdruck aus Anglia, Bd. xix.] Halle a. S., 1896. ROBINSON, Fred N., On two Manuscripts of Lydgates Guy of Warwick. v. (Child Memorial Volume.) [Harvard University.] Boston, 1896, pp. 177220. 177220.

SCHLEICH, Gustav, Lydgates Fabula duorum mercatorum. Aus dem Nachlasse des Herrn Prof. Dr. I. Zupitza, Litt.D., nach smtlichen Handschriften herausgegeben. (Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Culturgeschichte der germanischen Vlker.

LXXXIII.) Strassburg, 1897. SKEAT, Walter W., Chaucerian and other pieces. Edited, from numerous manuscripts. Being a supplement to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford, in six volumes, 1894). Oxford, 1897. 8: The Complaint of the Black Knight.No. 9: The Flour of Curtesye.No. 10: A Balade; in Commendation of Our Lady.No. 11: To my Soverain Lady.No. 12: Ballad of Good Counsel.No. 13: Beware of Doubleness.No. 14: A Balade: Warning Men to beware of deceitful Women.No. 15: Three Sayings.No. 22: A Goodly Balade.No. 23: Go forth, King.] HAMMOND, Eleanor P., London Lickpenny in Anglia, xx (1898), p. 404 ff. 404 ff.

Halle, 1898. HAMMOND, Eleanor P., Lydgates Mumming at Hertford in Anglia, xxii (1899), p. 364 ff. Halle, 1899. FURNIVALL, F. 1426, from the French of Guillaume de Deguileville, A.D. 1335. 1335.

Edited Parts I and II (Publications of the Early English Text Society, Extra Series, LXXVII, LXXXIII). London, 1899, 1900. DEGENHART, Max, Lydgates Horse, Goose, and Sheep. Mit Einleitung und Anmerkungen herausgegeben. (Mnchener Beitrge zur Romanischen und Englischen Philologie. Heft xix.) Erlangen und Leipzig, 1900.

BROTANEK, Rudolf, Die Englischen Maskenspiele. (Wiener Beitrge zur Englischen Philologie xv.) Wien, 1902. With the exception of the Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, for the edition of which the students of Middle-English language and literature are infinitely obliged to the labour of Dr. Furnivall, the larger works of the monk still have to wait for critical or even handy editions. Of some of the so-called Minor Poems some accurate editions have been published, as we have mentioned; for the rest the student has still to recur to the edition by Halliwell, which has now turned out to be insufficient for modern researches. Therefore I have not looked upon it as a superfluous task to undertake, with Dr.

Furnivalls approbation, a new edition of Lydgates Minor Poems in critical texts for the Early English Text Society, of which the present two poems are to be the first part. The pleasant, if somewhat difficult task now remains to me to discharge, in this short space, a heavy weight of indebtedness for much kind help received in the course of my work, an agreeable duty, recalling, as it does, much pleasant intercourse not only with books, but with men. I wish to express my gratitude to the authorities and attendants of the British Museum, the Bodleian, and the University Libraries in Cambridge and Leiden, and to the librarians of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Corpus Christi and Pembroke College, Cambridge, for having kindly given me access to their treasures. I also wish to thank very cordially Dr. Furnivall and Mr. Dr. Dr.

Furnivall, and Miss Annie F. Parker of Oxford, have been kind enough to oblige me very much by reading the proofs of the texts with the manuscripts. In more than one respect I have to acknowledge my deep indebtedness to Professor Schick: not only do I thank him for his continued personal interest in this work, but also for his suggestive teaching; the influence of both will be noticed everywhere throughout the following pages. See Ritsons this voluminous, prosaick, and driveling monk, and in truth, and fact, these stupid and fatigueing productions, which by no means deserve the name of poetry, and their stil more stupid and disgusting author, who disgraces the name and patronage of his master Chaucer, are neither worth collecting (unless it be as typographical curiositys, or on account of the beauty-ful illuminations in some of his presentation-copys), nor even worthy of preservation: being only suitablely adapted

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