Lydgate's Minor Poems by Glauning Otto;

Author:Glauning, Otto;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

NOTES.

POEM I.

p. 1, line i. About this opening in prose compare Introduction, § 8.

l. iii. swan̄] See Gattinger, p. 67.

l. v. With regard to the different ecclesiastical terms compare C. Horstmann, Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge; Heilbronn, 1881, Introduction, and Emil Feiler, Das Benediktiner-Offizium, ein altenglisches Brevier aus dem 11. Jahrhundert. Ein Beitrag zur Wulfstanfrage (Anglistische Forschungen 4), Heidelberg, 1901, p. 11ff.

‘Horae,’ hours, in the sense of the old Christian Church, means not only the hours of devotion, but the divine service itself, celebrated in these hours. Generally seven are mentioned—1. Nocturn, 2. Matins, 3. Prime, 4. Tierce, 5. Sexte, 6. Nones, 7. Vespers. As Prime was not observed everywhere, 8. Compline (completorium) was added in the 6th century, in order to get the full number of seven hours of divine service, as this number was considered to be commanded by the psalm cxviii, 164: ‘Septies in die laudem dixi tibi.’

l. vii. tercia] In the MS. there is a flourish attached to this word, similar to those which in Latin MSS. signify the termination of the gen. plur. -rum; see H. l. 353: Canticorum. As this expansion would be mere nonsense here, I have omitted this sign altogether.

l. xv. Crucifige] occurs in the part which is dedicated to Tierce, l. 308.

p. 2, st. 1–4. The order of thoughts is as follows: The poet sends the little book to the Duchess, to present itself to her and to beseech her that she will take and keep it, till she gather her courtiers around her. These were always inclined to listen to the song of the “amerouse” nightingale, interpreting her song in a worldly way. Therefore the Duchess ought to read them the poet’s song of the “gostly” nightingale, to drive their idle thoughts out of their hearts, which otherwise would be conquered again by the charms of the fresh month of May.

p. 2, l. 1. About “Go, lityll quayere … ” see Introduction, § 6, and Schick, T. G. note to l. 1393.

dresse] instead of “adresse”; compare H. ll. 204, 226, 227, 229, 239, 265, 317, which I also do not consider as type E. This dropping of a first unaccented syllable often occurs in Lydgate. M. P. 12 (‘rayed), 174, 175 (‘mong); Schick, T. G. 875 (longiϸ); Steele, Secrees, 526 (cordith); Falls, 143 b 2 (Gynneth); Pilgr. 1165 (cordyng). Compare also Skeat, Chaucer, iii, L. o. g. W. B. 359 (parteth = departeth) and v, Addenda, p. 493, note to l. A. 3287 (do wey, go wey = away).

l. 2. wyth humble reuerence] See Æsop (Zupitza) 271:

The lambe answerd with humble reuerence.

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