1 Inperator. MS: the speaker’s name is written at the top center of the page. Appearing directly to the right of it are the initials M. B., the signature by which Myles Blomefield registered his ownership of the manuscripts of medieval drama in his possession (see Introduction, p. 8).↩back to note source

2 audyens. So MS. BMH: audyeans.↩back to note source

4 be. MS: inserted above the line.↩back to note source

world. MS: word. So also at lines 304, s.d., 305, 380, s.d., 381, 408, s.d., hereafter silently emended.↩back to note source

12 regeons. So MS. BMH: regeouns.↩back to note source

22 porchase. MS has indeterminate letter or blotted error between c and h.↩back to note source

23 am. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

25 pesabyl. MS: s cancelled after this word.↩back to note source

possessyon. So BMH. MS: possesson. ↩back to note source

26 disobedyent. So BMH. MS: obedyent.↩back to note source

28 shall. MS: xal. The scribe commonly used x rather than the digraph sh for [ʃ]. I emend silently hereafter.↩back to note source

32 nat. MS: inserted above the line.↩back to note source

36 weryons. So MS. BMH: weryouns.↩back to note source

38 grocth. So MS, BMH. B: grocch.↩back to note source

or2. MS: altered from on.↩back to note source

40 swyche. MS: indeterminate letter cancelled before this word; BMH identify cancelled letter as w.↩back to note source

45 am I plesyd. So BMH. MS lacks the personal pronoun.↩back to note source

49 kyngges. So BMH. MS: kyggys.↩back to note source

52 commaund. So BMH. MS: commaud.↩back to note source

58 knett. MS: Superscript n. BMH mistakenly identify superscript n in knottys in this line.↩back to note source

caytyfys. So BMH. MS: cayftyys.↩back to note source

63 al. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

66 to me ful trew. So MS. BMH emend as ful trew to me for the sake of rhyme.↩back to note source

71 is. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

72 of beuté. So BMH. MS lacks preposition.↩back to note source

78 Save. Written in margin where MS has cancelled of.↩back to note source

86 kyndnes. MS: d written above the line.↩back to note source

90 plesowns. So MS. BMH: plesowans.↩back to note source

93 Thatt. So MS. BMH: Thou.↩back to note source

96 Owt. MS: superscript t here and throughout, silently emended hereafter.↩back to note source

99 dowttyr. MS: scribe has written abbreviation -ys instead of -yr.↩back to note source

109 Whan ye shal hens passe. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 107 and 108.↩back to note source

110 all. MS: h cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

113 Onto thes ladys of jentylnes. MS: line written to the right of line 112.↩back to note source

121 owit. MS: ow with superscript t; thus emended by B. BMH: wythowt. I have adopted Bevington’s emendation because owit wrech (owed harm) makes grammatical sense in light of the series of “if” clauses that follow this line. Nonetheless, the line may involve some scribal error.↩back to note source

125 in. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

133 Herowdys. MS: indeterminate letter cancelled between w and d.↩back to note source

145 faytours. MS: s written above the line.↩back to note source

148 shal. MS: written above make.↩back to note source

160 governons. So MS. BMH: governouns.↩back to note source

162 me. MS: inserted above the line.↩back to note source

166 ondyrstond. MS: written as two words, with indeterminate letter cancelled between.↩back to note source

175 in lumine tuo. So BMH. MS: in lumine.↩back to note source

176 splendore. So BMH. MS: spelndore.↩back to note source

179 me. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

184 sceptrum de Juda. So BMH. MS: septrum Juda.↩back to note source

185 qui mitendus. So BMH. MS: imitendus.↩back to note source

186 I. So BMH. MS: omitted.↩back to note source

187 dastardys. MS: dastardus.↩back to note source

190 that. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

192 marryd. So BMH. MS: marry.↩back to note source

194 ar. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

200 ondyr. MS: indeterminate letter cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

203 replycacyon. So BMH. MS: replycayon.↩back to note source

205 voys. MS, BMH: woys. B emends as woth.↩back to note source

208, s.d. masengyr. So BMH. MS: omitted.↩back to note source

213 Tyberyus. The scribe frequently writes the -us abbreviation after the letter u, thus rendering the word Tyberyuus. Hereafter I silently omit the redundant u.↩back to note source

218 Forto. So BMH. MS: for.↩back to note source

219 them. So BMH. MS: the.↩back to note source

220 wythin. MS: in inserted over caret.↩back to note source

222 swych. Repeated in MS.↩back to note source

224 perce. So MS. BMH: perce them.↩back to note source

225 wyth. The scribe probably intended wyght (quickly), a word that appears at line 227 and whose meaning is also apt here.↩back to note source

227 wygth. MS: sondwygth.↩back to note source

229 rychesse. So BMH. MS: rychsse.↩back to note source

232 Tyberius. MS: i added above.↩back to note source

234 pregedyse. MS: predy cancelled before.↩back to note source

235 yow. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

236 ye. So BMH. MS: he.↩back to note source

to. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

237 prommyssary. So BMH. MS: prmmyssary.↩back to note source

and. MS: ss cancelled after this word. B: ser.↩back to note source

presedent. So BMH. MS: presdent.↩back to note source

238 inperrowpent. So BMH. MS: inper rowpent. This word exemplifies an obscurity that editors have struggled to explain. My gloss follows BMH, p. 200.↩back to note source

240 what. MS: qwat. I silently emend hereafter.↩back to note source

seye. So BMH. MS: sye.↩back to note source

248, s.d. Her. MS: y cancelled after. Stage directions are written in red from this point to the end of the play.↩back to note source

280 this. So BMH. MS: is.↩back to note source

282 God. MS: me cancelled after.↩back to note source

288 bryng. So BMH. MS: bryg.↩back to note source

292 lyf I. MS: lyf y. B omits personal pronoun.↩back to note source

298 exprese. MS: written in right margin; fulfylle cancelled before.↩back to note source

303 systyr. So BMH. MS: systyrs.↩back to note source

305 evyr. MS: b cancelled after this word.↩back to note source

315 perteynyng. So BMH. MS: altered from perteynyt.↩back to note source

316 mone. MS: sonne cancelled before.↩back to note source

327 dwellyn. So BMH, silently emended. MS: dwellyng. B: be dwellyng.↩back to note source

333, s.d. Kyng. So MS. BMH: Kynge.↩back to note source

Lechery. MS: written above the line at the right margin.↩back to note source

358 pyrles, prykkyd. So MS. B: pirked, prikkyd.↩back to note source

359 yower. So BMH. MS: ower.↩back to note source

362 and. So BMH. MS: omitted.↩back to note source

365 wyth. So BMH, B. Omitted in MS.↩back to note source

may. MS: d cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

387 asemlanus. So MS. BMH: asemlaunvs.↩back to note source

389 Thys tyde. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of line 387.↩back to note source

393 Com as fast as he may ryde. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 390 and 391.↩back to note source

395 masege. MS: ge written above the line.↩back to note source

402 yow. MS: written above line.↩back to note source

404 counseyl. BMH observe that the scribe used the incorrect abbreviation yr for the elided nasal. Similar substitutions occur in the spelling of counsell at lines 412, 421, and 436.↩back to note source

for. So BMH. MS: fo.↩back to note source

405 where. So BMH. MS: whre.↩back to note source

410 ye. MS: send cancelled after.↩back to note source

417 Of that castel beryt the pryse. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 415 and 416.↩back to note source

421 But yf your counseyll may othyrwyse devyse. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 418–20.↩back to note source

422 ye. MS: superscript e.↩back to note source

431 Speaker’s rubric (Satan) repeated at the top of fol. 104v.↩back to note source

436 Syrrys. So BMH. MS: Syrrus. r1 is a superscript.↩back to note source

439, s.d. Mary. So BMH. MS: omitted.↩back to note source

447 debonarius. MS: debonariuus. Letters iu written above the line, not ius noted by BMH.↩back to note source

449 receyve. MS: ve written above the line.↩back to note source

459 yow. MS: yowyow. Repeated yow cancelled after this word.↩back to note source

sportys. MS: d cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

465 betake. So MS, B. BMH: beteche.↩back to note source

469, s.d. seyyng. So BMH. MS: seyyg.↩back to note source

475 is. So BMH. MS: omitted.↩back to note source

478 Grome. So MS, B. BMH: Groine.↩back to note source

480 bettyr. So BMH. MS: berttyr.↩back to note source

490, s.d. galaunt. MS: of cancelled after this word.↩back to note source

493 What. MS: written above cancelled w.↩back to note source

Wene. MS: possibly mene. BMH: mene.↩back to note source

marchant. MS: galaunt cancelled before.↩back to note source

495 sum. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

501 somyr. MS: wyn cancelled before.↩back to note source

508 in. MS: i.↩back to note source

514 drynk. So BMH. MS: dryng.↩back to note source

515 Coryosté. MS: repeated at top of fol. 107v as Coriosté.↩back to note source

525 womanly. MS: m written over l, but cancellation noted by BMH may be the nasal abbreviation.↩back to note source

531 Mary Maudleyn. MS: Coriosté cancelled before speech marker.↩back to note source

535 sen. MS: seyn cancelled before.↩back to note source

536 love ye. So MS, B. BMH: love ye thos.↩back to note source

538 am. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

539 My love in yow gynnyt to close. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 537 and 538.↩back to note source

546 To dye for your sake. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 544 and 545.↩back to note source

563 semlyest. So BMH. MS: semyest.↩back to note source

585 nere. MS: nye cancelled before.↩back to note source

589 wol. MS: inserted above the line.↩back to note source

590 veryabyll. MS: a added above.↩back to note source

593 lust. So BMH. MS: lost.↩back to note source

597 in. MS: inserted above the line.↩back to note source

600 mercy. MS: ye cancelled before.↩back to note source

614, s.d. Leprus. MS: written below the line in the right margin.↩back to note source

622 wythinne. MS: ne inserted above the line.↩back to note source

630 syt. MS: altered from set.↩back to note source

637 hope is perhenuall. So BMH. MS: hope perhenuall.↩back to note source

640, s.d. Jhesus dicit. MS: repeated at top of fol. 109v.↩back to note source

642 repast. So BMH. MS: rpast.↩back to note source

650 well. So BMH. MS: woll.↩back to note source

658 man. MS: written below the line at the right margin.↩back to note source

659 Symond. MS: Jhesus cancelled before.↩back to note source

662 quesson. So MS. BMH: quessyon.↩back to note source

665 al. So MS. BMH: all.↩back to note source

670 entent. MS: in before this word.↩back to note source

674 conscyens. MS: e added above.↩back to note source

676 wrecchednesse. So MS. BMH note alteration of e to ss.↩back to note source

684 wyl. So MS. BMH: wyll.↩back to note source

686 contrysson. So MS. BMH: contryssyon.↩back to note source

689 porchasyd. MS: l cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

693 tyme. MS: my cancelled before.↩back to note source

694 dred. MS: written below the line at the right margin.↩back to note source

695 thi. MS: I was cancelled before.↩back to note source

701 contrysson. So MS. BMH: contryssyon.↩back to note source

705 omnipotency. So BMH. MS: omipotency.↩back to note source

706 governons. So MS. BMH: governouns.↩back to note source

708 devyn. MS: dey cancelled before.↩back to note source

709 And. MS: ad cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

723 to. MS: inserted above line.↩back to note source

725, s.d. dyvllys. MS: v written above.↩back to note source

727 Tercius. So MS. BMH silently emend: Rex.↩back to note source

728 judycyal-lyke. MS: d cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

731 Primus. So MS. BMH silently emend: Rex. Also at lines 735, 740, and 744.↩back to note source

736 wreke. So BMH. MS: wroke.↩back to note source

738 hym. MS: y altered from e.↩back to note source

739, s.d. serve. MS and BMH: serva.↩back to note source

741 lordeynnys. MS: the cancelled before.↩back to note source

744 fals. So BMH. MS: ffals written below the line.↩back to note source

754 deversarye. MS: de added above the line.↩back to note source

768 Mary Maudleyn. MS: Mary MMary M. Repeated Mary M cancelled. BMH emend silently as Magdalen; also at lines 784, 815, 824, 834, 889, 894.↩back to note source

787 gete. MS: written above the line.↩back to note source

791 prophet. So BMH. MS: prophe.↩back to note source

hatt. MS: inserted above the line.↩back to note source

793 yower. So BMH. MS: yow.↩back to note source

803 impossyble. So BMH. MS: inpossible.↩back to note source

815 Lord. MS: c cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

817 weyys. MS: e inserted above.↩back to note source

823, s.d. Mortuus. So BMH. MS: mortuis. This is one of a few stage directions written in the right margin.↩back to note source

831 drewyn. It is unclear if this w is orthographically the same as v, the option B chooses. In either case there is little difference between being drewyn (drawn) and drevyn (driven) down by death.↩back to note source

836 be. MS: inserted above the line.↩back to note source

845, s.d. Lay him in. MS: written in right margin.↩back to note source

846 cogynysson. So MS. BMH: cognyssyon.↩back to note source

851 chyldyurn. So BMH. B: childyrne. MS: chyldynre.↩back to note source

853 Dissipulus. So MS. BMH: Dissipulys.↩back to note source

volunté. MS: w cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

865 I. So MS, BMH. B: omits.↩back to note source

867 Wherfor. So BMH. MS: whefor.↩back to note source

868, s.d. The scribe has squeezed the stage direction between lines 868 and 869.↩back to note source

876 thysse. MS: written below the line at right margin.↩back to note source

888 from. MS: fro cancelled before.↩back to note source

889 rythewys. MS: thow cancelled before.↩back to note source

equité. MS: written below the line at right margin.↩back to note source

891 be. MS: written below the line at right margin.↩back to note source

892 Good. MS: o inserted above word.↩back to note source

894 monument. So BMH. MS: moment.↩back to note source

895 that. MS: that and another indeterminate letter cancelled before; BMH identify cancelled letter as o.↩back to note source

ye. MS: the cancelled before.↩back to note source

900 remeve. MS: remembyr cancelled before.↩back to note source

902, s.d. The scribe has again squeezed the stage direction between two lines of the spoken text.↩back to note source

904 glory. MS: written below the line.↩back to note source

909 me. MS: inserted over caret. Ink is badly smudged at the beginning of this line.↩back to note source

912 wondyre. MS: b cancelled between n and d.↩back to note source

913 nothyng. So BMH. MS: nothyg.↩back to note source

916 away. MS: was cancelled between a and w.↩back to note source

921 yower. MS: ower cancelled before.↩back to note source

928 Obedyenly. MS: Why lowt ye natt lo cancelled before.↩back to note source

937 the. MS: y cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

so bold. MS: written below the line at the right margin.↩back to note source

944 losty. So MS. BMH indicate here possibility of lofty.↩back to note source

lyon. MS: written below line at the right margin.↩back to note source

949 O, my blysse, in beuteus bryght. MS: line written to the right of lines 946–48.↩back to note source

957 plesant. MS: pleȝant. Here and elsewhere for the s the scribe has written the yogh for intervocalic s (/z/) . See also lines 1304, 1490, 1503, 1505, 1513, 1519, 1539, 1547, 1585, 1689.↩back to note source

959 ruby. So BMH. MS: rubu.↩back to note source

960 plesaunt. So BMH. MS: pleaunt.↩back to note source

my. MS: l before, incorrectly cited by BMH as cancelled.↩back to note source

962, s.d. a dylle. MS: inserted above the line.↩back to note source

963 yelle. MS: e cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

966 brasse. MS: written below the line at the right margin.↩back to note source

967 blase. MS: written below the line at the right margin.↩back to note source

968 asondyr. MS: letter y altered from e or vice versa.↩back to note source

972 passon. So MS. BMH silently emend: passyon.↩back to note source

973 On. So BMH. MS: O.↩back to note source

979 wrowth. MS: written above cancelled wethe.↩back to note source

983 atrey. MS: indeterminate letter cancelled between a and t.↩back to note source

985 Yet. So BMH. MS: ye.↩back to note source

eye. MS: ye cancelled before.↩back to note source

986 everychon. MS: written below the line at the right margin.↩back to note source

992 in fine. So MS. BMH note that the abbreviation employed here could also mean in sum, the option they and B choose. But in fine better comports with the idiom and meaning of the devil’s speech.↩back to note source

992, s.d. passon. So MS. BMH: passyon.↩back to note source

upon. So MS. BMH: ypon.↩back to note source

Mawdlyn. So MS. BMH: Mawdleyn. My examination of the manuscript concurs with BMH’s observation that the “red line drawn through [the] first line of directions” was “apparently” not intended to cancel it. This line resembles other red lines drawn at the tops of pages to mark the upper margin (e.g., see folios 119r and 121v). The scribe appears, however, to have written the first line of the stage direction over the red line, not the reverse as suggested by BMH.↩back to note source

997 Mary Jacobe. So BMH, expanding silently here and elsewhere. MS: M Jacobe.↩back to note source

998 Jewys. MS, BMH: jevys. Inserted above the line.↩back to note source

1001 Mary Salome. So BMH, expanding silently here and elsewhere. MS: M Salome.↩back to note source

intollerabyll. So BMH. MS: s cancelled after this word.↩back to note source

1003 haddyst. MS: hast cancelled before.↩back to note source

1004 is. MS: inserted above the line.↩back to note source

1004, s.d. folowyng. MS: yng inserted above the line.↩back to note source

The speech marker M Maudleyn is cancelled in the right margin. I adopt at line 1005 the emended speech marker of BMH, which calls for all three Marys to speak.↩back to note source

1007 Mannys sowle to bye from all thraldam. So MS. BMH emend for consistency of rhyme: Mannys sowle from all thraldam to bye.↩back to note source

1008 in. MS: shold a be cancelled after. BMH: in peyne shold a be boun.↩back to note source

1011 Mary Maudleyn. MS: M Magdleyn. BMH expand silently here and at lines 1031, 1055, 1059, 1063, 1070, 1078, s.d. 1095, etc.↩back to note source

1015 Mary Jacobe. MS: Speaker’s rubric omitted here. I concur with the logic of BMH’s emendation, which is based on the three Marys sequenced responses at this moment in the play. The red lines that precede and follow the speech at lines 1015–18 appear regularly in the manuscript to divide speeches by different speakers. B does not note a change of speaker here.↩back to note source

1017 mynd. So BMH. MS: myd.↩back to note source

1019 boundys. MS: v cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1022, s.d. angelys. MS: angelus. BMH observe the scribe’s erroneous abbreviation. The scribe has clearly employed the same -us abbreviation that we see in the speakers’ rubrics at lines 1023 and 1027 and in gracyus at line 1016 and precyus at line 1018. A comparison with the final words in these lines (wound[ys] and stoundd[ys], respectively) illustrates the scribe’s distinction between -us and -ys. The correct form in the stage direction would produce the plural angel[ys]. Elsewhere the scribe confuses angelus and angelys; for example, see line 2066 and 2077.↩back to note source

1023 Angelus. So MS. BMH: Primus Angelus.↩back to note source

1026 Go. MS: written above cancelled go.↩back to note source

1039 inward. MS, BMH: invard.↩back to note source

1046, s.d. Here. So BMH. MS: how.↩back to note source

1047 [Petyr]. The MS identifies no speaker here. BMH and B emend.↩back to note source

1053 seyd. MS: d written above word.↩back to note source

resurrexon. So MS. BMH: resurrexyon.↩back to note source

1054 MS: speaker’s rubric Jhon repeated here at top of fol. 119v.↩back to note source

1056 and. MS: inserted above the line.↩back to note source

1058 Wom sekest. MS: indeterminate letters inserted above the line, and cancelled, between these words; BMH identify cancelled letters as st.↩back to note source

1060, s.d. Hic aparuit Jhesus. MS: written in right margin.↩back to note source

1068 I. MS: inserted above the line.↩back to note source

1077 hevnly. So BMH. MS: hevly.↩back to note source

1078 fyrst. MS: fr cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1079 Symoud. So MS. BMH: Symound.↩back to note source

gardenyr. MS: first letter blotted; g added above.↩back to note source

1083 fowle. So BMH. MS: flowle. Scribe may have cancelled the superfluous letter l.↩back to note source

1086 Mary Maudleyn. MS: J cancelled before unnormalized manuscript speech marker, M Magdleyn.↩back to note source

1091 posybylyté. So BMH. MS: posybyle.↩back to note source

1096 systyrs. So BMH. MS: systyr.↩back to note source

1100 expresse. MS: a cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1111 I. MS: inserted over the line.↩back to note source

1120 In nomine Patrys, ett Felii ett Spiritus Sancti, amen. MS: line written in red.↩back to note source

1125 O. MS: added in margin.↩back to note source

1127 thow. MS: stroke of letter cancelled before.↩back to note source

1133 aprise. MS: ri added above.↩back to note source

1134 meve. MS: ve added above.↩back to note source

1139 curteys. MS: r added above.↩back to note source

1149 syde. MS: written below the line in the right margin.↩back to note source

1153 ded. MS: inserted above caret.↩back to note source

1158 Onshapli thou art to see. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1155 and 1156.↩back to note source

1159 women. So MS. BMH: woman.↩back to note source

1162 me. So BMH. MS: partial letter cancelled after.↩back to note source

They love me bettyr than thee. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1160 and 1161.↩back to note source

1170 On thi ars com mych wondyre. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1168 and 1169.↩back to note source

1174 This kenred is asprongyn late. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1171 and 1172.↩back to note source

1177, s.d. Bete hym. Rex diciit. MS: written to the right of the line.↩back to note source

1178 this. MS: added above.↩back to note source

1181 bryng. So BMH. MS: bryg.↩back to note source

1186 sarasenorum. MS: sarasensore. BMH silently emend, probably for consistency of final orum in all lines of this doggerel Latin. This line is written in red.↩back to note source

1188 Gormoerdorum. So MS. BMH: Gormondorum.↩back to note source

1193 Snyguer. MS: Sy cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1194 lamba. So BMH. MS: la cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1209, s.d. Rex dicitt. MS: written in right margin.↩back to note source

1213 Wyth thi wesdom and thi wytt. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1210 and 1211.↩back to note source

1217 Here in thi presens as I sett. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1214–16.↩back to note source

1220 be. MS: o cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1227, s.d. Syng both. MS: written in right margin.↩back to note source

1228 dyvll. MS: indeterminate letter blotted before this word.↩back to note source

1230 Butt now, syr, kyng, quene, and knyth. MS: a red line separates lines 1229 and 1230, but there is no change of speaker.↩back to note source

1234 er. MS, BMH: or.↩back to note source

ever. MS: A faint line through this word suggests its possible cancellation. In that case er ye gon (before you go) would make sense in the context of the speech.↩back to note source

1236 this. MS: five or six letters cancelled before; word(s) not discernable; BMH identify cancelled letters as mewyer ye.↩back to note source

1239 And. MS: ȝ cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1241 This same holy bede. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1238 and 1239.↩back to note source

bede. MS: final letter obscured by binding. BMH posit the letter e, hence their bede, which they gloss as “prayer.” The scribe usually distinguishes the letters e and o and here clearly has written be; nonetheless, “this same holy body” offers a better fit with Presbiter’s praise of the virtues of Mahownd’s relics.↩back to note source

1243 holy. So BMH. MS, B: body. BMH reverse lines 1243 and 1244 based on the verse form. See BMH, pp. 211–12.↩back to note source

1246 That. MS: t altered from e.↩back to note source

1248 That is ower god in fere. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1245 and 1246.↩back to note source

1249 serjauntys. MS: xall cancelled before.↩back to note source

1260 Baramathye. MS: m cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1261 Serjantt. So MS. BMH add Primus before.↩back to note source

1277 Pylatti. MS: final letter obscured by binding, but a second t can be discerned. BMH: Pylatus.↩back to note source

1278 that. So MS. BMH: tho lordys.↩back to note source

ryall. MS: l cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1283 passon. So MS. BMH: passyon.↩back to note source

1287 am. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1292 nere. MS: before this word the scribe appears to have cancelled a mistaken stroke of the pen.↩back to note source

1298 aprise. So BMH, emending silently. MS: apise.↩back to note source

1299 Wych. So MS. BMH emend silently: Wyche.↩back to note source

1303 be. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1309 natt. MS: it cancelled before.↩back to note source

1311 sentens. So BMH. MS: sentellys. BMH emend here and at line 1315.↩back to note source

1318 to. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1323 desypyllys. MS: py inserted above this word.↩back to note source

1329 the2. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1333 for. So BMH. This line is bracketed and written in the margin to the right of lines 1331 and 1332; binding partly obscures the word after Mery.↩back to note source

to. MS: fo cancelled before.↩back to note source

1334 renown. MS: of cancelled before.↩back to note source

1336 ded. MS: written below the line at the right.↩back to note source

1343 alle. So BMH. MS: l cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1345 dysyllpyllys. So MS. BMH: dysypyllys.↩back to note source

1348 ferr. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1348, s.d. Jhesus. This word is repeated at the end of the line. This stage direction is divided from the preceding line with a horizontal line drawn in red ink.↩back to note source

shew. So MS. BMH emend: shew [hymself].↩back to note source

1351 the. MS: I cancelled before this word. In added in margin.↩back to note source

1353 Phebus. MS: scribe has written character yogh instead of abbreviation for us.↩back to note source

1358 hevnly. So MS. BMH: heuenly.↩back to note source

1368 myn. MS: scribe has written my with superscript abbreviation for er.↩back to note source

1375, s.d. Tunc decendet angelus. MS: written in right margin.↩back to note source

1376 Abasse. MS: indeterminate letter cancelled between A and b; BMH identify cancelled letter as b.↩back to note source

1385 commaunddement. So BMH. MS: commauddement.↩back to note source

1388 thoys. MS: y cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1389 be browth. MS: written below the line.↩back to note source

1395 Stryke! Stryke! So BMH. MS: stryke skryke.↩back to note source

1404 good. MS: o inserted above.↩back to note source

1405 forhongord. So MS, BMH. B: sor hongord.↩back to note source

1409 I1. So BMH. MS: Cy cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1410 forlorn. MS: lonr cancelled between for and lorn.↩back to note source

1418, s.d. Bete hym. MS: written in right margin.↩back to note source

1427 same. MS: m written over another letter.↩back to note source

1428 to. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1429 I. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1430 Is of the lond of Marcyll. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1428 and 1429.↩back to note source

1435 Yondyr. So MS. BMH: Yond ther.↩back to note source

Torke. So MS. BMH: Torkye.↩back to note source

1437–38 Yendyr is the lond of Satyllye / Of this cors we thar nat abaffe. I follow the emendation of BMH, reversing lines 1437 and 1438. This order preserves the verse form employed by the playwright here and accords with the sequence of events. The stage direction at line 1438 is written to the right of lines 1436 and 1437. B retains the manuscript order of lines 1437 and 1438 and places the direction for singing between lines 1436 and 1437.↩back to note source

1439 BMH silently emend here, adding the speaker’s rubric Shepmen.↩back to note source

1444 Sett off! Sett off from lond. So B. BMH give this line to the Boy. MS: The speech marker, The Boy, appears next to line 1445.↩back to note source

1448 vyctoré. MS: written above a cancelled vytory.↩back to note source

1452 shew. So BMH. MS: she.↩back to note source

1456 yow. MS: written twice.↩back to note source

way. So BMH. MS: omitted.↩back to note source

1469 mysbelef. So BMH. MS: mysbele.↩back to note source

1476 And. MS: preceded by ampersand.↩back to note source

1480 That wold I lerne; itt is my plesyng. This is the last line on folio 129r. At the bottom right appears the speaker’s rubric (Mary) for the speech beginning at the top of folio 129v. At the bottom of folio 129r the scribe has written Jhesu mercy. Furnivall believed these words to be part of Mary’s speech. BMH (p. 213) suggest that they indicate the scribe’s “pious outburst.”↩back to note source

1492 sterrys. MS: and cancelled after; ampersand written above.↩back to note source

1503 it. MS: inserted above a cancelled is.↩back to note source

1526 hast. MS: a cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1530 return. So BMH. MS: retur.↩back to note source

1541 sestt. MS: s2 changed from y.↩back to note source

1542 lord. MS: added above the line.↩back to note source

1549 Onto. MS: to inserted above.↩back to note source

1551 knees. MS: indeterminate letter cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1553 mee. MS: q cancelled after this word.↩back to note source

1560 Good. MS: one o added above.↩back to note source

1561, s.d. clerk. So BMH. MS: cler.↩back to note source

1574 I. MS: a cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1576 suek. So MS. BMH: sueke.↩back to note source

1577 hath. So MS. BMH: heth.↩back to note source

1588 asstatt. So BMH. MS: assatt.↩back to note source

1590 awngelys. So BMH. MS: awngelus.↩back to note source

1609, s.d. angelys. So BMH. MS: angelus.↩back to note source

1613 cold. So MS. BMH emend as chelle for the sake of the rhyme scheme.↩back to note source

1617, s.d. chongg. MS: voyd cancelled before. Final letter of chongg partially obscured by the margin.↩back to note source

1620 shewyng. MS: is cancelled before.↩back to note source

1622 saw. MS: w altered from x or y.↩back to note source

1626 good. So MS. BMH: Good. See the explanatory note for this line.↩back to note source

1627 may. MS: indeterminate letter cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1633 I tell yow, wythowtyn dowthe. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of line 1632.↩back to note source

1638 My. MS: I cancelled before.↩back to note source

1639 yower. So BMH. MS: ower.↩back to note source

1641, s.d. transit. So BMH. MS: transiunt.↩back to note source

1643 the. MS: w cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1648 wyth. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1649 yowre. MS: inserted above cancelled ow.↩back to note source

1653 wyth. MS: s cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1655 myschef. So BMH. MS: mysch.↩back to note source

1661 malycyows. So BMH. MS: l cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1684 God. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1695 onto. MS: to added above.↩back to note source

1707 me. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1714 save. MS: fe cancelled before.↩back to note source

1715, s.d. tunc. MS: tt cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1718 And yf thou aspye ony lond. MS: line written to the right of lines 1716 and 1717.↩back to note source

1721 ondyrstond. So BMH. MS: line is written to the right of lines 1719 and 1720; last three letters obscured by binding.↩back to note source

1724 That stondyt upon a strond. MS: line written to the right of lines 1722 and 1723.↩back to note source

1735 Thou woldyst ledd hyr owt of lond. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1733 and 1734.↩back to note source

1736 God. MS: a letter, probably o, has been cancelled before d.↩back to note source

1737 shall. MS: repeated and not cancelled.↩back to note source

1738 Or ellys I woll nat wend. MS: line written to the right of line 1737.↩back to note source

1740 up. MS: I cancelled before.↩back to note source

1741 In the Holy Lond. MS: line written to the right of line 1740.↩back to note source

1744 Hens that we were. MS: line written to the right of line 1743.↩back to note source

1749 A. MS: inserted above in red.↩back to note source

1766 wyff. MS: f cancelled before. BMH mistakenly note this change at line 1749.↩back to note source

1773 me. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1774 Yf thi wyl it be. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1771–73.↩back to note source

1777 Ower mast woll all asondyr. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1775–76.↩back to note source

1778 ley. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1780 Cast hyr owt, or ellys we synke ondyr. MS: line written to the right of lines 1778 and 1779; final two letters of ondyr not visible because of trimming. BMH emend.↩back to note source

1786 And my chyld hyr by. MS: line written to the right of lines 1784–85.↩back to note source

1790 I sey yow, verely. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1788 and 1789.↩back to note source

1790, s.d. remigant. So BMH. MS: remigat.↩back to note source

Tunc remigant ad montem, et dicit rex. MS: This stage direction appears as cancelled after line 1796, suggesting that the scribe realized he had written it in the wrong place but neglected to put the direction before the speech of the king that it clearly introduces. I follow the emendation of BMH. B omits.↩back to note source

1796 To be ther gyde here. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1794–95.↩back to note source

1796, s.d. remigant. So BMH. MS: remigat.↩back to note source

a monte. So BMH. MS: a montem.↩back to note source

1800 And belyve go me fro. MS: Line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1797–99.↩back to note source

1819 shall. MS: thee seyn cancelled after this word.↩back to note source

1822 Mercyll. So MS. BMH: Marcyll.↩back to note source

1825 tell. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1827 the. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1829 Satyrnas. So MS. BMH: Saternas.↩back to note source

1830 commaundmenttys. So BMH. MS: commaundmettys.↩back to note source

1838 From the fyndys bond. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1836–37.↩back to note source

1840 baptysse. MS: bast cancelled before. BMH do not note this cancellation.↩back to note source

1842 Agens the fynd to stond. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1839–41.↩back to note source

1844 cummaunddementt. So BMH. MS: cummauddementt.↩back to note source

1847 dwall. So B. MS: wall.↩back to note source

1848 and2. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1850 feyth. MS: e inserted above.↩back to note source

1856 lawe. So B. MS, BMH: lave.↩back to note source

1859 That feythfully I crave. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1856 and 1857.↩back to note source

1862 kepe. MS: ȝ cancelled after this word. Line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1860–61.↩back to note source

1866 Be1. MS: b cancelled after.↩back to note source

1870 Help me over the se. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1868–69.↩back to note source

1873 ony. MS: two letters, difficult to distinguish, cancelled before.↩back to note source

1874 Comme in, in Goddys name. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1871–73.↩back to note source

1878 As well as thou can. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1875–77.↩back to note source

1882 I shall qwyt yower mede. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1879–81.↩back to note source

1883 In. So BMH. MS: I.↩back to note source

1886 Verely, indeed. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1883–85.↩back to note source

1890 thee. MS: ȝ cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1897 shynne. MS: y written over e.↩back to note source

1903 wrappyd. So BMH. MS: wrppyd.↩back to note source

varyawns. MS: final two letters difficult to discern because of binding.↩back to note source

1904 into. So BMH. MS: i to.↩back to note source

1907 precyus. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1909 Wherfor. So BMH. MS: Whefor.↩back to note source

1914, s.d. nauta. MS: partial letter cancelled before. BMH do not note this cancellation.↩back to note source

1916 Mercylle. So MS. BMH: Marcylle.↩back to note source

1918 I prye yow for my sake. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1915 and 1916.↩back to note source

1921 thi. So MS. BMH: þe.↩back to note source

1922 Cryst save thee from wo and wrake. MS: line bracketed and written to the right of lines 1919–21.↩back to note source

1924 think. So BMH, B. MS: omitted.↩back to note source

yow. MS: both cancelled after.↩back to note source

1926 he. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1928 Yitte. So BMH. MS: itte.↩back to note source

1930 donum. So BMH. MS: domum.↩back to note source

1934 men. MS: written below the line at the right.↩back to note source

1935 dysstroccyon. MS: ss written over another letter.↩back to note source

1938 Amen. MS: written in red.↩back to note source

1938, s.d. qwuene. So MS. BMH: quvene.↩back to note source

1939 Lord. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1944 nobyllnesse. MS: l cancelled between second l and nesse. So BMH.↩back to note source

1946 thi. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1949 wythowt. MS: b cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

1955 knowlege. So BMH. MS: knowle.↩back to note source

1958 have. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1966 yower. So BMH. MS: ower.↩back to note source

1971, s.d. thus. MS: x cancelled before this word. BMH do not note this cancellation.↩back to note source

1985 swych. So BMH. MS: wych.↩back to note source

1992 me. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

1996 stryffe. So BMH. MS: styffe.↩back to note source

2011 sprong. So BMH. MS: sporng.↩back to note source

2014 born. MS: written above cancelled bornd.↩back to note source

2015 commaunddement. So BMH. MS: commauddement.↩back to note source

2021 Thou shall byn onoryd wyth joye and reverens. This is the last line on fol. 141r. The scribe skipped fol. 141v and 142r, writing turne on the othyr syde in red at the top of 141v.↩back to note source

2030, s.d. Her shall she . . . Et dicit Mari. Only the first part of the stage direction is written is red, as is the scribe’s practice for much of the manuscript. The use of black ink for the Latin verses of the hymn thus mark them as spoken text rather than stage direction.↩back to note source

2034 no1. MS: inserted above, not no2 as cited by BMH.↩back to note source

2038, s.d. prest2. MS: final word obscured by binding.↩back to note source

2044 graunt. MS: gruant. BMH: gravnt.↩back to note source

2051 perfytnesse. So BMH. MS: perfynesse.↩back to note source

2052 shew. So BMH. MS: she.↩back to note source

2066 angelys. So BMH. MS: angelus.↩back to note source

2073 possesson. So MS. BMH: possessyon.↩back to note source

2074 enirytawns. So BMH. MS: Probable letter i inserted above.↩back to note source

2075 savacyon. MS: In an interesting slip, the scribe has cancelled damnacyon and written the more appropriate savacyon above.↩back to note source

2076 fere. MS: e cancelled before this word.↩back to note source

2077 angelys. So BMH. MS: angelus.↩back to note source

2085 cummaundytt. So BMH. MS: cummaudytt.↩back to note source

2092 Straytt. MS: a written above.↩back to note source

2097 thee. MS: inserted above.↩back to note source

2101 inure. I follow the reading of BMH. MS: indeterminate word.↩back to note source

2107 tyme. MS: tym cancelled before.↩back to note source

reseyve. MS: ve added above.↩back to note source

2108, s.d. Her she reseyvyt it. MS: written directly to right of line 2108.↩back to note source

2112 recummend. So BMH. MS: recumdmend.↩back to note source

2118 veritatis. MS: final letters obscured by binding. Line written to the right of lines 2115–17.↩back to note source

2119 reseyve. MS: s altered from r.↩back to note source

2122, s.d. Gaudent in celis. MS: written to the right of lines 2120 and 2121.↩back to note source

2126 game. So BMH. MS: name.↩back to note source

2131 sentens. MS: final letter missing with corner of this page.↩back to note source