I wot a bird in a bower as beryl so bright

Descriptive details

Annot and Iohon — five 10-line aliterative stanzas.

Formal characteristics: ten-line; aaaaaaaabb
Subject keywords: love lyrics

Bibliography

DIMEV: 2324
IMEV: 1394
NIMEV: 1394

Witnesses

1. BLHar2253, ff. 63–63v

No music or illustration.

First lines:

Ichot a burde in a bour ase beryl so bryht
Ase saphyr in seluer semly on syht…

Last lines:

…He haueþ me to hede þis hendy anon
Gentil ase jonas heo joyeþ wiþ Ion

Bibliographical references:

Editions: Wright1842b, 25-7; Boddeker1878, 145-7; Brown1932, 136-8; Warton1824, 1.34 (lines 1-18, 27-30 only); Guest1838, 2.298 (st. 1-3 only); Brook1948, 31-2; Kaiser1958, 465; Sisam1970, 150-7; Luria1974, 21-2; Turville-Petre1989, 14-16; Fein2015b, Booklet 5, no. 28;
Facsimiles: Ker1965a;