The tale of John the Reeve

Titre:	The tale of John the Reeve
Date:	Fin du XIV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	911 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	God! through thy might and thy mercy, all that loueth game and glee, their soules to heauen bringe. Best is mirth of all solace…
Explicit:	… to heauen their soules bring that haue heard this litle story, that liued sometimes in the south-west countrye in long Edwards dayes our King.

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Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. Ballades and Romances. Edited by John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, London, Trübner and Co., 1867-1868, 3 t. (ici t. 2, p. 550-594) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 2:2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Select Remains of the Ancient Popular and Romance Poetry of Scotland, collected and edited by David Laing. Re-edited, with memorial-introduction and additions by John Small, Edinburgh et London, Blackwood, 1885, xxxviii + 411 p. (ici p. 41-79) [GB] [IA]
Édition antérieure:
- Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland, [éd. David Laing], Edinburgh, Balfour and Clarke, 1822. [GB] [IA]
Early Popular Poetry of Scotland and the Northern Border, edited by David Laing LL. D. in 1822 and 1826, re-arranged and revised with additions and a glossary by W. Carew Hazlitt, London, Reeves and Turner (Library of Old Authors), 1895, 2 t. (ici t. 1, p. 250-283) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Ten Fifteenth-Century Comic Poems, éd. Melissa M. Furrow, New York, Garland, 1985, p. 177-234.
Ten Bourdes, edited by Melissa M. Furrow, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts), 2013, vii + 275 p. [metseditions.org]

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