Of þe vox and of þe wolf

Titre:	Of þe vox and of þe wolf; The fox and wolf in the well
Date:	XIII^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Fable
Forme:	Vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	A vox gon out of þe wode go, afingret so, þat him wes wo; he nes neuere in none wise afingret erour half so swiþe…
Explicit:	… mid staues and speres he wes I-stounge. Þe wox bicharde him, mid Iwisse, for he ne fond nones kunnes blisse, ne hof duntes forȝeuenesse. Explicit.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Altenglische Sprachproben nebst einem Wörterbuche, unter Mitwirkung von Karl Goldbeck herausgegeben von Eduard Mätzner, Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1867-1888, 5 t. en 2 vol. (ici t. 1:1, p. 130-136) [IA: t. 1:1, t. 1:2, t. 2:1, t. 2:2, t. 2:3]
Middle English Humorous Tales in Verse, edited by George H. McKnight, Boston et London, Heath (The Belles-Lettres Series. Section II: Middle English Literature), 1913, lxxv + 156 p. (ici p. 25-37) [GB] [IA]
A Literary Middle English Reader, edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Boston etc., Ginn, 1915, xxviii + 554 p. (ici p. 188-198) [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]

Traductions modernes

Études

Bercovitch, Sacvan, « Clerical satire in The Vox and the Wolf », Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 65, 1966, p. 287-294.
Kreisler, Nicolai von, « Satire in The Fox and the Wolf », Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 69, 1970, p. 650-658.
McKnight, G. H., « The Middle English Vox and Wolf », Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 23, 1908, p. 497-508.
Varty, Kenneth, « The fox and the wolf in the well: the metamorphoses of a comic motif », Reynard the Fox: Social Engagement and Cultural Metamorphoses in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present, éd. Kenneth Varty, New York et Oxford, Berghahn Books (Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections, 1), 2000, p. 245-256.