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Chapter VI.—Relation of Speculum to Guy Romances. Ixv
A. Pogatscher, Zur Lautlehre der griechischen, lateinischen und
romanischen Lehnworte im Altenglischen, 1888.
J. Schick, Lydgate's Temple of Gias. London, 1891 (Early
English Text Soc., Extra Series, No. LX.).
W. Skeat, Principles of English Etymology. Oxford, 1887-91.
0. Wilda, Uber die ortliche Verbreitung der Vl-zeil. Scluceifreime
in England.
J. Zupitza,1 Alt- und mittelenglisches Ubungsbuch. Wien, 1889.
Wt IE.
CHAPTER VI.
ON THE RELATION OF THE SPECULUM TO THE GUY OF
WARWICK ROMANCES.
“ Bove all the knightis that euer weare or shal
Sir Guy of Warwick heares the coronal.”2
The Speculum represents the modernized form3 of the Guy saga,
the third working4 of the material as illustrated in the Copland5 Guy
1 Naturally frequent reference will be made to Zupitza’s editions of the
various Guy of Warwick MSS. (Early English Text Society, Extra Series, Nos.
XXV., XXVI., XLII., XLIX., and Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Cl. der
kais. Academic der Wiss., LXXIV., p. 549), and to Wiilker’s, Korting’s, and
ten Brink’s histories of English literature.
2 Selected from the MS. of Lane’s Lydgate’s Guy of Warwick, The renowned
historic of Sir Gwy, Earl of Warwick, ‘ ‘ surnamed Heremite, begun by Don
Lydgatt, monck of St. Edmundes Berye,” reworked by John Lane in 1622, but
never printed; cf. the Harleian MS. 5243, Lane’s Lydgatt’s Gwy. It was de-
scribed and commended by Phillips, the nephew of John Milton. Concerning
the “corrected Historie of Sir Gwy,” see also Zupitza, Sitzungsb., p. 645, and
Turnbull in his edition of the Auchinleck Guy: The Romances of Sir Guy of
Warwick, Edinburgh, 1840.
3 Compare date and relative character of material. Minute discussion will
be reserved for another occasion.
4 Cf. Zupitza, Zur Literaturgeschichte des Guy von Warwick, Wien, 1873,
pp. 632, 635. Lydgate’s Guy is probably in one sense an independent text, and
the editor would not specify the Speculum as necessarily a third working of the
fundamental legend.
5 Intermediate in period between the Copland and Lydgate Guys must be
recalled the Wynkyn de Worde edition, dated in the Museum collection, 1500 ;
the French text printed A Paris, 1525; a later edition (in French) of 1550 ; and
possibly the fragment printed by Sir T. Phillipps, Middle Hill, 1838 ; cf. Museum
text. The brief fragment, three leaves (Fragmenta Vetusta) of the W. de Worde
edition preserved in the British Museum, Add. MS. 14,408, and the fourth leaf
to be found in the Douce Collection 20 of the Bodley MSS., belongs probably
to the series associated with Robert the deuyll of 1510, prose stories printed by
Wynkyn de Worde; cf. Jusserand, The English Novel in the Time of Shake-
speare, p. 64.
SPEC. WAR. E
A. Pogatscher, Zur Lautlehre der griechischen, lateinischen und
romanischen Lehnworte im Altenglischen, 1888.
J. Schick, Lydgate's Temple of Gias. London, 1891 (Early
English Text Soc., Extra Series, No. LX.).
W. Skeat, Principles of English Etymology. Oxford, 1887-91.
0. Wilda, Uber die ortliche Verbreitung der Vl-zeil. Scluceifreime
in England.
J. Zupitza,1 Alt- und mittelenglisches Ubungsbuch. Wien, 1889.
Wt IE.
CHAPTER VI.
ON THE RELATION OF THE SPECULUM TO THE GUY OF
WARWICK ROMANCES.
“ Bove all the knightis that euer weare or shal
Sir Guy of Warwick heares the coronal.”2
The Speculum represents the modernized form3 of the Guy saga,
the third working4 of the material as illustrated in the Copland5 Guy
1 Naturally frequent reference will be made to Zupitza’s editions of the
various Guy of Warwick MSS. (Early English Text Society, Extra Series, Nos.
XXV., XXVI., XLII., XLIX., and Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Cl. der
kais. Academic der Wiss., LXXIV., p. 549), and to Wiilker’s, Korting’s, and
ten Brink’s histories of English literature.
2 Selected from the MS. of Lane’s Lydgate’s Guy of Warwick, The renowned
historic of Sir Gwy, Earl of Warwick, ‘ ‘ surnamed Heremite, begun by Don
Lydgatt, monck of St. Edmundes Berye,” reworked by John Lane in 1622, but
never printed; cf. the Harleian MS. 5243, Lane’s Lydgatt’s Gwy. It was de-
scribed and commended by Phillips, the nephew of John Milton. Concerning
the “corrected Historie of Sir Gwy,” see also Zupitza, Sitzungsb., p. 645, and
Turnbull in his edition of the Auchinleck Guy: The Romances of Sir Guy of
Warwick, Edinburgh, 1840.
3 Compare date and relative character of material. Minute discussion will
be reserved for another occasion.
4 Cf. Zupitza, Zur Literaturgeschichte des Guy von Warwick, Wien, 1873,
pp. 632, 635. Lydgate’s Guy is probably in one sense an independent text, and
the editor would not specify the Speculum as necessarily a third working of the
fundamental legend.
5 Intermediate in period between the Copland and Lydgate Guys must be
recalled the Wynkyn de Worde edition, dated in the Museum collection, 1500 ;
the French text printed A Paris, 1525; a later edition (in French) of 1550 ; and
possibly the fragment printed by Sir T. Phillipps, Middle Hill, 1838 ; cf. Museum
text. The brief fragment, three leaves (Fragmenta Vetusta) of the W. de Worde
edition preserved in the British Museum, Add. MS. 14,408, and the fourth leaf
to be found in the Douce Collection 20 of the Bodley MSS., belongs probably
to the series associated with Robert the deuyll of 1510, prose stories printed by
Wynkyn de Worde; cf. Jusserand, The English Novel in the Time of Shake-
speare, p. 64.
SPEC. WAR. E