The
shortest
version, in couplets, from the Cotton MS.
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389
.*. [[Follows, The Jest of Alisaunder, printed in Weber's Romances, vol. i.
"DIuers is ?is myddellerede
To lewed Men & to lerede;
Bysynesse / care & sorou?
Is myd Man vche morow?e." (&c.)]
]
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The Legend or Life of St. Alexius,
IN FOUR VERSIONS, FROM SIX MANUSCRIPTS.
1.
The longest version, in 12-line stanzas, from Laud MS. 622, in the Bodleian.
2.
The
shortest
version, in couplets, from the Cotton MS.
, Titus A xxvi, in the British Museum.
3.
The shorter 6-line-stanza version, from the grand Vernon MS. (ab. 1400 A.D.) and Laud 108, both in the Bodleian.
4.
The longer 6-line-stanza version, from Laud MS. 463 in the Bodleian, and Trin. Coll. MS. Oxford 57 [81].
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[THE first following version of the Life of St Alexius, from Laud 622, is the longest--and latest, no doubt*. [There is a MS.
