Lyarde

Titre:	Lyarde (ms., inc. et expl.)
Date:	Vers le deuxième quart du XV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	130 vers à rimes plates
Contenu:	Poème satirique se moquant des vieux maris impotents et des frères religieux concupiscents.
Incipit:	Lyarde es ane olde horse & may noght wele drawe, he sall be putt into þe parke holyn for to gnawe. Barefote withowttyn shone þere sall he goo ffor he es ane olde horse & may no more doo…
Explicit:	… Alle Lyardes men, I warne ȝowe byfore, bete þe cownte with ȝour neffes when ȝe may do no more. Thus endis Lyarde at þe laste worde; yf a man thynke mekill, kepe somewhate in horde. Here endys Lyarde.

Manuscrits

Lincoln, Cathedral Library, 91 (A. I. 17), f. 148rb-149r [⇛ Description]
« Thornton manuscript ».

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Reliquiae Antiquae. Scraps from Ancient Manuscripts, Illustrating Chiefly Early English Literature and the English Language. Edited by Thomas Wright and James Orchard Halliwell, London, John Russell Smith, 1845, 2 t., iv + 327, iv + 287 p. (ici t. 2, p. 280-282) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse, chosen and edited by Celia and Kenneth Sisam, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970, xxiii + 617 p.
Reake, Jason, « Lyarde and Goliard », Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 83, 1982, p. 34-41.
Furrow, Melissa, « A minor comic poem in a major romance manuscript: Lyarde », Forum for Modern Language Studies, 32:4, 1996, p. 289-302. DOI: 10.1093/fmls/XXXII.4.289

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