[50] In my edition I have collated no less than sixteen copies which occur among the MSS. in the British Museum, and in the libraries at Oxford and Cambridge, and there are, no doubt, many more.
[51] Poems attributed to Walter Mapes, p. 73. The stanzas here quoted, with some others, were afterwards made up into a drinking song, which was rather popular in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
[52] “Gedichte des Mittelalters auf König Friedrich I. den Staufar, und aus seiner so wie der nächstfolgenden Zeit,” 4to. Separate copies of this work were printed off and distributed among mediæval scholars.
[53] “Carmina Burana. Lateinische und Deutsche Lieder und Gedichte einer Handschrift des XIII. Jahrhunderts aus Benedictbeurn auf der K. Bibliothek zu München.” 8vo. Stuttgart, 1847.
[54] “Early Mysteries and other Latin Poems of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries,” edited by Thomas Wright, Esq. 8vo. London, 1838.
[55] Introduction, p. xl.
[56] “Reliquiæ Antiquæ. Scraps from Ancient Manuscripts, illustrating chiefly Early English Literature and the English Language.” Edited by Thomas Wright, Esq., and J. O. Halliwell, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. i., London, 1841; vol. ii., 1843.
[57] “Achille Jubinal, Jongleurs et Trouvères.” 8vo., Paris, 1835, p. 34; and “Nouveau Recueil de Contes, Dits, Fabliaux,” &c 8vo., Paris, 1842. Vol. ii. p. 208. In the first instance M. Jubinal has given to this little poem the title Resveries, in the second, Fatrasies.
[58] “Songs and Carols, now first printed from a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century.” Edited by Thomas Wright, Esq. 8vo., London, 1847, p. 2.
[59] Both these poems are printed in my “Early Mysteries, and other Latin Poems of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.” 8vo., London, 1838.