Mum and the sothsegger
Subtitle: edited from the manuscripts Camb. Univ. Ll. iv. 14 and Brit. mus. add. 41666
By: by Mabel Day and Robert Steele
Contributors: Day, Mabel.; Steele, Robert, 1860-1944.; Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
Series: Early English Text Society (Series). Original series -- no. 199
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English text society
Published: 1936
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: English poetry -- 16th century.
Other titles: Mum and the sothsegger.
Notes: Two fragmentary poems; the first (known in the 16th century as Mum, Sothsegger) forms part of a collection of treatises added to a copy of the B text of Piers Plowman in the Cambridge university library Ll. iv. 14; ed. by Skeat in his ed. of Piers plowman under the title "Richard the Redeles," and ascribed by him to Langland. Ed. by Thomas Wright for the Camden society, 1838 and in his Political poems and songs, 1859 (V. 1, p. 368-417) under title "On the deposition of Richard II."

The second fragment, a recently discovered 15th century manuscript (now Brit. mus. Add. 41666) is considered by the present editors identical in language and form from the first and with it forming part of one larger composition.  cf. Introduction, Camb. hist. Eng. lit., v. 2, p. 41-42; Brit. mus. quarterly, v.3, p. 100-102.

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