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is a poem from around the second half of the thirteenth century in which one
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Joanna Bellis and
Venetia Bridges, '“What shalt thou do when thou hast an english to make into Latin?”: The Proverb Collection of Cambridge, St. John’s College, MS F.26',
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Ten manuscripts are known to attest to the poem in whole or in part (sometimes only one stanza or couplet). The most complete include:
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234. Anderson, D. A. (2005). JRR Tolkien and W. Rhys
Roberts's "Gerald of Wales on the Survival of Welsh".
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tradition, while “ "Hendyng" seems to be a personification generated from the word
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Marcolf appears as an interlocutor with
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148:'Art. 89, Mon that wol of wysdam heren', ed. by Susanna Greer Fein, in
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