Robert Mannyng

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Robert Mannyng, Robert de Brunne or Robert Mannyng of Brunne (died c. 1338) was an English chronicler and poet. His Chronicle is largely a translation from Wace and Piers Langtoft; Handlyng Synne is a collection of moralistic stories in verse.

Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Handlyng Synne 2 Criticism 3 External links

[edit] Sourced

• Als thai haf wryten and sayd
  Haf I alle in myn Inglis layd,
  In symple speche as I couthe,
  That is lightest in mannes mouthe.
  I mad noght for no disours,
  Ne for no seggers, no harpours,
  Bot for the luf of symple men
  That strange Inglis can not ken.
  • Chronicle, line 71.

• He felle dede doun colde as ony stone.
  • Thomas Hearne (ed.) Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, as Illustrated and Improv'd by Robert of Brunne (1725) vol. 1, p. 56.

[edit] Handlyng Synne

• No thyng ys to man so dere
  As wommanys love yn gode manere.
  A gode womman is mannys blys.
  • Line 1905.

• There ys no solas undyr hevene
  Of al that a man may nevene
  That shuld a man so mochë glew
  As a gode womman that loveth trew.
  • Line 1909.

• And thy traveyle shalt thou sone ende,
  For to thy long home sone shalt thou wende.
  • Line 9193.

[edit] Criticism

• The range of his sympathies and interests makes Handlyng Synne the best picture of English life before Langland and Chaucer.
  • Kenneth Sisam (ed.) Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose ([1921] 1955) p. 3.

[edit] External links