Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "Adam lay ybounden", originally titled Adam lay i-bowndyn is a 15th-century macaronic English text of unknown authorship. The manuscript on which the poem is found, (Sloane 2593, ff.10v-11), is held by the British Library, who date the work to c.1400 and speculate that the lyrics may have belonged to a wandering minstrel; other poems included on same page in the manuscript include "I have a gentil cok", the famous lyric poem "I syng of a mayden" and two riddle songs - "A minstrel's begging song" and "I have a yong suster".The Victorian antiquarian Thomas Wright suggests that although there is consensus that the lyrics date from the reign of Henry V of England (1387–1422), the songs themselves may be rather earlier. Wright continues to speculate, on the basis of the dialect, that the lyrics probably originate in Warwickshire, and suggests that a number of the songs were intended for use in mystery plays.. }
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- Adam_lay_ybounden abstract ""Adam lay ybounden", originally titled Adam lay i-bowndyn is a 15th-century macaronic English text of unknown authorship. The manuscript on which the poem is found, (Sloane 2593, ff.10v-11), is held by the British Library, who date the work to c.1400 and speculate that the lyrics may have belonged to a wandering minstrel; other poems included on same page in the manuscript include "I have a gentil cok", the famous lyric poem "I syng of a mayden" and two riddle songs - "A minstrel's begging song" and "I have a yong suster".The Victorian antiquarian Thomas Wright suggests that although there is consensus that the lyrics date from the reign of Henry V of England (1387–1422), the songs themselves may be rather earlier. Wright continues to speculate, on the basis of the dialect, that the lyrics probably originate in Warwickshire, and suggests that a number of the songs were intended for use in mystery plays.".