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Edition: Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson 2000; notes: Linda Paterson. – Rialto 2.i.2003.
A (34r), I (121r), K (106v-107r), N (267v-268r), W (203) stanza I only, with melody, a1 (297-98).
Previous editions: Jean-Marie-Lucien Dejeanne, Poésies complètes du troubadour Marcabru, Toulouse, 1909, p. 53 (XIII); Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson, Marcabru: A Critical Edition, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2000, p. 178.
Versification: a8 b8 a8 b8 c8 d7’ c8 d7’ (Frank: 407:16). Six coblas unissonans.
Nothing in this poem indicates its date of composition, unless links with BdT 293.35 are relevant. The figure behind lines 38-39 is probably Lamech (see Genesis, 4. 17-24), glossed in the Middle Ages as a figure of the sins of the world which would be washed away in the blood of Christ after seventy-seven generations of mankind: a cruel murderer, parricide, traitor, and bigamous adulterer.