• Robert of Cisyle: Introduction

British Library, London. Fols. 35r-43v. [mid- to late fifteenth cen­tury. 472 lines.] BM Harley 1701 (formerly Harley Plutarch 1701), at the British Library, London. Fols. 92-95. [c. 1380. 476 lines.] BM Additional 22283 (Simeon), at the British Library, London. Fols.

• Poems of Political Prophecy: The Prophecy of Merlin (Dublin MS)

O. Arngart, The Proverbs of Alfred, 2 vols. (Lund: Gleerup, 1942-55), and Derek Pearsall, Old English and Middle English Poetry (London: Routledge, 1977), pp. 77-79. The Proverbs of Alfred have also been edited by Richard Morris (EETS o.s. 49, 1872),

• Poems of Political Prophecy: The Prophecy of Merlin (Magdalene Coll. MS)

of Albion Turnin to confusion, As sumtyme it befelle. As printed in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, rev. ed. (London: Bell, 1875), vol. 6, p. 307. Skeat prints a similar version of this poem from Caxton's edition of Chaucer,

• John Lydgate, Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage

Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature. Vol. 1. London: Printed for the Percy Society, 1965. Pp. 17-22. [Part 4.] MacCracken, Henry Noble, ed. The Minor Poems of John Lydgate, Part II. EETS o.s. 192. London: Oxford University Press, 1934. Pp. 456-60.

• Plowman Writings: Chaucer's Plowman

in which food is carried": "a cart or cart-load." See An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, ed. J. Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (London: Oxford University Press, 1898), s.v. Fer. 3 trewe swynkere. The phrase could be charged, since the Lollards referred to

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 23a, The Feast in Simon’s House

Scriveners’ Play”; Towneley: Martin Stevens and A. C. Cawley, eds., The Towneley Plays. The base text for this edition is London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290, called the “Register” in the York civic records and here identified by the abbreviation

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 44a, The Funeral of the Virgin (“Fergus”)

unique to York. Play 44a, THE FUNERAL OF THE VIRGIN (“FERGUS”): TEXTUAL NOTES The base text for this edition is London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290, called the “Register” in the York civic records. Heading and text missing; not entered

• Select Secular Lyrics

Printed Editions Adamson, Margot Robert, ed. A Treasury of Middle English Verse. London: J. M. Dent rpt. 1967. Davies, R. T., ed. Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology. London: Faber rpt. 1977. Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English: An Old and

• Select Secular Lyrics

Printed Editions Adamson, Margot Robert, ed. A Treasury of Middle English Verse. London: J. M. Dent rpt. 1967. Davies, R. T., ed. Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology. London: Faber rpt. 1977. Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English: An Old and

• Select Secular Lyrics

Printed Editions Adamson, Margot Robert, ed. A Treasury of Middle English Verse. London: J. M. Dent rpt. 1967. Davies, R. T., ed. Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology. London: Faber rpt. 1977. Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English: An Old and

• Select Secular Lyrics

Printed Editions Adamson, Margot Robert, ed. A Treasury of Middle English Verse. London: J. M. Dent rpt. 1967. Davies, R. T., ed. Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology. London: Faber rpt. 1977. Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English: An Old and

• Select Secular Lyrics

Printed Editions Adamson, Margot Robert, ed. A Treasury of Middle English Verse. London: J. M. Dent rpt. 1967. Davies, R. T., ed. Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology. London: Faber rpt. 1977. Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English: An Old and

• Select Secular Lyrics

Printed Editions Adamson, Margot Robert, ed. A Treasury of Middle English Verse. London: J. M. Dent rpt. 1967. Davies, R. T., ed. Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology. London: Faber rpt. 1977. Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English: An Old and

• Select Secular Lyrics

Printed Editions Adamson, Margot Robert, ed. A Treasury of Middle English Verse. London: J. M. Dent rpt. 1967. Davies, R. T., ed. Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology. London: Faber rpt. 1977. Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English: An Old and

• Select Secular Lyrics

Printed Editions Adamson, Margot Robert, ed. A Treasury of Middle English Verse. London: J. M. Dent rpt. 1967. Davies, R. T., ed. Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology. London: Faber rpt. 1977. Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English: An Old and

• Select Secular Lyrics

Printed Editions Adamson, Margot Robert, ed. A Treasury of Middle English Verse. London: J. M. Dent rpt. 1967. Davies, R. T., ed. Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology. London: Faber rpt. 1977. Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English: An Old and

• Henryson, Complete Works: Appendix

earl of Angus’ celebratedly godly rebuff of a seemingly helpful wizard (John Spottiswood, The History of the Church of Scotland [London: Flesher, 1655], p. 372; David Hume of Godscroft’s History of the House of Angus, ed. David Reid, STS fifth

• Item 35a-b, The Sinner’s Lament and The Adulterous Falmouth Squire: Introduction

61.] Furnivall, F. J., ed. Political, Religious, and Love Poems. EETS o.s. 15. 2nd ed. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1903. Rpt. London: Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 123–26. [Prints the text of Ashmole 61.] Horstmann, Carl, ed.

• Richard the Redeless: Introduction

and Sedition").] Pearsall, Derek. Old English and Middle English Poetry. London: Routledge and Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume from the 13th to the 19th Century, ed. F. W. Fairholt (London: Percy Society, 1849). For critical discussions, see Scattergood, "Fashion

• Robin Hood and Queen Catherin

North county" is not a known phrase. 79 The earliest Wood version reads "London court" here which could be taken as a better, because harder, reading than "London towne," but, as it rhymes with "sport," that argument seems to have