• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 16, Herod Questioning the Three Kings and the Offering of the Magi

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). After ascription to Masons, LH has added Mynstrells. 1 HERODES. Reg: added by

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 25, The Entry into Jerusalem

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 11 is. So LTS, RB; Reg: is I. 33 this thyng. In Reg,

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 29, The Trial before Cayphas and Anna

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 1 CAYPHAS. Entered by JC in Reg. 23b Tunc dicant Lorde. Added at

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 31, The Trial before Herod

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 1 REX. So LTS, RB; Reg omits. 11 Yae. Follows at end of

• Select Secular Lyrics

such unions were tolerated, even sought out. Two of Chaucer's most memorable characters - January of The Merchant's Tale and John the Carpenter of The Miller's Tale - have younger wives who cuckold them. The idea of an older woman

• The Avowyng of Arthur

Baldwin's anecdote of the murderous laundresses occur in a fabliau, and in John of Garland's Parisiana poetria (ed. Traugott Lawler [New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974]). John (c. 1195 - c. 1258) was born in England and taught

• The Isle of Ladies

comaunde do dilygence,28 And spare for neyther golde ne spence, But make redye; for, one the morrowe, Weddid withe 'Seynt John to borowe' He wold be, witheouten more; And let them wytt them, lesse and more.29 The morowe come, and

• Ancrene Wisse, Part Seven

love, and do whatever you will - of course, according to the inclination of reason" (Augustine, On the Epistle of John 7 [PL 35.2033] and Confessions 10.29 [PL 32.796]). 27 bisie, diligent (or, busy). 28-31 Ich hit habbe i-seid ear

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 2

debate vassals Go To The Life of Saint Katherine, Book 3 Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 2 Notes JOHN CAPGRAVE, THE LIFE OF SAINT KATHERINE, BOOK 2: FOOTNOTES 1 Lines 56-60: The Greek word "Cata" means, in English,

• James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair

and with Seint John to borowe"), and The Squire's Tale (CT V[F]596):"And took hym by the hond, Seint John to borwe." See also CA 5.3415-16:"And thus he ros up be the morwe / And tok himself, Seint John to borwe."

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love

prince Arthur, John brought about a war in which "the greater part of the French possessions of the crown were lost" (p. 469). By strict primogeniture, Prince Arthur should have succeeded to the throne instead of John;John may have

• The Morall Fabillis

This fable is well-known in versions by Babrius (Fable 108), Horace's Satire II, and versions by John of Sheppey, Odo of Cheriton, and John Bromyard. Fox suggests that Henryson's immediate source is Gualterus's De mure rustico et urbane, no. 12

• Ancrene Wisse, Part Six

23, p. 70). 302 ff. Nichodemus brohte smirles. Nicodemus is mentioned in John 19:39-42, while the story of the three Marys comes from Mark 16:1, Luke 24:1, and John 19:25-26. The interpretation of names probably comes from one of the

• Ancrene Wisse, Part Five

devil of hell's child). 136 eatelich, hideous. 137 Vos ex patre diabolo estis, "You are of [your] father the devil" (John 8:44). 137-38 Thenche euch of his estat . . . siken sare, Let each one think of his condition,

• Athelston

With agility aware spurs; struck (see note) travel awaited then; together town alighted immediately [allow] it not! desist!; (see note) John Because of heir strongly denied ever made that lie taken together trick Have himself absolved (see note) then lengths;

• Poems Against Simony and the Abuse of Money: The Simonie

bedeviling tenants, see the case of the poor tenants of Bocking manor, who drew up a petition of grievance against John le Doo, bailiff who, by not agreeing to customary fines (amercements), "of his own conceit, increased their burdens twofold

• Thomas of Hales, Love Rune

The language comparing the maiden to a sweet flower is traditional in both love poetry (see, for example, Annot and John, lines 11-20 [The Harley Lyrics, ed. Brook, pp. 31-32]) and devotional descriptions of virginity, as in Holy Maidenhead: "Maidenhood

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love: Book Three

Jellech notes that speces as used here by Usk is one of the scholastic neologisms of Middle English uncovered by John Conley and listed by him in his article ([1964], p. 209). So too opinyon in line 41 (p. 409).

• The Life of St. Benedict

the statue of Apollo, overturned the god's altar and replaced it with a shrine or chapel (oraculum) in honor of John the Baptist. Gregory recommended similar procedures to his missionaries in England (see Bede, Ecclesiastical History 1.30), as is summarized

• 23. The Last Philosophers

but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you. (John 16:1922) 44748 translated oute of Frenshe into Englysshe. This refers to the immediate source of this version of The