• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Orate pro anima (Armigeri scutum)

is included between the heading and the poem -- presumably Gower's arms. (See Fisher, John Gower, pp. 37-39, and Figure 1.) A similar shield now hangs above his tomb in Southwark Cathedral (see Fisher, John Gower, Figure 2). A drawing

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are three sections, here represented as fitts, as suggested by the language of the texts (see lines 119-20, 237). Fitt 1 occurs in the greenwood, and is basically a "Robin Hood meets his match" sequence. Fitt 2 transfers the action

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slight variants — see Textual Notes for item 6). This is followed immediately by A Prayer to Mary (item 15). Item 13, A MORNING PRAYER: TEXTUAL NOTES 1 MS: Initial J is decorated with pen work and six lines tall.

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is found in Book 1, section 46. For the original quote, see Adversus Jovinianum in PL 23:0275B. 191 Also, we rede that there was a wedowe named Anna. This story also comes from Adversus Jovinianum, Book 1, section 46. The

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notes, Rate’s version presents the material in much the same order as the other versions (Good Wife, p. 118, n. 1). I have not rendered the poem in stanzas, since Rate seems to have viewed the couplets as continuous. Printed

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charged that friars were none other than the false prophets and pseudoapostles of Matthew 23 and the "many antichrists" of 1 John 2. JU differs from PPC in that it tells no actual story; it represents no drama. "Jack Upland,"

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to wynne; He hath sent salve to mannys synne; Pes is comyn to mannys kynne Thorwe Goddys sleytys slygh. PASTOR 1 Maunfras, Maunfras, felawe myne — I saw a grett lyght with shene shyne! Yit saw I nevyr so selkowth

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35 40 Of thes Frer Mynours me thenkes moch wonder, That waxen are thus hauteyn, that som tyme weren under. 1 Among men of Holy Chirch thai maken mochel blonder; Nou He that sytes us above, make ham sone to

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XIV.6. (¶ 4) XIV.6. (¶ 2) Go To The Life of Saint Francis THE LIFE OF SAINT FRANCIS, INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTES 1 The standard historical overview of the English religious orders from the tenth century to the end of the Middle

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The Debate of the Carpenter’s Tools, text Go To Abbreviations Item 16, THE DEBATE OF THE CARPENTER’S TOOLS, INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTES 1 Wilson, “Debate of the Carpenter’s Tools,” p. 453. The material in the Explanatory Notes, particularly the consideration of obscure

• Item 31, The Dietary: Introduction

(2001) in the bibliography. Go To Item 31, The Dietary, text Go To Abbreviations Item 31, THE DIETARY, INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTES 1 On the varieties of English medicine, and the differences between these “Greek” and “folk” strands, see Getz, Medicine in

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