• Robert Henryson, The Complete Works: Fables

Cock and the Jasp, and The Two Mice; in the middle, The Sheepand the Dog, The Lion and the Mouse with its own prologue, and The Preaching of the Swallow; at the end, The Wolf and the Lamb and

• Robert Henryson, The Complete Works: Fables

Cock and the Jasp, and The Two Mice; in the middle, The Sheepand the Dog, The Lion and the Mouse with its own prologue, and The Preaching of the Swallow; at the end, The Wolf and the Lamb and

• Robert Henryson, The Complete Works: Fables

Cock and the Jasp, and The Two Mice; in the middle, The Sheepand the Dog, The Lion and the Mouse with its own prologue, and The Preaching of the Swallow; at the end, The Wolf and the Lamb and

• The Sinner's Lament

men that walkys me by, Behold and see this dolefull sight! Hit happith me noght to call and crye, For I am dampned a woofull wight. Beware by me, both kyng and knyght, And amend you here while ye have

• The Plowman's Tale

maner metes, With songe and solace syttynge longe, And filleth her wombe, and fast fretes, And from the mete to the gonge; And after mete, with harpe and songe, And eche man mote hem lordes call, And hote spyces ever

• Friar Daw's Reply

And aftirward folowe me and be my disciple." And in the same Gospel se what he seith also: "Who so forsake not his fadir and his modir, His sone and his doughtir, his sistir and his brothir, His lond

• De Lucis Scrutinio

a sheep" -- trans. mine); and 79:4: "Deus, restitue nos, Et serenum praebe vultum tuum, ut salvi simus" ("Convert [i.e.,"restore"] us, O God, and shew us thy face: and we shall be saved"), where the echoes of Exodus 34:30-33 and

• The Life of Saint Francis: Introduction

in and around Assisi), the formerly popular and fashionable young cloth merchant came to adopt a life modeled (selectively) on that of Jesus and the apostles in the Gospels, devoted to poverty and asceticism, the preaching of repentance, and compassion

• Dame Sirith

Almightten do thee mede, And the Louerd that wes on Rode i-don, And faste fourti daiis to non, And hevene and erthe haveth to welde. As thilke Louerd thee foryelde, Have her fles and eke bred, And make thee glad,

• Poems of Political Prophecy: When Rome is Removed

on Kynon the nobyll. 24 and wrethe other landis. Haferkorn: and worshipe here londes. 25 And erth . . . wyne. Haferkorn: [And] inheryt in-to Albany at here own wyll. 27 wakyne. So MS and RHR; Lumby waykne. 28 that

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 34, The Road to Calvary

And sties also are ordande thore With stalworthe steeles as mystir wore, Bothe some schorte and some lang. I MILESFor hameres and nayles, Latte see sone who schall gang. II MILESHere are bragges that will noght faile Of irnne

• Hereward the Wake

himself went to see Hereward's soldiers and had them stand and march before him, both armed and unarmed. And he was greatly delighted with them and praised them, complimenting their handsome appearance and stature, and added that they ought all

• The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf: Introduction

8 Hunt, “Solomon and Marcolf.” 9 See Audelay, Poems and Carols, ed. Fein; Green, “Marcolf the Fool and Blind John Audelay” and “Langland and Audelay”; Simpson, “Saving Satire after Arundel’s Constitutions”; and Pearsall, “Audelay’s Marcolf and Solomon and the Langlandian

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

to you pertly and telle you my tale. I was presente with pepull whenne prese was full prest To mete with his maistir, with mayne and with myght, And hurled hym hardely and hastely hym arreste, And in bandis full

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

and late us se of there sayng. II DUXLo, sirs, ye schall carpe with the kyng And telles to hym manly youre menyng. I MILESLorde, welthis and worschippis be with you alway. REXWhat wolde thou? II MILESA worde, lorde,

• Mum and the Sothsegger

and of floxe in felde and in homes, Of polaille and of peris, of apples and of plummes, Of grapes and of garlik, of gees and of pigges, Of chibollz and of chiries and of thaire chese eeke, Herbaige

• Sir Amadace

true and lele And evyn, lord, for to dele Betwix the and me." "Fare wele," he sayd, "Sir Amadace! And thu schall wurche thrughe Goddus grace, And hit schall be with the." Sir Amadace sayd, "Have gode day, And thu

• The N-Town Plays: Play 27, Last Supper; Conspiracy with Judas

And as we with swete bredys have it ete, And also with the byttyr sokelyng, And as we take the hed with the fete So ded thei in all maner thyng. And as we stodyn, so ded thei stond,

• Introduction

is overwhelmingly public and material. It consists of persons, places, and things that can be listed, described, even counted and measured: rivers, mountains, palaces, walls, churches, flora and fauna, strangely shaped humans, and foreign customs. The unique and exotic excite

• The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf

lefte the king and ran hastely to hys sustyr Fudasa and fayned hymself sorwefull and hevy, and sayde to hyre: (2) “The king Salomon is ayenst me, and I may not bere hys threytys and injuries, and but I shall