• Book of Deuteronomy

French Paraphrase, British Library, MS Egerton 2710, cited by folio and column; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences, and Pro­verbial Phrases; York:York Plays, ed. Beadle. For other abbreviations, see Textual Notes. 2281–2616 Though most of these stories occur variously in Deuteronomy,

• Book of Joshua

French Paraphrase, British Library, MS Egerton 2710, cited by folio and column; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences, and Pro­verbial Phrases; York:York Plays, ed. Beadle. For other abbreviations, see Textual Notes. 2711–12 scho was commyn kend / as hostler evyn and

• Second Book of Maccabees 7

French Paraphrase, British Library, MS Egerton 2710, cited by folio and column; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences, and Pro­verbial Phrases; York:York Plays, ed. Beadle. For other abbreviations, see Textual Notes. It is an open question whether the poet paraphrases so

• The N-Town Plays: Play 38, Cleophas and Luke; Appearance to Thomas

Mark 16:11–14. The N-Town version, like Chester Play 19, combines the pilgrim play with the risen Christ’s appearance to Thomas. York Play 40 and Towneley Play 27 precede separate Thomas plays. What distinguishes N-Town from the others is found in

• The Four Leaves of the Truelove

H. White, trans., The Bestiary, A Book of Beasts (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1954), pp. 145-46; and Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, The Bestiary of Christ, trans. D. M. Dooling (New York: Penguin, 1991), pp. 229-37. a2. The article appears in

• The Bird with Four Feathers

ruling king in Summer Sunday, line 68 (ed. Rossell Hope Robbins, Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries [New York: Columbia University Press, 1959], pp. 98-102). 86 Myn. SDH: My. 87 ament. DTRH: amend(e). 95 cowth. DTH: cowde. 98

• Sir Tristrem

2229 ff. On the ordeal with the hot iron, see Ernest C. York, "Isolt's Ordeal: English Legal Customs in the Medieval Tristan Legend," SP 68 (Jan. 1971), 1-9. York notes that the ordeal "had gone out of use in England

• Sir Tristrem

2229 ff. On the ordeal with the hot iron, see Ernest C. York, "Isolt's Ordeal: English Legal Customs in the Medieval Tristan Legend," SP 68 (Jan. 1971), 1-9. York notes that the ordeal "had gone out of use in England

• A Gest of Robyn Hode

oaks or to large trees so long as it is clear underneath" (Harry Rothwell, ed., English Historical Documents, 1189-1327 [New York: Oxford University Press, 1975] II, 461). 79 loke. Child emends to "loked" for consistency of tense, but all the

• Richard Maidstone, Concordia: Introduction

might otherwise have been a minor dispute over non-payment of a retail trade-bill. With the support of the archbishop of York Thomas Arundel, also lord chancellor, Waltham petitioned the king for redress of the Londoners' commercial extortions. There was also

• The Nativity

52; EEC, no. 173; Stevens, pp. 10-11 (rpt. in Tidings True: Carols Selected from Volume 4 of Musica Britannica [New York: Galaxy Music, n.d.], p. 9); Greene, Selection, no. 46; Sisam, Oxford, no. 169; Rickert, p. 8; Segar, p. 65;

• The Nativity

52; EEC, no. 173; Stevens, pp. 10-11 (rpt. in Tidings True: Carols Selected from Volume 4 of Musica Britannica [New York: Galaxy Music, n.d.], p. 9); Greene, Selection, no. 46; Sisam, Oxford, no. 169; Rickert, p. 8; Segar, p. 65;

• The Nativity

52; EEC, no. 173; Stevens, pp. 10-11 (rpt. in Tidings True: Carols Selected from Volume 4 of Musica Britannica [New York: Galaxy Music, n.d.], p. 9); Greene, Selection, no. 46; Sisam, Oxford, no. 169; Rickert, p. 8; Segar, p. 65;

• The Nativity

52; EEC, no. 173; Stevens, pp. 10-11 (rpt. in Tidings True: Carols Selected from Volume 4 of Musica Britannica [New York: Galaxy Music, n.d.], p. 9); Greene, Selection, no. 46; Sisam, Oxford, no. 169; Rickert, p. 8; Segar, p. 65;

• The Nativity

52; EEC, no. 173; Stevens, pp. 10-11 (rpt. in Tidings True: Carols Selected from Volume 4 of Musica Britannica [New York: Galaxy Music, n.d.], p. 9); Greene, Selection, no. 46; Sisam, Oxford, no. 169; Rickert, p. 8; Segar, p. 65;

• The Nativity

52; EEC, no. 173; Stevens, pp. 10-11 (rpt. in Tidings True: Carols Selected from Volume 4 of Musica Britannica [New York: Galaxy Music, n.d.], p. 9); Greene, Selection, no. 46; Sisam, Oxford, no. 169; Rickert, p. 8; Segar, p. 65;

• The Nativity

52; EEC, no. 173; Stevens, pp. 10-11 (rpt. in Tidings True: Carols Selected from Volume 4 of Musica Britannica [New York: Galaxy Music, n.d.], p. 9); Greene, Selection, no. 46; Sisam, Oxford, no. 169; Rickert, p. 8; Segar, p. 65;

• The Nativity

52; EEC, no. 173; Stevens, pp. 10-11 (rpt. in Tidings True: Carols Selected from Volume 4 of Musica Britannica [New York: Galaxy Music, n.d.], p. 9); Greene, Selection, no. 46; Sisam, Oxford, no. 169; Rickert, p. 8; Segar, p. 65;

• Excerpts from Munday's 'The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington'

Bernard Spivack, Shakespeare and the Allegory of Evil: The History of a Metaphor in Relation to His Major Villains (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), pp. 362-64, discusses Doncaster's villainous hatred in this passage at some length, stressing his professional

• The Nativity

52; EEC, no. 173; Stevens, pp. 10-11 (rpt. in Tidings True: Carols Selected from Volume 4 of Musica Britannica [New York: Galaxy Music, n.d.], p. 9); Greene, Selection, no. 46; Sisam, Oxford, no. 169; Rickert, p. 8; Segar, p. 65;