• H. aquile pullus

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer

• John Gower, Minor Latin Works: Quia unusquisque

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer

• The Assembly of Ladies: Introduction

could find, and it stayed in the canon until rejected by Thomas Tyrwhitt in his 'Account of the Works of Chaucer' in his great edition of the Canterbury Tales (1775-78). AL came to be closely associated with FL (which was

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Introduction

59-80. ---. "Capgrave's Saint Katherine and the Perils of Gynecocracy." Viator 25 (1994), 361-76. ---. "John Capgrave and the Chaucer Tradition." Chaucer Review 30 (1996), 389-400. ---. Virgin Martyrs: Legends of Sainthood in Late Medieval England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,

• Emar: Introduction

share similarities with Emar. See pp. 221-50; 367-414. For Chaucer, see The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987) or F. N. Robinson, ed., The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957). For Gower,

• John Gower, Traiti selonc les auctours pour essampler les amantz marietz: Introduction

and Music. 15 As Wimsatt notes, no consensus exists concerning when Deschamps wrote his balade to Chaucer. Wimsatt himself settles on “late 1380s”; see Chaucer and His French Contemporaries, p. 248. 16 Excluding the fragment leaf in Nicholas Love from

• John Lydgate, The Floure of Curtesye

That Excelleth All (lines 36-42), and Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale (CT IV[E] 1744-45). As described in the Book of Judith, the eponymous heroine beheads Holofernes and helps to deliver the Israelites from the Assyrians. Chaucer regularly lists her, along with

• Lydgate, Bycorne and Chychevache

And cried, “Wolf’s head obedience!” (i.e., “Outlaw obedience!”) JOHN LYDGATE, BYCORNE AND CHYCHEVACHE: EXPLANATORY NOTES ABBREVIATIONS: BL: British Library; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; MP: Minor Poems of John Lydgate, ed. MacCracken; TB: Lydgate, Troy Book. Bycorne

• Lydgate, Mumming for the Mercers of London

tendency to construct historical space between great writers of old and his own age (Chaucer and His Readers, p. 36). Nolan argues that the omission of Chaucer from this list stresses an unmediated relation to a European poetic tradition and

• O recolende

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer

• George Ashby, Complaint of a Prisoner in the Fleet 1463: Introduction

advantage. So it was with concepts, images, verse forms, and all kinds of rhetorical modes and techniques. Ashby (who names Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate as his models, the "primier poetes of this nacion," see below) is a good example of

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 2, Right as a Ram’s Horn

So that no man shall oppress children or townspeople Item 2, RIGHT AS A RAM'S HORN: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; EETS: Early English Text Society; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences and Proverbial Phrases. Title No title or incipit.

• Item 24, Sir Cleges: Introduction

Pp. 38–59, 171–80. [Based on Ashmole 61.] Spearing, A. C., and J. E. Spearing, eds. Poetry of the Age of Chaucer. London: Arnold, 1974. Pp. 174–92. [Advocates MS.] Speed, Diane, ed. Medieval English Romances. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Durham: Durham

• Sir Perceval of Galles: Introduction

loose and that the diction is occasionally labored. Moreover, the poetic line lacks that density and texture one finds in Chaucer and the Gawain-poet, and the kind of "machinery" - such courtly trappings as forest naps, the locus amoenus, catalogues

• The Plowman's Tale: Introduction

a pseudo-Chaucerian tale. It is likely that the poem as originally written (without the Prologue) had no connection with either Chaucer or Piers Plowman. If the author or editor tried to adapt the PlT to the CT framework, he did

• The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn

Beryn is absolutely appropriate as an offering from the Merchant - more so, really, than the tale given him by Chaucer - since its hero is a young nobleman who chooses to be a merchant instead of a knight, only

• Caxton, The Game and Playe of the Chesse, Preface and Table of Contents

her, their. 57 epilogacion, conclusion. PREFACE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CA: Gower, Confessio Amantis; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; LGW: Chaucer, Legend of Good Women; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PL: Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, series Latina; Whiting: Whiting,

• Spurious Links: Introduction

the Host decides that the Prioress's sobering "miracle" of the murdered student ought to be followed with something jollier from Chaucer the pilgrim. Thus the fifteenth-century scribes seemed intent upon tying together and unifying, invariably through the strong guiding presence

• Good Counsel, Wisdom, and Advice: Introduction

Green, Poets and Princepleasers, p. 161. 3 Green, Poets and Princepleasers, p. 166. 4 Lerer, Chaucer and His Readers, pp. 124-25. 5 Boffey, "Proverbial Chaucer," pp. 46-47. 6 Crane, Framing Authority, p. 93. 7 Crane, Framing Authority, p. 95. 8

• The Lufaris Complaynt

Chaucer also referred to it in the stanza from TC (3.726-28) that Wilson refers to (see note to lines 132-41, above). 138 Mercury . . . Harisse. The story of Mercury's love for Herse comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses 2.708-832.