• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: Truthe, Reste, and Pes

Hit brenneth breme as fyre in gres. Laweles novellerye loke ye lete, So mowe ye lyve in reste and pes. Old speche is spoken yore: What is a kyngdom tresory? Bestayle, corn stuffed in store, Riche comouns, and wyse clergy;

• Good Counsel, Wisdom, and Advice: Introduction

virtues, Wenzel classifies Prophecy as a type of complaint lyric ("Type B") that witnesses the evils of the age: "the old virtues have passed away, vices are now triumphant, what used to be prized highly is nowadays scorned, and the

• Lydgate, Mesure Is Tresour

in its greenness (see note) livelihood by summer subjects from wolves’ fierce attack safely (see note); (t-note) in days of old; (t-note) in defense boars, bears; lions My job dens in the morning security safety Wish to govern themselves Go

• Osbern Bokenham, Life of St. Anne

in line 4 or to their reputation as the originators of courtly poetry in English. 4 Gowere, Chauncere, and now Lytgate. The three most famous English poets of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

is omitted as in Ovid’s Heroides, to make her a martyr to love. Gower’s Confessio Amantis, the longest of the English retellings, presents her as a sympathetic victim of Jason’s perjury (5.3247–4222). Textual Notes 3 d’Erode. P: de Rode. 18–19

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

is omitted as in Ovid’s Heroides, to make her a martyr to love. Gower’s Confessio Amantis, the longest of the English retellings, presents her as a sympathetic victim of Jason’s perjury (5.3247–4222). Textual Notes 3 d’Erode. P: de Rode. 18–19

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

is omitted as in Ovid’s Heroides, to make her a martyr to love. Gower’s Confessio Amantis, the longest of the English retellings, presents her as a sympathetic victim of Jason’s perjury (5.3247–4222). Textual Notes 3 d’Erode. P: de Rode. 18–19

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

is omitted as in Ovid’s Heroides, to make her a martyr to love. Gower’s Confessio Amantis, the longest of the English retellings, presents her as a sympathetic victim of Jason’s perjury (5.3247–4222). Textual Notes 3 d’Erode. P: de Rode. 18–19

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 8, Dame Courtesy

Ashmole 61: Item 8, DAME COURTESY Item 8, DAME COURTESY: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Diction­ary; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences and Proverbial Phrases. Title No title or incipit. Though some modern descriptions of this

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

Brown and Robbins, Index of Middle English Verse K: Kinsley, William Dunbar: Poems (1957) LGW: Legend of Good Women Mc: Mackenzie, Poems of William Dunbar (1932; rev. 1960) MED: Middle English Dictionary MEL: Middle English Lyrics, ed. Luria and Hoffman

• Book of Judith

in English Literature, ed. Jeffrey; HS: Peter Comes­tor, Historia Scholastica, cited by book and chapter, followed by Patrologia Latina column in paren­theses; K: Kalén-Ohlander edition; MED: Middle English Dictionary; NOAB: New Oxford Annotated Bible; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; OFP: Old

• The Quare of Jelusy: Introduction

view defines the value of Scots poetry through its relationship to English poetry. Further, the assessment of The Quare of Jelusy as less "accomplished" in its imitation of English "poetic form and ethical concerns" suggests that it cannot be either

• Havelok the Dane

cold Or he were twel winter old, And with mani hevi swink, With poure mete and feble drink, And swithe wikke clothes, For al hise manie grete othes. Nu beyes he his holde blame: Old sinne makes newe shame! Wan

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Tercia Pars

Before; lose Before; possess thought take steps beforehand neglectful all around effect decide; goal fit Before wise grown old (see note) known old age familiar their hidden lore mention before; clearly interpret begun Give; judgment judgment; strife knew if plainly;

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

Brown and Robbins, Index of Middle English Verse K: Kinsley, William Dunbar: Poems (1957) LGW: Legend of Good Women Mc: Mackenzie, Poems of William Dunbar (1932; rev. 1960) MED: Middle English Dictionary MEL: Middle English Lyrics, ed. Luria and Hoffman

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

Brown and Robbins, Index of Middle English Verse K: Kinsley, William Dunbar: Poems (1957) LGW: Legend of Good Women Mc: Mackenzie, Poems of William Dunbar (1932; rev. 1960) MED: Middle English Dictionary MEL: Middle English Lyrics, ed. Luria and Hoffman

• Robert of Cisyle

of Judith,” in Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse, ed. Russell A. Peck (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991), and Penelope Doob, Nebuchadnezzar’s Children: Conventions of Madness in Middle English Literature (New Haven, CT: Yale University

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 20, Third Sunday in Lent

EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CA: Catena Aurea, ed. Newman; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; NHC: Northern Homily Cycle; NIMEV: The New Index of Middle English Verse, ed. Boffey and Edwards; Tubach: Index Exemplorum, ed. Tubach. For manuscript abbreviations

• Ancrene Wisse, Author's Preface

MS Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 402; Lat.: Latin text of Ancrene Riwle; MED: Middle English Dictionary; Nero: British Library MS Cotton Nero A.xiv; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PG: Patrologia Graecae; PL: Patrologia Latina; Titus: British Library MS Cotton Titus D.xviii;

• The N-Town Plays: Play 30, Death of Judas; Trials before Pilate and Herod

benefit openly known who has done by; sorcery; (see note) Wrought; people points of black magic have fallen (t-note) will; old; young By his miracles error daily; them himself Sirs; matters; heard much placed consider them owe understanding wonderful Crippled