• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

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• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

notes in this file -- then link via poem number and line number. Thus, poem 1, line 4 would be #14, but poem 4, line 1 would be #41, and poem 4, line 41 would be #441. Spacing between columns:

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

notes in this file -- then link via poem number and line number. Thus, poem 1, line 4 would be #14, but poem 4, line 1 would be #41, and poem 4, line 41 would be #441. Spacing between columns:

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

notes in this file -- then link via poem number and line number. Thus, poem 1, line 4 would be #14, but poem 4, line 1 would be #41, and poem 4, line 41 would be #441. Spacing between columns:

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

notes in this file -- then link via poem number and line number. Thus, poem 1, line 4 would be #14, but poem 4, line 1 would be #41, and poem 4, line 41 would be #441. Spacing between columns:

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

notes in this file -- then link via poem number and line number. Thus, poem 1, line 4 would be #14, but poem 4, line 1 would be #41, and poem 4, line 41 would be #441. Spacing between columns:

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

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• Presul ouile regis

with an elegiac distich, both disyllabic rhymes being "-arum." 1 ff. Latin marginalia in C: Nota de primordiis Stelle Comate in Anglia. ["Note on the arrival of a comet in England"] 1 morbus . . . macularum. Gower commonly equates

• Spurious Links: Introduction

began here tale ryght thus full sobyrly. There are twenty-two such passages that can be divided into three basic types: (1) altered authorial texts in which usually the pilgrim's name has been changed; (2) non-authorial lines added to authentic Chaucerian

• Poems of Political Prophecy: The Prophecy of Merlin (Magdalene Coll. MS)

Coll. MS), Notes THE PROPHECY OF MERLIN (MAGDALENE COLL. MS): FOOTNOTE 1 With sharpened swords, and men ready to terrorize THE PROPHECY OF MERLIN (MAGDALENE COLL. MS): NOTES 1 When feythe fayleth. Versions of this lyric - identified as "Chaucer's

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 23a, The Feast in Simon’s House

Symon leprosus rogans eum ut manducaret cum eo, duo discipuli, Maria Magdalena lavans pedes Jesu lacrimis et capillis suis tergens. Play 23a, THE FEAST IN SIMON’S HOUSE: EXPLANATORY NOTE FOOTNOTES Footnote 1 REED: York, 1:351. Footnote 2 RB, p. 441.

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Ratio

(t-note) Explicit istud precedens Argumentum. Incipit Evangelium eiusdem Dominici secundum Marcum.1 Go To Homily 1, First Sunday in Advent The Northern Homily Cycle: Ratio RATIO: FOOTNOTE 1 This ends the preceding explanation. [Here] begins the Gospel for this Sunday according

• The N-Town Plays: Play 22, Baptism

penance (t-note) Go To Play 23, Parliament of Hell; Temptation The N-Town Plays: Play 22, Baptism Play 22, BAPTISM: FOOTNOTES 1 Behold, a voice of one crying in the wilderness. (See Matthew 3:3) 2 Lines 14–15: Do penance now for

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

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• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Est Amor

Macaulay 1.474. 20-21 Lex docet auctorum . . . coniugiorum. The authorities Gower may have had in mind might include 1 Corinthians 7:1-2: "Bonum est homini mulierem non tangere: propter fornicationem autem unusquisque suam uxorem habeat" ("It is good for

• Anticlerical Poems: Allas, What Schul We Freris Do

WE FRERIS DO: FOOTNOTES 1 They command me to "go away, [you] illiterate priest" 2 "But they hasten us (on) quickly, so that we might be gone" (RHR) ALLAS, WHAT SCHUL WE FRERIS DO: NOTES 1 "The fryers Compleynt" appears

• Prologue

1 Marginalia in S (at right of fol. 2r): Samuel Purchas. Marginalia in S (at top of fol. 2r): Genesis. 1–1472 Missing in L. 1, 3 Lines indented to leave space for an initial capital; first letter of line

• The N-Town Plays: Play 29, Herod; Trial before Annas and Cayphas

direction; s.n.: stage name. Before 1 MS: large play number 29 written at top of fol. 165 r. Before 1, s.d. than come ther. So MS, Bl, Bev, PP. S: supplies xal after ther. 1 ff. Passion Play 2 (comprising

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 4, The Prohibition of the Tree of Knowledge

John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). The Fullers’ pageant was entered by JC in 1559 (see REED: York, 1:330). 1 Adam. Reg: strapwork initial A. 35 on haugh. So RB; Reg, LTS: on to haugh. 40 ay. So LTS,

• The N-Town Plays: Play 18, Magi

way. Ye mynstrell of myrth, blowe up a good blast Whyll I go to chawmere and chaunge myn array. REX 1 Heyl be ye, kyngys tweyne, Ferre rydyng out of youre regne! Me thynkyth be youre presentys seyne Ye sekyn