• The Annunciation

to Marye wende. Milde wes that mayde, swete and swithe hende, And of fayre ibere. Gabriel hire grette, thus quethinde: 1 "Edy beo thu, mayde, thus wunyinde; Ther schal a child in thee kenyen and springe, Ilef me Marie." Marie

• The N-Town Plays: Play 13, Visit to Elizabeth

14, Trial of Mary and Joseph The N-Town Plays: Play 13, Visit to Elizabeth Play 13, VISIT TO ELIZABETH: FOOTNOTES 1 They were called high priests, for their services 2 Lines 82–83: My soul magnifies the Lord / And my

• The N-Town Plays: Play 32, Procession to Calvary; Crucifixion

MS: large play number 32 in right margin. 1, s.n. MULIER 1. MS: ius mulier, but should be ia. 5, s.n. MULIER 2. MS: ijusmulier, but should be iia. 21, s.n. Judeus 1. MS: Jude, remainder cropped. After 24 therfore

• Lydgate, Mumming for the Goldsmiths of London

was probably a chest or coffer richly made by the Goldsmiths (“Poet as Deviser,” pp. 95–96n30). 29 According to 1 Paralipomenon (1 Chronicles) 16:4, Levites were appointed to minister before the Ark. 34 Syngethe. The instruction to the Levites to

• 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:

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 2, The Creation through the Fifth Day

1:16–27. A monologue, presented by the Plasterers, also known as Daubers. The pageant presents the Creation narrative according to Genesis 1, the first account presented in the Bible (the second follows in Genesis 2). Here the earth and all that

• The N-Town Plays: Play 14, Trial of Mary and Joseph

a place. DETRACTOR 1 Be my trowth, I seyd the same, And yet sum seyden thu shulde have evyl grace. DETRACTOR 2 Herk, Reysesclaundyr! Canst thu owth telle Of any newe thynge that wrought was late? DETRACTOR 1 Within a

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

mot halle alone Tyl we shuld this man present. And therfore, go we now forth with hym in hast. JUDEUS 1 It shal be don, and that in short spas! JUDEUS 2 Ya, but loke yf he be bownd ryth

• The N-Town Plays: Play 31, Satan and Pilate’s Wife; Second Trial before Pilate

85 *571 90 95 *581 100 105 *591 110 115 *601 [Here the Jewys bryng Jhesus agen to Pylat. DOCTOR 1 Sere Pylat, good tydandys thu here of me! Of Herowd the kyng, thu hast good wyl. And Jhesus he

• Anticlerical Poems: Freers, Freers, Wo Ye Be

Be: Notes FREERS, FREERS, WO YE BE: FOOTNOTES 1 Lines 30-31: Although they are [normally] just petty thieves / who help themselves to the penance money FREERS, FREERS, WO YE BE: NOTES 1 Freers. MS ffreers. Here and elsewhere in

• Richard Maidstone, Concordia: Appendix 4

(first four feet), by (number of lines [of the total 274 hexameters]) and by percent, from most to least frequent: 1. DDDD (36): 13.1% 2. DDSD (34): 12.4% 2. DSDD (34): 12.4% 4. DSSD (30): 10.9% 5. DSDS (28): 10.2%

• 3. Zac

of the original Arabic ancestor of Dicts and Sayings. 1 Zac. Zac, or "Tac," is probably the Egyptian god Thoth (S, p. 207n16). See the explanatory note for Hermes, line 1. This brief section seems to be a coda to

• Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham

Introduction Robyn Hod and the Shryff of Notyngham: Notes ROBYN HOD AND THE SHRYFF OFF NOTYNGHAM: NOTES I. Manuscript version 1 The final e in hode consists of a point. 2 MS: "thorn" with a superior letter u = thou.

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 40, Vanity

Vanitas vanitatum on the basis of Ecclesiastes 1:2 (see note to line 1 below), but as the scribal title fits the poem well, it has been adopted here. 1 O vanyté off vanytés, and all is vanité. See Ecclesiastes 1:2:

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Dicunt scripture

The text here is from C, read against H, G, and E. 1 ff. Latin marginalia in C: Nota contra mortuorum executors. ["Note against the executors of death."] 1 novissima vite. Undoubtedly intended are the "Four Last Things," i.e., death,

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Unanimes esse qui secula

C, read against H, G, and E. 1-2 Unanimes . . . amor superesse. The opening echoes Boethius: compare De cons. 3.met.9 and 2.met.8. 6 errorem quasi pestis. Gower often depicts heresy as plague; see Presul, note to line 1.

• Poems of Political Prophecy: The Prophecy of Merlin (Dublin MS)

Information for this edition 5 10 When lordes wille is londes law, Prestes wylle trechery, and gyle hold soth saw, 1 Lechery callyd pryv solace, And robbery is hold no trespace - Then schal the lond of Albyon torne into