• Bevis of Hampton

saw voice name send pilgrim's coat; took off together pressed strike trouble truly skin arrayed; garb seek Seven years might Greece treasure provision fiddle Dances; notes; flourishes knew; strategy went; (see note) pence from a minstral each and every Their

• Robin Hood and the Monk: Introduction

Translations of Similar Pieces from the Ancient Danish Language, and a Few Originals by the Editor. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Constable, 1806. Vol. II, 54-72. Ritson, Joseph, ed. Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs and Ballads Relative

• The Marriage of Sir Gawain

(1883); in this children's narrative, Robin's first adventure is a meeting in a tavern with a Tinker-minstrel, who sings "an ancient ballad of the time of good King Arthur, called the Marriage of Sir Gawaine, which you may some time

• The Death of Robin Hood: Introduction

fairly old ballad which develops the hero's end out of the familiar materials of the tradition and with some distinctly ancient and potent elements. There would seem to have been a ballad in existence by the mid-fifteenth century, and the

• Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne: Introduction

apparently unknown to Percy. Child's early location of the ballad may also be influenced by what seem to be quite ancient motifs in the ballad, notably Guy's horse-hide and head, which seems more like a ritual costume than a disguise,

• A Gest of Robyn Hode: Introduction

pp. 75-81), but this overlooks the atemporal character of medieval narrative (Malory's text deals with trial by battle in quite ancient forms, not to mention its fantasies of feudality). Similarly fictional is the setting: the Gest operates in the Yorkshire

• Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes

words do not know; (see note) stubborn read exceedingly foolish submit urged hateful crowd go duty one and all taken Greece sea bier at liberty Free especially attend were it not for; (see note) gentle attempt those whose disdainful; (see

• The Book of John Mandeville

in his tomb alive, his stirrings causing the earth above him to shift. 301 iles of Grece. The "isle of Greece," i.e., Crete, was never given to the Genoese ("Jonays," line 302). Rather, after the fall of Constantinople to the

• The Greene Knight: Introduction

it occurs. The Percy Folio scribe clearly wished to preserve a large group of what were by the mid-seventeenth century ancient romances and entertainments, many of which must have been transmitted orally. The Percy Folio texts are in general more

• How the Goode Man Taght Hys Sone

on Bodleian 6922.] Ritson, Joseph, ed. Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry: From Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies. London: C. Clarke, for T. and J. Egerton, 1791; rpt. 1833, 1884. ---. Ancient Popular Poetry: From Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed

• Herward the Wake: Introduction

chaplain Leofric, whose intention it had been to assemble all the doings of giants and warriors he could find in ancient fables as well as in "true reports." On the basis of this, perhaps half read, half invented, the author

• Robin Hood and the Potter: Introduction

Celebrated Yeoman. 2 vols. London: Longman, 1847. Vol. II, 21-35. Ritson, Joseph, ed. Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs and Ballads Now Extant Relative to the Celebrated English Outlaw. 2 vols. London: Egerton and Johnson, 1795.

• Item 41, King Edward and the Hermit: Introduction

Melissa M., ed. Ten Fifteenth-Century Comic Poems. Pp. 237–69. [Also prints John the Reeve, pp. 185–234.] Hartshorne, Charles Henry, ed. Ancient Metrical Tales Printed Chiefly From Original Sources. London: William Pickering, 1829. Pp. 293–321. Hazlitt, William Carew, ed. Remains of

• Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband

Chetham Library MS 8009, fols. 370-372 (c. 1500). Edition Wright, Thomas, and James Orchard Halliwell, eds. Reliquiae Antiquae. Scraps From Ancient Manuscripts, Illustrating Chiefly Early English Literature and the English Language. 2 vols. London: John Russell Smith, 1845. Vol. 2,

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

at war in the fourteenth century, hence scathel ("harmful") Scotland. 37 Grace. The MS reading. Most editors emend to Grece (Greece) but Grace (Grasse) makes more geographical sense. Grasse is a small city in southern France, north of Cannes, which

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

at war in the fourteenth century, hence scathel ("harmful") Scotland. 37 Grace. The MS reading. Most editors emend to Grece (Greece) but Grace (Grasse) makes more geographical sense. Grasse is a small city in southern France, north of Cannes, which

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

at war in the fourteenth century, hence scathel ("harmful") Scotland. 37 Grace. The MS reading. Most editors emend to Grece (Greece) but Grace (Grasse) makes more geographical sense. Grasse is a small city in southern France, north of Cannes, which

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

at war in the fourteenth century, hence scathel ("harmful") Scotland. 37 Grace. The MS reading. Most editors emend to Grece (Greece) but Grace (Grasse) makes more geographical sense. Grasse is a small city in southern France, north of Cannes, which

• Fouke le Fitz Waryn

understood his words and asked him who he was and his country of origin. "Sire, I am a merchant from Greece. I have been in Babylon [i.e., the medieval city of Old Cairo], Alexandria, and Greater India. I have a

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 1

Jason to come secretly to her chamber at night, where they make love. She agrees to go with him to Greece, and they sail off together with much of her father's treasure. Later when Jason has satisfied his desires with