• Audelay, Salutations

(i.e., salvation) think nine months Until he emerged; (see note) [And] battles commanded flock [of followers]; (t-note) shoulders [black and] blue gave a keen knock; (see note); (t-note) (see note); (t-note) maiden bore; sweet demeanor promised to keep her chaste

• Audelay, Salutations

(i.e., salvation) think nine months Until he emerged; (see note) [And] battles commanded flock [of followers]; (t-note) shoulders [black and] blue gave a keen knock; (see note); (t-note) (see note); (t-note) maiden bore; sweet demeanor promised to keep her chaste

• Audelay, Salutations

(i.e., salvation) think nine months Until he emerged; (see note) [And] battles commanded flock [of followers]; (t-note) shoulders [black and] blue gave a keen knock; (see note); (t-note) (see note); (t-note) maiden bore; sweet demeanor promised to keep her chaste

• Audelay, Salutations

(i.e., salvation) think nine months Until he emerged; (see note) [And] battles commanded flock [of followers]; (t-note) shoulders [black and] blue gave a keen knock; (see note); (t-note) (see note); (t-note) maiden bore; sweet demeanor promised to keep her chaste

• Audelay, Salutations

(i.e., salvation) think nine months Until he emerged; (see note) [And] battles commanded flock [of followers]; (t-note) shoulders [black and] blue gave a keen knock; (see note); (t-note) (see note); (t-note) maiden bore; sweet demeanor promised to keep her chaste

• Audelay, Salutations

(i.e., salvation) think nine months Until he emerged; (see note) [And] battles commanded flock [of followers]; (t-note) shoulders [black and] blue gave a keen knock; (see note); (t-note) (see note); (t-note) maiden bore; sweet demeanor promised to keep her chaste

• Audelay, Salutations

(i.e., salvation) think nine months Until he emerged; (see note) [And] battles commanded flock [of followers]; (t-note) shoulders [black and] blue gave a keen knock; (see note); (t-note) (see note); (t-note) maiden bore; sweet demeanor promised to keep her chaste

• The N-Town Plays: The Banns (Proclamation)

(t-note) indeed six; in full view beasts were; fowl of flight think One of man’s ribs; promise mate to be blue; white; (see note) might Except; knowledge in no way; (t-note) gave morsel done; rule of right Then; with anger

• The Palis of Honoure

gyf thaym knawlegyng Tha raif thair lord, mysknew hym at thaym batit.16 Syne ladyis come with lusty giltyn tressys, In habit wild maist lyke till fostaressys, Amyddys quham heich on ane eliphant In syng that sche in chastite incressys Raid

• The Assembly of Ladies

to one side of the arbor and below floor level (underneth). 83 blewe: The wearing of blue is emphasized throughout the poem because blue was traditionally the color of truth and fidelity, especially as opposed to green (see FL 329n).

• Second Book of Maccabees 6 and 9

if theirs double heirs governed; their counsel; (t-note) doubt moved from that place for the stench; came near him swelling, blue as lead comfort; bier believe his judgment [by God] to be severe; (t-note) therefore; (see note) dwell Go To

• Ywain and Gawain

law." Mistaking "a Laudine" as one word, he subsequently anglicized it to "Alundyne." 1291 A blue initial capital. 1321 A red capital . 1365 A blue capital "S." 1440 forto. MS: to is added above the line by another hand.

• Anticlerical Documents: The Lanterne of Light

schal hele hem that ben sore. O, thou foltid schepard Anticrist! God seith thou art an ydole havyng a bischopis habit but neithir vertu ne spirit, lijf ne dede, that longith to a bischop. For Poul seith (Rom. viii[o]): Qui

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book 7

garment swear pay for befits destroyed diminished (lessened) excess of luxury turned aside; (see note) (see note) (see note) practice (habit) wholly foolish who was offended by avenged tales; (see note) many a one (see note) duty it so happened

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 1, Saint Eustace

Until to town Working and sweating; then money was all gone work; then; (t-note) crops also Pledges (guarantees); pen common habit; (see note) Before men knew from whence to earn his food ordered him to be sought stalwart and fierce

• Scogan's Moral Balade

Gode stocke of vertuous noblesse" (line 100). See Allen,"'Firste Stok.'" 119 richchesse. The doubling of the double consonant is a habit of the scribe, John Shirley. 121 Latin marginalia (in later hand): Nam genus et proauos et quae non fecimus

• Sir Owain: Introduction

the fifteen of the Tractatus, white-robed men, who look remarkably like other-worldly Augustinian Canons Regular, who normally wore a white habit. They remind Owain that he is in grave danger and that he must resist the temptations of the fiends,

• Longer South English Legendary Life of St. Frideswide

church or hall!" 9 Lines 59-60: And lie with her carnally and take away from her also / Her nun's habit that she had solemnly received 10 I am betrothed to the King of Heaven. I will not violate my

• Prose Merlin: Introduction

Arthurian works. Numerous examples of this characteristic occur throughout the Prose Merlin, such as the explanation it offers for Kay's habit of rude speaking and for Arthur's tolerance of it; the explanation it offers for the great enmity that develops

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 25, The Feasts of All Saints and All Souls

little sense. 233 Now pray I God. As Blanchfield suggests, lines 233–38 seem to be a clear exam­ple of Rate’s habit of mistaken anticipation: the angel dismisses the monk with his instructions, only to announce rather suddenly in lines 239–40