• Sir Tristrem

tag." 2976 The word blo, meaning dark and thus virtually synonymous with "black," survives in the phrase "black and blue" where "blue" is "a corruption arising when blo became obsolete after 1550" (OED). 3050 The MED, citing this line, defines

• The Shewings of Julian of Norwich: Introduction

and after, as it became even paler, more death-like, languishing, and then it turned more deathly into blue, and after, a more brownish blue, as the flesh turned more deeply into death. For His passion showed itself to me most

• Hereward the Wake

had happened, since they had nothing in their hands but just drinking-horns and wine-cups. XXXI How Hereward's wife assumed the habit of a nun at Crowland. In the interval, however, Turfrida, the aforesaid wife of Hereward, had already begun to

• Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes: Introduction

and proceeds to describe his own situation as embodying moral virtue clad in a poor dress. Reference to his poor "habit" leads to a long digression on contemporary social conditions in which too many courtiers are wastefully dressed in fashionable

• The Siege of Milan

mass altar fairer host Than chalice high mass glad strength voice power pledge dies; field dwelling; find shalter cast off; habit immediately laughed (see note) then beautiful sword enough vanguard page example pity army (see note) Raises; quickly should; ready

• Early South English Legendary Life of Mary Magdalen

SOUTH ENGLISH LEGENDARY LIFE OF MARY MAGDALEN: TEXTUAL NOTES Abbreviations: see explanatory notes. [The scribe of L has the peculiar habit of writing 3h (yogh + h), which I have transcribed throughout as gh.] 11 brightnesse. L: brighnesse. 43-44 These

• William Dunbar, The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo

sabill,55 Bot courtly and ryght curyus my corse is ther undir: I drup with a ded luke in my dule habit, As with manis daill I had done for dayis of my lif.56 "Quhen that I go to the kirk,

• Select Secular Lyrics

works such as Alexander Neckam's De Natura Rerum (p. 129). 11 corel. MS: scorel. 12 inde. Indigo was originally a blue dye from India. 15 Du notes that "in the Sloane lyrics the variation of 3- and 4-stress lines is

• Select Secular Lyrics

works such as Alexander Neckam's De Natura Rerum (p. 129). 11 corel. MS: scorel. 12 inde. Indigo was originally a blue dye from India. 15 Du notes that "in the Sloane lyrics the variation of 3- and 4-stress lines is

• Select Secular Lyrics

works such as Alexander Neckam's De Natura Rerum (p. 129). 11 corel. MS: scorel. 12 inde. Indigo was originally a blue dye from India. 15 Du notes that "in the Sloane lyrics the variation of 3- and 4-stress lines is

• Select Secular Lyrics

works such as Alexander Neckam's De Natura Rerum (p. 129). 11 corel. MS: scorel. 12 inde. Indigo was originally a blue dye from India. 15 Du notes that "in the Sloane lyrics the variation of 3- and 4-stress lines is

• Select Secular Lyrics

works such as Alexander Neckam's De Natura Rerum (p. 129). 11 corel. MS: scorel. 12 inde. Indigo was originally a blue dye from India. 15 Du notes that "in the Sloane lyrics the variation of 3- and 4-stress lines is

• Select Secular Lyrics

works such as Alexander Neckam's De Natura Rerum (p. 129). 11 corel. MS: scorel. 12 inde. Indigo was originally a blue dye from India. 15 Du notes that "in the Sloane lyrics the variation of 3- and 4-stress lines is

• Select Secular Lyrics

works such as Alexander Neckam's De Natura Rerum (p. 129). 11 corel. MS: scorel. 12 inde. Indigo was originally a blue dye from India. 15 Du notes that "in the Sloane lyrics the variation of 3- and 4-stress lines is

• Select Secular Lyrics

works such as Alexander Neckam's De Natura Rerum (p. 129). 11 corel. MS: scorel. 12 inde. Indigo was originally a blue dye from India. 15 Du notes that "in the Sloane lyrics the variation of 3- and 4-stress lines is

• Select Secular Lyrics

works such as Alexander Neckam's De Natura Rerum (p. 129). 11 corel. MS: scorel. 12 inde. Indigo was originally a blue dye from India. 15 Du notes that "in the Sloane lyrics the variation of 3- and 4-stress lines is

• Audelay, Meditative Close

in black; Scribe B, incipit (in margin) and explicit in red. Initials: The text opens with a medium T in blue with red filigree (two lines high), and there are three more medium initial Ts in red (two lines high),

• Audelay, Meditative Close

in black; Scribe B, incipit (in margin) and explicit in red. Initials: The text opens with a medium T in blue with red filigree (two lines high), and there are three more medium initial Ts in red (two lines high),

• Audelay, Meditative Close

in black; Scribe B, incipit (in margin) and explicit in red. Initials: The text opens with a medium T in blue with red filigree (two lines high), and there are three more medium initial Ts in red (two lines high),

• Audelay, Meditative Close

in black; Scribe B, incipit (in margin) and explicit in red. Initials: The text opens with a medium T in blue with red filigree (two lines high), and there are three more medium initial Ts in red (two lines high),