• The Vision of Tundale

slender eyes wide-lipped nose; tipped; (see note) extinguished frozen ice anguish cruel; greedy swallowed pained Till; wasted cast recovered grew; blue; (t-note) bearing complained (bewailed) (see note) wild adders; (t-note) snakes times dole nearly; (t-note) heard fared their; [they are]

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 3

note) bend ruin consumed Left Determined aimed a blow cut; hindrance headpiece sharpened quickly mad; (see note) strip (see note) blue jewelry lustrous and shining rein All the while prey sight of all dead body plunder among them all insatiable

• Havelok the Dane

particle, which signals that a question is coming. 296 Datheit (Curses) is said to be a contraction for odium Dei habit. 305 Note the recurrence of the verb yeme here. In lines 190 and 206, the dying Athelwold made Godrich

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book 6

in the persons of the powerful, each bodily pleasure serves.] 664 ff. Latin marginalia: Philosophus. Consuetudo est altera natura. [Philosopher: "Habit is a second nature."] 737 smale lustes whiche I pike. Several meanings are compatible with pike in this context:

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 4

accustomed happened wild (see note) (see note) permission; biers corpses truth; delay hasten position; sphere of the fixed stars region habit; (see note) (see note) come near them Except for island remain lost past If; nature also laws Penthesilea truth

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book 5

its easily moved heard often (t-note) courteous behavior (gentility) unhappy called foolishness fever; a daily recurrence; (see note) Whether dwell habit; (see note) eye spy (gaze) and pry toe without his seeing eye least expression whisper; occasion laugh; frown moment

• James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair

line [Which] she, piercing on a joyous plain Along Embroidered; (see note) ear made A sort of sound, blended bank blue as lead Leaped; group did prettily; took care to spread; (t-note) coral Like scale armor along this same river

• John Gower, Cinkante Balades

and other beautiful women in romances are often praised for their “gray” eyes. “Gray” is usually translated as a color, blue and/or gray, sometimes as “bright, shining” (see Greimas, Dictionnaire, “clair”); but perhaps “changeable” is an intended part of the

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

sixth; psalter; bound surplice (cover); sewn suffered; announces injured clambering top; wheel; eagerly carbuncle achieved noble; forehead physiognomy dressed; color; blue fleur-de-lis (lilies) The other; clad carved little crosses bright (one); graciously come knew how (see note) achieve lean throne;

• Ancrene Wisse, Part One

Hlhen. Omitted a restored. [Cleo.: Hale3en.] 151 [F]or alle. MS: ¶or alle. Tolkien remarks, "a red paragraph [symbol], ornamented with blue, mistakenly substituted for F" (p. 19, fol. 7v, line 19). It is emended to F here. [Cleo.: For alle.]

• Pety Job

to describe heroines in romance, were considered beautiful. Gray probably refers to the eye color one would now term light blue. 538 Full. Omitted in CP. 539 that. Omitted in CP. 540 For. CP: Wyth. 542 now. CP: ye. helpeth.

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 1

as grammatically parallel with florissyng. 2084 dowbilnes. MS: dowmbilnes. 2085 is. MS: it. 2090 blewe is lightly died into grene. Blue is fidelity; green is inconstancy. See Chaucer's "Against Women Unconstant" with its refrain "In stede of blew, thus may

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 32, Maidstone’s Seven Penitential Psalms

enemies amiss voice receive; (t-note) eagerly chastised with his rod vengeful excluded from there (t-note) prayer prayers sound black and blue; (t-note) consent to hear us May; (t-note) tamed (see note) Psalm 31; (see note) (t-note) hidden accepted by God;

• The Awntyrs off Arthur

arms of Sir Ironside (son of the Knyght of Armus Grene) consist of a golden griffin on a field of blue, surrounded by fleurs-de-lis. In Carle (lines 55 ff.; see note), Ironside bears similar arms, though apparently with several griffins,

• A Complaynte of a Lovers Lyfe

note) covered here; (see note) In the middle of; garden (arbor) was furnished with seats of turfs fresh; (t-note) deep blue flowers; (t-note) In which; saw/observed holly; honeysuckle (woodbine); (see note); (t-note) I noticed; (see note); (t-note) (see note); (t-note)

• Sir Degrevant

the lower part is engrailed (Engrelyd), i.e., it shows a series of low arcades. The color of the chief is blue (azour), that of the lower part is not given. It is not clear on which part the St. Andrew's

• The Four Leaves of the Truelove

synonym beginning with s, such as sobbes or sorows. gray. The eye color is probably what we would call light blue. "Gray" is the standard color for beautiful eyes in ME literature. Eyn seems to alliterate with owr in the

• The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain

one on the way starts out; (see note) banners shone; sun; sable other [gear] gleamed; gules (i.e., red) sapphire (i.e., blue) brightly; (see note) troop in breadth Marched over; field quickly; moved Over moors, with joy travels; forest; moors Many

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Tercia Pars

gathered behavior In my judgment; marvelous or two deceive seldom if dilute wines mixed; alloys (impurities) proofs cease where indigo blue (t-note) proceeded; immediately At his side; (t-note) Toward; together enclosed trickling down pierced break Their agonies; bitter bear (see

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 2

wave rough (see note) (see note) shield olive tree (see note) virtue strong Against destroy mingle; vengeance scraped smooth Lest blue (see note) mixed; woe; (see note) last of all (see note) offspring Spread out stamped moon; must an ebb