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a form of OE raes (course, as in millrace). The translation given here follows the sense of Thornton in using the preposition of rather than on. Thus, The barking of the hounds grabbed him from (deprived him of) his rest
intended, and says the "whole of the territory hereabout was romance-ground" (p. 354). 502 Knights of the Bathe. This allusion parallels the insertion of the motto of the Order of the Garter at the conclusion of Sir Gawain and the
a prince of hy degré; There myght nowher a better be. In Antych he had a wyffe; Both were heythen of ther lyffe. He was a man of grete power, Of all the cuntré governer. False he was of hys
of the Bishop of Lincoln and the Earls of Salisbury and Huntingdon won Edward the support of the Counts of Hainault, Gelderland, Berg, Cleves, and Marck, the Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Margrave of Juliers, and the Elector
by the troop of players themselves, who show both concern and pride in the special efforts" of their productions. The illusion of water was often created by wafting blue cloth, as in productions of the drowning of Pharaohs army in
to be that of Isaiah 9:67, but various texts in Jeremiah were often used as prophecies of Christ as well. 157 Danyell. Though several parts of the Book of Daniel were also often cited as prophecies of Christ, the prophecy
of the person who surrendered Dunbar Castle to the earl of Douglas in 1399. According to David Hume of Godscroft, a Robert Maitland was the son of Agnes Dunbar and John Maitland of Thirlestane (The History of the House
asked of what lynage he was of. To whome he aunsuerd and seide: "Enquere nat of my lynage, but oonely of my wysedome and of my prudence." And anothir, whiche was named Fyguanee, was a prysoner, an escalve, of whome
Platon is as moche to seye as "accomplysshed," and was of Grece by his fadir side of the good lynage of Esculapius and of his moder side of the lynage of Zalon, whiche stablissed many lawes, as it is seide
doughter of Olyroun, Dame Tryamour that hyghte; Her fadyr was Kyng of Fayrye, Of Occient, fer and nyghe, A man of mochell myghte. In the pavyloun he fond a bed of prys Yheled wyth purpur bys, That semyle was of
the personification of loving, patient, and self-sacrificing motherhood, and the antithesis of her inexplicably evil mother-in-law (Born to Thraldom and Penance, p. 49). 95 The giving of gifts to bearers of good news was traditional; these rewards of three towns
of Myerscough. However, it seems clear that the reference is to part of Inglewood forest near Carlisle, providing an interesting connection with Andrew of Wyntoun's early location of Robin and Little John there. In her edition of The Awntyrs
With tenours and trebles among; Threscore of copes of damaske bryght, Full of perles they shal be pyght; Your aulter clothes of taffata, And your sicles all of taffetra. Your sensours shal be of golde, Endent with asure many a
called than for diversyté Kyng of Alysaundyr alone, ryght for differens Of the kyng of Egypt, this is the sentens. Thys wote I well of Athanases resoun Whech that he makyth of the fundacyoun 6 Of this same Alysaundyr, whech
into my mynd Of o story, that I befor had sene, That boith of love and armys can contenn, Was of o knycht clepit Lancelot of the Laik, The sone of Bane was, King of Albanak, Of quhois fame and
sone of hevene. Also paynemes trowen not that the sovereyn wisdom of God wolde bicome sone of man, and in manhede suffre the peynes of deeth. And therfore the Jewes holden the prechynge of the Croos of the passioun of
Of lordes and ladies of that cuntr, And als of kynghtes war and wyse And damisels of mykel pryse. Ilkane with other made grete gamin And grete solace als thai war samin. Fast thai carped and curtaysly Of dedes
of Book 2 to the earlier chronicle of Constance and illustrates well Gower's perception of the close relationships between "history" and "tale-making" as components of ethical reflection. See Macaulay's extended discussion of English chronicle accounts of Boniface, particularly those
bolde; Of al gamen or gle that on grounde growes Gretter then Dame Gaynour, of garson and golde, Of palaies, of parkes, of pondes, of plowes, Of townes, of toures, of tresour untolde, Of castelles, of contreyes, of cragges, of
confessours, Of Holy Scripture declarers fructuous, Rebukers of synne and myschefes odyous, Fysshers of sowles and lovers of clennes, Dyspysers of veyn and worldly ryches, Pesyble prelates, justyciall governours, Founders of churches, with mercyfull peeres, Reformers of wrong of her