• Amis and Amiloun Introduction

Amiloun fits a pattern that signals if not the end of idealism at least a hearty skepticism about its efficacy. Chaucer was not alone in his critique of local ethics. Lillian Herlands Hornstein (in J. Burke Severs' A Manual of

• Sir Gowther: Introduction

the penitential theme in the poem to be its generic determination.] Marchalonis, Shirley. "Sir Gowther: The Process of a Romance." Chaucer Review 6 (1971/72), 14-29. [Demonstrates the process of transformation of a conversion story influenced by chivalric ethics.] Ogle, M.

• The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament: Introduction

is taken from II Maccabees 9. The fame of the plight of Antiochus had been rendered into the vernacular by Chaucer, who, a half generation earlier, drew upon it in the Monk's Tale. Antiochus's wretched death certainly provides a thrilling

• Gower, Confessio Amantis: Book 1

JOHN GOWER, CONFESSIO AMANTIS: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: Anel.: Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite; BD: Chaucer, Book of the Duchess; CA: Gower, Confessio Amantis; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; HF: Chaucer, House of Fame; LGW: Chaucer, Legend of Good Women; Mac: Macaulay (4

• Gower, Confessio Amantis: Book 8

JOHN GOWER, CONFESSIO AMANTIS: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: Anel.: Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite; BD: Chaucer, Book of the Duchess; CA: Gower, Confessio Amantis; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; HF: Chaucer, House of Fame; LGW: Chaucer, Legend of Good Women; Mac: Macaulay (4

• The Martyrdom of St. Andrew in the South English Legendary (c. 1270-1280): Introduction

"saw," third person singular), isé (line 36, "saw," first-person singular). Negatives are frequently double or triple, for emphasis, as in Chaucer and modern non-Standard English: e.g., I ne prechede therof noght (line 43, "I didn't preach about it at all").

• Caxton, The Game and Playe of the Chesse, Book One

causes forsayd, these forementioned causes. 113 pensifnes, anxiety. BOOK ONE: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CA: Gower, Confessio Amantis; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; LGW: Chaucer, Legend of Good Women; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PL: Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, series Latina; Whiting: Whiting,

• The Poems of Robert Henryson: Introduction

Matthew P. McDiarmid, and Derick S. Thompson. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 1977. Pp. 1-21. Fox, Denton. "The Scottish Chaucerians." In Chaucer and Chaucerians. Ed. D. S. Brewer. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1964. Pp. 164-200. Gray, Douglas. Robert Henryson.

• Herward the Wake: Introduction

Society, 1962. Miller, E. The Abbey and Bishopric of Ely. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951. Swanton, Michael. English Literature Before Chaucer. London: Longman, 1987. Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel. Ed. Charles Plummer, based on an edition by John Earle.

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 3, How the Wise Man Taught His Son

It farys as a chery feyre. Proverbial; Whiting W662. A cherry festival would by necessity be a short-lived celebration. See Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, 5. 1840–41. 72 Not have tyme to ete a hene. I.e., “no time to enjoy it.”

• Item 34, The Stations of Jerusalem: Introduction

Item 34, The Stations of Jerusalem: Introduction Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition it resembles a list more than a fluid narrative account.1 The text is probably a revision of one or more

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 40, Vanity

Codex Ashmole 61: Item 40, Vanity Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition 60 65 70 75 Vanyté O vanyté of vanytés, and all is vanité. Lo, how this werld is turnyd up and

• Piers the Plowman's Crede: Introduction

clergy and friars in thirteenth-century Paris, and the themes were taken up by later writers, including Jean de Meun and Chaucer. In the mid-fourteenth century, Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Ireland, wrote influential tracts and delivered sermons attacking the friars for

• The Floure and the Leafe

Teseide (which Chaucer follows), is to the deciduous Turkey oak. 220 kings of armes: heralds in royal employ. Here, there is one in attendance on each of the Nine Worthy (see 240). 233 veluet: trisyllabic here, as in Chaucer. 271

• Friar Daw's Reply: Introduction

of mannis resoun. (175-78) He speaks of how Christ and Lollards are far apart with recourse to proverbs found in Chaucer: "On old Englis it is seid `unkissid is unknowun,' / And many men speken of Robyn Hood and shotte

• Item 41, King Edward and the Hermit: Introduction

Item 41, King Edward and the Hermit: Introduction Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition unfortun­ately, it survives in no other manuscript. But what survives is long enough to be both recogniz­able and enjoyable.

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 20, Third Sunday in Lent

entire income from the laity HOMILY 20, THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CA: Catena Aurea, ed. Newman; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; NHC: Northern Homily Cycle; NIMEV: The New Index of Middle English Verse, ed.

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

In order to come to salvation. Item 25, THE FEASTS OF ALL SAINTS AND ALL SOULS: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Diction­ary; Title The title in the manuscript, Festum Omnium Sanctorum, is written in

• De Lucis Scrutinio

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer

• Lydgate, Mummings and Entertainments: Introduction

other named authors in the anthology include Chaucer, Suffolk, Hoccleve, and Brampton); and Shirley’s last anthology, Bodley Ashmole 59, contains thirty-five works by Lydgate as well as verses by Gower, Scogan, and Chaucer. The high percentage of poems by Lydgate