• Part One

they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them. Job 21:26 PART ONE: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PL: Patrologia Latina, ed. Migne. 1–12 A recollection of

• Part Two

Christ often preaches against hypocrisy and false living, but never quotes this specific verse. PART TWO: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PL: Patrologia Latina, ed. Migne. 1–4 “Worldes” in line

• John Gower: In Praise of Peace

for Henry's usurpation of Richard II: the good fortune of divine sanction, hereditary right, and popular consent. Compare Chaucer, The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse: "O conquerour of Brutes Albyon, / Which that by lyne and free eleccion /

• Introduction

of sentential wisdom as an authoritarian instrument of control. This move toward empiricism is reflected famously in the writings of Chaucer. His Tale of Melibee and Parson's Tale are both deeply Christian works and replete with sentences, but they in

• Select Secular Lyrics

She torned owt her ars and that he kyst. The motif of the misplaced kiss is most famously captured by Chaucer in The Miller's Tale: Derk was the nyght as pich, or as the cole, And at the wyndow out

• Athelston: Introduction

upholds.] Rowe, Elizabeth Ashman. "The Female Body Politic and the Miscarriage of Justice in Athelston." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 17 (1995), 79-98. [Argues that the poem attacks the tyranny of Richard II, but not monarchy itself; the poem

• Siege of Jerusalem: Introduction

of Melibee." Similarly, Scattergood, in "Chaucer and the French War," links Melibee and Sir Thopas as anti-war tracts situated at the heart of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 106 A case for the pacifism of both Chaucer and Gower is made by

• Poems Against Simony and the Abuse of Money: The Simonie

is reminiscent of a proverbial expression found in Chaucer: deere ynough a leek (CT VIII.795). The leek was thought to be worthless. See the note on this proverb in The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Benson, p. 949. 254 also wel as

• Sir Amadace: Introduction

Company, 1810. Vol. 3. Pp. 241-75. [Advocates MS.] Criticism Foster, Edward E. “Simplicity, Complexity, and Morality in Four Medieval Romances.” Chaucer Review 31 (1997), 407–19. Harkins, Patricia. “The Speaking Dead in Sir Amadace and the White Knight.” Journal of the

• Hudson, Four Middle English Romances: Introduction to Sir Eglamour of Artois

Thus Eglamour takes up the debate on gentilesse which claimed the attention of other writers of the period, most notably Chaucer. The relationship of personal worth to lineage and social status was a fundamental concern to the gentry who made

• Second Book of Maccabees 6 and 9

Second Book of Maccabees 6 and 9 Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition unto the Jews had ever envy, And in hys bowndom them to bryng in all his cuntré gart he cry:

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 52, Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity

Abbreviations: AS: Acta Sanctorum, ed. Bolland et al.; AT: Alphabet of Tales, ed. Banks; CA: Catena Aurea, ed. Newman; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; McIntosh: McIntosh, “Some Words in the Northern Homily Collection”; MED: Middle English Dictionary; NHC: Northern Homily Cycle;

• The N-Town Plays: Play 22, Baptism

away 9 Whateve­r man is seen in good penance and spoken shrift (confession) Play 22, BAPTISM: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviation: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales The Baptism Play is based on Matthew 3:1–4:2, Mark 1:3–11, Luke 3:3–22, 4:1–2, and John 1:6–24. There

• In Praise of Peace: Introduction

action: 2x9=18, 1+8=9; 3x9=27, 2+7=9; etc. 28 Chaucer, Boece 3.me.11.1-9. 29 "And thanne thilke thing that the blake cloude of errour whilom hadde ycovered schal lighte more clerly than Phebus hymself ne schyneth" (Chaucer, Boece, 3.me.11.9-12). For a brief account

• Lancelot of the Laik

to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Skeat himself observes that the author of this poem, "the true title" of which he gives as "The Book of Cupid, God of Love" is not Chaucer but probably Thomas Clanvowe, "a well

• Osbern Bokenham, Life of St. Anne

of Chaucer, who used slight variants of this line on three occasions: "But first I make a protestacioun" (CT I[A]3137), "Therfore I make protestacioun" (CT X[I]59), and "And here I make a protestacioun" (TC 2.484). 49-64 More echoes from Chaucer,

• 8. Hippocrates

intellectual figure throughout the Middle Ages, and his work is arguably the major philosophical influence upon the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer. 14 Bramaydes. I have been unable to ascertain his identity. 20 Platon. See the explanatory note for Plato, line

• The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

and Dame Ragnell." Archiv 219 (1982), 374-81. Fradenburg, Louise. "The Wife of Bath's Passing Fancy." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 8 (1986), 31-58. Griffiths, J. J. "A Re-examination of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson c.86." Archiv 219 (1982), 381-88.

• Robert Henryson, Orpheus and Eurydice

of Antiochus and his incestuous relations in Gower (CA 8.271–347); Chaucer also contributes to the notoriety of this story (CT II[B1]82–83); see Archibald, "Incestuous Kings in Henryson's Hades." 324 Chaucer depicts Caesar as a bloodthirsty conqueror despite all the Roman

• Middle English Marian Lyrics: Introduction

University Press, 1929. Go To Marian Lyrics MARIAN LYRICS, INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTES 1 Chaucer, Geoffrey, "An ABC," ed. R. T. Lenaghan in Larry D. Benson, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, third ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987), pp. 637-40. See Appendix A for