• John Gower, Cinkante Balades

The Complete Works of John Gower; MO: Gower, Mirour de l’Omme, trans. Wilson; OF: Old French; PF: Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls; RR: Chaucer, Romaunt of the Rose; Roman de la Rose Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Le Roman

• The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn

provisions. 19 The Pardoner beheld the activity, how various people (social ranks) behaved 19-22 The Pardoner had been described by Chaucer as a conniving con-artist (CT I, 669-714 and VI, 320-968). His misfortunes with Kit the Tapster figured as part

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

except for Sir Thopas, CT VII [B2]739, where Chaucer mocks the knight. 35 Bevis of Hampton was the hero of a popular medieval romance; it is one of the specific works that Chaucer burlesques in Sir Thopas, CT VII[B2]899. 37

• Sir Degrevant: Introduction

missing opening section was added later. 6 Sir Degrevant, ed. Casson, p. lviii. 7 Hornstein, "Miscellaneous Romances," p. 147. 8 Chaucer ridicules this meter in his parodic romance of Sir Thopas. 9 The line in which his name is mentioned

• Sir Launfal: Introduction

and the Folktale." Medium Aevum 35 (1966), 199-210. [Cautions against over-reading the tale, expecting to find the complexity of a Chaucer in the work of lesser poets. Identifies features of the tale as folkloric, not for the purposes of defending

• John Mirk, Sermon on St. Katherine

the impending martyrdom of the queen and Porphyrius, is not found in most versions of the Katherine legend. Readers of Chaucer will recall a similar vision in the Second Nun's retelling of the Cecilia legend, although there the crowns are

• Mum and the Sothsegger: Introduction

788. For a discussion of this crux, see James Simpson, "The Constraints of Satire," p. 14n7. 8 Of this list Chaucer and Gower use only man/mon and wight. The others are "upland" terms appropriate to the "rum, ram, ruf" of

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 56, Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity

The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 56, Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition Seynt John the good Gospellere3 Seyth thus in oure Gospel here: A town was callid Capharnaum To

• The N-Town Plays: Play 6, Moses

The N-Town Plays: Play 6, Moses Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition 10 15 MOYSES He that made allthynge of nought Hevyn and erth, both sunne and mone, Save all that his hand

• Anticlerical Poems: Preste, Ne Monke, Ne Yit Chanoun

bycome. Friars could and did stand in for secular priests as annuelers, those who sang anniversary masses for a fee. Chaucer describes the pilgrim Parson, a parish priest, as "nat a mercenarye"; and he will not run off to London

• Entre

and they sang his praises. They had quickly done, they forgot his works. Psalm 105:12–13 ENTRE: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PL: Patrologia Latina, ed. Migne. The Entre is the

• Poems Against Simony and the Abuse of Money: London Lickpenny

8. my purs is faynt. For this language about purses and money, see Chaucer's humorous short lyric "The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse," with its considerable word-play on "heavy" and "light." 10 my hode was gonn, that is, stolen.

• The Lovers' Mass

and Criseyde, Criseyde remains in the Greek camp with Diomede despite Troilus' "grete trouthe"; Aeneas abandons Dido despite her "kyndenesse" (Chaucer, LGW F924-1367); Polixena (Priam's daughter), sacrificed on Achilles' tomb to appease either his desire or his vengeance, modestly covers

• Lydgate, Mumming at Eltham

143–44). 59–61 The topic of Fortune’s varyaunce is one Lydgate takes up in a number of his poems; see Lerer (Chaucer and His Readers, p. 13) for the pervasive Boethianism Lydgate shares with other fifteenth-century writers, which Lerer views as

• Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune

words spoken by others. (In another version of the story, it was the god Pan who rejected her.) In BD, Chaucer writes that "Ecquo died for Narcisus / Nolde nat love hir" ("Echo died because Narcissus would not love her,"

• Anticlerical Poems and Documents: Introduction

"pseudo-apostles." Jean de Meun imported William's extremist prophecy into his section of Le Roman de la Rose, a poem Geoffrey Chaucer says he translated. Viewed in one way, then, the anticlerical literature of the later Middle Ages may be seen

• Stanzaic Guy of Warwick: Introduction

also Burnley and Wiggins. Athelston. See Four Romances of England. Bevis of Hampton. See Four Romances of England. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Third ed. Ed. Larry D. Benson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Floris and Blancheflour. In Middle English Verse

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

except for Sir Thopas, CT VII [B2]739, where Chaucer mocks the knight. 35 Bevis of Hampton was the hero of a popular medieval romance; it is one of the specific works that Chaucer burlesques in Sir Thopas, CT VII[B2]899. 37

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

except for Sir Thopas, CT VII [B2]739, where Chaucer mocks the knight. 35 Bevis of Hampton was the hero of a popular medieval romance; it is one of the specific works that Chaucer burlesques in Sir Thopas, CT VII[B2]899. 37

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

except for Sir Thopas, CT VII [B2]739, where Chaucer mocks the knight. 35 Bevis of Hampton was the hero of a popular medieval romance; it is one of the specific works that Chaucer burlesques in Sir Thopas, CT VII[B2]899. 37