• Item 2, Right as a Ram’s Horn: Introduction

original lines have been extensively altered, almost certainly by Rate’s own revisions. Printed Editions Hargreaves, Henry. “Lydgate’s ‘A Ram’s Horn.’” Chaucer Review 10 (1975), 255–59. [Prints the text of Ashmole 61.] Lydgate, John. The Minor Poems of John Lydgate. 2:461–64.

• The Cook's Tale: Introduction

supplemental sections of The Cook's Tale accord with these pious inclinations, although the verses themselves seem to owe less to Chaucer (or even Lydgate) and more to Langland, with longer four-stress lines, heavy alliteration, and the introduction of allegorical personifications

• The Court of Love: Introduction

OF LOVE, INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTES 1 Leonard, Laughter, p. 101. 2 Skeat, Chaucer Canon, p. 133. 3 Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, p. 240. 4 Miskimin, Renaissance Chaucer, p. 231. 5 Leonard, Laughter, p. 98. 6 Leonard, Laughter, p.

• The Isle of Ladies: Introduction

Chaucer, where, tendentiously and unluckily called Chaucer's Dreame, it accompanied The Floure and the Leaf (FL) into the Chaucer canon. It remained in the canon until relegated to the apocrypha in Skeat's 1878 revision of Robert Bell's edition of

• Literature of Courtly Love: Introduction

of Geffrey Chaucer (1561), are based on the manuscript which he used as copy text: Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.19 (fols. 160r, 161r-v). The Craft of Lovers (IMEV 3761), also first printed in John Stow's Workes of Geffrey Chaucer (1561),

• Charles d'Orleans, Fortunes Stabilnes: Introduction

works of Chaucer. It thus makes more sense to see him as parallel to Chaucer than to call him a "Chaucerian," i.e., a poet whose work is derivative. Charles is not a "Chaucerian" poet; that is to say, Chaucer did

• A COMPLAYNTE OF A LOVERS LYFE: Introduction

is rarely necessary to go beyond Chaucer for Lydgate's specific borrowings."39 Similarly, for classical models "Chaucer, as always, provides the focus of the tradition for Lydgate."40 But these views of Lydgate's singular reliance on Chaucer backfire when it becomes clear

• James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair: Introduction

Essays and Studies 25 (1939), 22-38. Ebin, Lois A. "Boethius, Chaucer, and the Kingis Quair." Philological Quarterly 53 (1974), 321-41. Fox, Denton. "Chaucer's Influence on Fifteenth-Century Poetry." In Companion to Chaucer Studies. Ed. Beryl Rowland. London: Oxford University Press, 1968;

• The Laste Epistle of Creseyd to Troyalus

perforce, new moon. In Chaucer, Criseyde was to return to Troy on the tenth day, at new moon (IV, 1590-96; V, 647-58; V, 1016-22). The house Phebus and Cynthia are both couched in is Leo. Chaucer describes Phebus ascending the

• John Lydgate, The Temple of Glas

CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; G: Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.4.27; HF: Chaucer, House of Fame; LGW: Chaucer, Legend of Good Women; MED: Middle English Dictionary; Metam.: Ovid, Metamorphoses; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PF: Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls; RR: Chaucer, Romaunt

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Prologus

is between the Summoner and the Friar. 39-57 Marginalia: ¶ Chaucer. Lydgate's praise of Chaucer recalls similar passages in Troy Book 2.4677-719, 3.550-57, 3.4234-63, 5.3519-43. Lydgate does not actually name Chaucer until line 4501. Spearing, "Lydgate's Canterbury Tale," says of

• Confessio Amantis, vol. 1: Introduction

literary golden age.”66 Gower, along with Chaucer, was at the center of the group. We know something of the genius of these writers through their com­ments upon each other. Their reputation, particularly that of Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate, lasted into

• Anticlerical Poems: Thou That Sellest the Worde of God

turned against them. The lyric author warns mendicant simoniacs to stay away, according to the formula In principio erat Verbum. Chaucer says of Friar Huberd: "For thogh a wydwe hadde noght a sho, / So plesaunt was his 'In principio,'

• Poems of Political Prophecy: Introduction

of the manuscript and is checked against Skeat's edition in the Oxford Chaucer (Chaucerian and Other Pieces, vol. 7, p. 450, the first of three "Sayings [of Chaucer] Printed by Caxton"). I have also checked "When Goneway shall on Curtays

• The Laste Epistle of Creseyd to Troyalus: Introduction

father's defection to the Greek camp, her exchange for Antenor, and her fickleness in yielding to Diomede, are drawn from Chaucer; the verbal echoes of Book V are particularly notable. The account of the causes of the Trojan war (lines

• John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes

tale to anger the Friar (CT III, 1665-2294). 40-57 Chaucer, who died in 1400, is absent from the pilgrim company in this continuation. Granting him instead a memorial presence, Lydgate praises Chaucer as the first great national poet of Britain,

• The Morall Fabillis: Introduction

The History of Reynard the Fox. Ed. N. F. Blake. EETS o.s. 263. London: Oxford University Press, 1970. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Gen. ed. Larry Benson. Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, Co., 1987. Gualterus Anglicus. In Recueil gnral des Isopets.

• TEAMS Middle English Texts Series

Dayms by Chaucer," "La Belle dame sauns Mercie by Chaucer," "The 10 Commandments of Love by Chaucer," "The IX Ladyes Worthy by Chaycer," "The Legend of Ladyes by Chaucer," "The Explanation of the Death of Pyte by Chaucer," "The Craft

• John Metham, Amoryus and Cleopes

integrated into the whole romance. Metham is no Chaucer: his syntax, especially in the more astronomical material, can be difficult. His use of aureate (that is, Latinate) terms in imitation of Chaucer and Lydgate is sometimes awkward, again, primarily in

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Est Amor

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