• Robin Hood Rescues Three Young Men: Introduction

is a little different it only covers two incidents in a fairly long ballad, and while these are useful for collation and emendation, it would be inappropriate and require substantial editorial invention to link those episodes into the other text.

• Spurious Links: Introduction

Gamelyn with The Shipman's Tale; and in Bodleian Hatton Donat. 1 it links the Clerk and the Shipman. The full collation of manuscript readings undertaken by Norem (123-49) indicates few significant variants, probably because the pedestrian quality of the language

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 41, Doubting Thomas

Sykes Manuscript (ed. Cawley, “Sykes MS”). Problems with the Register copy are noted by Beadle,1 who also provides a full collation of the two manuscripts in the footnotes to his text of the play. The story of Thomas that is

• Robin Hood and the Monk: Introduction

Robin Hood and the Monk: Introduction Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition his version of this ballad then appeared in an appendix in the second edition of Ritson's Robin Hood in 1832 as

• St. George and the Dragon in the South English Legendary (East Midland Revision, c. 1400): Introduction

Three Lives from the Gilte Legende, pp. 65-74. 8 Our text of the dragon episode is based on a fresh collation of the Minnesota manuscript. Previous editions are by Parker, "A Northern Fragment of The Life of St. George," and

• Introduction to the Munday Plays

Earl of Huntingdon by Anthony Munday, 1601. The Malone Society Reprints. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964 (1965). [Based on a collation of the ten extant copies of Leake. Includes textual introduction.] ------. The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon by

• Good Counsel, Wisdom, and Advice: Introduction

transcription of A is available in Furnivall, ed., Parallel-Text Edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part 3 (pp. 427-30). For a collation of Caxton's text and A, see Boyd, ed., Chaucer according to William Caxton. Go To Four Things that Make

• Robin Hood and the Monk

Jamieson included the, so did Hartshorne, and Madden either accepted this as editing or did not notice it in his collation. 246 Prison conditions in the time of Edward II (1307-27) could be brutal. In an excerpt from the Life

• John Gower, Traiti selonc les auctours pour essampler les amantz marietz

London, British Library, MS Additional 59495 (Trentham). Macaulay notes: “The text is that of F with collation of S, G, and T. A full collation of B is given for the heading and it is occasionally cited afterwards” (Mac, 1:379).

• Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes: Introduction

in a note to his edition of Selections, advises that "a full collation of all manuscripts will appear" in the new edition.10 But my completion of that "full collation" convinced me that there was no justification for recording such a

• 17. Loginon

the proper order. See B's introduction (p. xxxviii, n3), which explains the correct ordering of the MS. See also Bhler, "Speculations on the Collation of a Lost Manuscript." 167 angre. So G. B: angree. 206 impossyble. So G. B: impossible.

• The Palis of Honoure: Introduction

are silently expanded. The text is followed by textual notes which record substantive variants between the sixteenth-century prints. A full collation of Copland's text with those of Davidson and Charteris has resulted in the adoption of some readings from the

• Poems of Political Prophecy: When Rome is Removed

ed. James A. H. Murray, EETS o.s. 61 (London: Trübner, 1875), pp. 52-61, especially lines 445-end. Murray's edition is a collation of versions in BL MS Lansdowne 762 and Bodleian MS Rawlinson C. 813. I am indebted to George H.

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 20, Christ and the Doctors

Tercius Doctor. Play 20, CHRIST AND THE DOCTORS: EXPLANATORY NOTE FOOTNOTES Footnote 1 York Missal, 1:36. Footnote 2 For a collation comparing these plays, see Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, pp. 175–89, but see also Greg’s “Bibliographical and Textual Problems” and

• The Scale of Perfection: Introduction

for example, will be based on examination of the known manuscripts, and attempt, through the traditional methods of recension and collation, to recover a sound authorial text.24 The fact that this edition has been so long in progress and is

• The Four Leaves of the Truelove: Introduction

the two MSS jointly" (p. 375). The text offered here expands the work of Gollancz and Gollancz/Weale by its extensive collation of both manuscripts as well as the third witness to the poem. All three copies hold valuable evidence for

• The Bird with Four Feathers

but points of agreement with DTH are especially interesting. For this edition emendation of B has been conservatively undertaken by collation with D, S, T, R, and H, considered in that order. The notes record the significant variants from these

• Ancrene Wisse, Introduction

but it should be emphasized that his conclusions have been challenged and that no one has yet undertaken a complete collation (i.e., a word-by-word comparison) of each of the versions. It is possible that our picture of the manuscript transmission

• Henryson, Complete Works: Introduction

William Dunbar; on the verso of the title leaf, in a more formal hand, appears the single word “Orpheus.” Orpheus (collation: [a6]b6) lacks refinements of presentation: stanzas tend to run across page breaks; no indication of authorship is provided; apart

• A Gest of Robyn Hode

The joke recurs in Robin Hood's Golden Prize, lines 57-58. 858 b reads frese, which Child prints, but in his collation suggests leese, meaning "let loose" or drese meaning "get ready." The latter seems much more likely, fitting well with