• St. Katherine, from Speculum Sacerdotale

the legend. The references to pestilence, venjaunce, famyschynge evel, and evel eyre (lines 33-34), however, remind us of the severe food shortages and visitations of plague which must have created an unusual demand in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

• Anticlerical Poems: Of Thes Frer Mynours

to be burned 6 And may all those who help [the burning] prosper 7 The town is ransacked for good food for their mouths 8 Spacious are their dwellings and beautifully constructed 9 Murder and villainy have paid dearly for

• Item 17, A Prayer at the Levation: Introduction

benefits gained from seeing the host daily included promises that the worshipper would not suffer sudden death, a lack of food, or blindness on any day that he or she saw the consecrated host.2 Writers also required the laity to

• Plowman Writings: God Spede the Plough

understood (see note) inquests endure (see note) (see note) men's names complaint; (see note) among other [things] (see note) wheat; food flee sermons summoner (see note) arrears neither; nor why priests (see note) complaint For their (see note) minstrels; entertainment

• The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield

note) through the field (see note) (see note) (see note) right up to (see note) (see note) contract (see note) food (see note) (see note) long bow; (see note) Go to Robin Hood and Little John: Introduction The Jolly Pinder

• The Cook's Tale

The Cook's Tale Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition 1 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 HERE BEGYNNETH THE COOKES

• The Life of St. Benedict

too amenable guide steadfast; (see note) power; situation virtuous; from nearby; was accustomed wander; joke around; (see note) lack of food certainly; will not Before; spoken on that same road; again; (see note) bade; grant his request third yet again;

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 5, Sir Isumbras

wounded wept man command; (t-note) Scarcely; eyes Food gave; enough put (t-note) wander (see note); (t-note) take (t-note) endure then sad voice lament Guide time Blacksmiths vigorously work their bellows; (see note) food (t-note) employment work gladly Blow [the bellows]

• The N-Town Plays: Play 3, Cain and Abel

Yit me thynkyth my wyt is good: To God evermore sum love to shewe, Of whom we have oure dayly food, And ellys we had but lytyl drewe. CAYM Yitt methynkeht thi wytt is wood, For of thi lore I

• The N-Town Plays: Play 23, Parliament of Hell; Temptation

Bred materyal doth norch blood, But to mannys sowle — this is no nay — Nevyrmore may be a betyr food Than the Wurd of God that lestyth ay. To here Goddys Wurde, therfore, man, love: Thi body doth love

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

MONKE, NE YIT CHANOUN: FOOTNOTES 1 Give themselves so [wholeheartedly] to worship 2 They become so gaunt through lack of food 3 Because they have nothing with which to gain their living 4 "Where they are accustomed to go" (RHR)

• Mary Magdalen, from Speculum Sacerdotale

she loved. 22 yede into deserte, went into the wilderness. 23-24 ete mete of man ne dronke drynke, consumed human food or drink. 24 houre, canonical hour (see note). 26 eyre, air. 28 mayster . . . bretherhede, superior of

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 16, The Debate of the Carpenter’s Tools

bryng us all unto His blysse, That never fro us schall mysse. AMEN QUOD RATE Chip-Ax; Carpenter; (see note); (t-note) Food; promise stockings; shoes; (see note) [You will need to]; (t-note) you can ever do Thou shall; prosperous; (see note)

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 22, The Temptation in the Wilderness

greatly hold; good know shown near deed worse (see note) (see note) bread [good] stead more food know sorrow enemy accursed creature; mad spiritual food each one unreasonably such talk thought defend By subtle sleight Let pinnacle perfectly; (see note)

• The Avowyng of Arthur: Introduction

of being starved out, welcomes an emissary from the opposing forces with a lavishness that exhausts their last bit of food and drink. Upon returning to his own troops, the emissary reports that the garrison's supplies remain so abundant that

• In a Valley of This Restless Mind

126) The rest of the stanza declares the parental manner: not perpetually fed baby food, the maturing soul will be reared with adversity. On the "food of children," see discussions by Wimsatt (1978), p. 344; and Stouck, pp. 4, 8-10.

• Sir Perceval of Galles: Introduction

and the kind of "machinery" - such courtly trappings as forest naps, the locus amoenus, catalogues of birds, spices, and food - we have come to associate with the more sophisticated romances is not to be found in this poem.

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: There Is a Busch That Is Forgrowe

it stands in no place Truly I know no other remedy; (see note) top; root bring (see note) all through food for an animal flailed out lean; sleep; (see note) livelihood i.e., Bagot; torn When (see note) beggar; buy (see

• The N-Town Plays: Play 39, Ascension; Selection of Matthias

is the utmost prove heart life certain times appeared; (see note); (t-note) By; to say ninth; truly; (t-note) exactly; more food Now get hear await; Father’s promise by While John [the Baptist], truly; man’s vow to you (t-note) follow; (see

• The Feast of Tottenham

Early Popular Poetry of England (1866). 19 pestels. Lit., "pestle," but also "leg of a pig or chicken, used for food"; a typical instance of the poet's sense of humor. porra. "Thick soup made from leek or peas" (compare porre,