• Item 23, The Incestuous Daughter: Introduction

great need as creating the equivalent to the sacrament of penance properly given by a priest, though subsequent claims by John Wycliff and other unorth­odox writers forced the Council of Trent in 1551 to clarify the Church’s position at the

• Robin Hood's Golden Prize

Information for this edition I have heard talk of bold Robin Hood, Derry derry down And of brave Little John, Of Fryer Tuck, and Will Scarlet, Loxley, and Maid Marion. Hey down derry derry down But such a tale as

• Siege of Jerusalem: Introduction

in 1397, and the same year even found John Holland, Richard's half-brother and earl of Huntington, negotiating with the Roman pope, Boniface IX, to conduct a crusade against Avignon. Richard exiled John of Gaunt's son, Henry Bolingbroke, in 1398. And

• Item 21, Sir Corneus: Introduction

Fifteenth-Century Comic Poems. Pp. 273–91. Hazlitt, W. Carew, ed. Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England. Vol. 1. London: John Russell Smith, 1866. Pp. 35–49. Reference Works NIMEV 219 MWME 9.24.13.3167, 3494–95 Thompson, Stith. Motif-Index of Folk Literature. [See

• Sir Degare: Introduction

incest, whatever form it takes - father/daughter, mother/son, brother/sister - is as old as the human family itself, but as John Boswell notes, the subject was particularly present in public consciousness in the late Middle Ages. Often associated with abandonment,

• Poems of Political Prophecy: Thomas of Erceldoune's Prophecy

and he replied and said." The Countess of Dunbar is probably Marjory, who surrendered Dunbar castle in 1296 (Turville-Petre). Both John Pinkerton and Sir Walter Scott believed that this Countess of Dunbar was Black Agnes, sister of Robert the Steward,

• Prologue

Aristotle’s discussions of narrative structure directly, Aristotle’s tri-partite organization could nevertheless be known in principle from many sources: e.g., Cicero, John of Garland, and even some of the French cycles. As a formal structure it is particularly fitting for the

• The N-Town Plays: Play 16, Shepherds

later hands: W William dere Polerd William dere John Hasycham Joh Taylphott of parish Bedonson wee that will no when we paie when we would we shal find nay [scribbles] And [scribble] Evosund John [at the bottom of the page]

• The N-Town Plays: Play 34, Burial; Guarding of the Sepulcher

breke. See John 19:33, where the Evangelist is mindful of the Passover Feast (Exodus 12:46 and Numbers 9:12), where no bone of the Paschal meal is to be broken. John, with the unique reference to the Agnus Dei (John 1:29),

• Item 25, The Feasts of All Saints and All Souls: Introduction

changes were rarely accepted without some resistance. Whereas some versions of this legend feature two heavenly processions, one led by John the Baptist dressed in camel skins and the other led by St. Peter, this text only mentions the latter,

• De Lucis Scrutinio

note) (see note) (see note) (see note) (see note) Go To Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia John Gower: The Minor Latin Works, Notes JOHN GOWER, THE MINOR LATIN WORKS: NOTES ABBREVIATIONS: CA: Gower, Confessio Amantis; CB: Gower, Cinkante Ballades; Cronica:

• King Arthur and King Cornwall: Introduction

27879 (The Percy Folio). Pp. 24-33. Editions (arranged chronologically) Madden, Frederic. 1839. See Bibliography of Editions and Works Cited. Hales, John W., and Frederick J. Furnivall. 1868. See Bibliography of Editions and Works Cited. Child, Francis James. 1884. See Bibliography

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Envoy

note) adorned; (see note) wish; find fault with you come to ruin them Asking them; amiss Lydgate, Troy Book: Envoy JOHN LYDGATE, TROY BOOK, ENVOY: NOTES Lydgate shifts from couplets into the English stanza, sometimes referred to as rhyme royal,

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

perhaps best remembered for the Massacre of the Innocents episode related in Matthew 2:16–18. His son, another Herod, reluctantly had John the Baptist beheaded to fulfill a promise made to his wife’s daughter, Salome (Matthew 14:1–11, Mark 6:17–28). The former

• The Court of Love: Introduction

1352-1442). Paradoxically, The Court of Love has been largely ignored by modern readers by virtue of its association with Chaucer. John Stow was the first to print the poem with Chaucer's works in 1561. The poem continued to appear both

• Item 16, The Debate of the Carpenter’s Tools: Introduction

these words makes this uncertain. The text seems to be complete and unabridged in its current form. Printed Editions Conlee, John W., ed. Middle English Debate Poetry: A Critical Anthology. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1991. Pp. 222–35. Halliwell, James

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 4, The Prohibition of the Tree of Knowledge

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). The Fullers’ pageant was entered by JC in 1559 (see REED: York, 1:330).

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 28, The Agony and Betrayal

have been sheared and flee away. Peter is singled out. 153 Along with the high priests, Malcus, Judas, Peter, James, John, and fourteen soldiers, the Ordo paginarum reported the presence of Pilate, but this is either an error or a

• St. Jerome: Introduction

number of the fifteenth-century legends are firmly attributed to authors who are now well known, such as John Lydgate, Osbert Bokenham, and John Capgrave,19 and who wrote for a growing audience of clerics and lay patrons, many of whom were

• Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Introduction

manuscript was donated to Trinity College in 1741 by John Stearne, bishop of Clogher in Ireland. Stearne had purchased the manuscript in 1703 following the death of its previous owner, John Madden,110 who had been president of the King and