• Two Moral Interludes: The Pride of Life and Wisdom: Introduction

the play’s performance, and households in the vicinity of Bury which might have housed the play would include those of John Morton, bishop of Ely, the Howard dukes of Norfolk, or the de la Pole dukes of Suffolk.14 THE TEXT

• The Martyrdom of St. George

the eighth century, when Pope Zacharias (741-52) transferred what was believed to be George's head from the church of St. John Lateran to the church of St. George in Velabro, that the saint began to be culted in Rome and

• Charles d'Orleans, from Fortunes Stabilnes

So that I might find mercy. Alas, noble lady, why is it so? (trans. R. Barton Palmer)] (John Gower, The Complete Works of John Gower: The French Works, ed. G. C. Macaulay [Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1899], Ballade 20, lines 1-14).

• The Book of Margery Kempe, Book II

pilgrims to Rome. 1865 schrevyn, shriven. 1871 howselyd, administered the sacrament. 1876 confiteor, confession of sins. 1878 Seynt John the Evangelyst, St. John, the beloved disciple. He also appeared to Elizabeth of Hungary, whose Revelation was possibly important to Kempe.

• The Assembly of Gods

pass into Paradise). 1547 John Baptyst in a desert sate. The son of Zacharias and Elizabeth through a miraculous conception, John lived in the desert of Judea from early manhood. Because he baptizes Jesus in Jerusalem, John is presented in

• Gower, Confessio Amantis: Prologue

are transcribed and translated in the notes and can be accessed by clicking on (see note) at the corresponding line. JOHN GOWER, CONFESSIO AMANTIS: FOOTNOTES Prologue 1 Listlessness, dull discernment, little schooling and least labor are the causes by which,

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wyld Aleyd hys of a cheaste: Thou hast ytamed and istyld Wyth melke of thy breste. Ine the Apocalyps Sent John Isey ane wymman wyth sonne bygon, Thane mone al onder hyre ton, Icrouned wyth tuel sterre: Swyl a levedy

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wyld Aleyd hys of a cheaste: Thou hast ytamed and istyld Wyth melke of thy breste. Ine the Apocalyps Sent John Isey ane wymman wyth sonne bygon, Thane mone al onder hyre ton, Icrouned wyth tuel sterre: Swyl a levedy

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wyld Aleyd hys of a cheaste: Thou hast ytamed and istyld Wyth melke of thy breste. Ine the Apocalyps Sent John Isey ane wymman wyth sonne bygon, Thane mone al onder hyre ton, Icrouned wyth tuel sterre: Swyl a levedy

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wyld Aleyd hys of a cheaste: Thou hast ytamed and istyld Wyth melke of thy breste. Ine the Apocalyps Sent John Isey ane wymman wyth sonne bygon, Thane mone al onder hyre ton, Icrouned wyth tuel sterre: Swyl a levedy

• Sir Cleges

cultures in various degrees of sophistication according to John R. Reinhard in "Strokes Shared," Journal of American Folklore 36 (1928), 380-400. But the four most often cited as related stories are from John Bromyard's Summa Praedicantium, a collection of exempla

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wyld Aleyd hys of a cheaste: Thou hast ytamed and istyld Wyth melke of thy breste. Ine the Apocalyps Sent John Isey ane wymman wyth sonne bygon, Thane mone al onder hyre ton, Icrouned wyth tuel sterre: Swyl a levedy

• Thomas of Hales, Love Rune

Renunciation in Early Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Bugge, John. Virginitas: An Essay in the History of a Medieval Ideal. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975. Coakley, John. "Friars as Confidants of Holy Women in Medieval Dominican Hagiography." In

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wyld Aleyd hys of a cheaste: Thou hast ytamed and istyld Wyth melke of thy breste. Ine the Apocalyps Sent John Isey ane wymman wyth sonne bygon, Thane mone al onder hyre ton, Icrouned wyth tuel sterre: Swyl a levedy

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wyld Aleyd hys of a cheaste: Thou hast ytamed and istyld Wyth melke of thy breste. Ine the Apocalyps Sent John Isey ane wymman wyth sonne bygon, Thane mone al onder hyre ton, Icrouned wyth tuel sterre: Swyl a levedy

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wyld Aleyd hys of a cheaste: Thou hast ytamed and istyld Wyth melke of thy breste. Ine the Apocalyps Sent John Isey ane wymman wyth sonne bygon, Thane mone al onder hyre ton, Icrouned wyth tuel sterre: Swyl a levedy

• Sir Launfal

lawes" is echoed by Thomas Chestre's contemporaries. See Langland's Piers Plowman, Chaucer's "Ballad for a Former Age," the works of John Gower, and such romances and diatribes as Athelston and Piers Plowman's Creed. 5 Bl suggests: "In many of the

• Erl of Tolous

dede; Therfore carefull ys my rede: Sorowe nye wyll me sloo." Then seyde Dame Beulybon: "Syr, y rede, be Seynt John, Of warre that ye hoo; Ye have the wronge and he the ryght, And that ye may see in

• John Lydgate, The Temple of Glas

(John Lydgate: Poems, p. 179). 3 this othir nyght. Setting fictional events within a bedchamber in a recent, pseudo-autobiographical past produces a general sense of intimacy, individuality, and gossipy familiarity. Norton-Smith finds the same phrase in BD, line 45

• Croxton Play of the Sacrament

John 19:19–22. 422 To Thomas and to Mary Mawdelen. Christ’s appearances following the Resurrection to the apostle Thomas (“Doubting Thomas”) and Mary Magdalene occur respectively in John 20:26–29 and in Matthew 28:1–10, Luke 24:1–11, and especially Mark 16:1–11 and