• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

devours Chaucer and Gower; poisons Master John Clerk and James Afflek like a cruel scorpion; kills Blind Hary and Sandy Traill with a shower of mortal hail; and ensnares Robert Henryson and Sir John Ross with the intimacy of a

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

devours Chaucer and Gower; poisons Master John Clerk and James Afflek like a cruel scorpion; kills Blind Hary and Sandy Traill with a shower of mortal hail; and ensnares Robert Henryson and Sir John Ross with the intimacy of a

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

devours Chaucer and Gower; poisons Master John Clerk and James Afflek like a cruel scorpion; kills Blind Hary and Sandy Traill with a shower of mortal hail; and ensnares Robert Henryson and Sir John Ross with the intimacy of a

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

devours Chaucer and Gower; poisons Master John Clerk and James Afflek like a cruel scorpion; kills Blind Hary and Sandy Traill with a shower of mortal hail; and ensnares Robert Henryson and Sir John Ross with the intimacy of a

• Jack Upland

in truth. 334 asoile thee of, release you from. JACK UPLAND: NOTES 1 Jacke Uplond, persona of a simple countryman. John Foxe, who printed JU in 1570, says: "a Dialogue or questions moued in the person of a certaine vplandish

• Sir Tristrem

. . . and some leouns . . . haven scharpe and fers hertes," as John of Trevisa writes in On the Properties of Things: John of Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomæus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975) II,

• The Tale of Gamelyn

person for a knight to swear by, perhaps especially as Sir John divides his possessions, since he was famous for parting his cloak with a beggar. 56 Sir John speaks his own dying will, to divide the property into three.

• The Book of Margery Kempe, Book I, Part II

cryin anon wyth a lamentabyl voys and seyd, "John, wher is my sone Jhesu Crist?" And Seynt John answeryd agen and seyd, "Der Lady, ye wetyn wel that he is ded." "A, John," sche seyd, "that is to me a

• Mary Mediatrix

of Godstow Nunnery, EETS o.s. 129 (London: Kegan Paul, 1905), p. 11; Patterson, no. 19; B15, no. 43. 3 John Baptist. John the Baptist, a cousin of Jesus (see Luke 1:39-56), is the prophet who foretells Christ's coming (Matthew 3:11-12;

• The Greene Knight

Knights of the Bath. Nonetheless, the formal Order of the Bath was founded only in 1725 by King George I. John Anstis, who wrote a Historical Essay Upon the Knighthood of the Bath (London, 1725) and produced the statutes of

• The Scale of Perfection: Introduction

an interesting document reflecting the growth of lay piety in fifteenth-century England. The anthology appears to have been made for John Killum, a grocer of London, who died in 1416. An inscription in the manuscript describes it as a "common

• Mary Mediatrix

of Godstow Nunnery, EETS o.s. 129 (London: Kegan Paul, 1905), p. 11; Patterson, no. 19; B15, no. 43. 3 John Baptist. John the Baptist, a cousin of Jesus (see Luke 1:39-56), is the prophet who foretells Christ's coming (Matthew 3:11-12;

• Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley

wo in herte and mynde. "Welcome, wyfe," than sayd Wyllyam, "Unto this trysty-tre; I had wende yesterdaye, by swete Saint John, Thou sholde me never have se." "Now wele is me," she sayd, "that ye be here, My herte is

• Mary Mediatrix

of Godstow Nunnery, EETS o.s. 129 (London: Kegan Paul, 1905), p. 11; Patterson, no. 19; B15, no. 43. 3 John Baptist. John the Baptist, a cousin of Jesus (see Luke 1:39-56), is the prophet who foretells Christ's coming (Matthew 3:11-12;

• Mary Mediatrix

of Godstow Nunnery, EETS o.s. 129 (London: Kegan Paul, 1905), p. 11; Patterson, no. 19; B15, no. 43. 3 John Baptist. John the Baptist, a cousin of Jesus (see Luke 1:39-56), is the prophet who foretells Christ's coming (Matthew 3:11-12;

• Mary Mediatrix

of Godstow Nunnery, EETS o.s. 129 (London: Kegan Paul, 1905), p. 11; Patterson, no. 19; B15, no. 43. 3 John Baptist. John the Baptist, a cousin of Jesus (see Luke 1:39-56), is the prophet who foretells Christ's coming (Matthew 3:11-12;

• Stanzaic Guy of Warwick: Introduction

a homiletic sermon.21 Objects associated with Guy's life were held at Winchester Cathedral and described by Gerard of Cornwall and John Lydgate.22 In fifteenth-century Warwick, a chantry chapel was built in Guy's honor and the supposed location of his "cave"

• Mary Mediatrix

of Godstow Nunnery, EETS o.s. 129 (London: Kegan Paul, 1905), p. 11; Patterson, no. 19; B15, no. 43. 3 John Baptist. John the Baptist, a cousin of Jesus (see Luke 1:39-56), is the prophet who foretells Christ's coming (Matthew 3:11-12;

• Second Book of Maccabees 7

(Patter­son, “‘Liv­ing Witnesses,’” p. 522, who cites Frend, Martyrdom, pp. 22–57); they thus appear, for example, in the writings of John Chrysostom, Am­brose of Milan, and Augustine. For a thorough discussion of the medieval reception and pro­pagation of these stories,

• Part Two

are in the world. 1 John 2:15 4 Lines 195–96: For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life. 1 John 2:16. A widely cited