• 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 Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

40 (1982), 3-4. Eisner, Sigmund. A Tale of Wonder: A Source Study of "The Wife of Bath's Tale." Wexford, Ireland: John English, 1957. Field, P. J. C. "Malory and The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell." Archiv 219 (1982),

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 3, The Creation of Adam and Eve

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 Cardmakers’ pageant was entered twice in Reg. The A-text is followed in

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 6, The Expulsion from the Garden

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). 1 Alle. Space provided for large capital A, not added in Reg. This

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 46, The Coronation of the Virgin

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). To right of Scribe B’s craft ascription, in LH: Inholderes. 1 Myne. In

• Gower, Confessio Amantis: Book 8

And as it were halvinge a game Sche axeth me what is mi name. "Ma dame," I seide, "John Gower." "Now John," quod sche, "in my pouer Thou most as of thi love stonde; For I thi bille have understonde,

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love

Macaulay, The Complete Works of John Gower (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902), IV: The Latin Works, lines 1-2092 (pp. 22-78). For a translation of the passage, see Eric W. Stockton, The Major Latin Works of John Gower (Seattle: University of Washington

• The Punished of Adulterers

Christ the new man, raised on the Cross even as Moses raised the serpent in the wilderness (Numbers 21:4-9; see John 3:14). The Biblia Pauperum ?e? juxtaposes Moses raising the serpent with the Crucifixion, where Christ on the Cross makes

• The Turke and Sir Gawain

1406 Henry IV made Sir John Stanley the hereditary King of Man, and members of this family governed the island through the eighteenth century. The chivalric exploits that led the king to appoint Sir John as ruler of the Manx

• The Vision of Tundale: Introduction

p. 1869A. Marshall, J. C. Douglas. "Three Problems in The Vision of Tundale." Medium Ævum 44 (1975), 14-22. Seymour, St. John Drelincourt. Irish Visions of the Otherworld: A Contribution to the Study of Mediæval Visions. New York: Macmillan, 1930. ----.

• The N-Town Plays: Play 7, Root of Jesse

wed you forever," as commentary on the final plate (v) on the Crowning of the Bride and Apocalypse 21:9 as John the Evangelist reveals the secret things of God. 113, s.n. EZECHIAS REX. King Hezekiah was known for restoring the

• The N-Town Plays: Play 13, Visit to Elizabeth

Lord God, what hous was this on That these childeryn and here moderys to As Mary and Elizabeth, Jhesus and John, And Joseph and Zakarye, also! And evyr oure Lady abod stylle thus Tyl Johan was of his modyr born.

• The N-Town Plays: Play 21, Christ and the Doctors

being performed in other parts of the British Isles besides Coventry, York, and Chester. There is even a play by John Bales on the topic. The five extant texts (York Play 20, part of Chester Play 11, Coventry Weavers’ Pageant

• The Plowman's Tale

he sytteth in his stall, Dampneth, and saveth, as him thynk. Suche pryde to-fore God doth stynk. An angell bad John to hym nat knele, But only to God do his bowyng; Suche wyllers of worship must nede evyll fele.

• Emperator Felicianus

Christ the new man, raised on the Cross even as Moses raised the serpent in the wilderness (Numbers 21:4-9; see John 3:14). The Biblia Pauperum ?e? juxtaposes Moses raising the serpent with the Crucifixion, where Christ on the Cross makes

• The Laste Epistle of Creseyd to Troyalus

poetry, e.g., The Testament and Tragedie of King Henry Stewart (1567) in Scottish Poems of the Sixteenth Century, ed. Sir John Graham Dalyell (Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1801), line 161; and in an elegy by the author of the Epistle (Meikle,

• The Life of Saint Francis: Introduction

as to why Francis was especially fond of lambs: because Christ compared himself to a lamb (in the words of John the Baptist), and because they are "withthoute felonye and mylde as Jhesu Crist" (line 322). Of the eleven animal

• Mankind: Introduction

alliterative narrative Piers Plowman uses the peasant as protagonist for its allegory, which combines both spiritual search and social critique.29 John Ball, the country priest who led the 1381 peasant’s uprising, famously preached political insur­rection based on the proverbial couplet:

• The Martyrdom of St. Andrew in the South English Legendary (c. 1270-80)

those in Matthew and Luke (which LA"edits" to include Andrew) and that in John 1:35-42, in which Andrew is said to have been originally a disciple of John the Baptist. 5 cometh. Imperative plural of come(n). 11 Patras is not

• The Carle of Carlisle

field of the coat. The griffin, a mythical beast, may symbolize the traits of the bearer, as is suggested in John Trevor's fifteenth-century Welsh Llyfr Arfau [Book of Arms]: "A griffon borne in arms signifies that the first to bear