• Plowman Writings: Song of the Husbandman

and the beadle (line 37), a warrant officer working under the bailiff" (p. 250). John Alford cites the following lines from Piers Plowman (C.13.45-47): "If e marchaunt make his way ouer menne corne / And e hayward happe with hym

• Caxton, The Game and Playe of the Chesse, Book Three

he was receyvyd right honuurably. And this marchaunt of Egypt had in his hows a fayre yonge mayden whom he shold have had in mariage to hymself, of the whiche mayde thys marchaunt of Bandach was esprised with her love

• Caxton, The Game and Playe of the Chesse, Book Four

lift side unto the place of the knyghtes, and for to goo right tofore into the whyt poynt tofore the marchaunt. And the kyng also sortist the nature of the knyghtes whan he goeth on the right side in two

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 1

spak of now Was large, ryche, ful of puple eke, For that fame every man thedyr drow. Every knyght and marchaunt gune it than seke; Thei thowt it was enow, whan thei schuld speke, A kyng to be lorde ovyr

• The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn

and i-staked, And other beddes by and by fressh i-dight, For comers to the hoost righte a sportful sight. The Marchaunt and the Mancipill, the Miller and the Reve, And the Clerk of Oxenforth to townward gon they meve, And

• A Gest of Robyn Hode

gate Litell John Twelve monethes of the knight; Therefore he gave him right anone A gode hors and a wight. Nowe is Litell John the sherifes man God lende us well to spede! But alwey thought Lytell John To quyte

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love: Book Three

tyme healeth and rewardeth, and a tree oft fayled is holde more in deyntie whan it frute forthe bringeth. A marchaunt that for ones lesynge in the see no more to aventure thynketh, he shal never with aventure come to

• 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,

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 3

as we leve, oure soules to leche. This semyth to yow full wondyrfull speche. "And that same Lord as nobyll marchaunt His blood for oure synne on crosse wold spylle. Of that same deth we may make avaunt: It waschyth

• Caxton, The Game and Playe of the Chesse, Book Two

agayn, done and acted against. 526 flayn, flayed. 529 feet, deed; after, afterwards. 531 feste of Saynt John, the Feast of Saint John (usually held in midsummer on June 24). 533 in aventure, at risk. 534 doubted, feared. 535 Syryens

• The Life of Saint Francis in the South English Legendary

so that even the hungriest animal refused to eat it" (LM VIII.6, Habig, p. 693). 321 Compare John 1:29: "The next day, John [the Baptist] saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: 'Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him

• 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

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love, Appendix 2

atte procurement of John More, Walter sybile John horn Also, ofte to-forn that Sir Nichol Brembre was chose mair, the mair, John Norhampton, John More, Also, the night to-for the day of the eleccion of the mair, John More warned

• Siege of Jerusalem

a wedding in Cana, Christ turned six jars of water into wine, an act that John names as the first sign of Christ's power. See John 2:1-11. No doubt the linking of this story - along with the feeding of

• The Scale of Perfection, Book I

that he were not bigiled. Seynt Joon seith thus: Nolite credere omni spiritui, sed probate si ex deo sit (1 John 4:1). Seynt Joon biddeth us, we schulde not leve everi spirit, but we schullen assaien frist whether he be

• Little John A Begging

shall hear How Little John went a begging. As Robin Hood walked the forrest along, And all his yeomandree, Sayes Robin, "Some of you must a begging go, And Little John, it must be thee." Sayes John, "If I must

• Sir Degare

he nemnede thous tho. The heremite that was holi of lif Hadde a soster that was a wif; A riche marchaunt of that countr Hadde hire ispoused into that cit. To hire that schild he sente tho Bi his knave,

• The Scale of Perfection, Book II

dei; sed non apparuit quid erimus. Scimus autem quoniam cum apparuerit, tunc apparebimus cum eo, similes ei in gloria (1 John 3:2). That is: Mi dere frendis, we aren right now whiles that we lyven here the soones of God,

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: John Ball's Sermon Theme

Contents John Ball's Sermon Theme, Notes JOHN BALL'S SERMON THEME: NOTES 1 Both Walsingham's Historia Anglicana and the Chronicon Angliae claim that John Ball, priest, taught the "perverted doctrine" (perversa dogmata) and the "false ravings" (insanias falsas) of John Wyclif,

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: The Letter of John Ball (Stow)

Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: The Letter of John Ball (Stow) Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition 3 N John Bal Saint Marie priest, greeteth wel all maner of men, and biddeth