• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 36, The Legend of the Resurrection

and John, mentioned in Matthew 27:56. 221 Thi wyll be do. Raphael’s response echoes the Lord’s Prayer (Pater Noster). 227 Thus seyd the apostyll Seynt John. The deliverance of Joseph of Arimathea is not mentioned in the Gospel of John;

• Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband

hame? Thou goyst to thi neybores howse, be on and be one, And syttes ther janglynge with Jake an with John." Than sayd the goodwyffe, "Feyr mot yow faylle! I have mor to do, who so wyst alle; Whyn I

• LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCY: Introduction

the court of Edward IV.26 Roos may have encountered John Lydgate towards the end of Lydgate's life,27 and he was a contemporary of poets such as Charles d'Orléans, George Ashby, John Metham, and Bene-dict (or Benet) Burgh.28 Later poems such

• Robin Hood and Queen Catherin

clear: Clifton is Little John (see line 105). 223 A "bearded" arrow carried longer feathers as flights and so could give more accuracy, though it required more power; it is appropriate for the giant archer Little John. Note that his

• Robyn and Gandelyn: Introduction

F. J., pp. 12-13. Dobson, R. J., and J. Taylor, pp. 255-56. Egan, Piers, the Younger. Robin Hood and Little John, or The Merry Men of Sherwood Forest. London: Forster and Hextall, 1840. Gray, Douglas. "The Robin Hood Poems." Poetica

• Poems of Political Prophecy: The Prophecy of Merlin (Dublin MS)

"Abuses of the Age" verses, see When Rome Is Removed lines 5-9 and note to line 5; The Letter of John Ball (from Stow's Annales); Ball's Letter in the Addresses of the Commons from Henry of Knighton's Chronicon: lines 35-41.

• Poems of Political Prophecy: The Prophecy of Merlin (Magdalene Coll. MS)

and self-serving policies. This cryptic line also perhaps alludes to the Battle of Bannockburn (1314). It might, however, refer to John Comyn the Red, who defeated Edward I's forces at Roslin in 1301. Robert Bruce murdered the Red Comyn during

• Poems of Political Prophecy: Ercyldoun's Prophecy

Scotland died in 1286 without leaving a male heir, which caused a crisis of succession in Scotland. Edward I defeated John Balliol in July 1296, annexed Scotland to England, and carried the Stone of Destiny from Scone to Westminster Abbey.

• Lay le Freine: Introduction

See John C. Hirsh, "Providential Concern in the Lay le Freine," Notes and Queries n.s. 16 (1969), 85-86. 4 John Boswell, The Kindness of Strangers (New York: Vintage, 1990), p. 322. 5 See also Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, John

• The Carle of Carlisle: Introduction

27879 (The Percy Folio). Pp. 448-55. 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. Go To The Carle of Carlisle

• Item 8, Dame Courtesy: Introduction

example, Hartman, Household and the Making of History, pp. 48–57. The foundations of Hartman’s arguments appear in two articles by John Hajnal: “European Marriage Pat­terns in Perspec­tive” and “Two Kinds of Preindustrial Household Formation System.” 2 On the connections between

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 39, The Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalen

sins, but her weeping, both at the tomb and at her unexpected meeting with the resurrected Jesus, is reported in John 20:11–15. In lines 38–41ff. she asks if the gardener has borne Jesus away. 62–63 Marie, of mournyng amende thy

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love

coherence of Usk's notion of love and its relationship to his allegory; frequent comparisons to Dante's Commedia.] Donne, John.John Donne. Ed. John Carey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Dove, Mary. The Perfect Age of Man's Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University

• Lydgate: Saint Austin at Compton

asks John Gower and the enigmatic "philosophical Strode" to correct his TC (5.1856-58). JOHN LYDGATE, SAINT AUSTIN AT COMPTON: TEXTUAL NOTES Abbreviations: H = British Library, MS Harley 2255, fols. 24r-32v [base text]; M = Minor Poems of John Lydgate,

• THE BOKE OF CUPIDE,GOD OF LOVE: Introduction

forward, Sir John Clanvowe is the most likely author of the poem. See V. J. Scattergood, "The Authorship of The Boke of Cupide." Scattergood also includes a brief discussion in his introduction to The Works of Sir John Clanvowe, pp.

• The Storie of Asneth: Introduction

35-39. 7 For discussion of John Shirley's biography, see A. I. Doyle, ``More Light on John Shirley,'' Medium Aevum, 30 (1961), 93-101. For speculation on Shirley's role in the fifteenth-century book trade, see Walter Schirmer, John Lydgate: A Study in

• Lydgate, The Legend of St. George

Mesure is Tresour Lydgate, The Legend of St. George JOHN LYDGATE, THE LEGEND OF ST. GEORGE: EXPLANATORY NOTES ABBREVIATIONS: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; MP: Minor Poems of John Lydgate, ed. MacCracken. Shirley describes The Legend of

• The Greene Knight: Introduction

of the Garter which follows the conclusion of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, though it is striking that Sir John Paston's "boke off knyghthod" contained a detailed account of "Hou Knyghtis of the Bath shulde be made" (see note

• The Testament of Cresseid: Introduction

McDermott, John J. "Henryson's Testament of Cresseid and Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness." Renaissance Quarterly 20 (1967), 16-21. McDonald, Craig. "Venus and the Goddess Fortune in The Testament of Cresseid." Scottish Literary Journal 4 (1977), 14-24. McNamara, John. "Divine

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

thorns (line 12). See Matthew 27:27-31; Mark 15:16-20; John 19:1-5. They also cast lots (play quoits) for his garments (Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34; John 19:23-24). 11 Thai scurgit him. John 19:1-16; Mark 15:15. 13 nalit on a tre.