• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 7, Sacrificium Cayme et Abell

Scriveners’ Play”; Towneley: Martin Stevens and A. C. Cawley, eds., The Towneley Plays. The base text for this edition is London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290, called the “Register” in the York civic records and here identified by the abbreviation

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

Scriveners’ Play”; Towneley: Martin Stevens and A. C. Cawley, eds., The Towneley Plays. The base text for this edition is London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290, called the “Register” in the York civic records and here identified by the abbreviation

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

Scriveners’ Play”; Towneley: Martin Stevens and A. C. Cawley, eds., The Towneley Plays. The base text for this edition is London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290, called the “Register” in the York civic records and here identified by the abbreviation

• Pearl

Now Remaining in the Custody of the Right Honourable Sir John Newport, Bart. Comptroller-General of His Majesty's Exchequer. Vol. 2 [London: J. Murray, 1837], pp. 209-10; cited in Donkin, p. 268). The most valuable pearls were imported from the far

• Penitential Poems

1b (late thirteenth century). Editions of Cotton Caligula: Morris, EETS o.s. 49, pp. 158-62; Wright, Religious Songs, Percy Society 11 (London: T. Richards, 1844), pp. 65-66; B13, no. 32B; Patterson, no. 31. Edition of Trinity: CS, p. 94; B13 no.

• Penitential Poems

1b (late thirteenth century). Editions of Cotton Caligula: Morris, EETS o.s. 49, pp. 158-62; Wright, Religious Songs, Percy Society 11 (London: T. Richards, 1844), pp. 65-66; B13, no. 32B; Patterson, no. 31. Edition of Trinity: CS, p. 94; B13 no.

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

Now they speed at the spurreswithouten speche more, To the march of Meyes,these manlich knightes, That is in Lorraine alosedas London is here, Citee of that seinourthat soveraign is holden. The king ferkes forthon a fair steed With Ferrer and

• The Squire of Low Degree: Introduction

Low Degree. MANUSCRIPTS AND EARLY PRINTS Indexed as item 1644 in Brown and Robbins, eds., Index of Middle English Verse: London, British Library MS Additional 27879 (the Percy Folio Manuscript), fols. 444-446. (P) Wynkyn de Worde, "Here begynneth vndo your

• Penitential Poems

1b (late thirteenth century). Editions of Cotton Caligula: Morris, EETS o.s. 49, pp. 158-62; Wright, Religious Songs, Percy Society 11 (London: T. Richards, 1844), pp. 65-66; B13, no. 32B; Patterson, no. 31. Edition of Trinity: CS, p. 94; B13 no.

• A True Tale of Robin Hood

much more offend; The fact indeed was great. For in a short time after that, The kings receivers went Towards London with the coyne they got, For's Highnesse northerne rent. Bold Robbin Hood and Little John, With the rest of

• Floris and Blancheflour: Introduction

MS Advocates' 19.2.1. Fols. 100r-104v. [A] Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.iv.27.2. Fols. 1r-5v. [C] London, British Library, MS Egerton 2862. Fols. 98r-111r. [E] London, British Library, MS Cotton Vitellius D.iii. Fols. 6r-8v. [V] Go To Floris and Blancheflour FLORIS

• John Gower, Cinkante Balades: Introduction

balades, which . . . made, in order to entertain the . . .”). In fact, the “Cinkante” balades in London, British Library, MS Additional 59495 amount to what would have been fifty-four, including two dedicating the rest to Henry

• King Arthur and King Cornwall

semi-improvisatory performance of this figure in his lengthy conversation with a Billy Barlow impersonator from the "street business" (London Labour and the London Poor [1861; rpt. New York: Dover, 1968], vol. 3, pp. 138-39). The pageants, narratives, and performances Mayhew

• The Laste Epistle of Creseyd to Troyalus

neid is unusual. See The Works of William Fowler, ed. Henry W. Meikle, James Craigie, and John Purvis (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1940), III, lviii. 63 Tenidos. Tenedos was an island in the Aegean off the coast of Troy

• Charles d'Orleans, from Fortunes Stabilnes

And all the schemes you have set in motion against me CHARLES D'ORLEANS, FROM FORTUNES STABILNES: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: MS: London, British Library MS Harley 682. 1005 welwilleris, frendis, and allyes. The scene that this lyric suggests is to be

• Dame Sirith

de Clerico et Puella und das Fabliau von Dame Siriz." Anglia 30 (1907), 306-19. Hines, John. The Fabliau in English. London: Longman, 1993. Lewis, Robert E. "The English Fabliau Tradition and Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale.'" Modern Philology 79 (1982), 241-55. Robbins,

• Poems of Political Prophecy: When Rome is Removed

Marlyng, Appendix II of The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune, ed. James A. H. Murray, EETS o.s. 61 (London: Trübner, 1875), pp. 52-61, especially lines 445-end. Murray's edition is a collation of versions in BL MS Lansdowne 762

• Penitential Poems

1b (late thirteenth century). Editions of Cotton Caligula: Morris, EETS o.s. 49, pp. 158-62; Wright, Religious Songs, Percy Society 11 (London: T. Richards, 1844), pp. 65-66; B13, no. 32B; Patterson, no. 31. Edition of Trinity: CS, p. 94; B13 no.

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 35, Crucifixio Christi

into a mortise in a Passion drama may be reflected in a drawing of the Crucifixion in the Carthusian Miscellany (London, British Library, MS. Add. 37049, fol. 30). This therefore may be an instance in which art imitates the drama,

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 43, Pentecost

indoor Pentecost ceremony with the dove suspended from the roof of the church or cathedral such as St. Paul’s in London and with incense filling the air inside.2 But there is singing nevertheless. The two angels in the York play