• The Antifeminist Tradition: Introduction

1409.3) in both Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland MS Advocates' 1.1.6 (the Bannatyne manuscript, where it is marked "Chaucer") and London, British Library MS Additional 17492 (the Devonshire manuscript). Of Theyre Nature, inspired, no doubt, by the pessimistic musings in

• Interludium de clerico et puella

and the Maiden" and adds scene divisions and stage directions.] Dickins, B., and R. M. Wilson. Early Middle English Texts. London: Bowes Co: Albert Cook; MS: British Library MS Additional 23986, vellum roll, verso side. The incipit appears as follows:

• Jack Upland: Introduction

Editions Wright, Thomas, ed. Jacke Upland. In Political Poems and Songs Relating to English History. Rolls Series 14. Vol. 1. London: Longmans, Green, 1861. Skeat, Walter W., ed. Jack Upland. In The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Vol. 7: Chaucerian

• Anticlerical Poems: Allas, What Schul We Freris Do

read,' whereas previously it had been the preserve of well-read clerks of good understanding." See Margaret Aston, Lollards and Reformers (London: Hambledon Press, 1984), p. 206. Archbishop Arundel enjoined unauthorized Bible translations in 1409. 11 For. MS, RHR, Person ffor;

• Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow

Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow Return to the Robin Hood Project Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition When as the sheriff of Nottingham Was come with mickle grief, He talkd no good

• The Sinner's Lament

Speculum peccatorum, and the epitaph stanza All Ye That Passe be Thys Holy Place (ed. Theodore Silverstein, Medieval English Lyrics [London, 1971], p. 123). walkys. LAW: walke. me by. A: by me. 3 Hit happith me noght. Adv: Hyt helpes

• Item 21, Sir Corneus: Introduction

Ten Fifteenth-Century Comic Poems. Pp. 273–91. Hazlitt, W. Carew, ed. Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England. Vol. 1. London: John Russell Smith, 1866. Pp. 35–49. Reference Works NIMEV 219 MWME 9.24.13.3167, 3494–95 Thompson, Stith. Motif-Index of Folk Literature.

• The Legend of Frideswide of Oxford, an Anglo-Saxon Royal Abbess: Introduction

St. Frideswide." In Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. H. C. Davis. Ed. Henry Mayr-Harting and R. I. Moore. London: Hambledon Press, 1985. Pp. 193-206. Pickering, O[liver] S. "The Outspoken South English Legendary Poet." 1994. Pp. 21-37. Stenton, F.

• Poems of Political Prophecy: Thomas of Erceldoune's Prophecy

(Lothian) and its battle, 1307, when Robert Bruce defeated Aymer de Valence. Or it may refer to the city of London. 7 Rokesbourh. Roxburgh, one of the four boroughs of Scotland, which has a famous castle. Forweleye. MS and RHR

• Upland's Rejoinder: Introduction

Daw Topias, with Jack Upland's Rejoinder. In Political Poems and Songs Relating to English History. Rolls Series 14. Vol. 2. London: Longman, Green, 1861. Heyworth, P. L., ed. In Jack Upland, Friar Daw's Reply, and Upland's Rejoinder. Oxford: Clarendon, 1968.

• Item 17, A Prayer at the Levation: Introduction

Scudder, ed. A Worcestershire Miscellany Compiled by John Northwood, c. 1400. Philadelphia: Macon, 1956. Pp. 149–50. [Prints the text of London, British Library Additional MS 37787.] Horstmann, Carl, ed. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript. 1:24–25. [Based on text

• Item 18, The Knight Who Forgave His Father’s Slayer: Introduction

of Ashmole 61.] Manning, Robert. Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne. Ed. F. J. Furnivall. 2 vols. EETS o.s. 119, 123. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner see #1375] See also Banks, Brandeis, Horstmann (1877), Lipton, Mirk (1905), Owst, and Rosen­wein in

• The Joys of Mary

of prayers at the end of the MS. Editions: Richard Morris, Cursor Mundi, Part 5, EETS o.s. 68 (London, 1878; rpt. London: Richard Clay, 1966), lines 25619-83; Carl Horstmann, "Ein Beitrag zu Celestin," Anglia 1 (1878), 391; B14, no. 31;

• The Joys of Mary

of prayers at the end of the MS. Editions: Richard Morris, Cursor Mundi, Part 5, EETS o.s. 68 (London, 1878; rpt. London: Richard Clay, 1966), lines 25619-83; Carl Horstmann, "Ein Beitrag zu Celestin," Anglia 1 (1878), 391; B14, no. 31;

• The Joys of Mary

of prayers at the end of the MS. Editions: Richard Morris, Cursor Mundi, Part 5, EETS o.s. 68 (London, 1878; rpt. London: Richard Clay, 1966), lines 25619-83; Carl Horstmann, "Ein Beitrag zu Celestin," Anglia 1 (1878), 391; B14, no. 31;

• The Cook's Tale

COOK'S TALE: NOTES 3 Goldfinches are lively, happy creatures. See Canterbury Interlude, line 476 (note). 13 Cheapside was a busy London thoroughfare that served as a favorite site for processions and festivals, including the notorious "lords of misrule." 19-24 This

• Item 16, The Debate of the Carpenter’s Tools: Introduction

Orchard, ed. Nugae poeticae. Pp. 13–20. Hazlitt, W. Carew, ed. Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England. 4 vols. London: J. R. Smith, 1864–66. 1:79–90. Wilson, Edward. “The Debate of the Carpenter’s Tools.” Review of English Studies n.s. 38

• Why I Can't Be a Nun: Introduction

J. Furnivall. Early English Poems and Lives of Saints. Berlin: Asher, 1862. Pp. 138-48. [Transactions of the Philological Society of London, 1858.] Pertinent Studies Byrne, Sister M. Tradition of the Nun in Medieval England. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 4, The Prohibition of the Tree of Knowledge

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 Northern Homily Collection: Introduction

only) London, British Library MS Harley 2391 (exempla only) Porkington 10 MS (exempla only) London, British Library MS Lat. misc. b. 17 (fragment) The first NHC expansion: V: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Eng. Poet a. 1 (the Vernon Manuscript) London,