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the serpent, can slough off the old wrapping of sin by passing through the sharp passage of penance. That the bawd is transformed into a "fayre woman" (line 22), like the serpent shedding its old skin, demonstrates her newly acquired
Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and OConnor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad
prohibits no art which was lawful under the old dispensation, unless perchance it be such arts as were used in the cults of the Jews and the rites of sacrifice of the old dispensation. All such arts, the products of
"la bele Jaiande," the wife of Brunor. The similarity between her name and the English word "giant" may have cause some confusion, as in the English Prose Merlin, where Galehaut is referred to as "the son of the Geaunt" (EETS
laetus,"glad"). Faunynge means physically showing affection and delight as dogs and other animals do (OE fægnian,"rejoice"; compare the now archaic English word fain,"glad," and see OED, fawn, vb.1). 48-49 or ellys . . . his felowe. This last clause seems
anything for our dear Lady / Shall have his reward Item 22, THE JEALOUS WIFE: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: MED: Middle English Dictionary Title No title or incipit. The tale is referred to by various names by the editors of the
either the Old or the New Testament. This Epistle, which compares courtship to a touristic pilgrimage, draws freely from Laurent de Premierfait's French prose translation (c. 1409) of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, Book 3 (see Hammond, English Verse, p.
Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and OConnor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad
parallel to the Old French construction pres (que) ne, por poi (que) ne, etc., where ne denotes not a negative but instead an action that has/had almost occurred (see Kibler, Introduction to Old French, pp. 26465). The Old French analogy
PASSION: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: EETS: Early English Text Society; GL: Jacobus de Voragine, Golden Legend; MED: Middle English Dictionary; MWME: The Manual of Writings in Middle English; NIMEV: A New Index of Middle English Verse; NP: F. Foster, The Northern
parallel to the Old French construction pres (que) ne, por poi (que) ne, etc., where ne denotes not a negative but instead an action that has/had almost occurred (see Kibler, Introduction to Old French, pp. 26465). The Old French analogy
as a substantial buffer between old Europe and the rising Islamic tide. Calls for crusade soon followed, with negotiations between Richard II in England, Charles VI in France, and Sigismund in Hungary. Though a sizable English force under the command
/ Wel singes thu, cuccu; / Ne swik thu naver nu!" (Middle English and Latin texts, as well as translation of the Latin, available online from Bella Millett, English Department, University of Southampton, .) 98-100 A nyghtyngale . . .
mekenes. Heo hadde a fadur that was kallud Joachym, that was of such holynes that, when he was fyftene yere old, he departed his good in thre partyes: on to wydewes and faderles chyldren and othur that weren pore and
harmless is his performance (t-note) choked; gutters; filth glowering ghost hideous Mahomet has; (see note) may; sign [of the Cross]; old Satan cross myself; completely body; embrace; press; (t-note) shaven; aged man (t-note) hedgehog skin; scratches gleaming coal; chin (jaws)
175 180 185 190 Whan brighte Phebus passed was the Ram Myd of Aprille and into Bole cam, And Satourn old with his frosty face In Virgyne taken had his place, Malencolik and slowgh of mocioun, And was also in
MED: Middle English Dictionary; NHC: Northern Homily Cycle; NIMEV: The New Index of Middle English Verse, ed. Boffey and Edwards; ON: Old Norse; Small: English Metrical Homiles, ed. Small; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly
uses lines 421-32 in Sir Launfal and the corresponding lines in the other English versions to argue that the Middle English redactions derive, not directly from the Old French, but from another intermediate text, now lost. Marie de France's Lanval
Brown and Robbins, Index of Middle English Verse K: Kinsley, William Dunbar: Poems (1957) LGW: Legend of Good Women Mc: Mackenzie, Poems of William Dunbar (1932; rev. 1960) MED: Middle English Dictionary MEL: Middle English Lyrics, ed. Luria and Hoffman
in English Literature, ed. Jeffrey; HS: Peter Comestor, Historia Scholastica, cited by book and chapter, followed by Patrologia Latina column in parentheses; K: Kalén-Ohlander edition; MED: Middle English Dictionary; NOAB: New Oxford Annotated Bible; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; OFP: Old