• Robert Henryson, Shorter Poems: Stronger Attributions

he is healthy; the old man tells him that he will lose his health and vitality; upset, the young man departs, as does the old, leaving me with their conflicting messages. Citing John W. Conlee (Middle English Debate Poetry), Priscilla

• Robert Henryson, Shorter Poems: Stronger Attributions

he is healthy; the old man tells him that he will lose his health and vitality; upset, the young man departs, as does the old, leaving me with their conflicting messages. Citing John W. Conlee (Middle English Debate Poetry), Priscilla

• Robert Henryson, Shorter Poems: Stronger Attributions

he is healthy; the old man tells him that he will lose his health and vitality; upset, the young man departs, as does the old, leaving me with their conflicting messages. Citing John W. Conlee (Middle English Debate Poetry), Priscilla

• Robert Henryson, Shorter Poems: Stronger Attributions

he is healthy; the old man tells him that he will lose his health and vitality; upset, the young man departs, as does the old, leaving me with their conflicting messages. Citing John W. Conlee (Middle English Debate Poetry), Priscilla

• Robert Henryson, Shorter Poems: Stronger Attributions

he is healthy; the old man tells him that he will lose his health and vitality; upset, the young man departs, as does the old, leaving me with their conflicting messages. Citing John W. Conlee (Middle English Debate Poetry), Priscilla

• Robert Henryson, Shorter Poems: Stronger Attributions

he is healthy; the old man tells him that he will lose his health and vitality; upset, the young man departs, as does the old, leaving me with their conflicting messages. Citing John W. Conlee (Middle English Debate Poetry), Priscilla

• Robert Henryson, Shorter Poems: Stronger Attributions

he is healthy; the old man tells him that he will lose his health and vitality; upset, the young man departs, as does the old, leaving me with their conflicting messages. Citing John W. Conlee (Middle English Debate Poetry), Priscilla

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love, Appendix 1

for this edition us Anglicus's De Proprietatibus Rerum and to The Peterborough Lapidary as examples of Middle English texts. And I also include McCulloch's commentary on the pearl since it is a useful brief overview. For the origin of the

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 16, Quinquagesima Sunday

HOMILY 16, QUINQUAGESIMA SUNDAY: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: MED: Middle English Dictionary; NHC: Northern Homily Cycle; NIMEV: The New Index of Middle English Verse, ed. Boffey and Edwards; OI: Old Irish; ON: Old Norse; Tubach: Index Exemplorum, ed. Tubach. For manuscript

• Entre

quickly done, they forgot his works. Psalm 105:12–13 ENTRE: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PL: Patrologia Latina, ed. Migne. The Entre is the introduction or “subject of discourse” of the

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 3: Introduction

than an English translation. See Macaulay 3.519 on Gower's relationship with earlier English Alexander stories: "It would be quite contrary to [Gower's] practice to follow an English authority." See Lumiansky for accounts and editions of the Middle English Alexander poems.

• Sir Cleges: Introduction

Critical Edition of Middle English Sir Cleges. Ph. D. dissertation, Catholic University, 1988. Collections French, Walter Hoyt, and Charles Brockway Hale, eds. Middle English Metrical Romances. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930. II, 877-95. McKnight, George H. Middle English Humorous Tales in

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 12, The Annunciation to Mary and the Visitation

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 O’Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad

• Book of Tobias

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

• The Sinner's Lament: Introduction

Pp. 349-51. Related Middle English Works De tribus regibus mortuis. Ed. Ella Keats Whiting. In The Poems of John Audelay. EETS o.s. 184. 1931; rpt. Millwood, N. Y.: Kraus, 1988. Pp. xxiv-xxvii, 217-23. [Only Middle English poem on Three Dead

• The N-Town Plays: Play 4, Noah

Abbreviations: MED: Middle English Dictionary; PL: Patrologia Latina, ed. Migne; S: N-Town Play, ed. Spector (1991); s.d.: stage direction; s.n.: stage name. The biblical story appears in Genesis 6:5–8:22, and is commonly reproduced in late medieval English and Western European

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Eneidos bucolis

(e.g., "Hanc Epistolam subscriptam corde deuoto misit senex et cecus Iohannes Gower" ["This Epistle, written with a devoted heart, the old and blind John Gower has sent"]) come to mind; and, although their level of invention is less than creating

• A True Tale of Robin Hood: Introduction

of King Richard the first, commonly called Richard Cuer de Lyon. Carefully collected out of the truest Writers of our English Chronicles. And published for the satisfaction of those who desire too see Truth purged from falsehood. So scholarship and

• Emperator Felicianus

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

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

is omitted as in Ovid’s Heroides, to make her a martyr to love. Gower’s Confessio Amantis, the longest of the English retellings, presents her as a sympathetic victim of Jason’s perjury (5.3247–4222). Textual Notes 3 d’Erode. P: de Rode. 18–19