• Chansons d'Aventure and Love Quests

J. Manly, English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) (Boston: Gill, 1907), p. 94; Cook, p. 440; W. W. Greg, Review of English Studies 13 (1937), 88; EEC, no. 322A; Rickert, p. 193; Charles Williams, ed., New Book of English Verse (New

• Chansons d'Aventure and Love Quests

J. Manly, English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) (Boston: Gill, 1907), p. 94; Cook, p. 440; W. W. Greg, Review of English Studies 13 (1937), 88; EEC, no. 322A; Rickert, p. 193; Charles Williams, ed., New Book of English Verse (New

• Chansons d'Aventure and Love Quests

J. Manly, English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) (Boston: Gill, 1907), p. 94; Cook, p. 440; W. W. Greg, Review of English Studies 13 (1937), 88; EEC, no. 322A; Rickert, p. 193; Charles Williams, ed., New Book of English Verse (New

• Chansons d'Aventure and Love Quests

J. Manly, English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) (Boston: Gill, 1907), p. 94; Cook, p. 440; W. W. Greg, Review of English Studies 13 (1937), 88; EEC, no. 322A; Rickert, p. 193; Charles Williams, ed., New Book of English Verse (New

• Chansons d'Aventure and Love Quests

J. Manly, English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) (Boston: Gill, 1907), p. 94; Cook, p. 440; W. W. Greg, Review of English Studies 13 (1937), 88; EEC, no. 322A; Rickert, p. 193; Charles Williams, ed., New Book of English Verse (New

• Chansons d'Aventure and Love Quests

J. Manly, English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) (Boston: Gill, 1907), p. 94; Cook, p. 440; W. W. Greg, Review of English Studies 13 (1937), 88; EEC, no. 322A; Rickert, p. 193; Charles Williams, ed., New Book of English Verse (New

• Chansons d'Aventure and Love Quests

J. Manly, English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) (Boston: Gill, 1907), p. 94; Cook, p. 440; W. W. Greg, Review of English Studies 13 (1937), 88; EEC, no. 322A; Rickert, p. 193; Charles Williams, ed., New Book of English Verse (New

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 6, First Sunday after the Nativity

FIRST SUNDAY AFTER THE NATIVITY: TEXTUAL NOTES Abbreviations: MED: Middle English Dictionary; Nevanlinna: Nevanlinna, The Northern Homily Cycle; NHC: Northern Homily Cycle; OI: Old Irish; ON: Old Norse; Small: English Metrical Homiles, ed. Small. for manuscript abbreviations (ED, A, D,

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 3, Third Sunday in Advent

English Dictionary; NHC: Northern Homily Cycle; NIMEV: The New Index of Middle English Verse, ed. Boffey and Edwards; OE: OldEnglish; OED: Oxford English Dic¬tionary; Small: English Metrical Homiles, ed. Small; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences and Proverbial Phrases from

• The Punished of Adulterers

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

• The Life of St. Julian the Hospitaller: Introduction

suggesting further the legend's links with and possible origin in vernacular folk tradition.13 The Legend of Julian in ScL Middle English adaptations of the Julian narrative include, in addition to the version printed here from the late-fourteenth-century ScL, those in

• Part One

and worms shall cover them. Job 21:26 PART ONE: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PL: Patrologia Latina, ed. Migne. 1–12 A recollection of the second creation story from Genesis 2:7,

• Lydgate, Disguising at Hertford

and that looks ahead to the Tudor masque (see Reyher, Les masques Anglais, p. 113; Wickham, Early English Stages, 1:221; and Withington, English Pageantry, 1:111). In organiza­tion, the disguising shows the influence of French débats, presenting first the complaint of

• How the Goode Man Taght Hys Sone

of Ancient Popular Poetry: From Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies. London: C. Clarke, for T. and J. Egerton, 1791; rpt. 1833, 1884. ---. Ancient Popular Poetry: From Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies. Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1884. [Based on

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• Audelay, Salutations

Salutation to Jesus for Mary’s Love. On Middle English lyrics with anaphoric “haile,” see Driver, “John Audelay and the Bridgettines,” pp. 192–95, 209–10n4. Woolf, English Religious Lyric, pp. 274–308, discusses the Middle English tradition of lyrics to the Virgin (with

• Audelay, Salutations

Salutation to Jesus for Mary’s Love. On Middle English lyrics with anaphoric “haile,” see Driver, “John Audelay and the Bridgettines,” pp. 192–95, 209–10n4. Woolf, English Religious Lyric, pp. 274–308, discusses the Middle English tradition of lyrics to the Virgin (with

• Audelay, Salutations

Salutation to Jesus for Mary’s Love. On Middle English lyrics with anaphoric “haile,” see Driver, “John Audelay and the Bridgettines,” pp. 192–95, 209–10n4. Woolf, English Religious Lyric, pp. 274–308, discusses the Middle English tradition of lyrics to the Virgin (with

• Audelay, Salutations

Salutation to Jesus for Mary’s Love. On Middle English lyrics with anaphoric “haile,” see Driver, “John Audelay and the Bridgettines,” pp. 192–95, 209–10n4. Woolf, English Religious Lyric, pp. 274–308, discusses the Middle English tradition of lyrics to the Virgin (with

• Audelay, Salutations

Salutation to Jesus for Mary’s Love. On Middle English lyrics with anaphoric “haile,” see Driver, “John Audelay and the Bridgettines,” pp. 192–95, 209–10n4. Woolf, English Religious Lyric, pp. 274–308, discusses the Middle English tradition of lyrics to the Virgin (with