• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and A, R and I, There he betyn his bryte body With schorges that wern bothe scharp and long. Our swete lady stod hym by, With M and A and R and I, Che wept water with here ey,

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and A, R and I, There he betyn his bryte body With schorges that wern bothe scharp and long. Our swete lady stod hym by, With M and A and R and I, Che wept water with here ey,

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and A, R and I, There he betyn his bryte body With schorges that wern bothe scharp and long. Our swete lady stod hym by, With M and A and R and I, Che wept water with here ey,

• Piers the Plowman's Crede

Ne were wordlyche wele and her welfare? Thei schulden delven and diggen and dongen the erthe, And mene-mong corn bred to her mete fongen, And wortes flechles wroughte, and water to drinken, 91 And werchen and wolward gon, as we

• Part Five

16 Lines 1032–38: And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and tribunes, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: And they say

• Part Seven

walles and wardus and turrettes Ane entree and gates and eke garettes. And alle the walles were of that cyt Of precyouse stones and ryche perr And alle the turrettes of cristal clene And alle the wardes enamayled bydene And

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and A, R and I, There he betyn his bryte body With schorges that wern bothe scharp and long. Our swete lady stod hym by, With M and A and R and I, Che wept water with here ey,

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 1

And whiles thei on the stronde leye, Thei nothyng dide but disporte and playe And bathe and wasche hem in the fresche ryver And drank watrys that were swote and clere, That sprange lyche cristal in the colde welle,

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and A, R and I, There he betyn his bryte body With schorges that wern bothe scharp and long. Our swete lady stod hym by, With M and A and R and I, Che wept water with here ey,

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and A, R and I, There he betyn his bryte body With schorges that wern bothe scharp and long. Our swete lady stod hym by, With M and A and R and I, Che wept water with here ey,

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and A, R and I, There he betyn his bryte body With schorges that wern bothe scharp and long. Our swete lady stod hym by, With M and A and R and I, Che wept water with here ey,

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 3

wyll as wilt thow. "I forsake here, Lorde, for Thi love, Crown and londe, castell and town, Gold and sylvyr, bothe hows and rofe, Brochys and ryngys, mantell and gown. Suffyr me no more, Lord, for to fall down In

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and A, R and I, There he betyn his bryte body With schorges that wern bothe scharp and long. Our swete lady stod hym by, With M and A and R and I, Che wept water with here ey,

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and A, R and I, There he betyn his bryte body With schorges that wern bothe scharp and long. Our swete lady stod hym by, With M and A and R and I, Che wept water with here ey,

• The Assembly of Gods

sage phylosophyrs and poetes many folde: There was sad Sychero and Arystotyll olde, Tholomé, Dorothé with Dyogenes, Plato, Messehala, and wyse Socrates. Sortes and Saphyrus with Hermes stood behynde; Avycen and Averoys with hem were in fere. Galyen and Ipocras,

• Bevis of Hampton

entent, And King Edgar Beves of-sent, And Sire Saber and Sire Gii, And Sire Miles and Sire Terry, And King Edgar Miles gan calle Before his barouns in the halle And yaf him is doughter be the honde, And after

• Havelok the Dane

thee shole comen heye and lowe, And alle that in Denemark wone - Em and brother, fader and sone, Erl and baroun, dreng and thayn, Knightes and burgeys and sweyn - And mad king heyelike and wel. Denemark shal be

• Book of Genesis

sted, And the sted that thei suld in stand ys callyd the Se by ryghwyse rede; And the dry erth namyd He the Land, He bad that yt suld spryng and sprede Herbys and treyse with wod and wand and

• Second Book of Kings (2 Samuel)

And have here that I have to hyre: hys bees of gold and his gud crownne. I wott thou sal be lord and syre and rewle the reme, both towre and town.” Then David loked on hym with yre

• Confessio Amantis, vol. 1: Introduction

and books are texts that perplex the viewer. Belief and thought are not, however, binary oppositions; rather, thought, with its perpetual reinvention of both past and present, challenges and sustains belief, whether in Gower or Chaucer.14 Like Vox Clamantis