• The Morall Fabillis: Introduction

Littrature Ecossaisses. Eds. Jean-Jacques Blanchot and Claude Graf. Strasbourg: Universit de Strasbourg, 1979. Pp. 222-38. Elliott, Charles. "Sparth, Glebard and Bowranbane." Notes and Queries 9 (1962), 86-87. Fox, Denton. "Henryson and Caxton." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 (1968),

• Lydgate, Mesure Is Tresour

of oold how mesour is tresour, And of al grace ground moost principall, Of vertuous lyfe suppoort and eek favour, Mesour conveyeth and governyth all, — Trewe examplayr and orygynall, To estaatys of hyh and lowe degree, In ther dewe

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: The Letter of John Ball (Royal MS)

Nameles, and Johan the Mullere, and Johon Cartere, and biddeth hem that thei bee war of gyle in borugh, and stondeth togidre in Godes name, and biddeth Peres Ploughman go to his werk, and chastise wel Hobbe the Robbere, and

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 27, The Last Supper

Both hede and hande, beseke I thee. JESUSPetir, thou wotiste noght yitt What this werke will bemene. Hereaftir schall thou witte, And so schall ye all, bedene. Tunc lavat manus. Youre Lorde and maistir ye me call, And so I

• Robin Hood and His Crew of Souldiers

yielding Strand, fear and amazement, confusion and Distracting cares seize the neighbring villages, And thus it is with us; the guilty breast Still pants and throbs, when others are at rest. Look out and learn the cause, and in the

• Anticlerical Poems: Lo, He That Can Be Cristes Clerc

and pray, and offer fast to dead images, that have neither hunger nor cold; and despise, beat, and slay Christian men, made to the image and likeness of the Holy Trinity. What honour of God is this to kneel

• Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband

that was fayre and bolde, And hade good inow to wende as they wolde. She was a good huswyfe, curteys and heynd, And he was an angry man, and sone wold be tenyd, Chydyn and brawlynge, and farde leyke a

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

bachelors and bannerets (see note to line 68) 62 To Ambyganye and Orcage (Albania?) and Alexandria as well, / To India and to Armenia, where the Euphrates runs 63 Hyrcania; Elam; outer isles 64 From Persia and Pamphilia and Prester

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 18, Second Sunday in Lent

than that man, That mikil skill and insight can, And wote that man for dedeli synne, Tynes that blisse that never sall blynne; And gase wele and witandlie; And lepes in the fendes balie, And tynes the joye that lastis

• Lydgate, The Legend of St. George

drawe, With waynes and cartes fer out of the towne, And after that he taught hem Crystes lawe, By his doctryne and predicacyoun, And frome th’errour by conversyoun, He made hem tourne, the kyng and the cyté, And of oon

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 1, Saint Eustace

tho, And his yong childer two; Full woo was hym therfore. The lady cryed and mad gret dynne, And fro hyr lord was loth to twyn, And weppyd and syghed sore. The knyght sett hym don apon a ston, And

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 20, Third Sunday in Lent

will, And bad his maistir thare stand still; And saide, “Mikil folk es commen here, Youre prechinge now for to here.” And Bede wende his sawe sothe ware, And stude and prechid right thare His knave restid him ynoghe, And

• Lydgate, Pageant of Knowledge

man, subtyle and dyssevable, Sclender, lene, and cytryne of hys colour, Wrothe sodenly, wood, and nat tretable, And full of envy, malyce, and rancour, Dry, thursty, and gret wastour, Dysposyd to many a sondry thyng, With pompe and bost hasty

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 10, Abraham and Isaac

ed. Kalén and Ohlander, and Beadle, “Origins of Abraham’s Preamble.” Footnote 2 See Daniélou, From Shadows to Reality, pp. 115–30; Mirk, Festial, pp. 76–78; and the surveys in Woolf, “Effect of Typology,” and C. Davidson, History, Religion, and Violence, pp.

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 11, Pharaoh and Moses

list, And the same God that somtyme spak Unto thyne elders als thei wiste. But Abraham and Ysaac And Jacob, saide I, suld be bliste And multyplye and tham to mak So that ther seede shulde noght be myste. And

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 28, The Agony and Betrayal

bote of all bale and belder of blisse And all helpe and hele in thy hande hase, Thou mensk thy manhede, thou mendar of mysse; And if it possible be this payne myght I overpasse. And, Fadir, if thou se

• O Deus Immense

them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity"). 68 Saltem fortuna . . . una. Compare Boethius, De cons. 2.pr.1. Fortune and her wheel are nearly ubiquitous in medieval literature and visual art: see Patch, Goddess Fortuna, and

• In a Valley of This Restless Mind: Introduction

Christ and Mannis Soule C Bridegroom and bride C consummate their spiritual marriage in the stanza break between lines 104 and 105. Conversion leads to a new kinship of vertical dimension, Christ as bigendered parent (Mother and reigning Father) and

• St. George and the Dragon in the South English Legendary (East Midland Revision, c. 1400)

to Cryste and baptisede that ye be And then sall I this dragon sla, that ye all may se." The kynge and all hys folke forsoke ther maumentry And crystend wer ilkon and trowede in Gode haly,16 And then George

• The N-Town Plays: Play 3, Cain and Abel

sighing and moaning; (t-note) man’s; (t-note) Go To Play 4, Noah The N-Town Plays: Play 3, Cain and Abel Play 3, CAIN AND ABEL: FOOTNOTE 1 Here Abel's tithe burns, and Caym, at this, says Play 3, CAIN AND ABEL: