• Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes: Introduction

of them provide all or part of a text which he translates in the adjacent passage of his poem, some of them merely name the source of a passage, and some of them indicate the subject of a passage

• Mum and the Sothsegger: Introduction

devyse" (lines 1723-24). The result of their confused musings is lethal - "heedes been hewe of and hoppe on the grene" (line 1732). Richard the Redeless contains specific allusions to events and personalities ofRichard II's reign, but this is

• H. aquile pullus

albus -- i.e., Richard, whose badge was a white hart). Henry was supposed the eagle because the symbol of John the Evangelist, namesake of his father, John of Gaunt, was an eagle, and because the badge of Edward III, his

• Gower, Confessio Amantis: Prologue

of the peoples of the island and the heroic origins of the nation founded by Brutus, the great-grandson of Aeneas. See Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain for the full account of the Trojan descendant’s winning

• Sir Launfal

doughter of Olyroun, Dame Tryamour that hyghte; Her fadyr was Kyng of Fayrye, Of Occient, fer and nyghe, A man of mochell myghte. In the pavyloun he fond a bed of prys Yheled wyth purpur bys, That semyle was of

• The Marriage of Sir Gawain

"an ancient ballad of the time of good King Arthur, called the Marriage of Sir Gawaine, which you may some time read, yourself, in stout English of early times" (New York: Dover, 1968, p. 19). Pyle's portrayal of this impromptu

• O recolende

the margin [of S] the "pietas" of the new king is contrasted with the "cruelty" ofRichard, the vice to which Gower chiefly attributes his fall. There is no doubt that the execution of Arundel and the murder of Gloucester

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: There Is a Busch That Is Forgrowe

reference to Sir John Bushy, speaker of the House of Commons and one of Richard's favorites. Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford (later King Henry IV), beheaded Bushy at Bristol in 1399. The author ofRichard the Redeless makes similar punning

• Lancelot of the Laik

into my mynd Of o story, that I befor had sene, That boith of love and armys can contenn, Was of o knycht clepit Lancelot of the Laik, The sone of Bane was, King of Albanak, Of quhois fame and

• Lancelot of the Laik

devyne, As plasteris, drinkis, and anounytmentis seir, And of the qualyt watyng of the yher And of the planetis disposicioune And of the naturis of compleccyoune, And in the diverss changing of hwmowris. Thus wnder reull lyith al there cwris.

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love, Appendix 2

eyghte yer of the regne of our lord the king R[ic]hard [Scde] I, Thomas Vsk, in the presence of John . . . . . . . co . . . . . . . . . . of london

• From John Major's Historia Majoris Britanniae (1521)

redating of the story in the period of John is probably due to the influence of the story of Fouke le Fitz Waryn, a noble outlaw and enemy of bad authority from that period. Major's "exceptionally influential eulogy" of Robin

• Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc: Introduction

characters of which are allegorical, abstract, or symbolical, and the story of which is intended to convey a lesson for the better conduct of human life.”19 But in actuality, as students of Dante’s Com­media have long known, this view of

• Sir Gowther

in Pistil of Swete Susan (line 128). The "kell" or head-dress, a veil intended to hide female beauty, fails to obscure the extraordinary comeliness of any of these exemplary women. 34-35 The upper right section of this leaf of A

• The Annunciation

Fore drede of quakyng of this mayd He said, "Haile!" with gret honour; "Haile be thou, quene of maidyns mo! Lord of heven and erth also Consayve thou schalt, and bere withale the Lord of myght, Hele of al monkyn.

• The Annunciation

Fore drede of quakyng of this mayd He said, "Haile!" with gret honour; "Haile be thou, quene of maidyns mo! Lord of heven and erth also Consayve thou schalt, and bere withale the Lord of myght, Hele of al monkyn.

• The Annunciation

Fore drede of quakyng of this mayd He said, "Haile!" with gret honour; "Haile be thou, quene of maidyns mo! Lord of heven and erth also Consayve thou schalt, and bere withale the Lord of myght, Hele of al monkyn.

• The Annunciation

Fore drede of quakyng of this mayd He said, "Haile!" with gret honour; "Haile be thou, quene of maidyns mo! Lord of heven and erth also Consayve thou schalt, and bere withale the Lord of myght, Hele of al monkyn.

• The Annunciation

Fore drede of quakyng of this mayd He said, "Haile!" with gret honour; "Haile be thou, quene of maidyns mo! Lord of heven and erth also Consayve thou schalt, and bere withale the Lord of myght, Hele of al monkyn.

• The Annunciation

Fore drede of quakyng of this mayd He said, "Haile!" with gret honour; "Haile be thou, quene of maidyns mo! Lord of heven and erth also Consayve thou schalt, and bere withale the Lord of myght, Hele of al monkyn.