• Alliterative Morte Arthure

He is of Alexander blood,overling of kinges; The uncle of his aiele,Sir Ector of Troy. And here is the kinredenthat I am of come, Of Judas and Josue,these gentle knightes; I am apparent his eier,and eldes of other; Of Alexandere

• Anticlerical Poems and Documents: The Wycliffite Bible: From the Prologue

of Goddis Scripturis, forwhi Poul seith, "The fulnesse of lawe is charit," and in another place, "The ende of lawe," that is, the perfeccioun (either filling) of the lawe, "is charit of clene herte, and of good conscience, and

• St. Jerome: Introduction

prose life of Saint Jerome is the subject of this chapter. Winter was one of the first generation of monks of the Bridgettine abbey of Syon on the north bank of the River Thames a few miles west of London.

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Introduction

inclusion of Lydgate with Chaucer and John Gower as a triad of originary English poets in his early-sixteenth-century "Lament for the Makaris": "The noble Chaucer, of makaris flour, / The Monk of Bery, and Gower, all thre" (lines 50-51). Richard

• Sir Launfal: Introduction

complexity of a Chaucer in the work of lesser poets. Identifies features of the tale as folkloric, not for the purposes of defending the aesthetics of Launfal, but for the purposes of understanding the tale. Differs from Cross's studies of

• Item 24, Sir Cleges: Introduction

Wonder Book of Romance. New York: F. A. Stokes, 1907. Hadow, Grace Eleanor, and W. Hadow, eds. The Oxford Treasury of English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906–08. Pp. 37–50. Krapp, George Philip, ed. Tales of True Knights. New York: Century,

• Charles d'Orleans, Fortunes Stabilnes: Introduction

vision on the theme of love, the allegorical treatment of elements of the experience of love (such as Disdain, Idleness, Wealth, Fear, Beauty, the tumultuous lover's heart, etc.), the association of love with gardens, the opposition of erotic/courtly/unmarried love and

• Gower, Confessio Amantis: Book 1

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

• Gower, Confessio Amantis: Book 8

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

• Prologue

Sentences, and Pro­verbial Phrases; York:York Plays, ed. Beadle. For other abbreviations, see Textual Notes. 7 Thrugh mediacy of Mary chast. While there are aspects of the poem that have the ring of reform (and thus of Wycliffe and Lollardy,

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: Tax Has Tenet Us Alle

note) death of so many worthy folk proves it received little of it; (see note) it was in the hands of greedy persons fortune providing cause in the end for grief needs must because of the sins of the wicked

• Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Introduction

and most descriptions of the fluid boundaries of the region include at least parts of neighboring Essex and Cambridgeshire. The town of Croxton, announced in line 74 of the text as the site of the performance of the play “on

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

pattern of "Mother"/ "Son" addresses. 41 the. Omitted in Harley. 43 reu of moder kare. Digby: of moder thus I fare. 44 Nu thu wost of moder fare. Digby: Nou thou wost wimmanes kare. Harley: For nou thou wost of

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

pattern of "Mother"/ "Son" addresses. 41 the. Omitted in Harley. 43 reu of moder kare. Digby: of moder thus I fare. 44 Nu thu wost of moder fare. Digby: Nou thou wost wimmanes kare. Harley: For nou thou wost of

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

pattern of "Mother"/ "Son" addresses. 41 the. Omitted in Harley. 43 reu of moder kare. Digby: of moder thus I fare. 44 Nu thu wost of moder fare. Digby: Nou thou wost wimmanes kare. Harley: For nou thou wost of

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

pattern of "Mother"/ "Son" addresses. 41 the. Omitted in Harley. 43 reu of moder kare. Digby: of moder thus I fare. 44 Nu thu wost of moder fare. Digby: Nou thou wost wimmanes kare. Harley: For nou thou wost of

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

pattern of "Mother"/ "Son" addresses. 41 the. Omitted in Harley. 43 reu of moder kare. Digby: of moder thus I fare. 44 Nu thu wost of moder fare. Digby: Nou thou wost wimmanes kare. Harley: For nou thou wost of

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

pattern of "Mother"/ "Son" addresses. 41 the. Omitted in Harley. 43 reu of moder kare. Digby: of moder thus I fare. 44 Nu thu wost of moder fare. Digby: Nou thou wost wimmanes kare. Harley: For nou thou wost of

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

pattern of "Mother"/ "Son" addresses. 41 the. Omitted in Harley. 43 reu of moder kare. Digby: of moder thus I fare. 44 Nu thu wost of moder fare. Digby: Nou thou wost wimmanes kare. Harley: For nou thou wost of

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

pattern of "Mother"/ "Son" addresses. 41 the. Omitted in Harley. 43 reu of moder kare. Digby: of moder thus I fare. 44 Nu thu wost of moder fare. Digby: Nou thou wost wimmanes kare. Harley: For nou thou wost of