• The Assembly of Gods

confessours, Of Holy Scripture declarers fructuous, Rebukers of synne and myschefes odyous, Fysshers of sowles and lovers of clennes, Dyspysers of veyn and worldly ryches, Pesyble prelates, justyciall governours, Founders of churches, with mercyfull peeres, Reformers of wrong of her

• Stanzaic Guy of Warwick

the court of Antiage, Bi this half that cité He mett a man of fair parage, Ycomen he was of heyghe linage And of kin fair and fre. Michel he was of bodi ypight, A man he semed of michel

• In Praise of Peace

of how Charity,"the moder of Pité" (2.3174), stands against the vice of Envy (for discussion of the Confessio text, see Olsson, John Gower and the Structures of Conversion, pp. 102-06). Grady notes that "once again some of the details

• The N-Town Plays: Play 18, Magi

Magi Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition Of mayn and of myght I mastyr every man! I dynge with my dowtynes the devyl down to helle, For bothe of hevyn and of herth I am

• The Punished of Adulterers

an abbreviated number of tales beginning with the story of Atalanta. See Burke Severs and Albert E. Hartung, A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500 (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967-).] Robinson, Richard, ed. Gesta

• Emperator Felicianus

an abbreviated number of tales beginning with the story of Atalanta. See Burke Severs and Albert E. Hartung, A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500 (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967-).] Robinson, Richard, ed. Gesta

• Lydgate, Mummings and Entertainments: Introduction

biography of the poet, where he probably made the acquaintance of a number of eminent men — including the Prince of Wales; Richard Courtenay, chancellor of Oxford in 1406–08 and off-and-on again in 1411–13; and Edmund Lacy, the bishop of

• Richard Maidstone: Concordia

of the procession itself. The standard treatment of the history of these organizations remains Unwin, The Gilds and Companies of London. For various possible meanings of the demonstration of guild-solidarity that the procession represents, see Federico, "A Fourteenth-Century Erotics

• The Life of St. Scholastica in the South English Legendary: Introduction

infirm, but because of the humorous asperity of her remarks. One of the most interesting aspects of the Scholastica narrative is the way the question of enclosure plays out in the different versions. While the claustration of women was, in

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Rex celi deus

(eventually Prince of Wales and later Henry V), Thomas (eventually duke of Clarence), John (eventually duke of Bedford), Humphrey (eventually duke of Gloucester) -- and two daughters, Blanche and Philippa. The sentiment is traditional for a poem of this type,

• Robert of Cisyle: Introduction

He here begins a series of recognitions, not just of his situation but of his interior disposition. He thinks of the biblical example of Nebuchadnezzar who was brought low even though Holofernes had thought of him as a "god." Despite

• Sir Amadace: Introduction

become so intriguingly intertwined. All of the ingredients of romance are there, and all of the ingredients of didactic narrative, as well as a fair helping of folklore. Yet, largely because of the ambiguity of its ideal, Sir Amadace remains

• Second Book of Maccabees 6 and 9

Sentences, and Pro­verbial Phrases; York:York Plays, ed. Beadle. For other abbreviations, see Textual Notes. The Paraphrase-poet’s presentation of the story of Eleazar after the story of the more famed Maccabean martyrs stands against that of Comestor, who passes on

• Lay le Freine: Introduction

The Kindness of Strangers (New York: Vintage, 1990), p. 322. 5 See also Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, John Gower's Tale of Constance in his Confessio Amantis, Boccaccio's tale of Griselda in the Decameron, and Alcuin Blamires's edition of medieval

• John Metham, Amoryus and Cleopes

referred of as Queen of Heaven, and who, because of her intercessory role, was often appealed to for mercy. The spontaneous singing of the Marian anthem places the story of resurrection of the lovers within a large body of medieval

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: Truthe, Reste, and Pes

les. Corage in querell doth batayle, And ende of batayle bygynneth pes. Defaute of wit maketh long counsayle; For witteles wordes in ydel spoken. The more cost, the lesse avayle; For fawte of wyt, purpos broken. In evyl soule no

• In Praise of Peace: Introduction

with the growing specter of Pride, the first of vices and subject of Book 1 of the Confessio, whose entry into the poem was prepared in the humility tropes at the very opening of In Praise of Peace. 2 (lines

• La Belle Dame sans Mercy

called because it is the stanza form of The Kingis Quair, attributed to James I of Scotland. Chaucer makes use of the stanza in TC, PF, portions of Anel., and a number of the CT. 1-2 Half in a dreme

• The Testament of Cresseid: Introduction

is true that both poems emphasize transcending the values of the world and avoiding the entrapments of love. Henryson has used the names of Chaucer's characters and part of the plot of Chaucer's poem as a prologue to his own.

• Anticlerical Poems: Allas, What Schul We Freris Do

York: Harcourt, 1973], p. 488). The whole defense was inserted into a translation into English of Wyclif's complaint against friars from De Officio Pastorali, but there is no equivalent passage in Wyclif's Latin. The chronicler Henry Knighton accused Wyclif