• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 31, The Trial before Herod

Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O’Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 47, Doomsday

Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O’Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 20, Lybeaus Desconus

EETS: Early English Text Society; L: London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 306; MED: Middle English Dictionary; MWME: The Manual of Writings in Middle English; N: Naples, Bibliotheca Nazionale MS XIII B.29; NIMEV: A New Index of Middle English Verse. Title

• The N-Town Plays: Play 27, Last Supper; Conspiracy with Judas

Play 27, LAST SUPPER; CONSPIRACY WITH JUDAS: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: Bl: Ludus Coventriae, ed. Block (1922); MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PP: Passion Play, ed. Meredith (1990); S: N-Town Play, ed. Spector (1991); s.d.: stage direction; s.n.:

• John Lydgate, The Temple of Glas

Library, MS Gg.4.27; HF: Chaucer, House of Fame; LGW: Chaucer, Legend of Good Women; MED: Middle English Dictionary; Metam.: Ovid, Metamorphoses; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PF: Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls; RR: Chaucer, Romaunt of the Rose; S: London, British Library,

• The Isle of Ladies

has some variations on the convention. 973 old romansys. The reading of romances is an aristocratic pastime frequently alluded to in love-poetry. So Pandarus composes himself 'as for to looke upon an old romaunce' (Troilus iii.980), and the narrator of

• Item 15, A Prayer to Mary: Introduction

Robbins, Rossell Hope. “Private Prayers in Middle English Verse.” Studies in Philology 36 (1939), 466–75. [Prints text of Ashmole 61.] Saupe, Karen, ed. Middle English Marian Lyrics. [Overview and anthology of Middle English Marian verse; prints a version of A

• Ancrene Wisse, Part Seven

publicly. Millett and Wogan-Browne point out that the Old Testament as a "sealed" letter is "an apt metaphorical expression of the idea that the Old Testament allegorically foreshadowed the New" (Medieval English Prose, p. 158). 60 an eorthene castel. The

• Sir Degare

Similar situations occur in Apollonius of Tyre, a popular narrative extant in several versions, e.g., Greek, Latin, OldEnglish, Middle English, and Modern English (see Elizabeth Archibald's Apollonius of Tyre: Medieval and Renaissance Themes and Variations [Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,

• Richard the Redeless

Carlton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins, Index of Middle English Verse; MED: Middle English Dictionary; MEPW: Dean, ed., Medieval English Political Writings; MS: Cambridge University Library MS Ll.iv.14; OED2: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.; PP: Piers Plowman, ed. Schmidt; 6ES:

• Part Four

deadly sin in perfect love and charity PART FOUR: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PL: Patrologia Latina, ed. Migne. 8 Venial sin - as opposed to deadly, or mortal, sin

• The Assembly of Gods

Middle English The Epistle of Othea; she would not have known their works individually but instead sampled excerpts found in the collection, Dits moraulx des philosophes (The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers), like The Epistle, translated into Middle English

• The Chronicler's Robin Hood: Introduction

1985. Child, F. J. English and Scottish Popular Ballads. 5 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1882-98. Rpt. New York: Dover, 1965. Crook, David. "Some Further Evidence Concerning the Dating of the Origins of Robin Hood." English Historical Review 99

• Item 29, The Short Charter of Christ: Introduction

Davies, Medieval English Lyrics, pp. 95–97. 2 For the textual history of the related Middle English poems, see MWME 7.20.187.2343–44. Other, less closely related charter texts include The Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost (a Middle English prose

• The Legend of Frideswide of Oxford, an Anglo-Saxon Royal Abbess: Introduction

Manfred. The Textual Tradition of the South English Legendary. 1974. Jankofsky, Klaus P. "National Characteristics in the Portrayal of English Saints in the South English Legendary." 1991. Pp. 81-93. __________, ed. The South English Legendary: A Critical Assessment.1992. Mayr-Harting, Henry.

• Item 6, The Ten Commandments: Introduction

linking Lollard heresy with English transla­tions of scripture and theological writing, recitation or possession of a Middle English version of the Ten Commandments could theoretically be a sign of heresy. In practice, this text and Middle English versions of the

• Epigraph

the palme to atteine, Whiche first made to dystil and reine The gold dewe dropes of speche and eloquence, Into English tong through his excelence. From John Stow's Workes of Geffrey Chaucer, 1561 (fol. 337v). These seven lines served as

• Fourth Book of Kings (2 Kings)

in English Literature, ed. Jeffrey; HS: Peter Comes­tor, Historia Scholastica, cited by book and chapter, followed by Patrologia Latina column in paren­theses; K: Kalén-Ohlander edition; MED: Middle English Dictionary; NOAB: New Oxford Annotated Bible; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; OFP: Old

• The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn

founders of Rome according to "old bookes" such as Ovid's Metamorphoses (14.771-851). 762-64 The narrator maintains the pretense that he is speaking to an audience of pilgrims on horseback. 772 Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (1.2) recounts Julius

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 1

mercyful and meke, Thei suffyr no more the lordes thus of Greke Ovyrryde hem so - it was not the old gyse. The lettir, certeyn, was wrytyn in this wyse. Chapter 16 "Onto oure ladyes, the elder and the yonge,