• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and bund, Syne led to Annas that of syn had na part, Quhair fals witnes agane him sone wer fund. 1 At prime At prime scho followit him to Pilotis place With sobing, siching, lik to fall in swone; Thair

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and bund, Syne led to Annas that of syn had na part, Quhair fals witnes agane him sone wer fund. 1 At prime At prime scho followit him to Pilotis place With sobing, siching, lik to fall in swone; Thair

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and bund, Syne led to Annas that of syn had na part, Quhair fals witnes agane him sone wer fund. 1 At prime At prime scho followit him to Pilotis place With sobing, siching, lik to fall in swone; Thair

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and bund, Syne led to Annas that of syn had na part, Quhair fals witnes agane him sone wer fund. 1 At prime At prime scho followit him to Pilotis place With sobing, siching, lik to fall in swone; Thair

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and bund, Syne led to Annas that of syn had na part, Quhair fals witnes agane him sone wer fund. 1 At prime At prime scho followit him to Pilotis place With sobing, siching, lik to fall in swone; Thair

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and bund, Syne led to Annas that of syn had na part, Quhair fals witnes agane him sone wer fund. 1 At prime At prime scho followit him to Pilotis place With sobing, siching, lik to fall in swone; Thair

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and bund, Syne led to Annas that of syn had na part, Quhair fals witnes agane him sone wer fund. 1 At prime At prime scho followit him to Pilotis place With sobing, siching, lik to fall in swone; Thair

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

and bund, Syne led to Annas that of syn had na part, Quhair fals witnes agane him sone wer fund. 1 At prime At prime scho followit him to Pilotis place With sobing, siching, lik to fall in swone; Thair

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 34, The Stations of Jerusalem

The Sinner’s Lament, text Codex Ashmole 61: Item 34, THE STATIONS OF JERUSALEM Item 34, THE STATIONS OF JERUSALEM: FOOTNOTES 1 Was the roast of the (Easter) lamb [on] that occasion 2 Lines 846–47: For the sake of your holy

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INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTES 1 The origins of the quest in PPCr may be found in Piers Plowman B VIII.1-61 (A IX.1-52). 2 Day and Steele, p. x. 3 Day and Steele, p. xn3 (continued from p. ix) and note 1 (which

• The N-Town Plays: Play 12, Joseph's Doubt

version draws heavily from apocryphal sources such as the Protoevan­gelium and Love's Mirrour. 1–20 An octave followed by three quatrains. 1 Undo youre dore, undo. The undo-the-door trope is common in Middle English romances (see especially the Squire of Low

• The Life of St. Thaïs: Introduction

Pp. 158-59. [BL MS Add. 38010.] Go To The Life of St. Thais THE LIFE OF ST. THAIS, INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTES 1 For modern translations of the medieval lives of the prostitute saints, see Ward, Harlots of the Desert. On sinner-saints

• Lydgate, Bycorne and Chychevache

Linked; chain; (see note); (t-note) Go To Disguising at Hertford Lydgate, Bycorne and Chychevache JOHN LYDGATE, BYCORNE AND CHYCHEVACHE: FOOTNOTES 1 …with a walking stick on his back, threatening the beast in order to rescue his wife 2 And cried,

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 5, The Fall

scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). This and subsequent pageants copied by Scribe B unless otherwise noted. 1 DIABOLUS. Added by JC. For. Reg: letter F is a large capital in red. 6 dedyned. So RB; Reg,

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 15, The Offering of the Shepherds

lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 1 I PASTOR. Reg: supplied by JC. Bredir. Reg: large initial B sketched in. 7 a. So LTS, RB; Reg:

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 24, The Woman Taken in Adultery and the Raising of Lazarus

to right in Reg. Play 24, THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY AND THE RAISING OF LAZARUS: EXPLANATORY NOTE FOOTNOTES Footnote 1 See King, York Mystery Cycle, pp. 79–83. Footnote 2 REED: York, 1:356. Footnote 3 RB, p. 441; REED: York,

• The Morall Fabillis: Introduction

Texts Relating to Aesop or Ascribed to him or Closely Connected with the Literary Tradition that Bears his Name. Vol. 1. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1952. . Babrius and Phaedrus. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965. Petrus Alfonsi.

• Poems Against Simony and the Abuse of Money: In Erth It Es a Litill Thing

LITILL THING: FOOTNOTE 1 Sir Penny causes [many people] to wear fine clothing / And many to go about on horseback IN ERTH IT ES A LITILL THING: NOTES 25 till. See OED s.v. Till v.3 signification 1: "To draw,

• Anticlerical Poems and Documents: Introduction

explanation, see Gesta Henrici Quinti, ed. and trans. Frank Taylor and John S. Roskell (Oxford: Clarendon, 1975), chapter 1 and Appendix 1. 16 David C. Fowler, "John Trevisa and the English Bible," Modern Philology 58 (1960), 81-98; Hudson, The Premature

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