• Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley: Introduction

Library. Percy, Thomas, ed. Reliques of English Poetry. 3 vols. London: J. Dodsley, 1765. I, 129-60. Ritson, Joseph. Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry. London: C. Clark for T. and J. Egerton, 1791. Pp. 1-30. Commentary and Criticism Child, F. J.,

• Athelston: Introduction

Hale, eds. Middle English Metrical Romances. New York: Prentice Hall, 1930. Pp. 179-205. Hartshorne, C. H., ed. "King Athelstone." In Ancient Metrical Tales. London: W. Pickering, 1829. Pp. 1-34. Hervey, Lord Francis, ed. Corolla Sancti Edmundi: The Garland of Saint

• A Talk of Ten Wives on Their Husbands' Ware

"shift" or "change." 58 tarse. James Orchard Halliwell, in his Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, From the XIV Century (London: John Russell Smith, 1847; rpt. 1860, 1872, 1924), defines this word in Latin,

• Introduction to the Munday Plays

writer of city pageants, one of which was another Robin Hood drama, a masque called Metropolis Coronata, The Triumphs of Ancient Drapery or Rich Cloathing in England (1615), in which both author and outlaw praise to the point of servility

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

account of Scholastica's death which Gregory reserves for his next chapter, 34. But SEL inserts a unique transitional passage whimsically and somewhat audaciously reminiscent of the ancient literary topos of the forced separation of lovers at dawn. See Hatto, Eos.

• Lydgate, Mesure Is Tresour

on to judges, mayors, merchants, ploughmen, and other commoners that are “alle set here in portrature” (line 108). Examples from ancient myth and history (Alexander, Cambises, Hercules) underscore the dangers of overreaching. The poem expresses a number of Lydgate’s typical

• 1. Zedechye

Adam and Eve after Cain and Abel (S, p. 206n2). Either is possible, given that the text draws on both ancient Egyptian and Judeo-Christian-Islamic mythologies, though Seth's peaceable wisdom seems more in keeping with the ethos of Zedechye's philosophy. 5-7

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 3, The Creation of Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve to live by breathing life into them (2:7). Spirit (gaste, modern ghost) is identified with breath. In ancient Jewish thought, life hence begins when the newly created (and, subsequently, the newborn) takes his or her first breath.

• Ywain and Gawain: Introduction

and Gawain, Sir Percyvell of Gales, The Anturs of Arther. London: J. M. Dent, 1992. [Everyman edition.] Ritson, Joseph, ed. Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës. Vol. 1. London: W. Nicol, 1802. Pp. 1-169. Rpt. Edinburgh: Goldsmid, 1884. Schleich, Gustav, ed. Ywain

• Sir Degare: Introduction

when linked to incest, is a component of the Oedipal legend scholars see so strongly represented in this poem. An ancient tale, it is most memorably defined by Sophocles in the second of the Theban plays - Oedipus Rex -

• Lydgate, Saint Austin at Compton: Introduction

of Tynemouth for his legendary of British saints, Sanctilogium Anglie. We can only conclude that rather than being a genuine ancient tradition about Austin, the legend was synthesized some time in the later thirteenth century15 out of various source materials

• Richard Maidstone, Concordia: Introduction

("Antiquam servate fidem. Nova dogmata semper / Spernite, que veteres non didicere patres" ["Observe the ancient law. Reject for evermore / New doctrines that the ancient fathers did not learn"] - lines 521-22); and to respect the ecclesiastical hierarchy, the

• Richard Maidstone: Concordia

the prince's wrath; Don't scorn or hold my lords and nobles in contempt. Observe the ancient law. Reject for evermore New doctrines that the ancient fathers did not learn. Also defend and guard the total catholic church: It has no

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Introduction

the saint's conversion and her transportation to heaven, where she marries Jesus in a mystical wedding ceremony that literalized the ancient sponsa Christi motif.7 This episode of Katherine's legend may have captured the imagination of Margery Kempe and other late

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Introduction

the final image of a battlefield strewn with corpses. For medieval readers, Thebes is prominent on the list of fallen ancient cities, and it is the shadowy partner of heroic Troy. A second, amplified version of the Theban story appears

• Sir Launfal: Introduction

and Elizabeth Williams, eds. Sir Orfeo and Sir Launfal. Leeds: University of Leeds Press, 1984. Ritson, Joseph, ed. Launfal, An Ancient Metrical Romance by Thomas Chestre to Which Is Appended the Still Older Romance of Lybeaus Disconus. Edinburgh: E. and

• The N-Town Plays: Play 19, Purification

performance of the song in liturgy (Minstrels Playing, p. 106). 147 Now lete me dye. The nunc dimittis is an ancient device defining the long suffering servant/watchman who waits in good faith until the mission is complete. It is found

• Poems of Political Prophecy: Introduction

cura rei familiaris with Some Early Scottish Prophecies. EETS 42. London: N. Trbner, 1870. [Edition of "When Rome Is Removed" ("Ancient Scottish Prophecy, No. 2") on pp. 32-34.] Morris, Richard, ed. Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt, or, Remorse of Conscience.

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

Christian values of community and forgiveness as set forth in the new law in contrast with the old law of ancient Judaism that would set firm penalties for lapses in human behavior and crimes against established values. The Lazarus is

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 27, The Last Supper

before the night is over. 142–43 All that in worlde is wretyn of me / Shall be fulfilled. All the ancient prophecies will be fulfilled and proven true. 144–47 I am the herde, the schepe are ye . . .