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  The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Selection

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  Unknown

  Author

  John Lydgate

  Author

  John Gower

  Author

  Kathleen Forni

  Editor

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  contents

  1. General Introduction

  2. ---

  3. Introduction to The Court of Love
  4. The Court of Love

  5. ---

  6. Literature of Courtly Love
     1. Introduction to Literature of Courtly Love
     2. In February
     3. O Merciful and O Mercyable
     4. The Craft of Lovers
     5. The Floure of Curtesye
     6. The Lovers' Mass

  7. ---

  8. The Antifeminist Tradition
     1. Introduction to The Antifeminist Tradition
     2. I Have a Lady (The Descryvyng of a Fair Lady)
     3. O Mosy Quince
     4. Beware (The Blynde Eteth Many a Flye)
     5. Of Theyre Nature

  9. ---

  10. Good Counsel, Wisdom, and Advice
      1. Good Counsel, Wisdom, and Advice: Introduction
      2. Four Things That Make a Man a Fool and Yit of the Same
      3. Eight Goodly Questions with Their Aunswers
      4. Duodecim Abusiones (The Twelve Abuses)
      5. Prophecy
      6. In Praise of Peace
      7. Scogan's Moral Balade

  11. ---

  12. Epigraph

  13. ---

  14. Bibliography

  forms

  Poetry

  languages

  English, Middle (1100–1500)

  time periods

  14th Century, 15th Century

  categories

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, Complaint (Poetry), Proverb, Prophecy, Advice for princes, Legacy HTML, Authorship uncertain, Nine Worthies

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  Codex Ashmole 61: A Compilation of Popular Middle English Verse

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  Rate

  Author

  John Mirk

  Author

  Unknown

  Author

  George Shuffelton

  Editor

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  contents

  1. General Introduction
  2. Introductions to Items
     1. Introductions to Items 1-11
     2. Introductions to Items 12-20
     3. Introductions to Items 21-30
     4. Introductions to Items 31-41

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  4. Ashmole 61
     1. Item 1, Saint Eustace
     2. Item 2, Right as a Ram's Horn
     3. Item 3, How the Wise Man Taught His Son
     4. Item 4, How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter
     5. Item 5, Sir Isumbras
     6. Item 6, The Ten Commandments
     7. Item 7, Stans Puer ad Mensam
     8. Item 8, Dame Courtesy
     9. Item 9, Latin Epigram
     10. Item 10, The Rules for Purchasing Land
     11. Items 11a and 11b, Latin Epigram
     12. Item 12, An Evening Prayer
     13. Item 13, A Morning Prayer
     14. Item 14, The Ten Commandments (False Start)
     15. Item 15, A Prayer to Mary
     16. Item 16, The Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
     17. Item 17, A Prayer at the Levation
     18. Item 18, The Knight Who Forgave His Father's Slayer
     19. Item 19, The Erle of Tolous
     20. Item 20, Lybeaus Desconus
     21. Item 21, Sir Corneus
     22. Item 22, The Jealous Wife
     23. Item 23, The Incestuous Daughter
     24. Item 24, Sir Cleges
     25. Item 25, The Feasts of All Saints and All Souls
     26. Item 26, The King and His Four Daughters
     27. Item 27, Ypotis
     28. Item 28, The Northern Passion
     29. Item 29, The Short Charter of Christ
     30. Item 30, The Lament of Mary
     31. Item 31, The Dietary
     32. Item 32, Maidstone's Seven Penitential Psalms
     33. Item 33, Stimulus Consciencie Minor
     34. Item 34, The Stations of Jerusalem
     35. Item 35a, The Sinner's Lament
     36. Item 35b, The Adulterous Falmouth Squire
     37. Item 36, The Legend of the Resurrection
     38. Item 37, Saint Margaret
     39. Item 38, The Wounds and the Sins
     40. Item 39, Sir Orfeo
     41. Item 40, Vanity
     42. Item 41, King Edward and the Hermit

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  6. Bibliography

  forms

  Poetry, Codex

  languages

  English, Middle (1100–1500), Latin

  time periods

  16th Century

  categories

  Hagiography, Estates Satire, Proverb, Courtesy Book, Romance, Family romance, Biblical exegesis, Lyric poetry, Epigram, Prayer, Debate poetry, Exemplum, Breton lai, Hagiographic romance, Wisdom literature, Folk tale, Recipe, Sermon, Travel writing, Otherworldly, Rhyme royal, Legacy HTML, Authorship uncertain

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  Four Middle English Romances: Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour of Artois, Sir Tryamour

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  Thomas Chester

  Author

  Unknown

  Author

  Harriet Hudson

  Editor

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  contents

  1. General Introduction

  2. ---

  3. Introduction to Sir Isumbras
  4. Sir Isumbras

  5. ---

  6. Introduction to Octavian
  7. Octavian

  8. ---

  9. Introduction to Sir Eglamour of Artois
  10. Sir Eglamour of Artois

  11. ---

  12. Introduction to Sir Tryamour
  13. Sir Tryamour

  14. ---

  15. Bibliography

  forms

  Poetry

  languages

  English, Middle (1100–1500)

  time periods

  14th Century

  categories

  Romance, Crusade romance, Hagiography, Tail rhyme, Family romance, Legacy HTML, Authorship uncertain

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  John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works

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  John Lydgate

  Author

  Unknown

  Author

  Megan L. Cook

  Editor

  Elizaveta Strakhov

  Editor

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  contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Abbreviations List
  3. General Introduction

  4. ---

  5. Introduction to John Lydgate, Dance of Death: A Version (Selden)
  6. John Lydgate, Dance of Death: A Version (Selden)

  7. ---

  8. Introduction to John Lydgate, Dance of Death: B Version (Lansdowne)
  9. John Lydgate, Dance of Death: B Version (Lansdowne)

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  11. Introduction to John Lydgate, "Death's Warning to the World" (DIMEV 4905)
  12. John Lydgate, "Death's Warning to the World" (DIMEV 4905)

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  14. Introduction to "Three Messengers of Death" (DIMEV 5387)
  15. "Three Messengers of Death" (DIMEV 5387)

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  17. Introduction to "A Warning Spoken by the Soul of a Dead Person" (DIMEV 3624)
  18. "A Warning Spoken by the Soul of a Dead Person" (DIMEV 3624)

  19. ---

  20. Introduction to "A Mirror for Young Ladies at their Toilet" (DIMEV 3454)
  21. "A Mirror for Young Ladies at their Toilet" (DIMEV 3454)

  22. ---

  23. Introduction to "The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man," Ascribed to Robert Henryson (DIMEV 4000)
  24. "The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man" (DIMEV 4000)

  25. ---

  26. Introduction to "The Dawnce of Makabre" (DIMEV 4104)
  27. "The Dawnce of Makabre" (DIMEV 4104)

  28. ---

  29. Introduction to "Can Ye Dance the Shaking of the Sheets" (DIMEV 956)
  30. "Can Ye Dance the Shaking of the Sheets" (DIMEV 956)

  31. ---

  32. Introduction to La Danse macabre
  33. La Danse macabre

  34. ---

  35. Explanatory and Textual Notes
      1. Notes to John Lydgate, Dance of Death: A Version (Selden)
      2. Notes to John Lydgate, Dance of Death: B Version (Lansdowne)
      3. Notes to John Lydgate, "Death's Warning to the World"
      4. Notes to "Three Messengers of Death"
      5. Notes to "A Warning Spoken by the Soul of a Dead Person"
      6. Notes to "A Mirror for Young Ladies at their Toilet"
      7. Notes to "The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man"
      8. Notes to "The Dawnce of Makabre"
      9. Notes to "Can Ye Dance the Shaking of the Sheets"
      10. Notes to La Danse macabre
  36. Bibliography

  forms

  Poetry

  languages

  English, Middle (1100–1500), Scots, French, Middle (ca. 1400–1600)

  time periods

  14th Century, 15th Century, 16th Century

  categories

  Dance of death, Rhyme royal, Lyric poetry, Debate poetry, Ballad, TEI-XML, Authorship uncertain

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  Middle English Marian Lyrics

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  Thomas Hoccleve

  Author

  William Dunbar

  Author

  James Ryman

  Author

  William Herebert

  Author

  Bernard of Clarivaux

  Author

  John Dunstable

  Author

  John Hawghton

  Author

  William Huchen

  Author

  Saint Godric

  Author

  Unknown

  Author

  John the Blind Audelay

  Author

  John Lydgate

  Author

  Karen Saupe

  Editor

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  contents

  1. Introduction

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  3. The Annunciation

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  5. The Nativity

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  7. Mary at the Foot of the Cross

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  9. The Assumption and Mary as Queen of Heaven

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  11. Mary Mediatrix

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  13. Penitential Poems

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  15. The Joys of Mary

  16. ---

  17. Chansons d'Aventure and Love Quests

  18. ---

  19. Poems in Celebration of Mary

  forms

  Poetry

  languages

  English, Middle (1100–1500)

  time periods

  13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century, 16th Century

  categories

  Lyric poetry, Lyric poetry (Marian), Legacy HTML, Carol, Authorship uncertain

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  The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volumes 1-3

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  Saint Hilary

  Author

  Ludlow Scribe

  Author

  Saint Anselm

  Author

  Thomas of Erceldoune

  Author

  Unknown

  Author

  Nicholas Bozon

  Author

  Pope John XXII

  Author

  Herman de Valenciennes

  Author

  Saint Louis IX

  Author

  Susanna Fein

  Editor

  David Raybin

  Translator

  Jan Ziolkowski

  Translator

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  contents

  1. General Introduction
  2. Introductions to Articles
     1. Introductions to Articles 1-10
     2. Introductions to Articles 11-20
     3. Introductions to Articles 21-30
     4. Introductions to Articles 31-40
     5. Introductions to Articles 41-50
     6. Introductions to Articles 51-60
     7. Introductions to Articles 61-70
     8. Introductions to Articles 71-80
     9. Introductions to Articles 81-90
     10. Introductions to Articles 91-100
     11. Introductions to Articles 101-110
     12. Introductions to Articles 111-116

  3. ---

  4. Harley 2253
     1. Booklet 1
        1. Art. 1, Vitas Patrum
        2. Art. 1a, Thais

     2. ---

     3. Booklet 2
        1. Art. 2, Herman de Valenciennes, La Passioun Nostre Seignour
        2. Art. 3, De la Passioun Jhesu [L’Évangile de Nicodème, La Tradition A]
        3. Art. 3a, Epistle a Tiberie
        4. Art. 3b, Epistle a Claudie l’emperour
        5. Art. 4, De seint Johan le Ewangeliste
        6. Art. 5, De seint Johan le Baptist
        7. Art. 6, De seint Bartholomeu
        8. Art. 7, Passioun seint Piere

     4. ---

     5. Booklet 3
        1. Art. 8, ABC a femmes
        2. Art. 9, De l'Yver et de l'Esté
        3. Art. 10, Vorte make cynople
        4. Art. 11, Vorte temprene asure
        5. Art. 12, Vorte make gras-grene
        6. Art. 13, Vorte maken another maner grene
        7. Art. 14, Yet for gaude-grene
        8. Art. 15, Vorte couche selverfoyl
        9. Art. 16, Vorte maken iren as hart as stel
        10. Art. 17, Vorte maken blankplum

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     7. Booklet 4
        1. Art. 18, Incipit vita sancti Ethelberti
        2. Art. 19, Anima christi, sanctifica me
        3. Art. 20, Quant voy la revenue d’yver
        4. Art. 21, Alle herkneth to me nou
        5. Art. 22, In a thestri stude Y stod
        6. Art. 23, Sitteth alle stille ant herkneth to me
        7. Art. 24, Chaunter m’estoit
        8. Art. 24a, Charnel amour est folie
        9. Art. 24a*, Momentaneum est quod delectat
        10. Art. 24b, Erthe toc of erthe
        11. Art. 25, Lystneth, Lordynges! A newe song Ichulle bigynne
        12. Art. 25a, Lord that lenest us lyf
        13. Art. 26, Enseignement sur les amis
        14. Art. 27, Middelerd for mon wes mad

     8. ---

     9. Booklet 5
        1. Art. 28, Ichot a burde in a bour ase beryl so bryht
        2. Art. 29, Bytuene Mersh ant Averil
        3. Art. 30, With longyng Y am lad
        4. Art. 31, Ich herde men upo mold
        5. Art. 32, Herketh hideward ant beoth stille
        6. Art. 33, Weping haveth myn wonges wet
        7. Art. 34, Most I ryden by Rybbesdale
        8. Art. 35, In a fryht as Y con fare fremede
        9. Art. 36, A wayle whyt ase whalles bon
        10. Art. 37, Gilote e Johane
        11. Art. 38, Les pelrinages communes que crestiens fount en la Seinte Terre
        12. Art. 39, Les pardouns de Acres
        13. Art. 40, Ne mai no lewed lued libben in londe
        14. Art. 41, Of a mon Matheu thohte
        15. Art. 43, Lenten ys come with love to toune
        16. Art. 44, In May hit murgeth when hit dawes
        17. Art. 45, Heye Louerd, thou here my bone
        18. Art. 46, Ichot a burde in boure bryht
        19. Art. 47, Alle that beoth of huerte trewe
        20. Art. 48, Lustneth, lordinges, bothe yonge ant olde
        21. Art. 49, Marie, pur toun enfaunt
        22. Art. 50, Suete Jesu, king of blysse
        23. Art. 51, Jesu Crist, heovene kyng
        24. Art. 52, Wynter wakeneth al my care
        25. Art. 53, When Y se blosmes springe
        26. Art. 54, Ferroy chaunsoun
        27. Art. 55, Dum ludis floribus
        28. Art. 56, Quant fu en ma juvente
        29. Art. 57, Marie, mere al Salveour
        30. Art. 58, Dulcis Jesu memoria
        31. Art. 59, Une petite parole
        32. Art. 60, Stond wel, moder, under rode
        33. Art. 61, Jesu, for thi muchele miht
        34. Art. 62, I syke when Y singe
        35. Art. 63, Nou skrinketh rose ant lylie-flour
        36. Art. 64, My deth Y love, my lyf Ich hate
        37. Art. 65, When the nyhtegale singes
        38. Art. 66, Blessed be thou, Levedy
        39. Art. 67, Ase Y me rod this ender day
        40. Art. 68, Herkne to my ron
        41. Art. 69, Mayden, moder milde
        42. Art. 70, The Geste of Kyng Horn
        43. Art. 71, Ludlow Scribe, Estoyres de la Bible
        44. Art. 72, Nomina Librorum Bibliotece

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     11. Booklet 6
         1. Art. 73, God that al this myhtes may
         2. Art. 74, Lustneth, alle, a lutel throwe
         3. Art. 75, Le jongleur d’Ely e le roi d’Angleterre
         4. Art. 75a, Les trois dames qui troverunt un vit
         5. Art. 76, Le dit des femmes
         6. Art. 77, Le blasme des femmes
         7. Art. 78, Nicholas Bozon, Femmes a la pye
         8. Art. 79, Un sage honme de grant valour
         9. Art. 80, Talent me prent de rymer e de geste fere
         10. Art. 81, Mon in the mone stond ant strit
         11. Art. 82, Le chevaler e la corbaylle
         12. Art. 83, De mal mariage
         13. Art. 84, La gagure, ou L’esquier e la chaunbrere
         14. Art. 85, A bok of swevenyng
         15. Art. 86, Ordre de bel ayse
         16. Art. 87, Le chevaler qui fist les cons parler
         17. Art. 88, Of rybauds Y ryme ant red o my rolle
         18. Art. 89, Mon that wol of wysdam heren
         19. Art. 90, When man as mad a kyng of a capped man
         20. Art. 91, La destinccioun de la estature Jesu Crist Nostre Seigneur
         21. Art. 92, Lutel wot hit any mon hou love hym haveth ybounde
         22. Art. 93, Lutel wot hit any mon hou derne love may stonde
         23. Art. 94, Enseignements de saint Lewis a Philip soun fitz
         24. Art. 95, L’enqueste que le patriarche de Jerusalem fist
         25. Art. 96, Les armes des roys
         26. Art. 97, Scriptum quod peregrini deferunt
         27. Art. 98, Legenda de sancto Etfrido, presbitero de Leoministria
         28. Art. 99, Quy chescun jour de bon cuer cest oreisoun dirra

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     13. Booklet 7
         1. Art. 100, Quant vous levez le matyn
         2. Art. 101, Quy velt que Dieu sovyegne de ly
         3. Art. 102, Gloria in excelsis Deo en fraunceis
         4. Art. 103, Confiteor tibi, Deus, omnia peccata mea
         5. Art. 104, Gloriouse Dame
         6. Art. 105, Rex seculorum et Domine dominator
         7. Art. 106, Um doit plus volentiers juner le vendredy
         8. Art. 107, Quy est en tristour
         9. Art. 108, Cely que fra ces messes chaunter
         10. Art. 108a, Je vous requer, Jaspar, Melchior, e Baltazar
         11. Art. 109, Mundus iste totus quoddam scaccarium est
         12. Art. 109a, Quy chescun jour denz seissaunte jours
         13. Art. 110, Contra inimicos si quos habes
         14. Art. 111, Seint Hillere archevesque de Peyters ordina ces salmes
         15. Art. 112, Eulotropia et celidonia
         16. Art. 113, De interrogandi moribundis beati Anselmi
         17. Art. 114, Dieu, roy de magesté
         18. Art. 115, Contemplacioun de la passioun Jesu Crist
         19. Art. 116, De martirio sancti Wistani

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  6. Appendix: Full Contents of MS Harley 2253
  7. Volume 1: Bibliography
  8. Volume 2: Bibliography
  9. Volume 3: Bibliography
  10. Volume 1: Index of First Lines
  11. Volume 2: Index of First Lines
  12. Volume 3: Index of First Lines
  13. Volume 1: Index of Manuscripts Cited
  14. Volume 2: Index of Manuscripts Cited
  15. Volume 3: Index of Manuscripts Cited
  16. Volume 1: Index of Proper Names
  17. Volume 2: Index of Proper Names
  18. Volume 3: Index of Proper Names

  forms

  Poetry, Prose, Drama, Codex

  languages

  English, Middle (1100–1500), Latin, Anglo-Norman

  time periods

  12th Century, 13th Century, 14th Century

  categories

  Legacy HTML, Wisdom literature, Hagiography, Biblical exegesis, Epistolary prose, Tail rhyme, Debate poetry, Recipe, Chronicle, Drama, Prayer, Otherworldly, Lyric poetry, Elegy (Poetry), Proverb, Estates Satire, Sermon, Complaint (Poetry), Bourde, Fabliau, Travel writing, Carol, Lyric poetry (Marian), Romance, Family romance, Authorship uncertain, Arthuriana, Matter of England, Matter of France, Nine Worthies

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  The Trials and Joys of Marriage

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  John Lydgate

  Author

  William Dunbar

  Author

  Unknown

  Author

  Adam of Cobsam

  Author

  John Wyclif

  Author

  Eve Salisbury

  Editor

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  contents

  1. General Introduction

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  3. Satire and Fabliaux in Verse and Prose
     1. Interludium de clerico et puella
     2. Dame Sirith
     3. The Wright's Chaste Wife
     4. Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband
     5. A Talk of Ten Wives on Their Husbands' Ware
     6. Prohemy of a Mariage Betwixt an Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail
     7. The Meaning of Marriage
     8. The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo

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  5. Didactic Prose and Exempla
     1. Emperator Felicianus (How a Wife Employed a Necromancer to Cause the Death of Her Husband, and How He Was Saved by a Clerk), Gesta Romanorum
     2. Godfridus a Wise Emperoure (Of the Magic Ring, Brooch, and Cloth, Which an Emperor Left to His Son: How He Lost Them, and How They Were Recovered), Gesta Romanorum
     3. The Punished of Adulterers or The Bawd and the Adulterers, Gesta Romanorum
     4. Of Weddid Men and Wifis and of Here Children Also
     5. John Lydgate, Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage
     6. How the Goode Wife Taught Hyr Doughter
     7. How the Goode Man Taght Hys Sone

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  7. Select Secular Lyrics of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

  forms

  Poetry

  languages

  English, Middle (1100–1500)

  time periods

  13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century, 16th Century

  categories

  Ballad, Epistolary poetry, Chaucer, Geoffrey, Fabliau, Exemplum, Fable, Bourde, Sermon, Wisdom literature, Legacy HTML, Lyric poetry, Complaint (Poetry), Authorship uncertain