INDEX
A.B.C., Chaucer’s, [42], [48]
Against Women Unconstant, [41]
Anelida and Arcite, [46]
An Amorous Compleint, [41], [46]
Ashby George, [234]
Boccaccio, [19], [20], [39], [49], [51], [63], [69], [73], [76], [77], [248]
Boëthius’s Consolations of Philosophy, [47], [50]
Book of the Duchesse, the, [12], [16], [40], [43-6], [47], [49], [50], [62], [64], [106], [130-2], [171], [179], [183], [190], [194], [227]
Bradshaw, Henry, [234]
Browne, William, [249]
Burgh, Benedict, [234]
Cambridge History of Literature, the, [42], [237]
Canterbury Tales, the, [46], [49], [62], [67], [83], [107], [117-29], [136-41], [150], [157], [185], [213], [214], [222-3], [231]
Chanouns Yemannes Tale, [223-6]
Chaucer, Agnes, [13]
—— Apocrypha, [67-8]
——, Elizabeth, [18]
——, Geoffrey, birth, [7];
education, [9-14];
marriage, [15-18];
public life, [18-30];
death, [31]
——, John, [8], [13], [23]
——, Lewis, [17], [67]
Chaucer’s Originals and Analogues, [84], [99]
Chaucer, Philippa, [15-17]
——, Thomas, [17], [18]
Clarence, Lionel, Duke of, [13]
Clerkes Tale, [16], [19], [46], [125], [133], [134], [215]
Compleint of Mars, [50], [156]
Compleint to his Lady, [40]
Compleinte unto Pitè, [40], [46]
Coulton, G. C., Chaucer and his England, [18], [20]
Court of Love, the, [10]
Dante, [19], [20], [48], [50], [54], [101], [102], [103]
Deguileville, Guillaume de, [42], [44]
Douglas, Gawain, [12];
influence of Chaucer on, [238-42]
Dunbar, [242-6]
Dryden, John, [248], [249], [250]
Fielding, [157]
Frankeleyns Tale, [128], [129], [134], [192], [210], [248]
Freres Tale, [197], [210]
Furnivall, Dr., [99], [252]
Gascoigne, [17]
Gaunt, John of, [15], [18], [21], [25], [43], [50], [201], [206]
Gower, John, [22], [37], [209]
Hawes, Stephen, [235-6]
Hendyng, Proverbs of, [35], [36]
Henryson, [238-9], [244]
House of Fame, the, [16], [21], [53-62], [128], [153], [155], [156], [188], [209], [232], [251]
Jonson, Ben, [155]
Ker, W. P., [32], [40]
Kingis Quair, the, [236-7]
Knightes Tale, [46], [73-6], [83], [128], [132], [180], [181], [182], [229]
Lak of Stedfastnesse, [216]
Landor, Walter Savage, [252]
Layamon, [32], [36]
Legend of Good Women, the, [11], [21], [25], [42], [62], [63-7], [106], [191], [206], [216]
Leland, [10], [14]
Lenvoy a Scogan, [24]
Lenvoy de Chaucer a Bukton, [16], [125]
Lounsbury, [10]
Lydgate, Portrait of mediæval schoolboy, [9];
versification, [47], [54];
Temple of Glas, [62];
influence of Chaucer on, [229-32], [242]
Lyf of St. Cecyle, [46], [48], [64]
Machault, Guillaume de, [39], [67]
Man of Lawes Tale, [47], [85-97], [136], [205], [210], [219], [226]
Marchantes Tale, [15], [126]
Maunciples Tale, [198], [210]
Merciles Beaute, [40]
Milleres Tale, [148], [149], [186-7]
Milton, [249]
Monkes Tale, [48], [100-2]
Nonne Preestes Tale, [84], [94], [97-100], [140], [141], [153], [154], [170], [187-8], [208]
Norton, Thomas, [234]
Occleve, [229-34], [242], [249]
Of the Wretched Engendering of Mankind, [46], [48], [93]
Palamon and Arcite, [46], [49], [64]
Pardoners Tale, [8], [9], [157-65]
Parlement of Foules, the, [16], [17], [40], [49], [50-3], [62], [64], [69], [106], [165], [189], [193], [194], [195], [244]
Persones Tale, [217]
Petrarch, [19], [20], [49]
Phisiciens Tale, [135]
Piers Plowman, [33], [38], [211-12]
Pope, Alexander, [251]
Prioresses Tale, [202-4]
Retters, [14]
Ripley, Sir George, [234]
Rolle, Richard, [33]
Romance of the Rose, the, [41], [63], [70], [206], [237]
Romances, English metrical, [34], [70-2], [148], [175]
Saintsbury, [42], [230]
Seconde Nonnes Tale, [46], [48], [135]
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, [78];
Othello, [104], [122], [127], [132], [146], [147], [148], [152]
Sir Thopas, [82-3], [156]
Skeat, introductory note, [vi], [24], [30], [38], [48], [54], [83], [252]
Skelton, quotation from, [253]
Snell, Age of Chaucer, [8]
Somnours Tale, [170], [210]
Speght, [10], [249]
Spenser, [181], [182], [188-9], [195], [235-6], [247], [248], [249]
Squieres Tale, [79-82], [133], [165], [178], [191]
Swift, [155]
Ten Brink, History of English Literature, [30], [40], [43], [49], [201]
The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe, [138-9], [182], [218]
To Rosemounde, [41]
Treatise on the Astrolabe, [67], [221-2]
Trivet, Nicholas, [84] (note), [85], [96], [97]
Troilus and Criseyde, [20], [41], [47], [49], [62], [65], [76-9], [82], [103], [106-17], [118], [136], [137], [165], [179], [184], [185], [196], [207], [208-9], [211], [231], [236]
Truth, ballade of, [31]
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Footnotes:
[1] So that I gained but little.
[2] chidden by.
[3] faults.
There are but three histories to which any man will listen,
Of France, and of Britain and of Rome the Great.
[5] And had the corpse (i. e. Antony’s) embalmed.
[6] And forth she fetched this dead corpse, and shut it in the shrine.
[7] sterte, sprang.
[8] God knows.
[9] contradicted.
[10] knows.
[11] or else something similar.
[12] fools.
[13] I had the thing I did not want.
[14] How he pays folk what he owes them.
No pike ever so wallowed in a galantine
As I wallow and am entangled in love.
Francis Petrarch, the laureat poet,
This clerk was called, whose rhetoric sweet
Illumined all Italy with poetry.
[17] Till fully dazed is thy look.
[18] The box in which dead bodies are put.
[19] Suitable for pipes.
[20] Evergreen oak.
[21] Tall fir.
[22] Cypress which mourns for death, i. e. is often found in churchyards.
[23] Yew-tree, of which bows are made.
[24] Aspen, suitable for making arrows.
[25] With cheerfulness.
[26] Here is no home.
[27] Keep to the highway, and let thy spirit lead thee.
[28] And there is no fear but that truth shall deliver (thee).
[29] scarcely.
[30] thus.
[31] head.
[32] death.
The passage is taken from Richard Rolle of Hampole’s Pricke of Conscience (Morris and Skeat, Specimens of Early English, Part II, p. 108).
[33] For a comparison of the French with the English romances see Professor Ker’s volume on Medieval Literature in this series, pp. 66-74.
[34] like me.
[35] obtained aught.
He was pale as a stone ball, in a palsy he seemed,
And clothed in rough cloth, I do not know how to describe it;
In an under-jacket and short coat, and a knife by his side;
The sleeves were like those of a friar’s habit.
Piers Plowman, V. 78-81.
[37] A pity.
[38] meadow.
[39] i. e. companion to another.
[40] of the most graceful shape.
[41] plowed.
[42] Thou art hard to carry.
[43] ignorant.
[44] tellers of tales or gestes.
[45] trumpet.
[46] journeys.
[47] delay.
[48] before he uttered a sound.
[49] many an hymn for your holy-days.
[50] will make fire dim.
[51] curled locks.
[52] embroidered.
[53] playing the flute.
[54] fine flour.
[55] complexion.
[56] worthless.
[57] The translations are taken from Chaucer’s Originals and Analogues, published by the Chaucer Society.
[58] This unusual list of the seven sciences is that given by Trivet.
[59] barbarous nation.
[60] died.
[61] commands.
[62] no matter if I am lost.
[63] grieve us but a little.
[64] sprinkled.
[65] All our joy ends in woe.
[66] maid.
[67] have pity on.
[68] rueful being.
[69] my love has gone away.
[70] eyes.
[71] Have the Greeks thus soon made you thin?
[72] Carving-tools.
[73] Slumberest thou as if in a lethargy.
[74] Friends cannot always be together.
[75] I am glad (lit. it is dear to me).
[76] And without doubt, to ease your heart.
[77] almost died for fear.
[78] the most timid person.
[79] pain.
[80] mine.
[81] be wroth with.
[82] cherish.
[83] sighed.
[84] i. e. I must act cautiously.
[85] jeopardy.
[86] No matter for the jangling of wicked tongues.
[87] blame.
[88] i. e. my name will be in everyone’s mouth.
[89] penitent.
[90] lap.
[91] bless.
[92] do reverence, bow.
[93] wreak, avenge.
[94] chain.
[95] toil.
[96] desires.
[97] seems good to her.
[98] glitters.
[99] i. e. as my brains tell me.
[100] simply by nature.
[101] i. e. an unpropitious conjunction of planets.
[102] i. e. change of disposition.
[103] Wallacia.
[104] Possibly this refers to the sea of sand and pebbles mentioned by Sir John Mandeville in his Travels. To go bareheaded was considered a great hardship.
[105] Probably the dangerous gulf of Quarnaro in the Adriatic.
[106] hear tell.
[107] Where there was likely to be foolish behaviour.
Let them be bread of pure wheat-flour,
And let us wives be called barley-bread.
[109] burned.
With scrips cramful of lies
Intermixed with news.
[111] bel ami, fair friend.
[112] jests.
[113] ribaldry.
[114] learn.
[115] take trouble to speak loudly.
[116] i. e. I have all my sermon by heart.
[117] Wherewith to colour my sermon.
[118] If their souls go blackberrying, i. e. I do not care where they go.
[119] i. e. curate of the parish.
[120] practised folly.
[121] kill.
[122] bees.
[123] And made guesses according to their fancy.
[124] The horse of Sinon the Greek.
[125] plot.
[126] whispered.
[127] ignorant.
[128] staff.
[129] ducks.
[130] kill.
[131] flew.
Groweth seed and bloweth mead
And springeth the wood now—
Sing cuckoo.
[133] goes.
[134] steady pace.
[135] maid.
[136] together.
[137] fall quickly from the linden tree.
[138] What need is there to tell of their array?
[139] i. e. Let us pay no attention to their greetings.
[140] fell to hunting.
[141] hot-foot.
[142] notes on the horn.
[143] roused itself.
[144] together.
[145] thrust.
[146] grave.
[147] size.
[148] Or looked well.
[149] Why should I be tedious.
[150] condition.
[151] bright.
[152] That steamed like a furnace of lead.
[153] condition.
[154] slim.
[155] girdle.
[156] apron.
[157] strings of her white cap.
[158] matched her collar.
[159] enticing eye.
[160] her eyebrows were fine.
[161] And they were arched, and black as any sloe.
[162] A kind of early pear.
[163] studded with brass.
[164] puppet.
[165] brisk.
[166] a sweet drink.
[167] mead.
[168] To have more flowers than the seven stars in the sky.
[169] This refers to the common practice of paying a poor and often illiterate priest to take charge of a parish while the vicar went to London and earned a handsome and easy livelihood by saying masses for the repose of the souls of those who had left rich relatives.
[170] He was loth to excommunicate those whose tithe was in arrears.
[171] i. e. sow tares in our wheat.
[172] chorister.
[173] know.
[174] God grant that we may meet.
[175] Was eaten by the lion ere he could escape.
[176] slain.
[177] drowning.
[178] doctors.
[179] temperament.
[180] gluttony.
[181] dreamers.
[182] fiend.
[183] died and rose.
[184] wholly.
[185] servants.
[186] fairs.
[187] market.
[188] breaketh down my barn door.
[189] I scarcely dare look round, on account of him.
[190] tipped.
[191] guild-hall.
[192] daïs.
[193] suitable.
[194] Service held on the vigils of Saints’ Days.
[195] The name Langland is used for convenience sake, to denote the author, or authors of Piers Plowman.
[196] his own labour.
[197] unstable.
[198] chatter.
[199] dear at a Jane, i. e. a small Genoese coin.
[200] Your judgment is false, your constancy proves evil.
[201] i. e. one who farms taxes.
[202] pierced and cut into points.
[203] in secret and openly.
[204] birth.
[205] do not care a farthing.
[206] fetched.
[207] known.
[208] known.
[209] Entered were into religion, i. e. were placed in a monastery.
[210] Simple is my mind, and little my learning.
[211] repay.
[212] revengeful cruelty.
[213] isle.
[214] twigs.
[215] stanza.
[216] precious.
[217] neck.
[218] gore.
[219] perfect.
[220] grey stones.
[221] bees.
[222] float.
[223] tree-tops.
[224] buds.
[225] drops clear as beryl.
[226] flower of all rhetoricians.
[227] poets.
[228] proved.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Punctuation has been corrected without note.
Other than the corrections noted by hover information, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.