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"Above All Thing Thow Arte a Kyng"

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"Abuse of Women"

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Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley

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"Adam lay ibowndyn, bowndyn in a bond"

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"Addresses of the Commons" (Knighton)

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"The Adulterous Falmouth Squire"

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"Against Hasty Marriage," I

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"Against Hasty Marriage," II

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"All haile, lady, mother, and virgyn immaculate"

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"Allas, What Schul We Freris Do"

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"Alleluya! (Now wel may we merthis make)"

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Alliterative Morte Arthure

Introduction Part I Part II Part III Part IV

"Als I lay upon a nith / I lokede upon a stronde"

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Amis and Amiloun

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Ancrene Wisse

Introduction Author's Preface Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight

From Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Chronicle (on Robin Hood)

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"The angel to the vergyn said"

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"The angell sayde to thee that the fruyt off thi body sulde be blyssyde"

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"Ase y me rod this ender day"

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George Ashby, Complaint of a Prisoner in the Fleet 1463

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The Assembly of Gods

Introduction The Interpretation of the Names of Gods and Goddesses
(Table of Gods and Goddesses) Banquet of Gods and Goddesses

The Assembly of Ladies

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"At a spryng wel under a thorn"

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Athelston

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"Ave maris stella, the sterre on the see"

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The Avowyng of Arthur

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The Awntyrs off Arthur

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Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband

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"Be glad, of al maydens flourre"

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"Beati qui esuriunt"

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La Belle Dame sans Mercy

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Bevis of Hampton

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"The Bird with Four Feathers"

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"Blessed beo thu, lavedi, ful of hovene blisse (Egerton)"

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"Blessed be thou, levedy, ful of heovene blisse (Harley 2253)"

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"Blessed Mary, moder virginall"

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"Blissid be that lady bryght (Goddys Sonne is borne)"

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The Boke of Cupide, God of Love

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Bokenham, Osbern, Life of St. Anne

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The Book of John Mandeville

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From Walter Bower's Continuation of John of Fordun's Scotichronicon (on Robin Hood)

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Campion, Jehan

Introduction Messire Jehan Campions

"The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn"

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Capgrave, John, The Life of Saint Katherine

Introduction Prologue Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5

The Carle of Carlisle

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"The Castoff Lady (2)"

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Caxton, William, The Game and Playe of the Chesse

Introduction Prologue Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4

"Ch" (?Chaucer)

Charles d'Orleans, Fortunes Stabilnes

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"Chaucer's Plowman"

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The Cloud of Unknowing

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"Com, my swete, com, my flour"

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Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune

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A Complaynte of a Lovers Lyfe

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"The Cook's Tale"

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The Court of Love

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The Craft of Lovers

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"Dame Courtesy"

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Dame Sirith

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"The Day of Grace" (2)

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"The Death of Robin Hood"

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"The Debate of the Carpenter�s Tools"

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Deschamps, Eustache

Introduction Grant Translateur, Noble Geffroy Chaucier

The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers
- General Introduction
- "Alexander"
- "Aristotle"
- "Assaron"
- "Diogenes"
- "Galen"
- "Gregory"
- "Hermes"
- "Hippocrates"
- "Homer"
- "The Last Philosophers"
- "Loginon"
- "Marcedarge"
- "Onese"
- "Plato"
- "Ptolemy"
- "Pythagoras"
- "Socrates"
- "Solon"
- "Thescile"
- "Zabyon"
- "Zac"
- "Zalquaquine"
- "Zedechye"

"The Dietary"

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"The Dispute Between Mary and the Cross"

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Douglas, Gavin, The Palis of Honoure

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Dunbar, William, The Complete Works
- Introduction
  
  Poems Devotional and Moral
- 1. On the Nativity of Christ [Et nobis puer est]
- 2. Of the Passion of Christ
- 3. On the Resurrection of Christ [Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro]
- 4. A Ballad of Our Lady [Ave Maria, gracia plena]
- 5. In Praise of Women
- 6. The Manner of Going to Confession
- 7. The Table of Confession
- 8. All Earthly Joy Returns to Pain
- 9. Of Man's Mortality [Quoad tu in cinerem revertis]
- 10. An Orison
- 11. Of the World's Vanity [Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas]
- 12. Of Life
- 13. Of the Changes of Life
- 14. The Lament for the Makars [Timor mortis conturbat me]
- 15. A Meditation in Winter
- 16. None May Assure in This World
- 17. Best to Be Blithe
- 18. Of Content
- 19. Without Gladness No Treasure Avails
- 20. His Own Enemy
- 21. Spend Thine Own Goods [Thyne awin gude spend quhill thow hes space]
- 22. Of Covetise [And all for caus of cuvetice]
- 23. Of Deeming
- 24. How Should I Conduct Myself [Lord God, how sould I governe me]
- 25. Rule of Oneself [He rewllis weill that weill himself can gyd]
- 26. Discretion in Asking [In asking sowld discretioun be]
- 27. Discretion in Giving [In geving sowld discretioun be]
- 28. Discretion in Taking [In taking sowld discretioun be]
- 29. Dunbar at Oxford [Ane peralous seiknes is vane prosperite]
  
  Poems Public and Private
- 30. The Thistle and the Rose
- 31. To Princess Margaret [Welcum of Scotlond to be quene]
- 32. To Princess Margaret [Gladethe, thoue queyne of Scottis regioun]
- 33. To Aberdeen [Be blyth and blisfull, burgh of Aberdein]
- 34. To the Queen [Devoyd languor and leif in lustines]
- 35. Eulogy to Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny [Withe glorie and honour]
- 36. Elegy for Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny [Sen he is gon, the flour of chevalrie
- 37. To the King [In hansill of this guid New Yeir]
- 38. To the King [God gif ye war Johne Thomsounis man]
- 39. To the King [My panefull purs so priclis me]
- 40. To the King [Schir, at this feist of benefice]
- 41. To the King [Of benefice, sir, at everie feist]
- 42. A Dream
- 43. The Headache
- 44. To the King [For to considder is ane pane]
- 45. Against the Solicitors at Court
- 46. To the King [Schir, ye have mony servitouris]
- 47. To the King [Complane I wald]
- 48. To the King [Exces of thocht dois me mischeif]
- 49. To the King [That I suld be ane Yowllis yald]
- 50. Of People Hard to Please
- 51. The Antichrist
- 52. To the Lord Treasurer [Welcome, my awin lord thesaurair]
- 53. To the Lords of Chalker
- 54. A Ballad of the Friar of Tungland
- 55. Sir Thomas Norny
- 56. A Dance in the Queen's Chamber [A merrear daunce mycht na man see]
- 57. Of James Dog [Madame, ye heff a dangerous dog]
- 58. Of the Aforesaid James Dog [He is na dog, he is a lam]
- 59. Epitaph for Donald Oure
- 60. A Complaint against Mure
  
  Poems in the Courtly Tradition
- 61. Sweet Rose of Virtue
- 62. Beauty and the Prisoner
- 63. To a Lady
- 64. Good Counsel for Lovers [Be secreit, trewe, incressing of your name]
- 65. The Golden Targe
- 66. The Merle and the Nightingale
- 67. Love's Inconstancy
- 68. True Love [And trew luve rysis fro the splene]
  
  Poems Comic, Satiric, and Parodic
- 69. A Wooing in Dunfermline [And that me thocht ane ferly cace]
- 70. To the Queen [Madam, your men said]
- 71. Of a Black Moor [My ladye with the mekle lippis]
- 72. In a Secret Place [Ye brek my hart, my bony ane]
- 73. These Fair Ladies That Repair to Court
- 74. Tidings from the Session
- 75. To the Merchants of Edinburgh
- 76. How Dunbar Was Desired to Be a Friar
- 77. The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins
- 78. Of the Tailors and the Shoemakers [Telyouris and sowtaris, blist be ye]
- 79. The Devil's Inquest [Renunce thy God and cum to me]
- 80. Master Andro Kennedy's Testament
- 81. Dunbar's Dirge
- 82. The Twa Cummars [This lang Lentrin it makis me lene]
- 83. The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy
- 84. The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo

Dunbar, William, The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo (ed. Eve Salisbury)

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Duodecim Abusiones (The Twelve Abuses)

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"Ecce quod natura mutat sua iura (Beholde and see)"

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"Edi beo thu, hevene quene"

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Eight Goodly Questions with Their Aunswers

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Elckerlijc, see: Everyman

Emaré

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"Emperator Felicianus," from Gesta Romanorum

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Epigraph

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"Ercyldoun's Prophecy"

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Erle of Toulous (ed. Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury)

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"The Erle of Tolous" (ed. George Shuffelton)

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Eustache the Monk

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"An Evening Prayer"

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Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc

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The Feast of Tottenham

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"The Feasts of All Saints and All Souls"

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Floris and Blancheflour

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The Floure and the Leafe

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Fouke le Fitz Waryn

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"The Four Leaves of the Truelove"

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Four Things That Make a Man a Fool and Yit of the Same

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"Freers, Freers, Wo Ye Be"

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"Friar Daw's Reply"

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"From heovene into eorthe, God gretynge he sende"

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"Gabriel, fram evene knigh"

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The Gast of Gy

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"A Gest of Robyn Hode"

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"Glade us, maiden, moder milde"

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"God Spede the Plow"

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"Godfridus a Wise Emperoure," from Gesta Romanorum

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Gower, John, Confessio Amantis

Introduction, Vol. 1 (Prologue, Books 1 and 8)			Introduction, Vol. 2 (Books 2, 3, and 4)			Introduction, Vol. 3 (Books 5, 6, and 7)
Prologue	Book 1	Book 2	Book 3	Book 4	Book 5	Book 6	Book 7	Book 8

Gower, John, In Praise of Peace (ed. Kathleen Forni)

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Gower, John, In Praise of Peace (ed. Michael Livingston)

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Gower, John, The Minor Latin Works

From Richard Grafton's Chronicle at Large (on Robin Hood)

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Granson, Oton de

Introduction Balade [I; MS #30] Balade [II; MS #31] Balade [III; MS #32] Balade [IV; MS #33] Balade [V; MS #34]

The Greene Knight

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"Haile be thu, Mari maiden bright"

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"Haill, quene of hevin and steren of blis"

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"Hale, sterne superne; hale, in eterne"

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Havelok the Dane

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"Hayl Mari,/ Hic am sori"

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"Hayl, oure patron and lady of erthe"

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"Hayle, glorious lady and hevenly quene"

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"Hayle, luminary and benigne lanterne"

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"Hayle mayden of maydyns, thorgth worde consaywyng"

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"A Henpecked Husband's Complaint"

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Henryson, Robert, The Poems of Robert Henryson
- General Introduction
- "The Abbey Walk"
  
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- "Against Hasty Credence"
  
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- "The Annunciation"
  
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- "The Bludy Serk"
  
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- "The Garmont of Gud Ladeis"
  
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- The Morall Fabillis
  
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- Orpheus and Eurydice
  
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- "The Praise of Age"
  
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- "Ane Prayer for the Pest"
  
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- "The Ressoning betuix Aige and Yowth"
  
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- "The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man"
  
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- "Robene and Makyne"
  
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- "Sum Practysis of Medecyne"
  
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- The Testament of Cresseid
  
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- "The Thre Deid Pollis"
  
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- "The Want of Wyse Men"
  
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Hereward the Wake

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"Heyl be thou, Marie, milde quene of hevene"

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"Heyl, levedy, se-stoerre bryht"

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"Heyle be thou, ladye so bryght"

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Hilton, Walter, The Scale of Perfection

Introduction Book I Book II

Hoccleve, Thomas, The Regiment of Princes

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"Holy moder, that bere Cryst"

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How the Goode Man Taght Hys Sone (ed. Eve Salisbury)

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"How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter" (ed. George Shuffelton)

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How the Goode Wife Taught Hyr Doughter (ed. Eve Salisbury)

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"How the Wise Man Taught His Son" (ed. George Shuffelton)

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"I Have a Gentle Cock"

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I Have a Lady (The Descryvyng of a Fair Lady)

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"I passud thoru a garden grene"

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"I pray thee, lady, the moder of Crist"

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"I syke when y singe"

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"I syng of a myden / That is makeles"

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"I-blessyd Be Cristes Sonde"

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"In a tabernacle of a toure"

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"In a Valley of This Restless Mind"

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"In Erth It Is a Litill Thing"

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In February

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"In Praise of Women"

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"In that time, als was ful wel"

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"The Incestuous Daughter"

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"The infinite power essenciall"

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Interludium de clerico et puella

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The Isle of Ladies

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Jack Upland

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James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair

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"The Jealous Wife"

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The Jeaste of Sir Gawain

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"Jesu Cristes milde moder"

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"John Ball's Sermon Theme" (Walsingham)

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"The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield"

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Julian of Norwich, The Shewings of Julian of Norwich

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Kempe, Margery, The Book of Margery Kempe

Introduction Prologue and Book I, Chapters 1-44 Book I, Chapters 45-89 Book II

"The King and His Four Daughters"

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King Arthur and King Cornwall

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"King Edward and the Hermit"

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King Horn

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"The Knight Who Forgave His Father�s Slayer"

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The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain

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"The Lament of Mary"

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Lancelot of the Laik

Introduction Prologue and Book I Book II Book III

The Lanterne of Light: Prologue and Chapters 3-5

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The Laste Epistle of Creseyd to Troyalus

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"Latin Epigram" (Tempore felici)

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"Latin Epigrams" (O Asside; Tres infelices)

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Lay le Freine

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le Mote, Jean de

Introduction La Response [MS #63] Jehan de le Mote respond audit Messire Jehan Campion

"Lefdy blisful, of muchel might"

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"The Legend of the Resurrection"

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"Ler to loven as I love thee"

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"The Letter of John Ball" (Royal MS)

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"The Letter of John Ball" (Stow)

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"Levedie, ic thonke thee"

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"Levedy, for thare blisse"

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The Life of St. Benedict in the South English Legendary

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The Life of St. Francis in the South English Legendary

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The Life of St. Julian Hospitaller in the Scottish Legendary

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The Life of St. Scholastica in the South English Legendary

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The Life of St. Tha�s in the Northern Homily Cycle

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"Little John Goes a Begging"

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"Lo, He That Can Be Cristes Clerc"

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"London Lickpenny"

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The Lovers' Mass

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The Lufaris Complaynt

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"Lullay, lullay, la, lullay (Als I lay upon a nith)"

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"Lullay, my fader, lullay, my brother (Ye ben my fader)"

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"Lullay, myn lykyng (I saw a fayr maydyn syttyn and synge)"

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"Lulley, lulley (He bare hym up, he bare him down)"

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"Lybeaus Desconus"

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Lydgate, John, Beware (The Blynde Eteth Many a Flye)

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Lydgate, John, The Floure of Curtesye

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Lydgate, John, "Lyfe of Seynt Margarete"

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Lydgate, John, Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage

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Lydgate, John (?), Prohemy of a Mariage Betwixt an Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail

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Lydgate, John, Saint Austin at Compton

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Lydgate, John, "Prologue to the Siege of Thebes" (ed. John M. Bowers)

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Lydgate, John, Siege of Thebes (ed. Robert R. Edwards)

Introduction Prologue Prima Pars Secunda Pars Tercia Pars

Lydgate, John, The Temple of Glas

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Lydgate, John, Troy Book: Selections

Introduction Prologue Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 Envoy

"M and A and R and I (It wern fowre letterys of purposy)"

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"Maiden and moder, cum and se"

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"Maiden in the mor lay"

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Maidstone, Richard, Concordia (The Reconciliation of Richard II with London)

Introduction

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Appendix 1: Other Accounts of the 1392 Royal Entry

Appendix 2: Accounts of Richard's 1377 Coronation Entry

Appendix 3: Dymmok on the Ricardian Extravagance

Appendix 4: Some Features of Prosody and Versification

Maidstone, Richard, "Maidstone�s Seven Penitential Psalms"

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From John Major's Historia Majoris Britanniae (on Robin Hood)

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"Man Be Ware and Be No Fool"

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"Marie moder, wel thee be"

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"Marie, yow quen, yow moder, yow mayden briht"

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The Marriage of Sir Gawain

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The Martyrdom of St. Andrew in the South English Legendary

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The Martyrdom of St. George in the South English Legendary

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"Mary, for thine joys fyve"

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Mary Magdalen, from Speculum Sacerdotale

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"Mary, modur of grace, we cry to thee"

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"Mary myelde made grete mone (When fals Judas her son had solde)"

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"Mary so myelde of hert and myende"

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"Marye, mayde mylde and fre"

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"Mayden moder milde, / Oiez cel oreysoun"

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The Meaning of Marriage

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Metham, John, Amoryus and Cleopes

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Selections from The Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament

Introduction The Prologue The Story of Jephthah's Daughter The Story of Judith

Minot, Laurence, The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333-1352

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Mirk, John, Sermon on the Conception of the Virgin Mary

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Mirk, John, Sermon on St. Anne

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Mirk, John, Sermon on St. Katherine

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Mirk, John, Sermon on St. Margaret

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Mirk, John, Sermon on St. Mary Magdalen

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"Modyr, whyt os lyly flowr (As I up ros in a mornyng)"

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"A Morning Prayer"

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Mum and the Sothsegger

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Munday, Anthony, Excerpts from The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington

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Munday, Anthony, The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington

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"My Fader above, beholdying thy mekenesse"

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The Northern Homily Cycle

"The Northern Passion"

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"Nou goth sonne under wod"

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"Nou skrinketh rose ant lylie flour"

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"Nowel el el (Mary moder, meke and mylde)"

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"Nowel, nowel, nowel (Under a tre / In sportyng me)"

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The N-Town Plays

"Nu this fules singet and maket hure blisse"

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"O hie emperice and quene celestiall"

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"O litel whyle lesteneth to me"

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O Merciful and O Mercyable

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O Mosy Quince

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Octavian

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"Of alle women that ever were borne"

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"Of on that is so fayr and bright"

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"Of Thes Frer Mynours"

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Of Theyre Nature

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"Old Hogyn's Adventure"

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"On hire is al mi lif ilong"

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"On the Times"

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Paris, William, "Life of St. Christina"

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Parker, Martin, A True Tale of Robin Hood

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The Parlement of the Thre Ages

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Pearl

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"Pety Job"

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Philippe de Vitry

Introduction Balade [MS #62]

"Piers the Plowman's Crede"

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The Pistel of Swete Susan

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"The Ploughman's Tale"

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"The Plowman's Tale"

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"A Prayer at the Levation"

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"A Prayer to Mary"

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"Preste, Ne Monke, Ne Yit Chanoun"

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Prophecy

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"The Prophecy of Merlin (Bodley MS)"

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"The Prophecy of Merlin (Dublin MS)"

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"The Prophecy of Merlin (Magdalene Coll. MS)"

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Prose Merlin

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"The Punished of Adulterers or The Bawd and the Adulterers," from Gesta Romanorum

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The Quare of Jelusy

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"Quhat dollour persit our ladyis hert"

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Richard the Redeless

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"Right as a Ram�s Horn"

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Robert of Cisyle

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"Robin Hood and Allin a Dale"

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"Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne"

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Robin Hood and His Crew of Soldiers

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"Robin Hood and Little John"

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"Robin Hood and Maid Marian"

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"Robin Hood and Queen Catherin"

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"Robin Hood and the Bishop"

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"Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar"

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Robin Hood and the Friar and Robin Hood and the Potter

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"Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow"

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"Robin Hood and the Monk"

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"Robin Hood and the Pedlars"

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"Robin Hood and the Potter"

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"Robin Hood and Will Scarlet"

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"Robin Hood Rescues Three Young Men"

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"Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valour, and Marriage"

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"Robin Hood's Fishing"

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"Robin Hood's Golden Prize"

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"Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham"

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"Robyn and Gandelyn"

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Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham

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"Ros Mary, most of vertewe virginall"

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"The Rules for Purchasing Land"

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"St. Andrew and the Three Questions" in the Scottish Legendary

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"St. George and the Dragon" in the South English Legendary (East Midland Revision)

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St. Jerome

Introduction The Life of St. Jerome, by Simon Winter "St. Jerome and the Lion"

St. Katherine, from Speculum Sacerdotale

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"Saint Eustace"

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"Saint Margaret"

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"Sainte Marie, virgine"

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"Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis (O moder mylde)"

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"Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis (O tryclyn of the Trinité)"

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Scogan's Moral Balade

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"The Short Charter of Christ"

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Siege of Jerusalem

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The Siege of Milan

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The Siege of Thebes, Lydgate's Prologue to, see: Lydgate, John, "Prologue to the Siege of Thebes"

"The Simonie"

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"The Sinner's Lament" (ed. Susanna Greer Fein)

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"The Sinner�s Lament" (ed. George Shuffelton)

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Sir Amadace

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Sir Cleges (ed. Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury)

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"Sir Cleges" (ed. George Shuffelton)

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"Sir Corneus"

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Sir Degaré

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Sir Degrevant

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Sir Eglamour of Artois

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Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle

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Sir Gowther

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Sir Isumbras (ed. Harriet Hudson)

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"Sir Isumbras" (ed. George Shuffelton)

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Sir Launfal

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Sir Orfeo (ed. Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury)

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"Sir Orfeo" (ed. George Shuffelton)

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Sir Owain

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Sir Perceval of Galles

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Sir Tristrem

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Sir Tryamour

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"Sir Tusked Ox"

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"Sodenly afraide, half waking, half slepyng (With favoure in hir face)"

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"A Son! tak hede to me whas sone thou was"

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"Song of the Husbandman"

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Early South English Legendary Life of Mary Magdalen

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Shorter South English Legendary Life of St. Frideswide

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Longer South English Legendary Life of St. Frideswide

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"Spurious [Canterbury Tales] Links"

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The Squire of Low Degree

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"Stans Puer ad Mensam"

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Stanzaic Guy of Warwick

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Stanzaic Life of Katherine

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Stanzaic Life of Margaret

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Stanzaic Morte Arthur

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"The Stations of Jerusalem"

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"Stimulus Consciencie Minor"

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"Stond wel, Moder, under rode"

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The Storie of Asneth

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"Suete sone, reu on me, and brest out of thi bondis"

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The Sultan of Babylon

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"Swete and benygne moder and may"

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"Syng we, syng we (Holy maydyn, blyssid thu be)"

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The Tale of Gamelyn

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The Tale of Ralph the Collier

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A Talk of Ten Wives on Their Husbands' Ware

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"Tax Has Tenet Us Alle"

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"The Ten Commandments"

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"The Ten Commandments (False Start)"

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"Ther is no rose of swych vertu"

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"There Is a Busch That Is Forgrowe"

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"Thomas of Erceldoune's Prophecy"

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Thomas of Hales, "Love Rune"

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"Thou synfull man of resoun that walkest here up and downe"

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"Thou That Sellest the Worde of God"

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"Thou wommon boute vere"

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The Tournament of Tottenham

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"The Trials of Marriage"

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"Truthe, Reste, and Pes (What Profits a Kingdom)"

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The Turke and Sir Gawain

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"Unto Marie he that love hath (Thus seide Mary of grete honoure)"

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"Upland's Rejoinder"

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"Upon a lady my love ys lente"

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"Upon my ryght syde y me leye"

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Usk, Thomas, The Testament of Love

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Book III Appendix 1: The Pearl Appendix 2: Usk's Appeal
against John Northampton Appendix 3: From St.
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"Vanity"

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The Vision of Tundale

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The Wallace: Selections

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The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

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"When Rome Is Removed"

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"Why have ye no reuthe on my child?"

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"Why I Can't Be a Nun"

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Winter, Simon, "The Life of St. Jerome," see: St. Jerome

"Womman, Jon I take to thee (Allas, wo sal myn herte slaken?)"

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"Worsshipful maiden to the world, Marie"

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"The Wounds and the Sins"

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The Wright's Chaste Wife

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Wyclif, John (?), Of Weddid Men and Wifis and of Here Children Also

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The Wycliffite Bible: from the Prologue

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Wynnere and Wastoure

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"A Young and Henpecked Husband's Complaint"

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"Ypotis"

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Ywain and Gawain

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Introduction	Prologue	Book I	Book II
Book III	Appendix 1: The Pearl	Appendix 2: Usk's Appeal against John Northampton	Appendix 3: From St. Anselm's De Concordia