Husbondrie,
Palladius
on.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02
S.
, in the D.
of N.
B.
Walton, John (f. 1410), translator (in verse) of Boethius, printed in 1525 as
*The boke of Comfort, etc. For MSS, see Pollard, A. F. , in D. of N. B.
See also Warton, T. , Hist. Eng. Poet. , vol. II, sect. xx (1840), pp. 255-6.
Walter of Henley's Husbandry, etc. Ed. Lamond, E. R. Hist. Soc. 1890.
Wey, The Itineraries of William (14072-76), Fellow of Eton College, to
Jerusalem, 1458–62, etc. Roxburghe Club, 1857.
William of Drogheda (d. 1245 ? ), scholar of Oxford and canonist. MSS in
Caius College, Cambridge, etc.
William of Ramsey (A. 1219), monk of Crowland, poet and writer of saints'
lives. His Guthlac poem is in the Cambridge University Library
(Dd. xi. 78).
Woodville, A. For the 'balet' or virelai on fickle fortune, composed by the
ill-fated Anthony Woodville, second earl Rivers (14422-83), in Ponte-
fract castle, shortly before he was executed, see Percy's Reliques, Rous's
chronicle, ed. Hearne, and Ritson's Ancient Songs, ed. Hazlitt, W. C. ,
6
p. 149.
Worcester, Wm. (1415-82? ), scholar of Oxford, traveller, chronicler and
secretary to Sir John Fastolf (see Paston Letters). For a complete list
of his writings, of which an Itinerarium, ed. Nasmith, J. , 1778, is, perhaps,
the most important, see the article by Tait, J. , in D. of N. B.
Agincourt, poems on. See the Percy Reliques, 3rd ser. bk 1; Warton,
$ XX; etc.
Anecdota Literaria. Ed. Wright, T. 1844. Contains, in addition to items
previously discussed, fabliaus (The Miller of Abington, etc. ), Goliardic
poems, poems on the Different Classes of Society and miscellaneous
pieces such as Ragman Roll.
Babees Book, The (c. 1475), Aristotle's ABC (c. 1430), Urbanitatis (c. 1460),
Stans Puer ad Mensam, The Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke (c. 1480),
The Bokes of Nurture of Hugh Rhodes (temp. Henry VIII) and John
Russell (c. 1460-70), Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of Keruynge (1513),
The Booke of Demeanor (1619), The Boke of Curtasye (1430-40) (see also
Breul, K. , Eng. Stud. ix, 51 ff. ), Seager's Schoole of Vertue (1557), etc. , etc. ,
with some French and Latin poems on like subjects, and some Forewords
on Education in Early England. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. 1868. The volume
32-2
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also contains some of Richard Hill's transcriptions, in one of which the
poet speaks sympathetically of the schoolboy of his time (c. 1500):
I wold ffayn be a clarke;
but yet hit is a strange werke;
the byrchyn twyggis be so sharpe,
hit makith me have a faynt harte.
what avaylith it me thowgh I say nay?
Songs, Carols and other Miscellaneous Poems from the Balliol MS 354
(Richard Hill's Commonplace Book) has just been published (1908) by
the E. E. T. S. , ed. Dyboski, R.
Barnwell Priory. Liber Memorandorum Ecclesie de Bernewelle. Ed. Clark,
J. W. , with an introduction by Maitland, F. W. 1907.
Camden Society. 1838 ff. In addition to the volumes referred to elsewhere
under specific heads, may be mentioned the Plumpton correspondence,
ed. Stapleton, T. (Letters, chiefly domestic, temp. Edw. IV-Henry VIII),
1839; Anecdotes and Traditions, illustrative of Early English History
and Literature, ed. Thoms, W. J. , 1839; A Contemporary narrative of
the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, prosecuted for Sorcery
1324, ed. Wright, T. , 1843; A Relation . . . of the Isle of England c. 1500,
trans. from the Italian by Sneyd, C. A. , 1847; and Letters of Queen
Margaret of Anjou, etc. , ed. Monro, C. , 1863.
Cato. See bibliography to chap. viii under Burgh. Also Warton's Hist.
Eng. Poetry, 1840, $ XXVII.
Cookery Books, Two 15th cent. c. 1430 and 1450. Ed. Austin, T. E. E. T. S.
1888. For other books of cookery, important for the light they cast on
manners and social life, see The forme of Cury, a roll of ancient English
cookery compiled c. 90, by the master cook of king Richard II, ed.
Pegge, S. , 1780; Liber Cure Cocorum, a cookery book in verse, c. 1440,
ed. Morris, R. , Phil. Soc. , 1862; A noble Boke off Cookry (16th cent. ),
1882; Warner, R. , Antiquitates Culinariae, 1791; and an article in the
Quarterly Review, Jan. 1894.
Early English Text Society. Practically all the publications of both the
Original and the Extra Series are referred to under specific heads.
The list of works mentioned in the current prospectus as awaiting pub-
lication as soon as funds permit, and of MSS and old books which need
copying or re-editing, includes, inter alia, the following: Hampole's
unprinted works; Hereford's Bible translation; Lydgate's unprinted
works; early treatises on music; Skelton's englishing of Diodorus Siculus;
T. Breus's Passion of Christ, 1422; Lollard theological treatises; Hylton's
Ladder of Perfection; John Watton's englished Speculum Christiani;
Steryn Scrope's Doctryne and Wysedome of the Auncyent Philosophers,
1450; Alain Chartier's Quadrilogue englished; Shirley's Book of Gode
Maners; The Court of Sapience; Wynkyn de Worde's English and
French Phrase-book; the Craft of Nombryoge, the earliest English
treatise on Arithmetic; the Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew's
Hospital, c. 1425; Caxton's Mirror of the World, etc. , etc. It is to be
hoped that the Society may soon be able to publish the above and many
more texts urgently needed.
Gy de Warewyke, Speculum. Ed. Morrill, G. L. E. E. T. S. Ex. Ser. Lxxv.
1898.
Hazlitt, W. C. (ed. ). Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England.
4 vols. 1864.
A valuable collection of fabliaux, debates, tales in verse, etc. The
first volume contains, among other poems, The King and the Barker, a
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"borde' of the King and Miller, or Rauf Coilzear type, of a king's
adventures with one of his subjects; The Cokwolds Daunce, an Arthurian
tale to which reference has already been made (vol. 1, p. 464); The Thrush
and the Nightingale debate from the Digby MS, temp. Edw. I: 'Somer is
comen with love to toune'; Ragman Roll, a satire on women; The
Debate of the Carpenter's Tools; Colyn Blowbols Testament, cf. The
Testament of Mr Andro Kennedy, by Dunbar, referred to on p. 256 of the
present volume; The Childe of Bristowe, one of the most beautiful of
legends of filial devotion, a tale of self-sacrifice, to save a covetous father
from the pains of purgatory, told with a direct simplicity that reveals the
audience to which it was probably addressed. When everything of his
father's illgotten wealth has been restored, and whatsoever else is left of
the inherited estate has been spent in alms and masses to relieve the pains
suffered by his father as revealed to him in fortnightly visions, the childe'
goes in quest of more money still to the 'maister' whose 'prentys' in
‘Bristow' he is, to sell himself as a slave:
myn owne body y wil selle to the,
for ever to be thy lad,
and the tale ends as an unsophisticated audience would wish it to end;
How the Wise Man taught his Son; How the Good Wife taught her
Daughter; How a Merchande dyd hys Wyfe Betray, or a Penniworth of
Wit (a tale of the testing of true and false love, c. 1335); A Mery Geste
how the Plowman lerned his Pater Noster; the Lyfe of Roberte the
Deryll, etc.
Volume II contains: Piers of Fullham, or 'vayne conseytes of folysche
love andyr colour of fyscheng and fowlyng'; The Batayle of Egynge-
courte; Adam Bel Clym of the Cloughe and Wyllyam of Cloudesle,
a ballad of the greenwood (see p. 408 of the present volume); together
with snndry other poems and The Nutbrowne Mayde.
Volume ili, among other pieces, contains The Debate and Stryfe
Betweene Somer and Wynter; The Tale of the Basyn, a popular, coarse
satire setting forth the unlucky adventures that happened to a priest and
his paramour by means of an enchanted 'basin'; A Mery Geste of the
Frere and the Boye, printed at London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the
sonne' by Wynkyn de Worde, about the year 1512 (Cambridge facsimile,
including the delightful woodcut, 1907), an amusing tale of enchantment,
popular in many forms, of 'a good sturdy ladde,' who became possessed
of a pipe the music of which caused beast and man to dance, even the
'frere set on by Jack's 'stepmoder' to beat him (cf. the version in the
Perey Folio MS, ed. Furnivall and Hales); The Turnament of Totenham
(referred to in vol. 1 of the present work, p. 366); A Mery Jest of Dane
Hew Monk of Leicestre, and how he was foure times slain and once
hanged; the Parlament of Byrdes; The smyth whych that forged hym
a new dame, a tale of magic, relating how a proud smith, emulating a
miracle of the Lord, who had re-made his 'old beldame' into a 'byrd
bright, so that she was
loveseme of chere,
Bright as blosome on brere,
None in Egypt her pere,
endeavoured to perform the same operation in the case of his wife. It is
a rough, comic tale, suited for a popular audience.
And volume iv contains The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous and other
reprints of 16th century 'bokes,' to which reference will be made in
volume ill of this work.
I
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Hunting of the Hare. A rough and tumble tale. See Weber, H. , Metrical
Romances of the mini, xiv and xv cent. , 3 vols. , Edinburgh, 1810.
Husbondrie, Palladius on. Trans. c. 1420. Ed. Lodge, B. and Herrtage, S. J.
E. E. T. S. LII-LXII. 1872-9.
Hymns to the Virgin and Christ, The Parliament of Devils, etc. Lambeth
MS 853, c. 1430. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1867. Contains Stans
Puer ad Mensam, How the Good Wife taught her Daughter, How the
Wise Man taught his Son, The Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life, etc.
Kildare, Satire on the people of. (1308. ) See Reliquiae Antiquae, II, 174 ff. ,
and Heuser, W. , Die Kildare-Gedichte, Bonn, 1904. An earlier work of
Irish interest is Dermot and the Earl (c. 1170), ed. Orpen, G. H. , Oxford,
1892.
Lollards. In addition to the poems mentioned in the bibliography to chap. 11,
see the satire in Ritson's Ancient Songs, ed. Hazlitt, p. 104.
Miracle Plays, Sermon agst. See Reliquiae Antiquae, 11, 42 ff. , and Mätzner, E. ,
Altengl. Sprachproben, I1, 222.
Miscellanies, Early English, in prose and verse,. . . 15th cent. Ed. Halliwell, J. O.
1855. (Contains The Friar and the Boy, the Vision of Philibert regarding
the Body and the Soul, Earth upon Earth (see Fiedler, H. G. , Mod. Lang.
Rev. , April 1908), a schorte tretice for a mane to knowe wyche tyme of
the zere hit is best to graffe or to plante treyus, the crafte of the
lymnynge of bokys, the mornyng' of a hunted hare, etc. , etc. )
Percy Society, 1840 ff. Among the volumes not referred to elsewhere under
specific heads may be mentioned The Payne and Sorowe of Evyll
Maryage, in verse, printed by Wynkyn de Worde 1509, ed. Collier, J. P. ,
1840; The Boke of Curtasye . . . poem, illustrative of the domestic manners
of the 15th cent. , ed. Halliwell, J. 0. , 1841; Paraphrase on the Seven
Penitential Psalms, in English metre, 15th cent, ed. Black, W. H. , 1842;
Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume, 13th to 19th cent. , ed. Fairholt,
F. W. , 1849; and A Poem on the times of Edward II from a MS in the
library of St Peter's College, Cambridge, ed. Hardwick, C. , 1849.
Political and other Poems (26) from Digby MS 102, etc. Ed. Kail, J.
E. E. T. S. 1904.
Political, Religions and Love Poems. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1866.
Re-edited 1903. Contains, among other things to which reference has
already been made, a sketch of the metrical romance of Amoryus and
Cleopes, by John Metham of Norwich, scholar of Cambridge 1448–9;
and a poem by Henry Baradoun, c. 1483, of a wastrel's life, from which
the following stanza may be quoted as a sample:
In the courte, is many noble Roome;
But god knowith, I can noon sochë cacche
ffrom a maister, I am be-come a grome,
And bonde mysilff to waytyng and to wacche;
With evere gadrin, I stonde behynde the hacche,
Gapyng and staryng wanderyng to and fro;
Zhit for all this, no good can I cacche:
Thus am I prentice and servaunt unto woe.
Quinte Essence, The Book of. c. 1460–70. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1866.
Robin Hood. See Sidney Lee's article in D. of N. B. ; Child, F. J. , English
and Scottish Popular Ballads, Boston, 1888; Hales, J. W. , in Hales and
Furnivall's edition of the Percy Folio MS, 1867, and the ballads there
printed; Ten Brink, B. , Hist. Eng. Lit. , Eng. trans. , vol. II, 184 ff. ;
Ritson, J. , Robin Hood: a Collection of all poems, etc. , relating to him,
2 vols. , 1795 ff. ; Thoms, W. J. , Early English Prose Romances, 1828 ff. ;
9
:
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Wright, T. , Essays on subjects connected with the Literature, Popular
Superstitions and History of England in the Middle Ages, 2 vols. , 1846,
vol. II; Pollard, A. W. , reprints Wynkyn de Worde's A little geste of
Robin Hood in his Fifteenth Century Poetry and Prose, 1903.
For Fulk Fitzwarine see History of Fulk Fitzwarine, an outlawed
baron, from a 13th cent. MS, with literal Eng. trans. and notes, ed.
Wright, T. , Warton Club, 1855; Wright, T. , Essays as above; ed. Michel, F. ,
Paris, 1834; and the recent trans. by Kemp-Welch, A. , in the King's
Classics Series, 1904. See also Moland, L. and d'Héricault, Ch. , in
Nouvelles françoises en prose du XIV s', Paris, 1858.
On the interesting race of outlaws generally, see Jusserand, J. J. ,
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, pp. 252 ff. In T. Wright's
Political Songs of England, Camden Soc. , 1839, p. 231, there is a spirited
'Outlaw's Song of Traillebaston,' of the time of Edw. II, the last verse of
which shows how the writer combined the arts of author and publisher in
'le jolyf umbray' of the 'vert bois de Belregard,
En le bois de Belregard, où vole le jay,
E chaunte russinole touz jours santz delay.
>
Cest rym fust fet al bois desouz un lorer,
Là chaunte merle, russinole, e cyre l'esperver;
Escrit estoit en parchemyn pur mout remenbrer,
E gitté en haut chemyn, qe um le dust trover.
On the tale of the Eremyt and the Outlawe see Kaluza, M. , Engl.
Stud. XIV, 165-182.
Rotuli Parliamentorum. Rolls of Parliament, comprising Petitions, Pleas,
Proceedings of Parliament, 1278–1503. Ed. Strachey, J. 6 vols. 1767-
77. Index vol. 1832.
Roxburghe Club Books, 1812 ff. In addition to volumes referred to under
specifio heads, may be mentioned the volume of Manners and Household
Expenses of England in the 13th and 15th cents. 1841; the Household
Books of John, duke of Norfolk, and Thomas, earl of Surrey, 1481-90,
ed. Collier, J. P. , 1844; the Literary Remains of king Edward the Sixth,
ed. Nichols, J. G. , 2 vols. , 1857–8; Deguileville, G. , The pilgrimage of
the lyf of the manhode, ed. Wright, W. A. , 1869.
St Cecilia, The life of. From MS Ashmole 43 and MS Cotton Tib. E. VII.
Ed. Lovewell, B. E. Yale Studies in English.
Walton, John (f. 1410), translator (in verse) of Boethius, printed in 1525 as
*The boke of Comfort, etc. For MSS, see Pollard, A. F. , in D. of N. B.
See also Warton, T. , Hist. Eng. Poet. , vol. II, sect. xx (1840), pp. 255-6.
Walter of Henley's Husbandry, etc. Ed. Lamond, E. R. Hist. Soc. 1890.
Wey, The Itineraries of William (14072-76), Fellow of Eton College, to
Jerusalem, 1458–62, etc. Roxburghe Club, 1857.
William of Drogheda (d. 1245 ? ), scholar of Oxford and canonist. MSS in
Caius College, Cambridge, etc.
William of Ramsey (A. 1219), monk of Crowland, poet and writer of saints'
lives. His Guthlac poem is in the Cambridge University Library
(Dd. xi. 78).
Woodville, A. For the 'balet' or virelai on fickle fortune, composed by the
ill-fated Anthony Woodville, second earl Rivers (14422-83), in Ponte-
fract castle, shortly before he was executed, see Percy's Reliques, Rous's
chronicle, ed. Hearne, and Ritson's Ancient Songs, ed. Hazlitt, W. C. ,
6
p. 149.
Worcester, Wm. (1415-82? ), scholar of Oxford, traveller, chronicler and
secretary to Sir John Fastolf (see Paston Letters). For a complete list
of his writings, of which an Itinerarium, ed. Nasmith, J. , 1778, is, perhaps,
the most important, see the article by Tait, J. , in D. of N. B.
Agincourt, poems on. See the Percy Reliques, 3rd ser. bk 1; Warton,
$ XX; etc.
Anecdota Literaria. Ed. Wright, T. 1844. Contains, in addition to items
previously discussed, fabliaus (The Miller of Abington, etc. ), Goliardic
poems, poems on the Different Classes of Society and miscellaneous
pieces such as Ragman Roll.
Babees Book, The (c. 1475), Aristotle's ABC (c. 1430), Urbanitatis (c. 1460),
Stans Puer ad Mensam, The Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke (c. 1480),
The Bokes of Nurture of Hugh Rhodes (temp. Henry VIII) and John
Russell (c. 1460-70), Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of Keruynge (1513),
The Booke of Demeanor (1619), The Boke of Curtasye (1430-40) (see also
Breul, K. , Eng. Stud. ix, 51 ff. ), Seager's Schoole of Vertue (1557), etc. , etc. ,
with some French and Latin poems on like subjects, and some Forewords
on Education in Early England. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. 1868. The volume
32-2
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also contains some of Richard Hill's transcriptions, in one of which the
poet speaks sympathetically of the schoolboy of his time (c. 1500):
I wold ffayn be a clarke;
but yet hit is a strange werke;
the byrchyn twyggis be so sharpe,
hit makith me have a faynt harte.
what avaylith it me thowgh I say nay?
Songs, Carols and other Miscellaneous Poems from the Balliol MS 354
(Richard Hill's Commonplace Book) has just been published (1908) by
the E. E. T. S. , ed. Dyboski, R.
Barnwell Priory. Liber Memorandorum Ecclesie de Bernewelle. Ed. Clark,
J. W. , with an introduction by Maitland, F. W. 1907.
Camden Society. 1838 ff. In addition to the volumes referred to elsewhere
under specific heads, may be mentioned the Plumpton correspondence,
ed. Stapleton, T. (Letters, chiefly domestic, temp. Edw. IV-Henry VIII),
1839; Anecdotes and Traditions, illustrative of Early English History
and Literature, ed. Thoms, W. J. , 1839; A Contemporary narrative of
the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, prosecuted for Sorcery
1324, ed. Wright, T. , 1843; A Relation . . . of the Isle of England c. 1500,
trans. from the Italian by Sneyd, C. A. , 1847; and Letters of Queen
Margaret of Anjou, etc. , ed. Monro, C. , 1863.
Cato. See bibliography to chap. viii under Burgh. Also Warton's Hist.
Eng. Poetry, 1840, $ XXVII.
Cookery Books, Two 15th cent. c. 1430 and 1450. Ed. Austin, T. E. E. T. S.
1888. For other books of cookery, important for the light they cast on
manners and social life, see The forme of Cury, a roll of ancient English
cookery compiled c. 90, by the master cook of king Richard II, ed.
Pegge, S. , 1780; Liber Cure Cocorum, a cookery book in verse, c. 1440,
ed. Morris, R. , Phil. Soc. , 1862; A noble Boke off Cookry (16th cent. ),
1882; Warner, R. , Antiquitates Culinariae, 1791; and an article in the
Quarterly Review, Jan. 1894.
Early English Text Society. Practically all the publications of both the
Original and the Extra Series are referred to under specific heads.
The list of works mentioned in the current prospectus as awaiting pub-
lication as soon as funds permit, and of MSS and old books which need
copying or re-editing, includes, inter alia, the following: Hampole's
unprinted works; Hereford's Bible translation; Lydgate's unprinted
works; early treatises on music; Skelton's englishing of Diodorus Siculus;
T. Breus's Passion of Christ, 1422; Lollard theological treatises; Hylton's
Ladder of Perfection; John Watton's englished Speculum Christiani;
Steryn Scrope's Doctryne and Wysedome of the Auncyent Philosophers,
1450; Alain Chartier's Quadrilogue englished; Shirley's Book of Gode
Maners; The Court of Sapience; Wynkyn de Worde's English and
French Phrase-book; the Craft of Nombryoge, the earliest English
treatise on Arithmetic; the Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew's
Hospital, c. 1425; Caxton's Mirror of the World, etc. , etc. It is to be
hoped that the Society may soon be able to publish the above and many
more texts urgently needed.
Gy de Warewyke, Speculum. Ed. Morrill, G. L. E. E. T. S. Ex. Ser. Lxxv.
1898.
Hazlitt, W. C. (ed. ). Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England.
4 vols. 1864.
A valuable collection of fabliaux, debates, tales in verse, etc. The
first volume contains, among other poems, The King and the Barker, a
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"borde' of the King and Miller, or Rauf Coilzear type, of a king's
adventures with one of his subjects; The Cokwolds Daunce, an Arthurian
tale to which reference has already been made (vol. 1, p. 464); The Thrush
and the Nightingale debate from the Digby MS, temp. Edw. I: 'Somer is
comen with love to toune'; Ragman Roll, a satire on women; The
Debate of the Carpenter's Tools; Colyn Blowbols Testament, cf. The
Testament of Mr Andro Kennedy, by Dunbar, referred to on p. 256 of the
present volume; The Childe of Bristowe, one of the most beautiful of
legends of filial devotion, a tale of self-sacrifice, to save a covetous father
from the pains of purgatory, told with a direct simplicity that reveals the
audience to which it was probably addressed. When everything of his
father's illgotten wealth has been restored, and whatsoever else is left of
the inherited estate has been spent in alms and masses to relieve the pains
suffered by his father as revealed to him in fortnightly visions, the childe'
goes in quest of more money still to the 'maister' whose 'prentys' in
‘Bristow' he is, to sell himself as a slave:
myn owne body y wil selle to the,
for ever to be thy lad,
and the tale ends as an unsophisticated audience would wish it to end;
How the Wise Man taught his Son; How the Good Wife taught her
Daughter; How a Merchande dyd hys Wyfe Betray, or a Penniworth of
Wit (a tale of the testing of true and false love, c. 1335); A Mery Geste
how the Plowman lerned his Pater Noster; the Lyfe of Roberte the
Deryll, etc.
Volume II contains: Piers of Fullham, or 'vayne conseytes of folysche
love andyr colour of fyscheng and fowlyng'; The Batayle of Egynge-
courte; Adam Bel Clym of the Cloughe and Wyllyam of Cloudesle,
a ballad of the greenwood (see p. 408 of the present volume); together
with snndry other poems and The Nutbrowne Mayde.
Volume ili, among other pieces, contains The Debate and Stryfe
Betweene Somer and Wynter; The Tale of the Basyn, a popular, coarse
satire setting forth the unlucky adventures that happened to a priest and
his paramour by means of an enchanted 'basin'; A Mery Geste of the
Frere and the Boye, printed at London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the
sonne' by Wynkyn de Worde, about the year 1512 (Cambridge facsimile,
including the delightful woodcut, 1907), an amusing tale of enchantment,
popular in many forms, of 'a good sturdy ladde,' who became possessed
of a pipe the music of which caused beast and man to dance, even the
'frere set on by Jack's 'stepmoder' to beat him (cf. the version in the
Perey Folio MS, ed. Furnivall and Hales); The Turnament of Totenham
(referred to in vol. 1 of the present work, p. 366); A Mery Jest of Dane
Hew Monk of Leicestre, and how he was foure times slain and once
hanged; the Parlament of Byrdes; The smyth whych that forged hym
a new dame, a tale of magic, relating how a proud smith, emulating a
miracle of the Lord, who had re-made his 'old beldame' into a 'byrd
bright, so that she was
loveseme of chere,
Bright as blosome on brere,
None in Egypt her pere,
endeavoured to perform the same operation in the case of his wife. It is
a rough, comic tale, suited for a popular audience.
And volume iv contains The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous and other
reprints of 16th century 'bokes,' to which reference will be made in
volume ill of this work.
I
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Bibliography
Hunting of the Hare. A rough and tumble tale. See Weber, H. , Metrical
Romances of the mini, xiv and xv cent. , 3 vols. , Edinburgh, 1810.
Husbondrie, Palladius on. Trans. c. 1420. Ed. Lodge, B. and Herrtage, S. J.
E. E. T. S. LII-LXII. 1872-9.
Hymns to the Virgin and Christ, The Parliament of Devils, etc. Lambeth
MS 853, c. 1430. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1867. Contains Stans
Puer ad Mensam, How the Good Wife taught her Daughter, How the
Wise Man taught his Son, The Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life, etc.
Kildare, Satire on the people of. (1308. ) See Reliquiae Antiquae, II, 174 ff. ,
and Heuser, W. , Die Kildare-Gedichte, Bonn, 1904. An earlier work of
Irish interest is Dermot and the Earl (c. 1170), ed. Orpen, G. H. , Oxford,
1892.
Lollards. In addition to the poems mentioned in the bibliography to chap. 11,
see the satire in Ritson's Ancient Songs, ed. Hazlitt, p. 104.
Miracle Plays, Sermon agst. See Reliquiae Antiquae, 11, 42 ff. , and Mätzner, E. ,
Altengl. Sprachproben, I1, 222.
Miscellanies, Early English, in prose and verse,. . . 15th cent. Ed. Halliwell, J. O.
1855. (Contains The Friar and the Boy, the Vision of Philibert regarding
the Body and the Soul, Earth upon Earth (see Fiedler, H. G. , Mod. Lang.
Rev. , April 1908), a schorte tretice for a mane to knowe wyche tyme of
the zere hit is best to graffe or to plante treyus, the crafte of the
lymnynge of bokys, the mornyng' of a hunted hare, etc. , etc. )
Percy Society, 1840 ff. Among the volumes not referred to elsewhere under
specific heads may be mentioned The Payne and Sorowe of Evyll
Maryage, in verse, printed by Wynkyn de Worde 1509, ed. Collier, J. P. ,
1840; The Boke of Curtasye . . . poem, illustrative of the domestic manners
of the 15th cent. , ed. Halliwell, J. 0. , 1841; Paraphrase on the Seven
Penitential Psalms, in English metre, 15th cent, ed. Black, W. H. , 1842;
Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume, 13th to 19th cent. , ed. Fairholt,
F. W. , 1849; and A Poem on the times of Edward II from a MS in the
library of St Peter's College, Cambridge, ed. Hardwick, C. , 1849.
Political and other Poems (26) from Digby MS 102, etc. Ed. Kail, J.
E. E. T. S. 1904.
Political, Religions and Love Poems. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1866.
Re-edited 1903. Contains, among other things to which reference has
already been made, a sketch of the metrical romance of Amoryus and
Cleopes, by John Metham of Norwich, scholar of Cambridge 1448–9;
and a poem by Henry Baradoun, c. 1483, of a wastrel's life, from which
the following stanza may be quoted as a sample:
In the courte, is many noble Roome;
But god knowith, I can noon sochë cacche
ffrom a maister, I am be-come a grome,
And bonde mysilff to waytyng and to wacche;
With evere gadrin, I stonde behynde the hacche,
Gapyng and staryng wanderyng to and fro;
Zhit for all this, no good can I cacche:
Thus am I prentice and servaunt unto woe.
Quinte Essence, The Book of. c. 1460–70. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1866.
Robin Hood. See Sidney Lee's article in D. of N. B. ; Child, F. J. , English
and Scottish Popular Ballads, Boston, 1888; Hales, J. W. , in Hales and
Furnivall's edition of the Percy Folio MS, 1867, and the ballads there
printed; Ten Brink, B. , Hist. Eng. Lit. , Eng. trans. , vol. II, 184 ff. ;
Ritson, J. , Robin Hood: a Collection of all poems, etc. , relating to him,
2 vols. , 1795 ff. ; Thoms, W. J. , Early English Prose Romances, 1828 ff. ;
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Wright, T. , Essays on subjects connected with the Literature, Popular
Superstitions and History of England in the Middle Ages, 2 vols. , 1846,
vol. II; Pollard, A. W. , reprints Wynkyn de Worde's A little geste of
Robin Hood in his Fifteenth Century Poetry and Prose, 1903.
For Fulk Fitzwarine see History of Fulk Fitzwarine, an outlawed
baron, from a 13th cent. MS, with literal Eng. trans. and notes, ed.
Wright, T. , Warton Club, 1855; Wright, T. , Essays as above; ed. Michel, F. ,
Paris, 1834; and the recent trans. by Kemp-Welch, A. , in the King's
Classics Series, 1904. See also Moland, L. and d'Héricault, Ch. , in
Nouvelles françoises en prose du XIV s', Paris, 1858.
On the interesting race of outlaws generally, see Jusserand, J. J. ,
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, pp. 252 ff. In T. Wright's
Political Songs of England, Camden Soc. , 1839, p. 231, there is a spirited
'Outlaw's Song of Traillebaston,' of the time of Edw. II, the last verse of
which shows how the writer combined the arts of author and publisher in
'le jolyf umbray' of the 'vert bois de Belregard,
En le bois de Belregard, où vole le jay,
E chaunte russinole touz jours santz delay.
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Cest rym fust fet al bois desouz un lorer,
Là chaunte merle, russinole, e cyre l'esperver;
Escrit estoit en parchemyn pur mout remenbrer,
E gitté en haut chemyn, qe um le dust trover.
On the tale of the Eremyt and the Outlawe see Kaluza, M. , Engl.
Stud. XIV, 165-182.
Rotuli Parliamentorum. Rolls of Parliament, comprising Petitions, Pleas,
Proceedings of Parliament, 1278–1503. Ed. Strachey, J. 6 vols. 1767-
77. Index vol. 1832.
Roxburghe Club Books, 1812 ff. In addition to volumes referred to under
specifio heads, may be mentioned the volume of Manners and Household
Expenses of England in the 13th and 15th cents. 1841; the Household
Books of John, duke of Norfolk, and Thomas, earl of Surrey, 1481-90,
ed. Collier, J. P. , 1844; the Literary Remains of king Edward the Sixth,
ed. Nichols, J. G. , 2 vols. , 1857–8; Deguileville, G. , The pilgrimage of
the lyf of the manhode, ed. Wright, W. A. , 1869.
St Cecilia, The life of. From MS Ashmole 43 and MS Cotton Tib. E. VII.
Ed. Lovewell, B. E. Yale Studies in English.
