Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

far from heaven:the comfort of lovers As we have seen, the compiler of Rawlinson C. 813 or its exemplars implicitly abolishes th ...

Thou knowest the trouthe; I am to the true; Whan that thou lyst thou mayst them all subdue.” ( 39 – 42 ) In an unexplained shift ...

leads into the claim that in this world there are only love and hate“the trouth for to tell”( 121 ), which becomes a roundabout ...

ruling line–or perhaps under vigorous cross-questioning from such people to ascertain where his own true loyalties stood (“by th ...

defective“vnderstandynge”( 186 )ofthosewhohad“wened for to haue made an ende / Of my bokes before [t]he[y] hadde begynnynge”( 18 ...

experience of reading the poem, in which their referent at any given moment is slippery. In the face of the lady’s approving“I k ...

might initially have been“allusive, topical meanings”^75 come to take on new references. If the forms of apocalyptic thought rem ...

Of my lady and me, by dame fortunes chaunce, To mete togyders by wonder[f]ull ordynaunce. The seconde is, where fortune dooth me ...

In the third mirror the language of prophecy once again comes to the fore. The mirror contains“an ymage of the holy goost withfl ...

The sun and the mone on the sterre shall gone That after shall it neuer shyn ne couer^82 As the editors point out, it seems that ...

And like the previous meeting with the“lady of goodly age,”the encounter with Pucell herself is characterized by verbal obliquit ...

“Stephen Hawes”has become his own authorityaprès coup,afigure generated by the conjunction of two distinct but connected poems. ...

Ghost, the spirit moving the poet-prophet to write his“fatallfictions.” The three are linked by the absent monarch whose dynasty ...

lover’s condition is immediate:“I thynke some thynge be from you past and gone”( 705 ). His response–“I am not hole / your mercy ...

Thisfinal deferral is itself underwritten by an act of identification with literary“auctoryte,”sinceThe Comfort’s echoes of Lydg ...

influence history, is ultimately, and in spite of itself, an escape from history.^90 Hawes’s“preuyte,”it is implied, may not be ...

chapter 6 Mapping Skelton:“Esebon, Marybon, Wheston next Barnet” To move from a Hawes stranded by the accession of Henry VIII to ...

wary of surrendering clerical prerogative or crossing lines between anticler- ical commonplace and Lollardy or Lutheranism.^3 An ...

characterizes the commonplace book more generally. It would be entirely possible to schematize the poem’s relations to the other ...

Philology with“a gyfte in my neste when I lay, / To lerne all langage and hyt to speke aptlye” ( 44 – 45 ).“Langage,”as Parott l ...