506 index
lament (continued)
by Shakespeare (William)
239, 252, 318, 337, 369,
370, 371, 373, 382, 448
by Sidney (Sir Philip) 47,
48, 55, 63, 67
by Skelton (John) 318
by Spenser (Edmund) 185,
239
by Surrey (Henry Howard)
297, 418, 419, 464
by Vaughan Lock (Anne)
267
in “The Wife’s Lament” 470
in “The Wily Clerk” 472
in “Wulf and Eadwacer”
476
by Wyatt (Sir Thomas) 146,
424, 465
“Lament for the Makaris”
(Dunbar) 153, 215, 237,
239–240, 353
Landevale 412
Land of Cockaygne 352
Langland, William 240
Piers Plowman. See Piers
Plowman (Langland)
and St. Erkenwald 426
“Lanval” (Marie de France) 30,
240–241, 264, 412
Latin (language)
alphabet of 197
Boccaccio (Giovanni) using
87
Gower (John) using 210
hermeneutical 5
prestige of 124, 449
and vernacular 449
Virgin lyrics in 451
Lattre Examynacyon, The (Askew)
71
“Laüstic” (Marie de France)
241–242, 264
lay 242–243
by Chaucer (Geoffrey) 91,
100, 101, 195, 243, 347,
416
by Marie de France 30,
82–83, 112–113, 159,
211–212, 240–242, 243,
264
Sir Orfeo 414–416
by Spenser (Edmund) 167
Layamon 29–30, 243
The Brut 10, 95, 243
classical tradition and 117
“Leave me, O Love” (Sidney).
See Certain Sonnets 32: “Leave
me, O Love” (Sidney)
leechbooks 110
legenda 213
Legend of Good Women, The
(Chaucer) 89, 111, 118, 151,
199, 201, 202, 229, 243–245,
255, 302, 353
Leicester, Robert Sidney, earl of
216, 245–246, 424
“Lenten ys come with love to
toune” 246–247, 271, 343
“Lenvoy de Chaucer a Bukton”
(Chaucer). See “Envoy to
Bukton” (Chaucer)
“Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan”
(Chaucer). See “Envoy to
Scogan” (Chaucer)
Leofric (bishop) 170–171
“Let dainty wits crie on the
Sisters nine” (Sidney). See
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 3
(Sidney)
“Let me not to the marriage of
true minds” (Shakespeare).
See Shakespeare’s sonnets:
Sonnet 116
“Let not my love be called
idolatry” (Shakespeare). See
Shakespeare’s sonnets: Sonnet
105
“Letter to Raleigh” (Spenser)
173–174, 175, 178, 268
“Levavi Oculos.” See Sidneian
Psalms: Psalm 121 (Herbert)
Lewis, C. S. 133
Liber Exoniensis. See Exeter Book
“Lie, The” (Raleigh) 247
Life of Jack Wilton, The (Nashe)
287
Life of the Renowned Sir Philip
Sidney, The (Greville) 211
“Like as the waves make
towards the pebbled
shore” (Shakespeare). See
Shakespeare’s sonnets: Sonnet
60
“Lion and the Mouse, The”
(Henryson). See Morall Fabillis:
“The Lion and the Mouse”
(Henryson)
list-sonnet 422
“Litany in Time of Plague, A”
(Nashe) 247–248, 287
“Little Love-god, lying once
asleep, The” (Shakespeare).
See Shakespeare’s sonnets:
Sonnet 154
locus amoenus 151, 248, 422
Lollardism 208, 248–249, 263,
283, 319, 320, 322, 323,
327, 330
“London, hast though accused
me” (Surrey) 249–250, 429
“London work” (Chaucer).
See General Prologue to the
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Longas Macc n-Uisnig 155
“Long Love that in my Thought
Doth Harbor, The” (Wyatt)
250, 256
“Look in thy glass and tell
the face thou viewest”(Shakespeare). See
Shakespeare’s sonnets:
Sonnet 3
“Lord Randal” 250–251
Lovelich, Henry 30–31
Lovely Boy 137, 140, 251,
358–359, 361, 362, 363, 367,
370, 372, 379, 380, 382, 385,
388, 389, 421
Lover’s Complaint, A
(Shakespeare) 121, 251–253,
358, 401, 448, 473
Lover’s Confession, The (Gower).
See Confessio Amantis
(Gower)
“Lover Showeth How He Is
Forsaken of Such as He
Sometime Enjoyed, The”
(Wyatt) 253–254. See also
“They Flee from Me” (Wyatt)
lovesickness 254–255
Love’s Martyr (Chester) 318,
319
“Love that doth reign and live
within my thought” (Surrey)
255–256
“Loving in truth, and fain
in verse my love to show”
(Sidney). See Astrophil and
Stella: Sonnet 1 (Sidney)
“Lullabie” (Gascoigne) 256
“Lullay, Lullay, Like a Child”
(Skelton) 256–257
lute song. See ayre
lycanthropy 83
Lydgate, John 257–258
aureation used by 69, 258
and Chaucer (Geoffrey)
163, 187, 257
and Dunbar (William) 153,
239
envois by 163
The Fall of Princes 89, 101,
186–187, 191, 258, 277
and Gower (John) 210
and Hoccleve (Thomas)
219
and Skelton (John) 199
and Surrey (Henry Howard)
34
translations by 186
Virgin lyrics by 450
“Lyke as a huntsman after weary
chace” (Spenser). See Amoretti:
Sonnet 67 (Spenser)
lyric romance 346M
Mabinogin 30
“Mac Dathó’s Pig” 154
“Madam, Withouten Many
Words” (Wyatt) 259
madrigal 88, 99, 103, 107, 149,
259, 310Magnificence (Skelton) 417
“Maiden in the Mor Lay” 260–
261, 451
makars 274, 352, 353
Malone, Edmond 359
Malory, Sir Thomas 28–29,
115, 347, 459–460
“Manciple’s Tale, The” (Chaucer)
101–102
Mann, Jill 207
“Mannerly Margery” (Skelton)
190
Mannyng, Robert, of Brunne
261
Handlyng Synne 213–214,
261
“Man of Law’s Tale, The”
(Chaucer) 87, 100, 123, 249,
261–263, 334, 343
manuscript 263–264
Marcus, Leah 475
Marie de France 25, 264
on Arthur 30, 240, 264
“Bisclavret” 82–83, 264
“Chevrefoil” 112–113,
243, 264
“Eliduc” 159, 264
fables by 76, 172, 264,
292, 343
“Guigemar” 211–212,
242, 264
“Lanval” 30, 240–241,
264, 412
“Laüstic” 241–242, 264
Marlowe, Christopher 265,
287, 356
blank verse used by 85,
265
Hero and Leander 168, 217–
218, 265, 310, 448
“The Passionate Shepherd to
His Love” 104, 265, 293,
309–310, 311
translations by 118, 265,
302
Marxist critics 102, 157, 275,
469
Mary I (queen of England) 130,
214, 266, 389
and Elizabeth I 159, 160,
266, 475, 476
Heywood (John) on 70–71,
266
Mary, Queen of Scots 230,
266–267
Casket Letters 104–106,
267
and Elizabeth I 146–148,
160, 161
“Maye Eclogue” (Spenser). See
Shepheardes Calender, The:
“Maye Eclogue” (Spenser)
McLane, Paul E. 402
medial caesura 98
medieval lyric 271