Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

influence history, is ultimately, and in spite of itself, an escape from
history.^90 Hawes’s“preuyte,”it is implied, may not be revealed until the
end of time and its human and historical tribulations, when all is revealed.
It is perhaps in this sense alone that Hawes’s“fatalfictions”inThe Comfort
of Lovershold out a remote hope of“comfort.”

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