- Bawcutt,Gavin Douglas, 59.
51 .The Palis of Honoure, ed. David Parkinson (Kalamazoo, 1992 ), 121 , note to line
- John Norton-Smith reads Venus as an“apt patroness of history,”but
contends that she“ought not to be associated with the creation of the Angels, or
the fall of Satan”:“Ekphrasis as a Stylistic Element in Douglas’sPalis of
Honoure,”Medium Aevum 48 ( 1979 ), 240 – 53 ( 241 ).
- Derrida,Archive Fever, 4 note 1.
- Lerer,Chaucer and his Readers, 204.
5 me ́moires d’outre-tombe: love, rhetoric and
the poems of stephen hawes
1. Zumthor,“Great Game,” 495 ; seeLe Masque et la lumière, 48 – 49.
2 .Curial, 10.
3. Stephen Hawes,Minor Poems, xiii. Unless otherwise indicated, all biographical
and bibliographical information is taken from this edition.
4. National Archives PRO E 36 / 214 , fol. 28 r. This is the sole mention of Hawes in
the surviving portions of Heron’s accounts kept in the Public Record Office.
For discussion of this material, see Sydney Anglo,“The Court Festivals of
Henry VII: A Study Based upon the Account Books of John Heron, Treasurer
of the Chamber,”Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 43 ( 1960 / 61 ), 12 – 45.
5. John Bale,Scriptorum illustrium maioris Brytannia...catalogus(Basle, 1557 –
59 ; rpt. Farnborough, 1971 ), 632 : see S. J. Gunn,“Literature and Politics in
Early Tudor England,”Journal of British Studies 30 ( 1991 ), 216 – 21 ( 218 ). David
Starkeyfinds no mention of Hawes among the names of the Grooms of the
Privy or Secret Chamber, though he concedes that the“missing members of the
Secret Chamber can never...be identified with absolute certainty”:“King’s
Privy Chamber,” 26 – 58 ( 45 ). See, too, Lerer,Courtly Letters, 51. I am most
grateful to Dr. Gunn for initial pointers towardsThe Comfort of Lovers’s
possible connections with Mary Tudor’s role at the center of the burgeoning
chivalric cult of Henry VII’s last years.
6. Thomas Feylde,A Contrauersye bytwene a Louer and a Iaye, 22 (STC 10838. 7 ).
The phrase“Yonge Hawes”also appears in the prologue to Robert Copland’s
1530 edition of Chaucer’sParliament(hereThe Assemble)of Fowles,A 1 v (STC
5092 ); see A. S. G. Edwards,“An Allusion to Stephen Hawes,c. 1530 ,”Notes
and Queries 224 n.s. 26 ( 1979 ), 397.
7. Stephen Hawes,The Pastime of Pleasure, ed. W. E. Mead, EETS OS 173
(London, 1928 ). All references toThe Pastimeare to this edition.
8. On Henry VII’s propagandist use of his Lancastrian lineage, see Sydney Anglo,
Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy(Oxford, 1969 ), 36 – 43.
9. Depictions of Lydgate presenting the work to Henry V are common to all
illustrated manuscripts of theTroy Bookapart from BL MS Royal 18 .D.ii: see
Lesley Lawton,“The Illustration of Late Medieval Secular Texts, with Special
Reference to Lydgate’sTroy Book,”Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth-Century
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