- For this suggestion, see P. Parker, “Stephen Hawes,” Times Literary
Supplement, 21 June 1928 , 468. - Divina Commedia, Purgatorio, ix, 112 – 14 , where they are the wounds
(‘piaghe”) of sin ( 114 ).
70 .The Court of Sapience, ed. E. Ruth Harvey (Toronto, 1984 ), 134 – 35.
71 .Minor Poems, 158. - I cite here Alistair Fox,“Prophecies and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII,”
Reassessing the Henrician Reformation, ed. Alistair Fox and John Guy, 77 – 94
( 79 – 80 ). See, too, Rupert Taylor,The Political Prophecy in England(New
York, 1911 ), 35 ; Erwin Herrmann, “Spätmittelalterliche englische
Pseudoprophetien,”Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 57 ( 1975 ), 87 – 116 ; Sharon
L. Jansen, Political Protest and Prophecy under Henry VIII(Woodbridge,
1991 ); Lesley A. Coote,Prophecy and Public Affairs in Later Medieval England
(Woodbridge, 2000 ). - See Patricia A. Parker,Inescapable Romance: Studies in the Poetics of a Mode
(Princeton, 1979 ), 57 – 59 , and especially“Deferral, Dilation, Différance:
Shakespeare, Cervantes, Jonson,” Literary Theory/Renaissance Texts,ed
Patricia Parker and David Quint (Baltimore, 1986 ), 183 – 209. The latter essay
in particular has much assisted my own, both in its discussion of the
Apocalypse as“history’s own deferred Recognition scene”( 189 ), and its sug-
gestive mapping of a movement in several Renaissance texts among various
forms of deferral and closure–erotic, apocalyptic, rhetorical. - Alan of Lille,PL 210. 137.
- Fox,“Prophecies and Politics,” 80.
- “Political Poems of the Reigns of Henry VI and Edward IV, communicated by
Sir Frederic Madden, K. H., in a Letter to John Gage Rokewode, Esq., Director
S. A.,”Archaeologia 29 ( 1842 ), 318 – 47 ( 330 – 31 ); see also R.H. Robbins (ed.),
Historical Poems of thexivth andxvth Centuries(New York, 1959 ), 218. - R. H. Bowers,“‘When cuckow time cometh ofte so soon’: A Middle English
Animal Prophecy (Lansdowne MS 762 , fols. 59 – 61 ),”Anglia 73 ( 1955 / 56 ), 292 –
98 (lines 24 , 28 ).
78 .The Story of England, by Robert Manning of Brunne, AD 1338 , ed. F. J. Furnivall,
2 vols., Rolls Series 87 (London, 1887 ),i, lines 8221 – 28. - The Isle of Ladies or the Ile of Pleasaunce, ed. Anthony Jenkins (New York,
1980 ), lines 2229 – 32.
80 .SarahKay,“The Contradictions of Courtly Love and Origins of Courtly Poetry:
The Evidence of theLauzengiers,”JMEMS 26 ( 1996 ), 209 – 53 ( 224 ). Standing for
other courtiers and other poets, thelosengiers“constitute an uncanny double of
the desired audience as well as of the perfomer, ready with their envious tongues
to criticize his performance and prevent his fulfilment”( 228 ). On the infernal
losengier, see also Emmanuèle Baumgartner,“Trouvères et‘Losengiers,’”Cahiers
de Civilisation Médiévale 25 ( 1982 ), 172 note 12. - MS St. Pauls’s Cath. 8 , fol. 47 r, printed inReliquiae Antiquae, ed. T. Wright
and J. O. Halliwell, 2 vols. (London, 1841 – 43 ); see also Siegfried Wenzel,
“Unrecorded Middle English Verses,”Anglia 92 ( 1974 ), 55 – 78 ( 76 ).
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