- BL MS Cotton Cleopatra Civ. Fol. 123 v; printed as“A Prophecy by the Stars”in
Rossell Hope Robbins,“Poems Dealing with Contemporary Conditions,”inA
Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050 – 1500 , ed. Albert E. Hartung, vol.
v(New Haven, 1967 – 93 ), 1530. The poem exists in three other MSS. - Gerald Bordman,Motif-Index of the English Metrical Romances(Helsinki,
1963 ), H 31. 1 .( 46 ). - This view is taken by Spearing,Medieval to Renaissance,p. 259.
- See Richard Firth Green,“TheCraft of Loversand the Rhetoric of Seduction,”
Acta 12 ( 1985 ), 105 – 25. - Minor Poems, 160 – 61 ; Fox,Politics and Literature, 66 – 67 ; Lerer,Courtly Letters,
80 – 82. - See William Calin,The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval
England(Toronto, 1994 ), 250 – 62 ( 258 ). - Freud,“Mourning and Melancholia,” 244 .In“‘Processe of Tyme’: History,
Consolation and Apocalypse in the Book of the Duchess,”Exemplaria 2 ( 1990 ),
659 – 83 , Richard Rambuss links psychoanalysis and apocalypse in his reading of
Chaucer’s poem, on the grounds that they“work the same terrain: both
depend upon the uncovering of secrets as the necessary key to effecting a
solution or cure”( 669 ). - John Lydgate,“The Temple of Glas,”Poems, ed. John Norton-Smith (Oxford,
1966 ), lines 1203 – 04. - Alistair Fox observes that the poem“resembles the specially contrived enter-
tainments put on before foreign ambassadors that emblematically and sym-
bolically foreshadowed the desired outcome of the negotiations at hand”
(Politics and Literature, 72 ). On such a showing, we might say, Hawes
appropriates the publicly emblematic discourse of royal power for privately
motivated symbolism.
6 mapping skelton: “esebon, marybon, wheston
next barnet”- See Walker,John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520 s, 35 – 52 , 100 – 23.
2 .John Skelton and Early Modern Culture,ix. - W. Scott Blanchard,“Skelton: The Voice of the Mob in Sanctuary,”Rethinking
the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts, ed. Peter
C. Herman (Urbana, 1994 ), 123 – 44. - Richard Halpern,The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance
Culture and the Genealogy of Capital(Ithaca, 1991 ), 113 – 20. - See further A. S. G. Edwards,“Dunbar, Skelton and the Nature of Court
Culture in the Early Sixteenth Century,”Vernacular Literature and Current
Affairs, ed. Britnell and Britnell, 120 – 34. - Ulrich Frost,Das“Commonplace Book”von John Colyns: Untersuchung und
Teiledition der Handschrift Harley 2252 der British Library in London(Frankfurt-
on-Main, 1988 ), 276. See, further, Carol M. Meale,“The Compiler at Work: John
Colyns and BL MS Harley 2252 ,”Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth-Century
212 Notes to Pages 138 – 46