index 507Meditations on Sin (Vaughan
Lock) 267
melancholy 44, 53, 90, 123,
245, 246, 254, 302, 381, 382,
383, 447
Melisata (Ravencroft) 436
Melville, Elizabeth 444
memento mori 127, 168, 239,
247, 298, 447
“Men call you fayre, and you
doe credit it” (Spenser). See
Amoretti: Sonnet 79 (Spenser)
“Merchant’s Tale, The” (Chaucer)
87, 100, 101, 111, 196
Meres, Francis 74, 358
Merlin (Lovelich) 30–31
Metamorphoses (Ovid) 2, 89,
90, 100, 107, 118, 168, 220,
288, 302, 362, 365, 372,
373, 416
metaphysical poetry 224
Meters of Boethius (Alfred the
Great) 26, 267–268, 480
“Methought I saw the grave,
where Laura lay” (Raleigh)
268–269
metonymy 68, 269, 291, 429
metrical charms 110
metrical preface to the Pastoral
Care 6, 26, 269–270
Middle English language 111,
120, 201, 270–271
Middle English lyrics and
ballads 271–272
contempt for the world
in 127
“Erthe toc of the Erthe with
woh” 168
by Herebert (William) 461
“In Praise of Mary” 227
“I Sing of a Maiden” 227–
228, 271, 272
“Jesus, My Sweet Lover”
231
“Jolly Jankyn” 232, 271
laments 239
“Lenten ys come with love
to toune” 246, 271
“Maiden in the Mor Lay”
260–261
“My Lief is Faren in Londe”
283
“The Wily Clerk” 472
Middle English poetry 272–274
alliteration in 9, 10, 11, 29,
272, 273
Bevis of Hampton 81
chiasmus in 113
Floris and Blauncheflur 189
“Foweles in the Frith” 192,
272
by Mannyng (Robert) 213,
214
The Owl and the Nightingale
302–303
Pearl 273, 312
Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede
319
romance 273, 346–347
Sir Orfeo 414
Middle Irish poetry 154, 156
Middle Scots (literary language)
274
Middle Scots poetry
by Barbour (John) 73,
93–94
by Blind Hary 454
by Douglas (Gavin) 148,
215
by Dunbar (William) 152,
215, 274
by Henryson (Robert) 215,
216, 433, 447
by James I 215, 236
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
(Shakespeare) 368
“Miller’s Tale, The” (Chaucer) 6,
87, 100, 173, 274–276, 316,
340, 482
“Mine Own John Poins” (Wyatt)
276–277, 425, 465, 474
minor epic. See epyllion
Minot, Laurence 277
“The Siege of Calais” 408
minstrels 92, 101, 155, 208, 347
Mirour de l’Omme (Gower) 25,
122, 210
Mirror for Magistrates, A 136,
266, 277–278, 459
mirrors for princes 93, 125,
187, 278, 304, 442
“Monk’s Tale, The” (Chaucer)
101, 187, 191
monumentum aere perennius 387
Morall Fabillis of Esope the
Phrygian, The (Henryson) 76,
86, 215–216, 278–282
Morall Fabillis: “The Cock and
the Fox” (Henryson) 279,
280–281
Morall Fabillis: “The Fox and the
Wolf” (Henryson) 279, 281
Morall Fabillis: “The Lion and
the Mouse” (Henryson) 279,
281–282
More, Sir Thomas 129, 282,
330, 440
“De principe bono et malo”
146, 282
Morte d’Arthur (Malory) 28–29,
115, 347
Morton, John 282
“Most glorious Lord of lyfe, that
on this day” (Spenser). See
Amoretti: Sonnet 68 (Spenser)
“Most happy letters fram’d by
skilfull trade” (Spenser). See
Amoretti: Sonnet 74 (Spenser)
“Most Welcome Love” (Heneage)
187Mum and the Sothsegger 10, 249,
282–283, 320, 330
Murray, James Stewart, earl
of 88
“My Galley Charg’d with
Forgetfulness” (Wyatt) 283
“My Lief is Faren in Londe”
283–284
“My love is as a fever, longing
still” (Shakespeare). See
Shakespeare’s sonnets: Sonnet
147
“My love is lyke to iyse, and I to
fyre” (Spenser). See Amoretti:
Sonnet 30 (Spenser)
“My Lute Awake!” (Wyatt)
284–285, 479
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing
like the sun” (Shakespeare).
See Shakespeare’s sonnets:
Sonnet 130
“My mouth doth water, and my
breast doth swell” (Sidney).
See Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet
37 (Sidney)
“My Radcliffe” (Surrey) 285
“My Sweetest Lesbia” (Campion)
88, 285–286
“My tongue-tied muse
in manners holds her
still” (Shakespeare). See
Shakespeare’s sonnets: Sonnet
85n
Nashe, Thomas 287, 352
“A Litany in Time of Plague”
247–248, 287
nationalism 3, 11, 29, 72, 81,
93, 134, 161, 173, 191, 423,
454–456
nature poem 246
“Nature That Washed Her
Hands in Milk” (Raleigh)
287–288
Nennius 29, 432, 481
Neoplatonism 14, 21, 22, 40,
120–121, 386
New Critics 359
New Historicist critics 157, 469
Newman, Thomas 34
New World 288, 336, 339
“New yeare forth looking out
of Janus gate” (Spenser). See
Amoretti: Sonnet 4 (Spenser)
“Nightingale, The” (Sidney)
288–289
Noínden Ulad 154–155
“No more, my deare, no more
these counsels trie” (Sidney).
See Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet
64 (Sidney)
“No more be grieved at
that which thou hastdone” (Shakespeare). See
Shakespeare’s sonnets: Sonnet
35
Norman Conquest, The (1066)
25, 270, 272, 289–290
Norton, Thomas 85
“Not at first sight, nor with a
dribbèd shot” (Sidney). See
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 2
(Sidney)
Nowell Codex. See Cotton
Vitellius A.xv
“Now Goth Sonne Under Wod”
269, 271, 290–291
“Now that of absence the most
irksome night” (Sidney). See
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 89
(Sidney)
“Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The”
(Chaucer) 76, 101, 172, 279,
280, 284, 291–293, 316, 343
“Nymph’s Reply to the
Shepherd, The” (Raleigh)
293–294, 310, 311O
“O, call not me to justify the
wrong” (Shakespeare). See
Shakespeare’s sonnets: Sonnet
139
“O, how I faint when I of you
do write” (Shakespeare). See
Shakespeare’s sonnets: Sonnet
80
“O, never say that I was false
of heart” (Shakespeare). See
Shakespeare’s sonnets: Sonnet
109
“O absent presence, Stella is not
here” (Sidney). See Astrophil
and Stella: Sonnet 106
(Sidney)
oaths. See chivalric oaths; feudal
oaths
Occleve, Thomas. See Hoccleve,
Thomas
“Ocean To Cynthia, The”
(Raleigh) 336
octave (octet) 295, 354
Octonaries (Inglis) 444
“Ode, An” (Barnfield) 133, 134
Odes (Horace) 7, 104, 355,
373–374
“Ode to the Virginian Voyage”
(Drayton) 288
“O Dieux ayez de moy
compassion” (Mary, Queen
of Scots). See Casket Letters:
Sonnet 1 (Mary, Queen of
Scots)
Odyssey (Homer) 174
oferhygd 78, 79, 295
ofermod 75, 76, 78, 295