A tale of
chastity
put to the proof.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02
E.
T.
S.
1904.
Political, Religions and Love Poems. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1866.
Re-edited 1903. Contains, among other things to which reference has
already been made, a sketch of the metrical romance of Amoryus and
Cleopes, by John Metham of Norwich, scholar of Cambridge 1448–9;
and a poem by Henry Baradoun, c. 1483, of a wastrel's life, from which
the following stanza may be quoted as a sample:
In the courte, is many noble Roome;
But god knowith, I can noon sochë cacche
ffrom a maister, I am be-come a grome,
And bonde mysilff to waytyng and to wacche;
With evere gadrin, I stonde behynde the hacche,
Gapyng and staryng wanderyng to and fro;
Zhit for all this, no good can I cacche:
Thus am I prentice and servaunt unto woe.
Quinte Essence, The Book of. c. 1460–70. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1866.
Robin Hood. See Sidney Lee's article in D. of N. B. ; Child, F. J. , English
and Scottish Popular Ballads, Boston, 1888; Hales, J. W. , in Hales and
Furnivall's edition of the Percy Folio MS, 1867, and the ballads there
printed; Ten Brink, B. , Hist. Eng. Lit. , Eng. trans. , vol. II, 184 ff. ;
Ritson, J. , Robin Hood: a Collection of all poems, etc. , relating to him,
2 vols. , 1795 ff. ; Thoms, W. J. , Early English Prose Romances, 1828 ff. ;
9
:
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503
Wright, T. , Essays on subjects connected with the Literature, Popular
Superstitions and History of England in the Middle Ages, 2 vols. , 1846,
vol. II; Pollard, A. W. , reprints Wynkyn de Worde's A little geste of
Robin Hood in his Fifteenth Century Poetry and Prose, 1903.
For Fulk Fitzwarine see History of Fulk Fitzwarine, an outlawed
baron, from a 13th cent. MS, with literal Eng. trans. and notes, ed.
Wright, T. , Warton Club, 1855; Wright, T. , Essays as above; ed. Michel, F. ,
Paris, 1834; and the recent trans. by Kemp-Welch, A. , in the King's
Classics Series, 1904. See also Moland, L. and d'Héricault, Ch. , in
Nouvelles françoises en prose du XIV s', Paris, 1858.
On the interesting race of outlaws generally, see Jusserand, J. J. ,
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, pp. 252 ff. In T. Wright's
Political Songs of England, Camden Soc. , 1839, p. 231, there is a spirited
'Outlaw's Song of Traillebaston,' of the time of Edw. II, the last verse of
which shows how the writer combined the arts of author and publisher in
'le jolyf umbray' of the 'vert bois de Belregard,
En le bois de Belregard, où vole le jay,
E chaunte russinole touz jours santz delay.
>
Cest rym fust fet al bois desouz un lorer,
Là chaunte merle, russinole, e cyre l'esperver;
Escrit estoit en parchemyn pur mout remenbrer,
E gitté en haut chemyn, qe um le dust trover.
On the tale of the Eremyt and the Outlawe see Kaluza, M. , Engl.
Stud. XIV, 165-182.
Rotuli Parliamentorum. Rolls of Parliament, comprising Petitions, Pleas,
Proceedings of Parliament, 1278–1503. Ed. Strachey, J. 6 vols. 1767-
77. Index vol. 1832.
Roxburghe Club Books, 1812 ff. In addition to volumes referred to under
specifio heads, may be mentioned the volume of Manners and Household
Expenses of England in the 13th and 15th cents. 1841; the Household
Books of John, duke of Norfolk, and Thomas, earl of Surrey, 1481-90,
ed. Collier, J. P. , 1844; the Literary Remains of king Edward the Sixth,
ed. Nichols, J. G. , 2 vols. , 1857–8; Deguileville, G. , The pilgrimage of
the lyf of the manhode, ed. Wright, W. A. , 1869.
St Cecilia, The life of. From MS Ashmole 43 and MS Cotton Tib. E. VII.
Ed. Lovewell, B. E. Yale Studies in English. 1898.
Scotland, National MSS of. Vol. 11. 1870. For a letter from the earl of
March to Henry IV of England, etc.
Speculum Christiani. Printed by W. de Machlinia, attributed to John
Watton. 1482-47.
Stacions of Rome, The. The Pilgrims Sea-voyage. Clene Maidenhod.
Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1867.
Tales, An Alphabet of. An English 15th cent. trans. of Alphabetum
Narrationum (B. M. Addit. MS). Ed. Banks, Mrs M. Macleod. 1904.
Stories of deeds of saints, of miracles, of the punishments of the wicked
and the rewards of the virtuous. 2 vols. E. E. T. S. CXXVI, CXXVII.
Three Kings of Cologne, The. An Early English (prose 15th cent. ] trans, of
the Historia Trium Regum of John of Hildesheim. Ed. Horstmann, C.
E. E. T. 8. 1886.
Three Kings' Sons. Englisht from the French. c. 1500. Ed. Furnivall, F. J.
1895.
Vision of the Monk of Evesham. A 15th century rendering from the Latin.
Ed. Arber, E. 1861. For other examples of the popular vision literature
## p. 504 (#522) ############################################
504
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which contains descriptions of the tortures of the damned of the two-
pence coloured' type.
Wright's Chaste Wife, The. c. 1462. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1865.
A tale of chastity put to the proof.
Addit. Analogs to. Clouston, W. A. E. E. T. 8. 1886.
Ilustratire IVritings, etc.
Barnard, F. P. (ed. ). Strongbow's Conquest of Ireland. Eng. Hist. from
Contemp. Writers Series. 1888.
Bateson, M. Medieval England, 1066-1350. 1905. A scholarly and well
illustrated book. See especially the chapter on Henry II, in which his
court is compared with that of a Medici at the time of the greatest
intellectual revival,' and also the chapters on the church, education and
learning.
Black Death and Peasants' Rerolt. See Traill's Social England, vol. 11, and
the bibliography to chapters XVII, vol. I, and 1, vol. II, of the present work.
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Depping, G. B. and Michel, F. Wayland Smith. 1817.
Digby, K. H. Mores Catholici. 3 vols. 1831 ff.
Dugdale, W. Monasticum Anglicanum. 8 vols. 1655 ff.
Earle, J. English Plant Names from the 10th to the 15th centuries. Oxford.
1880.
Fairholt, F. W. Costume in England . . . from the earliest period to the close
of the 18th cent. 2nd ed. 1860.
Furnivall, Dr, An English Miscellany presented to, in honour of his 75th
birthday. Oxford, 1901. Contains, in addition to other items referred to
elsewhere, papers on The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
(A. Brandl), The Gospel of Nicodemus and the York Mystery Plays
(W. A. Craigie), The Origin of the Liturgical Drama (P. Butler), oid
English Dialogue Literature (M. T. W. Förster), The Sister's Son (F. B.
Gummere), Rhetoric in the translation of Bede (J. M. Hart), Emenda-
tions to the text of Havelok (F. Holthausen), Pageants and Scaffolds Hye
(J. J. Jusserand), Some English Plays and Players, 1220-1548 (A. F.
Leach), Colour in the English and Scottish Ballads (W. E. Mead),
Contributions to 0. E. Literature, An Old English Homily on the Ob-
servance of Sunday, etc. (A. S. Napier), Three Footnotes, Barbour, Morte
Arthure, etc. (G. Neilson), Amadas et Idoine (G. Paris), Beowulf and
Watanabe-no-Tsuna (F. York Powell), John Audelay's poem on the
observance of Sunday (R. Priebsch), Andreas and Fata Apostolorum
(W. W. Skeat), The Introduction of English as the vehicle of instruction
in English Schools (John of Cornwall and Richard Pencrych) (W. H.
Stevenson).
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505
1
Gairdner, J. The historical collections of a citizen of London in the 15th cent.
(John Page's poem on the siege of Rouen, Wm. Gregory's chronicle of
London, etc. ). Camden Soc. 1876. (See also his edition of Three 15th
century chronicles, in the same series, 1880. )
Memorials of Henry VII, including B. Andro's life of Henry VII and
poems, etc. Rolls Series. 1858.
Letters and Papers illustrative of the reigns of Richard III and
Henry VII. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1861-3.
Garnett, B. English Literature, an illustrated record. Vol. I. 1903.
Contains an admirable selection of specimens of MSS, old prints and
other illustrative material.
Gayley, C. M. Classic Myths in English Literature. Boston. 1893.
Gibbins, H. de B. Industrial History of England. 1890.
Gierke, O. Political Theories of the Middle Ages. Trans. , Maitland, F. W.
Cambridge, 1900.
Gilds, English, their Statutes and Customs. 1389. Ed. Smith, T. and
Smith, L. T. E. E. T. S. 1870. Contains an excellent introductory essay
by Brentano, L.
Green, Alice S. Town life in the Fifteenth Century. 2 vols. 1894.
Gross, C. The Sources and Literature of English History . . . to about 1485.
1900.
Hall, H. Court Life under the Plantagenets (Henry II). 1890.
Hallam, H. Introduction to the literature of Europe in the 15th-17th
centuries. 4 vols. 1837 ff.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages.
Political, Religions and Love Poems. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1866.
Re-edited 1903. Contains, among other things to which reference has
already been made, a sketch of the metrical romance of Amoryus and
Cleopes, by John Metham of Norwich, scholar of Cambridge 1448–9;
and a poem by Henry Baradoun, c. 1483, of a wastrel's life, from which
the following stanza may be quoted as a sample:
In the courte, is many noble Roome;
But god knowith, I can noon sochë cacche
ffrom a maister, I am be-come a grome,
And bonde mysilff to waytyng and to wacche;
With evere gadrin, I stonde behynde the hacche,
Gapyng and staryng wanderyng to and fro;
Zhit for all this, no good can I cacche:
Thus am I prentice and servaunt unto woe.
Quinte Essence, The Book of. c. 1460–70. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1866.
Robin Hood. See Sidney Lee's article in D. of N. B. ; Child, F. J. , English
and Scottish Popular Ballads, Boston, 1888; Hales, J. W. , in Hales and
Furnivall's edition of the Percy Folio MS, 1867, and the ballads there
printed; Ten Brink, B. , Hist. Eng. Lit. , Eng. trans. , vol. II, 184 ff. ;
Ritson, J. , Robin Hood: a Collection of all poems, etc. , relating to him,
2 vols. , 1795 ff. ; Thoms, W. J. , Early English Prose Romances, 1828 ff. ;
9
:
## p. 503 (#521) ############################################
Chapter XVIII
503
Wright, T. , Essays on subjects connected with the Literature, Popular
Superstitions and History of England in the Middle Ages, 2 vols. , 1846,
vol. II; Pollard, A. W. , reprints Wynkyn de Worde's A little geste of
Robin Hood in his Fifteenth Century Poetry and Prose, 1903.
For Fulk Fitzwarine see History of Fulk Fitzwarine, an outlawed
baron, from a 13th cent. MS, with literal Eng. trans. and notes, ed.
Wright, T. , Warton Club, 1855; Wright, T. , Essays as above; ed. Michel, F. ,
Paris, 1834; and the recent trans. by Kemp-Welch, A. , in the King's
Classics Series, 1904. See also Moland, L. and d'Héricault, Ch. , in
Nouvelles françoises en prose du XIV s', Paris, 1858.
On the interesting race of outlaws generally, see Jusserand, J. J. ,
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, pp. 252 ff. In T. Wright's
Political Songs of England, Camden Soc. , 1839, p. 231, there is a spirited
'Outlaw's Song of Traillebaston,' of the time of Edw. II, the last verse of
which shows how the writer combined the arts of author and publisher in
'le jolyf umbray' of the 'vert bois de Belregard,
En le bois de Belregard, où vole le jay,
E chaunte russinole touz jours santz delay.
>
Cest rym fust fet al bois desouz un lorer,
Là chaunte merle, russinole, e cyre l'esperver;
Escrit estoit en parchemyn pur mout remenbrer,
E gitté en haut chemyn, qe um le dust trover.
On the tale of the Eremyt and the Outlawe see Kaluza, M. , Engl.
Stud. XIV, 165-182.
Rotuli Parliamentorum. Rolls of Parliament, comprising Petitions, Pleas,
Proceedings of Parliament, 1278–1503. Ed. Strachey, J. 6 vols. 1767-
77. Index vol. 1832.
Roxburghe Club Books, 1812 ff. In addition to volumes referred to under
specifio heads, may be mentioned the volume of Manners and Household
Expenses of England in the 13th and 15th cents. 1841; the Household
Books of John, duke of Norfolk, and Thomas, earl of Surrey, 1481-90,
ed. Collier, J. P. , 1844; the Literary Remains of king Edward the Sixth,
ed. Nichols, J. G. , 2 vols. , 1857–8; Deguileville, G. , The pilgrimage of
the lyf of the manhode, ed. Wright, W. A. , 1869.
St Cecilia, The life of. From MS Ashmole 43 and MS Cotton Tib. E. VII.
Ed. Lovewell, B. E. Yale Studies in English. 1898.
Scotland, National MSS of. Vol. 11. 1870. For a letter from the earl of
March to Henry IV of England, etc.
Speculum Christiani. Printed by W. de Machlinia, attributed to John
Watton. 1482-47.
Stacions of Rome, The. The Pilgrims Sea-voyage. Clene Maidenhod.
Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1867.
Tales, An Alphabet of. An English 15th cent. trans. of Alphabetum
Narrationum (B. M. Addit. MS). Ed. Banks, Mrs M. Macleod. 1904.
Stories of deeds of saints, of miracles, of the punishments of the wicked
and the rewards of the virtuous. 2 vols. E. E. T. S. CXXVI, CXXVII.
Three Kings of Cologne, The. An Early English (prose 15th cent. ] trans, of
the Historia Trium Regum of John of Hildesheim. Ed. Horstmann, C.
E. E. T. 8. 1886.
Three Kings' Sons. Englisht from the French. c. 1500. Ed. Furnivall, F. J.
1895.
Vision of the Monk of Evesham. A 15th century rendering from the Latin.
Ed. Arber, E. 1861. For other examples of the popular vision literature
## p. 504 (#522) ############################################
504
Bibliography
of the Middle Ages, in addition to those mentioned in vol. 1 of the present
work (e. g. as recorded by Bede, etc. ), see The Visions of Tundale,
ed. Turnbull, W. B. , D. D. , Edinburgh, 1843; Wager, A. , Halle, 1893,
which contains descriptions of the tortures of the damned of the two-
pence coloured' type.
Wright's Chaste Wife, The. c. 1462. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. 1865.
A tale of chastity put to the proof.
Addit. Analogs to. Clouston, W. A. E. E. T. 8. 1886.
Ilustratire IVritings, etc.
Barnard, F. P. (ed. ). Strongbow's Conquest of Ireland. Eng. Hist. from
Contemp. Writers Series. 1888.
Bateson, M. Medieval England, 1066-1350. 1905. A scholarly and well
illustrated book. See especially the chapter on Henry II, in which his
court is compared with that of a Medici at the time of the greatest
intellectual revival,' and also the chapters on the church, education and
learning.
Black Death and Peasants' Rerolt. See Traill's Social England, vol. 11, and
the bibliography to chapters XVII, vol. I, and 1, vol. II, of the present work.
Bourne, H. R. Fox. English Merchants. 2 vols. 1866.
Buckle, H. T. Introd. to the History of Civilisation in England. Ed.
Robertson, J. M. 1904.
Burton, J. H. History of Scotland, from Agricola's invasion to 1688. 7 vols.
Edinburgh. 1867-70.
Comparetti, D. Virgilio nel medio evo. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Florence, 1896.
Darmesteter, A. M. F. The end of the Middle Ages. 1889.
De Vitry, Jacques. The Exempla, or illustrative stories from de V? s Sermones
Vulgares. Ed. Crane, T. F. Folklore Soc. 1890.
Denton, W. England in the 15th cent. 1888.
Depping, G. B. and Michel, F. Wayland Smith. 1817.
Digby, K. H. Mores Catholici. 3 vols. 1831 ff.
Dugdale, W. Monasticum Anglicanum. 8 vols. 1655 ff.
Earle, J. English Plant Names from the 10th to the 15th centuries. Oxford.
1880.
Fairholt, F. W. Costume in England . . . from the earliest period to the close
of the 18th cent. 2nd ed. 1860.
Furnivall, Dr, An English Miscellany presented to, in honour of his 75th
birthday. Oxford, 1901. Contains, in addition to other items referred to
elsewhere, papers on The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
(A. Brandl), The Gospel of Nicodemus and the York Mystery Plays
(W. A. Craigie), The Origin of the Liturgical Drama (P. Butler), oid
English Dialogue Literature (M. T. W. Förster), The Sister's Son (F. B.
Gummere), Rhetoric in the translation of Bede (J. M. Hart), Emenda-
tions to the text of Havelok (F. Holthausen), Pageants and Scaffolds Hye
(J. J. Jusserand), Some English Plays and Players, 1220-1548 (A. F.
Leach), Colour in the English and Scottish Ballads (W. E. Mead),
Contributions to 0. E. Literature, An Old English Homily on the Ob-
servance of Sunday, etc. (A. S. Napier), Three Footnotes, Barbour, Morte
Arthure, etc. (G. Neilson), Amadas et Idoine (G. Paris), Beowulf and
Watanabe-no-Tsuna (F. York Powell), John Audelay's poem on the
observance of Sunday (R. Priebsch), Andreas and Fata Apostolorum
(W. W. Skeat), The Introduction of English as the vehicle of instruction
in English Schools (John of Cornwall and Richard Pencrych) (W. H.
Stevenson).
## p. 505 (#523) ############################################
Chapter XVIII
505
1
Gairdner, J. The historical collections of a citizen of London in the 15th cent.
(John Page's poem on the siege of Rouen, Wm. Gregory's chronicle of
London, etc. ). Camden Soc. 1876. (See also his edition of Three 15th
century chronicles, in the same series, 1880. )
Memorials of Henry VII, including B. Andro's life of Henry VII and
poems, etc. Rolls Series. 1858.
Letters and Papers illustrative of the reigns of Richard III and
Henry VII. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 1861-3.
Garnett, B. English Literature, an illustrated record. Vol. I. 1903.
Contains an admirable selection of specimens of MSS, old prints and
other illustrative material.
Gayley, C. M. Classic Myths in English Literature. Boston. 1893.
Gibbins, H. de B. Industrial History of England. 1890.
Gierke, O. Political Theories of the Middle Ages. Trans. , Maitland, F. W.
Cambridge, 1900.
Gilds, English, their Statutes and Customs. 1389. Ed. Smith, T. and
Smith, L. T. E. E. T. S. 1870. Contains an excellent introductory essay
by Brentano, L.
Green, Alice S. Town life in the Fifteenth Century. 2 vols. 1894.
Gross, C. The Sources and Literature of English History . . . to about 1485.
1900.
Hall, H. Court Life under the Plantagenets (Henry II). 1890.
Hallam, H. Introduction to the literature of Europe in the 15th-17th
centuries. 4 vols. 1837 ff.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages.
