No More Learning

Rigg, in D. of N. B. ). Littleton's book will be
further dealt with in a later section of the present work dealing with
legal literature. MSS in Cambridge University library, Mm. 5. 2,
Ee. 1. 2, Dd. 11. 60; first edition published by Letton and Machlinia;
later, by Pynson, c. 1495 ff. See ed. Tomlins, T. E. , 1841. Littleton's will
throws interesting light on the contents of his library.
Losinga, Herbert de (1054 ? -1119), first bishop of Norwich and founder
of Norwich cathedral. For his sermons, printed from a Cambridge MS,
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Bp H. de L. , 2 vols. , 1878. The letters throw much light on current
monastic life and on educational method.
Lyndwood, William (1375 ? -1446), Cambridge and Oxford scholar, canonist
and author of Constitutiones Provinciales Ecclesiae Anglicanae, printed
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Manuale Sacerdotum. For MSS, see Miss Bateson's article in
D. of N. B.
Duties of a Parish Priest. Ed. Peacock, E. E. E. T. S. 1868. This
poem, which Mirk says he translated from the Latin Pars Oculi, is neither
a versified translation of John de Burgh's Pupilla Oculi (a dictionary
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Richard of St Victor (d. 1173? ), mystic and philosopher. Of Scotch birth,
but whose life was spent in the Parisian abbey of St Victor. For a list of
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Robert of Avesbury (A. 1350), military chronicler of the deeds of Edw. III
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the designs which adorn his life of Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick
(Cott. MS Jul. E. iv), are of some interest.
Scogan, Henry (1361 ? -1407), poet and friend of Chancer. He must not be
confused with the somewhat mythical John Scogan (f. 1480 ? ), court
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Tiptoft, John, earl of Worcester (14272-70), patron of scholars, purchaser
of books, translator of Cicero and as cruel a man as any of the tyrants
of the Italian renascence. Among the scholars whom John Tiptoft
patronised, John Phreas (d. 1465) must not be forgotten. He was one of
the remarkable company of students who sought knowledge in Italy,
before the revival of letters made itself felt in England. And an earlier
patron of Phreas was William Grey of Balliol, bishop of Ely, whose
love of classical learning had taken him abroad to procure books and
whose college and cathedral benefited largely through his generous
gifts.
Walsingham, Thomas (d. 1422), chronicler. Chronicon Angliae (1328-88),
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2 vols. , 1863; Ypodigma Neustriae, ed. Riley, H. T. , Rolls Series, 1876.
As indicated in previous chapters, Walsingham is of chief importance in
connection with Wyclif and the peasants' revolt. He is an adverse
witness in the matter of the Lollards.
The relation of the above
chronicles to each other and to other chronicles and MSS is discussed by
Leadam, I. S. , in the D. of N. B.
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See also Warton, T. , Hist. Eng. Poet. , vol. II, sect. xx (1840), pp. 255-6.
Walter of Henley's Husbandry, etc. Ed. Lamond, E. R. Hist. Soc. 1890.
Wey, The Itineraries of William (14072-76), Fellow of Eton College, to
Jerusalem, 1458–62, etc. Roxburghe Club, 1857.
William of Drogheda (d. 1245 ? ), scholar of Oxford and canonist. MSS in
Caius College, Cambridge, etc.
William of Ramsey (A. 1219), monk of Crowland, poet and writer of saints'
lives. His Guthlac poem is in the Cambridge University Library
(Dd. xi. 78).
Woodville, A. For the 'balet' or virelai on fickle fortune, composed by the
ill-fated Anthony Woodville, second earl Rivers (14422-83), in Ponte-
fract castle, shortly before he was executed, see Percy's Reliques, Rous's
chronicle, ed. Hearne, and Ritson's Ancient Songs, ed. Hazlitt, W. C. ,
6
p. 149.
Worcester, Wm. (1415-82? ), scholar of Oxford, traveller, chronicler and
secretary to Sir John Fastolf (see Paston Letters). For a complete list
of his writings, of which an Itinerarium, ed. Nasmith, J. , 1778, is, perhaps,
the most important, see the article by Tait, J. , in D. of N. B.
Agincourt, poems on. See the Percy Reliques, 3rd ser. bk 1; Warton,
$ XX; etc.
Anecdota Literaria. Ed. Wright, T. 1844. Contains, in addition to items
previously discussed, fabliaus (The Miller of Abington, etc. ), Goliardic
poems, poems on the Different Classes of Society and miscellaneous
pieces such as Ragman Roll.
Babees Book, The (c. 1475), Aristotle's ABC (c. 1430), Urbanitatis (c. 1460),
Stans Puer ad Mensam, The Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke (c. 1480),
The Bokes of Nurture of Hugh Rhodes (temp. Henry VIII) and John
Russell (c. 1460-70), Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of Keruynge (1513),
The Booke of Demeanor (1619), The Boke of Curtasye (1430-40) (see also
Breul, K. , Eng. Stud. ix, 51 ff. ), Seager's Schoole of Vertue (1557), etc. , etc. ,
with some French and Latin poems on like subjects, and some Forewords
on Education in Early England. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. 1868. The volume
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also contains some of Richard Hill's transcriptions, in one of which the
poet speaks sympathetically of the schoolboy of his time (c. 1500):
I wold ffayn be a clarke;
but yet hit is a strange werke;
the byrchyn twyggis be so sharpe,
hit makith me have a faynt harte.
what avaylith it me thowgh I say nay?
Songs, Carols and other Miscellaneous Poems from the Balliol MS 354
(Richard Hill's Commonplace Book) has just been published (1908) by
the E. E. T. S. , ed. Dyboski, R.
Barnwell Priory. Liber Memorandorum Ecclesie de Bernewelle. Ed. Clark,
J. W. , with an introduction by Maitland, F. W. 1907.
Camden Society. 1838 ff. In addition to the volumes referred to elsewhere
under specific heads, may be mentioned the Plumpton correspondence,
ed. Stapleton, T. (Letters, chiefly domestic, temp. Edw. IV-Henry VIII),
1839; Anecdotes and Traditions, illustrative of Early English History
and Literature, ed. Thoms, W. J. , 1839; A Contemporary narrative of
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Eng. Poetry, 1840, $ XXVII.
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1888. For other books of cookery, important for the light they cast on
manners and social life, see The forme of Cury, a roll of ancient English
cookery compiled c. 90, by the master cook of king Richard II, ed.
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1882; Warner, R. , Antiquitates Culinariae, 1791; and an article in the
Quarterly Review, Jan. 1894.
Early English Text Society. Practically all the publications of both the
Original and the Extra Series are referred to under specific heads.
The list of works mentioned in the current prospectus as awaiting pub-
lication as soon as funds permit, and of MSS and old books which need
copying or re-editing, includes, inter alia, the following: Hampole's
unprinted works; Hereford's Bible translation; Lydgate's unprinted
works; early treatises on music; Skelton's englishing of Diodorus Siculus;
T. Breus's Passion of Christ, 1422; Lollard theological treatises; Hylton's
Ladder of Perfection; John Watton's englished Speculum Christiani;
Steryn Scrope's Doctryne and Wysedome of the Auncyent Philosophers,
1450; Alain Chartier's Quadrilogue englished; Shirley's Book of Gode
Maners; The Court of Sapience; Wynkyn de Worde's English and
French Phrase-book; the Craft of Nombryoge, the earliest English
treatise on Arithmetic; the Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew's
Hospital, c. 1425; Caxton's Mirror of the World, etc. , etc. It is to be
hoped that the Society may soon be able to publish the above and many
more texts urgently needed.
Gy de Warewyke, Speculum. Ed. Morrill, G. L. E. E. T. S. Ex. Ser. Lxxv.
1898.
Hazlitt, W. C. (ed. ). Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England.
4 vols. 1864.
A valuable collection of fabliaux, debates, tales in verse, etc. The
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"borde' of the King and Miller, or Rauf Coilzear type, of a king's
adventures with one of his subjects; The Cokwolds Daunce, an Arthurian
tale to which reference has already been made (vol. 1, p. 464); The Thrush
and the Nightingale debate from the Digby MS, temp. Edw. I: 'Somer is
comen with love to toune'; Ragman Roll, a satire on women; The
Debate of the Carpenter's Tools; Colyn Blowbols Testament, cf. The
Testament of Mr Andro Kennedy, by Dunbar, referred to on p. 256 of the
present volume; The Childe of Bristowe, one of the most beautiful of
legends of filial devotion, a tale of self-sacrifice, to save a covetous father
from the pains of purgatory, told with a direct simplicity that reveals the
audience to which it was probably addressed. When everything of his
father's illgotten wealth has been restored, and whatsoever else is left of
the inherited estate has been spent in alms and masses to relieve the pains
suffered by his father as revealed to him in fortnightly visions, the childe'
goes in quest of more money still to the 'maister' whose 'prentys' in
‘Bristow' he is, to sell himself as a slave:
myn owne body y wil selle to the,
for ever to be thy lad,
and the tale ends as an unsophisticated audience would wish it to end;
How the Wise Man taught his Son; How the Good Wife taught her
Daughter; How a Merchande dyd hys Wyfe Betray, or a Penniworth of
Wit (a tale of the testing of true and false love, c. 1335); A Mery Geste
how the Plowman lerned his Pater Noster; the Lyfe of Roberte the
Deryll, etc.
Volume II contains: Piers of Fullham, or 'vayne conseytes of folysche
love andyr colour of fyscheng and fowlyng'; The Batayle of Egynge-
courte; Adam Bel Clym of the Cloughe and Wyllyam of Cloudesle,
a ballad of the greenwood (see p. 408 of the present volume); together
with snndry other poems and The Nutbrowne Mayde.
Volume ili, among other pieces, contains The Debate and Stryfe
Betweene Somer and Wynter; The Tale of the Basyn, a popular, coarse
satire setting forth the unlucky adventures that happened to a priest and
his paramour by means of an enchanted 'basin'; A Mery Geste of the
Frere and the Boye, printed at London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the
sonne' by Wynkyn de Worde, about the year 1512 (Cambridge facsimile,
including the delightful woodcut, 1907), an amusing tale of enchantment,
popular in many forms, of 'a good sturdy ladde,' who became possessed
of a pipe the music of which caused beast and man to dance, even the
'frere set on by Jack's 'stepmoder' to beat him (cf. the version in the
Perey Folio MS, ed. Furnivall and Hales); The Turnament of Totenham
(referred to in vol. 1 of the present work, p. 366); A Mery Jest of Dane
Hew Monk of Leicestre, and how he was foure times slain and once
hanged; the Parlament of Byrdes; The smyth whych that forged hym
a new dame, a tale of magic, relating how a proud smith, emulating a
miracle of the Lord, who had re-made his 'old beldame' into a 'byrd
bright, so that she was
loveseme of chere,
Bright as blosome on brere,
None in Egypt her pere,
endeavoured to perform the same operation in the case of his wife. It is
a rough, comic tale, suited for a popular audience.
And volume iv contains The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous and other
reprints of 16th century 'bokes,' to which reference will be made in
volume ill of this work.
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