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共 173 题- Fourteenth Century
- VERSE & PROSE
- KENNETH SISAM
- OXFORD
- AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
- M D CCCC XXI
- PRINTED IN ENGLAND.
- CONTENTS
- PAGE
- INTRODUCTION
- II
- III
- IV
- THE TEXTS
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY[28]
- DICTIONARIES.
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL.
- LITERATURE AND LEARNING.
- CHURCH HISTORY.
- GENERAL HISTORY.
- WORKS RELATING CHIEFLY TO FRANCE.
- A.D. 1303
- THE DANCERS OF COLBEK
- II
- SIR ORFEO
- III
- A.D. 1340.
- HOW MERCY INCREASES TEMPORAL GOODS.
- IV
- RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE
- D. 1349.
- A. LOVE IS LIFE.
- B. THE NATURE OF THE BEE.
- THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST.
- SIR GAWAYNE AND THE GRENE KNIGHT
- ABOUT 1350-75.
- THE TESTING OF SIR GAWAYNE.
- VI
- THE PEARL
- ABOUT 1375.
- VII
- ABOUT 1375.
- PROLOGUE.
- EXPLICIT PROLOGUE.
- VIII
- PIERS PLOWMAN
- BY WILLIAM LANGLAND
- A. FROM THE B-TEXT, PASSUS VI.
- IX
- MANDEVILLE'S TRAVELS
- EPILOGUE.
- THE BRUCE
- WRITTEN IN 1375 BY JOHN BARBOUR.
- XI
- JOHN WICLIF
- D. 1384.
- A. THE TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE.
- B. OF FEIGNED CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE.
- XII
- JOHN GOWER
- D. 1408.
- A. CEIX AND ALCEONE.
- B. ADRIAN AND BARDUS.
- XIII
- A. THE MARVELS OF BRITAIN.
- B. THE LANGUAGES OF BRITAIN.
- XIV
- POLITICAL PIECES
- A. ON THE SCOTS (ABOUT 1333).
- BY LAURENCE MINOT.
- B. THE TAKING OF CALAIS (1347).
- BY LAURENCE MINOT.
- C. ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD III, A.D. 1377.
- E. ON THE YEAR 1390-1.
- XV
- MISCELLANEOUS PIECES IN VERSE
- A. NOW SPRINGS THE SPRAY.
- B. SPRING.
- C. ALYSOUN.
- D. THE IRISH DANCER.
- E. THE MAID OF THE MOOR.
- F. THE VIRGIN'S SONG.
- G. JUDAS.
- H. THE BLACKSMITHS.
- I. RATS AWAY.
- XVI
- THE YORK PLAY 'HARROWING OF HELL'
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
- XVII
- THE TOWNELEY PLAY OF NOAH
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
- NOTES
- 36. _þat þey come to_: Construe with _hyt_ in l. 35.
- 46. _Aȝone_: _ȝ_ = _z_ here. The name is _Azo_ in the Latin.
- 127. _a saue_: lit. 'have safe', i.e. 'rescue'. _Saue_ is here adj.
- II
- 4. _frely_, 'goodly': _Lai le Freine_ has _ferly_ 'wondrous'.
- 115. 'What ails you, and how it came about?'; cp. l. 102.
- 170. 'Wherever you may be, you shall be fetched.'
- 446. _hadde he_, 'had she'. For _he_ (OE. _hēo_) = 'she' cp. l. 408.
- 458. 'An ill-matched pair you two would be!'
- 544. _Allas! wreche_: _wreche_ refers to the speaker, as in l. 333.
- 565. _in ynome_: '<had> taken up my abode'; _in_ 'dwelling' = NE. 'inn'.
- 599. _herof_ overloads the line and is omitted in the Ashmole MS.
- III
- IV
- 3. _blessed hym_, 'crossed himself'; cp. XII _b_ 86.
- 35. 'He brings it about at the green chapel <that>', &c.
- 37. _dyngeȝ_: for MS. _dynneȝ_; Napier's suggestion.
- 64. _for chaunce þat may falle_, 'in spite of anything that may happen'.
- 114. 'And it was all hollow within, nothing but an old cave.'
- 125. _in my fyue wytteȝ_: construe with _fele_.
- 169 f. 'Now, sweet sir, one can trust you to keep an appointment.'
- 181. _at a wap one_, 'at a single blow'.
- 233. _I hope_: here, and often in ME., _hope_ means 'believe', 'expect'.
- 258. _foo_, 'fiercely', adv. parallel with _ȝederly_.
- 269. _ry<n>kande_, 'ringing'; Napier's suggestion for MS. _rykande_.
- 286-7. 'Let a true man truly repay—then one need dread no peril.'
- 319. 'Let me win your good-will', 'Pardon me'.
- VI
- 48. _Þat_, 'who'.
- 74. _folde vp hyr face_, '<with> her face upturned'; _folde_ is pp.
- 106. 'Because you wear a ring on arm or finger.'
- 137. Matthew xx. 1-16.
- 139. 'He represented it very aptly in a parable.'
- 141. _My regne... on hyȝt_, 'My kingdom on high'.
- 200. _And_, 'If'.
- VII
- 15. _On lusti to loke_, 'pleasant to look upon'.
- 157. Note the slovenly repetition from l. 151. So l. 159 repeats l. 152.
- VIII
- IX
- 157. _grete notes of Ynde_, 'coco-nuts'.
- 222. _trayne_: read _taynere_, OFr. _taignere_ 'a burrow'.
- 49. _thame... of the toune_, 'the defenders of the town'.
- 51. _or than_, 'or else'.
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- 17. _were_: rime requires the alternative form _wǭre_.
- 49. _we_: read _ȝe_ (?). For what follows cp. Isaiah ix. 1-2.
- 86 ff. Cp. Matthew xvii. 3 ff., Mark ix. 2 ff.
- 162. John xi.
- 165. John xiii. 27.
- 188. _I prophicied_: MS. _of prophicie_ breaks the rime scheme.
- 240. _wolle_: read _wille_ for the rime.
- 267 ff. Cp. Ezekiel xxxi. 16, &c.
- 309. _Datan and Abiron_: see Numbers xvi.
- 360. _moste_: read _maste_ to rime with _taste_.
- 405. _louyng_: 'praise', cp. IV _a_ 24 (note).
- XVII
- 10. _is_: read _es_ for the rime. Cp. note to I 128-9.
- 42. _and sythen_: MS. _in sythen_. Cp. note to VI 36.
- 52. _coueteis_: MS. _couetous_.
- 109. _Hym to mekill wyn_: 'to his great happiness'.
- 137. _take_: 'make', and so in l. 272.
- 191. 'The worse <because> I see thee.'
- 202. _led_: 'treated'.
- 211. _sory_: the rime requires _sary_.
- 246. _to knaw_: 'to confess'.
- 292. _must vs_: cp. l. 334 and note to VI 192.
- 370. _Yei_ is defensible; cp. l. 353. _Þe_ 'the' has been suggested.
- APPENDIX
- What then is a ME. dialect? The accepted classification is
- Northern = OE. Northumbrian
- SUMMARY.
- OE.
- CORRIGENDA
- To Sisam's _Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose_
- End of Project Gutenberg's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose, by Various