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Bozon, Nicole, 420

Brabourne, 134

Bradley, Henry, 35, 36, 89

Bradshaw, Henry (1831-1886), 45, 62,
103, 167

Henry (d. 1518), 210

Bradwardine, Thomas, Doctor Profundus
(1290?-1849), 18, 31, 355

Braes o' Yarrow, The, 412

Brampton, T. 496

Branxton Hill, 371

Braybrook, near Leicester, 67
Breisach on the Rhine, 74

Brek, Simon, in Wyntoun's Crony kil, 180
Bretherne and systars, The rule of the
living of the, 825

Bretts (or Welsh'), 89

Bride, in The Golden Legend, 335

Bridlington, 211

Brigham, Nicholas (d. 1558), 36

Briseida. See Chaucer's Troilus
Bristol, 212, 338, 428

Britain, Roman occupation of, 842; Ger-

manic conquest of, 396

Britanny, duchess of, in Morte Arthure,

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Broom o' Cowden knowes, The, 418
Broomfield Hill, The, 414
Brother, The Cruel, 412
Brothers, The Twa, 412
Brown Robin, 411

Robyn's Confession, 418
Browning, E. B., 233

Bruce, Ed. (d. 1818), 101. See also in
Barbour's Bruce, 105, 106

Bobt (1274-1829), 100, 101, 102,
103, 109, 114, 130, 280
Bruges, 54, 811, 812, 888
Brunanburh, battle of, 400

Brunetto Latini, Trésor, 80, 149, 150

Brunton, Thomas (bishop of Rochester,
f. 1873-1889), 55, 58

Brute, The, J. Maundeville's trans., 301
Brutus, 822

Bryan, Sir Francis (d. 1550), 340
Buchan, Peter (1790-1854), 409

100

the harrying of, by Robert Bruce,

Buchanan, George (1506–1582), 96; Cha-
maeleon, 285

Bugge, 8., 417

Bukton (Chaucer's), 161, 187

Bungay, Friar, 350

Bunyan, John, 201; The Pilgrim's Pro-

gress, 200, 229

Buranic verse, 385

Burbon, in The Faerie Queene, 234
Burgh, Benet or Benedict (d. 1488), 199,
208; Cato, 209, 312, 427; Secrets of
Philosophers, 208; A Christmas Game,
209; poem to Lydgate, 209; Aristotle's
ABO, 209

Thomas, 214
Burgundian court, 312

Burgundy, Margaret, duchess of (1446–
1508), 307, 309

Philip, duke of, 811

Burley, Walter (d. 1345), 868
Burne, Nicol (Л. 1581), 285
Burnham Thorpe, 801

Burns, Robert, 247, 267, 274, 278, 418;
Address to the Deil, 255; The Dying
Words of Poor Mailie, 255; John
Barleycorn, 279; Scotch Drink, 278
Bury St Edmunds, 197, 198, 307
But, John (Piers the Plowman), 21, 22,

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Cade, Jack, 802, 424

Cadion, Andrew, 284
Caerleon, 308

Caesar, Julius, 80, 111, 339
(Shakespeare's), 887

CAIM, Wyclif's expression, 54, 443
Cain, 20

Cairo, 80, 82, 298

Calais, 888, 423, 424

Calle, Richard, 305

Calliope in The Palice of Honour, 260
Cambridge, 67, 103, 104, 180, 199, 221,

805, 307, 341 ff., 867, 868; Benedictine
school at, 349; Statuta Antiqua, 360,
861. See also 'Philogenet'
Bene't, or Corpus Christi College, 846,
354

Christ's College, 858

Clare College. See University Hall
Corpus Christi College, 854. See also
under Bene't

God's House, 358

Jesus College, 358

King's College, 288, 357, 858
King's Hall, 352, 354, 358

Magdalene College, 358; Pepysian
library, 224, 316, 423
Michaelhouse, 354, 358, 366
Pembroke Hall, 355

Peterhouse, 302, 308, 347, 852, 858 ff.,
862 ff., 871; chained library at, 362,
864 ff.

Queens' College, 358

St Catherine's College, 358

St John's College, 358

St John, hospital of, 358

St Radegund, priory of, 858
Trinity College, 854, 858
Trinity Hall, 354
University Hall, 354
Cambridgeshire, 197

Cambuscan, 184

Camden Society, 500

Canace, in Confessio Amantis, 151, 152

Cancioneros, Spanish, 268

Candlemas, 878

Canmore, Malcolm, 180

Canterbury,

in

Shakespeare's King

Henry V, 77

-

monk-chronicler of, 801

Canticles, 48

Canute, song of, 397 ff.

Canutus, Benedict, Regimen contra pesti-
lentiam, 319

Capgrave, John (1893-1464), 287, 295;
Annals, 287; guide to Rome, 287; life
of St Gilbert of Sempringham, 287; life
of St Katherine, 287; life of Humphrey,
duke of Gloucester, 287; Chronicle,
287; Famous Henries, 287; lives of
St Augustine, St Gilbert and St Norbert,
480

Captain Car, 406, 408, 412

Wedderburn's Courtship, 409
Capystranus, metrical romance, 326
Carey, Henry (d. 1743), 272
Carlisle, 116, 122, 411
Carmelites, 349, 350

Caro (Flesh), in Piers the Plowman, 19
Carols, 373 ff.

326

sung at Queen's College, Oxford,

Carolles, Christmasse (Wynkyn de
Worde's), 393

Carpenter's Tools, Debate of the, 500

Carthage, 74

Carthusian monks, 61

Cassiodorus, 863, 366

Castle of Pleasure, The, 827
Catiline, in The Palice of Honour, 261
Cato. See Burgh and Caxton
Cawline, Sir, 414

Caxton, Wm (1421-8-1491), 73, 77, 97,
160, 161, 198, 209, 228, 245, 264,
810 ff., 832 ff., 421, 429; the Egg-
story, 316

Aesop's Fables, 314, 334

Art of good living and good dying, 324
Aymon, The History of the Four Sons
of, 816, 332

Blanchardyn and Eglantine, The History
of, 316

Bonne meurs, Le livre des, 815
Cato, 209, 814

Charles the Great, The Life of, 814,
815

Chesse, Game and playe of the, 809,
312, 813

Chivalry, The Order of, 228, 314

Chronicle of Brute, 313, 334

Curtesye, Book of, 313, 427

Eneydos, 816

Fayttes of Arms, The, 316

Godfrey of Bologne, The History of,
813

Golden Legend, The, 314

Good Manners, The Book of, 315
Knight of the Tower, The Book of, 314,
833, 420

Mirror of the World, The, 318

Paris and Vienne, The History of, 314,
315, 319, 332

Recuyell of the Histories of Troy, 230,
811 ff.

Reynard the Fox, 245, 818, 314, 832
Royal Book, The, 315

Somme des Vices et des Vertus, La, 315

Trevisa's Higden's Polychronicon, Cax-

ton's revision of, 313

Vitae Sanctorum Patrum, 328
Cecilia de Chaumpaigne, 159
Cecilia, St, The life of, 503
Ceix, in Confessio Amantis, 151
Celestine, pope, 148
Celtic tales, 407

Cephalus, in Confessio Amantis, 152
Ceylon, 80

Chadd, in The Golden Legend, 335
Chalkhill, John (A. 1600), Thealma and
Clearchus, 218

Chalmers's Poets, 199

Cham, the Great, 79, 86

Chambers, E. K., Mediaeval Stage, The,
380

Charity, in Confessio Amantis, 148; in
The Example of Virtue, 227, 228; in
The Passetyme of Pleasure, 228

the tree of, in Piers the Plowman,
24, 27

Charlemagne, 112, 181, 339, 416; in Rauf
Coilzear, 125, 126

Charles V, 88, 838, 840

the Bold, 807

Charles the Great, Life of, 314, 315

Chartier, Alain, 164, 216

Chastity, tower of, in The Passetyme of
Pleasure, 231

Chaucer, Geoffrey (1840?-1400), 18, 39,

41, 72, 92 ff., 103, 110, 134, 135, 142,
143, 145, 146, 150 ff., 197, 198, 200,
204, 205, 207, 208, 210, 211, 213 ff.,
222, 225, 227 ff., 236, 239, 240, 243 ff.,
247, 248, 250, 252 ff., 257, 258, 261,
263 ff., 272, 295, 308, 314, 317, 323,
332, 334, 337, 340, 351, 352, 355, 364,
891, 403, 412, 416, 422, 429, 505
Works by, or attributed to, Chaucer:
A. B. C., 161, 162, 164, 167, 170
Anelida and Arcite, 161, 162, 164, 167,
171, 217, 812

Assembly of Fowls, The. See Parlia-

ment

Assembly of Ladies, The, 162, 164, 215,
217, 223

Astrolabe, 157, 161, 162, 185
Ballade in Commendation of our Lady,
4, 162

Boethius, 160 ff., 185, 186, 317
Bukton, The Envoy to, 162, 187
Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The, 211
Canterbury Tales, 135, 143, 145, 160 ff.,
167, 168, 174, 177, 180, 185, 187, 194,
215, 216, 218, 313, 814, 320, 323
Circumstance, 162

Clerk's Tale, The, 183, 188, 192, 350, 413
Complaint of Mars, The, 161, 162, 164,
167, 170

Complaint of Venus, The, 161, 162, 164,
187

Complaint to his Lady, The, 167, 170
Complaint unto Pity, The, 161, 164, 167,
170

Cook's Tale, The, 181

Death of Pity, The, 162
Dream, The. See Duchess, The book of

the

Duchess, The book of the [Death of
Blanche], 160 ff., 164, 167, 168, 170
Empty Purse, Complaint of Chaucer to
his, 161, 162, 187

Flower of Courtesy, The, 162
Former Age, The, 161, 186
Fortune, 161, 162, 186

Franklin's Tale, The, 184
Gentilesse, 161, 186

Good Counsel, Ballad of. See Truth
Goodly Ballade of Chaucer, A, 162
House of Fame, 160 ff., 167, 174, 175,
187, 188, 261, 314, 412
Knight's Tale, The, 168, 171, 174, 176,
178, 180, 188, 191, 193, 243
Lack of Steadfastness, 161, 162, 186
Legend of Good Women, The, 145, 150,

160 ff., 164, 167 ff., 174, 175, 217, 219
Lion, The book of the, 160, 161
Man of Law's Prologue and Tale, The,
161, 181

Manciple's Tale, The, 184

Melibeus, The Tale of, 180, 182, 185
Merchant's Prologue and Tale, The, 184,
215

Merciles Beaute, 187

Miller's Tale, The, 216
Monk's Tale, The, 180, 823
Nun's Priest's Tale, The, 183, 187
Palamon and Arcite, 161
Pardoner's Tale, The, 183, 215
Parliament of Fowls, The, 160 ff., 164,
167, 170, 172, 312 (Temple of Brass)
Parson's Prologue and Tale, The, 160,
185, 194, 216

Phyllis and Demophoon (Legend of
Good Women), 217

Physician's Tale of Virginia, 182, 183
Praise of Women, 4, 162

Prioress's Tale, The, 169, 180 ff., 190 ff.,
859

Prologue, The, 168, 178 ff., 182, 185,
191, 193

Reeve's Tale, The, 216

Rose, Romaunt of the, 161, 162, 164,
167 ff., 170, 240, 244

Rosemounde ballade, The, 161, 186
St Cecily. See The Second Nun's Tale
Sapience, 162

Scogan, The Envoy to, 187

Second Nun's Tale, The, 174, 178, 184
Shipman's Tale, The, 181
Squire's Tale, The, 174
Temple of Brass, 312

Thopas, Sir, 167, 180, 181, 188, 189,
195, 196

Troilus and Criseyde, 135, 145, 160 ff.,

167, 168, 170 ff., 176, 185, 188, 193,
230, 308, 314, 391
Truth, 161, 162, 186

Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, The,
169, 179, 180, 183, 192, 218, 254, 418
Chaucer, Agnes, wife of John Chaucer, 156
Elizabeth, 157

157

John, 156, 159

Philippa, wife of Geoffrey Chaucer,

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Childishness (Fauntelte), in Piers the
Plowman, 25

Children in the Wood, The, 408
China, 79

Chivalry, tower of, in The Passetyme of
Pleasure, 225

Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval le Gallois,
124

Christ, Hymns of, 426. See also under

Child Christ and Jesus
Christ, The Passion of (various works),
266, 284, 324, 328, 829
Christianorum, Tractatus de decem na-
tionibus, 880

Christine de Pisan, 208, 816; Moral Pro-
verbs of, 318; City of Ladies, 327
Christis Kirk on the Grene, 244, 250, 270,
271, 273, 274

Chronicle, Old English, 400, 420

English (1847-1461), 801

of the Brute, The, 313, 834
to Edwarde the iii, 308

Chroniclers, 14th and 15th century, 496 ff.
Chronicles of England, The, 301, 318, 319
Church, Holy, in Piers the Plowman, 2,
6 ff., 11, 17, 32

Church of Evil Men and Women, The,
824

The Last Age of the, 49
Chrysostom, St John, 365

Cicero, 359; de Amicitia, 308; pro Milone,
331

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Colkelbeis Feist, 277

Colkelbie, Stewarton, Ayrshire, in Col-
kelbie's sow, 126, 127

Colkelbie's sow, 126, 127

Collbrande (Excalibur), in Morte Arthure,
119

Cologne, 811, 812, 321

Cologne, Three Kings of, 823, 335, 508
Colt, the, in Mum, Sothsegger, 36
Columella, 868

Colyn Blowbols Testament, 500
Comestor, Peter, Magister Historiarum,
Historia Scholastica of, 365

Complaynt of Scotlande, The, 93, 94, 97,
98, 251, 268, 279, 280, 285
Complaynte of the Heart, The, 326
Comyns, the, 100

Concupiscencia-carnis, in Piers the Plow-
man, 25

Conscience, in Mirour de l'Omme, 140 ff. ;
in The Palice of Honour, 261; in Piers
the Plowman, 8ff., 16, 19, 20, 26 ff.
Consolation, The Rote or mirror of, 323
Constance, council of, 69

182

in Confessio Amantis, 147

in The Man of Law's Tale, 181,

Constantine, Breviary of (Viaticus), 365
in Confessio Amantis, 148, 151, 152
in Morte Arthure, 120

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Countenance, in The Assembly of Ladies,
217

Courage, in The Example of Virtue, 227
'Court of Good Company,' 208
Court of Love, The, 162, 164, 166, 167,
215, 217, 218, 220, 221, 223, 243, 261
Courtenay, William (1342?-1396), 55, 56
Courtesy, in The Passetyme of Pleasure,
229, 234; in The Faerie Queene, 234
Courthope, W. J., History of English
Poetry, 139

Courts of Love, 240
Coventriae, Ludus, 425
Coventry, 61

'Coventry' play, 425

Covetousness, in Piers the Plowman, 12
Covetyse-of-eyes, in Piers the Plowman,

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Cresseid, 247, 248

Davy Drunken-nole, 232

Daw Thopias, The Reply of Friar, 40
Death, in The Example of Virtue, 227; in
Mirour de l'Omme, 140; in The Passe-
tyme of Pleasure, 226; in Piers the
Plowman, 22, 27, 28, 38; in The Parle-
ment of the Thre Ages, 88; in Death
and Liffe, 40

Death and Liffe, 40, 41

The Doctrinal of, 823
Debates, 500, 501. See also The Controversy
between a lover and a Jay, 224, 326
Defoe, D., 82

Deguileville, Guillaume, 170, 200, 201,

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Deschamps, Eustache, 159, 467
Despair, in Piers the Plowman, 28

Cresseid, in Henryson's Testament of Detraction, in Confessio Amantis, 147;

Crow and Pie, 414

Crowland, or Croyland, 343

Crowned King, The, 40

Croyland, forged chronicle of, 399
Crusades, the, 337

Crux de te Volo Conqueri, 383

Cuckoo and the Nightingale, The. See
Clanvowe

Culdees at St Andrews, 367
Culross, 181

Cupid, in The Testament of Cresseid, 248

God of Love, in Confessio Amantis,
146; in The Palice of Honour, 260
Cupid God of Love, The book of, 216
Cursor Mundi, 189

Cuthbert Cutpurse, 232
Cynus super Codicem, 364
Cyprian, 365

Dacre, lord, friend of Gavin Douglas,
260

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in The Faerie Queene, 234
Devil, the, 366, 409

in Mirour de l'Omme, 140

Devils, The Parliament of, 325, 501
Devotion, in Mirour de l'Omme, 142
Dialogus linguae et ventris, 321

Diana, in The Flower and the Leaf, 219;
in Reason and Sensuality, 202
Dick o' the Cow, 415

Dickens, C., 177

Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers,
813, 427

Dictys Cretensis, 172

Didactic Literature, Old French, 507
Dido, in The Legend of Good Women,
264

Dietary of ghostly health, The, 327
Dieu save Dame Emme, in Piers the Plow-
man, 5

Digestum Inforciatum, 364
Novum, 364
Vetus, 364

Diligence, in The Assembly of Ladies, 217
Diogenes, in The Palice of Honour, 260
Diomed, in Confessio Amantis, 148
Diomede, in The Testament of Cresseid,

248

Directioun, in Douglas's Aeneid, 264
Directorium Sacerdotum, 315
Disciplina Clericalis, 150

Discretion, in The Example of Virtue,
227, 230; in The Palice of Honour,
261; in Piers the Plowman, 19
Disdain, in The Passetyme of Pleasure,
234

Disobedience, in Mirour de l'Omme, 140
Diss, 258

Dives and Pauper, 321, 323
Do-best, in Piers the Plowman, 2 ff., 18ff.,
24, 26, 28

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