Death and Liffe: A Alliterative PoemJames Holly Hanford, John Marcellus Steadman |
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Alanus allegory alliteration alliterative poems alliterative school alliterative verse alliterative words author of Death Awntyrs of Arthure bearnes behold beliue bidd blisse Brotanek Christ comelye common Court of Love Dame Liffe Death and Liffe Destruction of Troy dispute emendation English ffor fifteenth century Gawain Glossary Hales-Furnivall half line Harrowing of Hell haue heauen Holt Holthausen Iesu King knights Lady Anima Lady Liffe Ladye layd leaue Liffe and Scotish Liffe author loue lowted Luick manye medieval debate metre Midland Morte Arthure Nature neuer notes to lines Parl Parlement passage Percy Folio Piers Plowman Planctu poet quath romance Scamman Schumacher Scotish Feilde scribe shee similar Sir Comfort Skeat thee theme thou Thre Ages tradition Trois morts vision vnder vnto vpon wayte William of Palerne winlye winn Winnere and Wastoure wold yonder York Powell
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Page 243 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page 249 - Kynde is a creator,' quath Wit • ' of alle kyne thynges, Fader and formour • of al that forth groweth, The which is god grettest • that gynnynge hadde neuere, Lord of lytf and of lyght • of lysse and of payne Angeles and alle thyng • aren at hus wil; Man is hym most lyk • of members and of face, And semblable in soule to god • bote yf synne hit make.
Page 283 - IX. Alle bare was the body, and blak by the bone, Vmbeclosut in a cloude, in clething evyl clad ; Hit 3aulut, hit 3amurt, lyke a woman, Nauthyr of hyde, nyf of heue, no hillyng hit had; Hyt stedyt, hit stode as stylle as a stone ; Hyt menet, hit musut, hyt marret for madde. Vn-to the gryselyche gost Syr Gauane is gone, And rayket to hit in a res, for he was neuyr radde...
Page 264 - Likinge & Sir Loue alsoe, Sir Cunninge & Sir Curtesye that curteous were of deeds, & Sir Honor ouer all vnder her seluen, a stout man & a staleworth, her steward I-wisse. 105 She had ladyes of loue longed her about: Dame Mirth & Dame Meekenes & Dame Mercy the hynd, Dallyance & Disport, 2 damsells ffull sweete, with all beawtye [&] blisse bearnes to behold. There was minstrelsye made in full many a wise, 110 88. Some word, probably a word beginning with p, has obviously been omitted by the copyist....
Page 282 - —P. " The word woe in the first half line is the difficulty; may it be the AS wo, woh, in the original sense of bent, inclined? Or rather it's put for wo[d]e, mad. Winne is joy, pleasure." — Sk. Winne seems to be right. Skeat's suggestions, however, are far-fetched and the line remains' a puzzle. 142. In a, nooke of the north. Cf. Piers Plowman, n, 112ff. See Introduction, p. 247. Cf. also Piers Plowman, xxi, 168: " Out of the nype of the north.
Page 265 - ... that ronge in the bankes; all the world was full woe winne to behold. Or itt turned from 12 till 2 of the clocke 140 much of this melodye was maymed & marde. In a nooke of the north there was a noyse hard as itt had beene a home, the highest of others, with the biggest bere that euer bearne wist, & the burlyest blast that euer blowne was throughe the rattlinge rout runge ouer the ffeelds; the ground gogled for greeffe of that grim dame. I went nere out of my witt for wayling care.
Page 262 - I there glode, methought itt lengthened my liffe . to looke on the bankes. Then among the fayre flowers . I settled me to sitt vnder a huge hawthorne . that hore was of blossomes ; I bent my backe to the bole . and blenched to the stremes.
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Page 281 - Schofield cites as examples Philosophia in Boethius, Reason in The Romance of the Rose, Holichurche in Piers Plowman. We may add Natura in Alanus' De Planctu. 119. Cf. Piers Plowman, n, 76: Thanne knelede ich on my knees and criede hure of grace, And preiede hure pytously. Sk. infers that " praysed " should be
Page 273 - ... marde, thou makes thy avant. Of one point lett vs proue or wee part in sunder : how didest thou iust att Jerusalem with lesu my Lord ? Where thou deemed his deat[h] in one dayes time, there was thou shamed & shent & stripped ffor aye.