A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the RenaissanceJusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)
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A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance
Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)
English literature -- History and criticism
[324] "Castel of Love," "made in the latter half of the XIIIth century,"
in Horstmann and Furnivall, "Minor Poems of the Vernon MS.," E.E.T.S.,
1892, Part I. p. 356, see below, p. 213. Grosseteste had said:
... Trestuz ne poent mie
Saver le langage en fin
D'Ebreu de griu ne de latin.
(_Ibid._ p. 355.)
[325] Among the collections of English sermons from the twelfth to the
fourteenth century, see "An Old English Miscellany," ed. Morris, Early
English Text Society, 1872, 8vo; pp. 26 ff., a translation in English
prose of the thirteenth century of some of the sermons of Maurice de
Sully; p. 187, "a lutel soth sermon" in verse, with good advice to
lovers overfond of "Malekyn" or "Janekyn."--"Old English homilies and
homiletic treatises ... of the XIIth and XIIIth centuries," ed. Morris,
E.E.T.S., 1867-73, 2 vols. 8vo; prose and verse (specimens of music in
the second series); several of those pieces are mere transcripts of
Anglo Saxon works anterior to the Conquest; p. 159, the famous "Moral
Ode," twelfth century, on the transitoriness of this life: "Ich em nu
alder thene ich wes," &c., in rhymed verse (_cf._ "Old English
Miscellany," p. 58, and "Anglia," i. p. 6).--"The Ormulum, with the
notes and glossary of Dr. R. M. White," ed. R. Holt, Oxford, 1878, 2
vols. 8vo, an immense compilation in verse, of which a part only has
been preserved, the work of Ormin, an Augustinian canon, thirteenth
century; contains a paraphrase of the gospel of the day followed by an
explanatory sermon; _cf._ Napier, "Notes on Ormulum" in "History of the
Holy Rood Tree," E.E.T.S., 1894--"Hali Meidenhad ... an alliterative
Homily of the XIIIth century," ed. Cockayne, E.E.T.S., 1866, in
prose.--"English metrical Homilies," ed. J. Small, Edinburgh, 1862, 8vo,
homilies interspersed with _exempla_, compiled ab. 1330.--"Religious
pieces in prose and verse," ed. G. G. Perry, E.E.T.S., 1867; statement
in a sermon by John Gaytrige, fourteenth century, that "oure ffadire the
byschope" has prescribed to each member of his clergy "opynly, one
ynglysche apone sonnondayes, preche and teche thaym that thay hase cure
off" (p. 2).
[326] Sermon IV. on Sunday (imitated from the French) in Morris's "Old
English Homilies," 1867. St. Paul, led by St. Michael, at the sight of
so many sufferings, weeps, and God consents that on Sundays the
condemned souls shall cease to suffer. This legend was one of the most
popular in the Middle Ages; it was told in verse or prose in Greek,
Latin, French, English, &c. See Ward, "Catalogue of MS. Romances," vol.
ii. 1893, pp. 397 ff.: "Two versions of this vision existed in Greek in
the fourth century." An English metrical version has been ed. by
Horstmann and Furnivall, "Minor Poems of the Vernon MS.," E.E.T.S.,
1892, p. 251.
[327] "Old English homilies and homiletic treatises ... of the XIIth and
XIIIth Centuries," ed. with translation, by R. Morris, London, E.E.T.S.,
1867, 8vo, vol. i. p. 39.
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