1. Hugh of Saint Victor, Selected Spiritual Writings, trans. a
religious of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin (London, 1962), p. 183.
2. This verse appears in my edition: Susanna Greer Fein, ed.,
Moral Love Songs and Laments, TEAMS Middle English Texts Series (Kalamazoo,
Mich., 1998); hereafter cited as MLSL. For a fuller discussion of such verse, see
"Introduction," pp. 1-9.
3. Eugene Vance, "Pearl: Love and the Poetics of
Participation," in Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature, ed. Piero
Boitani and Anna Torti (Cambridge, 1991), p. 141.
4. John C. Hirsh, "A Fifteenth-Century Commentary on "Ihesu for
Thy Holy Name,'" Notes and Queries 17 (1970), 44-45.
page 44
5. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, "The Apple's Message: Some
Post-Conquest Hagiographic Accounts of Textual Transmission," in Late Medieval Religious
Texts and Their Transmission: Essays in Honour of A. I. Doyle, ed. A. J. Minnis (Cambridge,
1994), p. 49.
6. Wogan-Browne, p. 43.
7.The Truelove is critically edited in MLSL, pp.
161-254. Previous editions are Israel Gollancz, ed. "The Quatrefoil of Love: An
Alliterative Religious Lyric," in An English Miscellany, Presented to Dr. Furnivall, ed. N.
R. Ker, A. S. Napier, and W. W. Skeat (1901; repr. New York, 1969), pp. 112-32; and Israel
Gollancz and Magdalene M. Weale, eds., The Quatrefoil of Love, EETS OS 195 (1935;
repr. Millwood, N. Y., 1971).
8. The illustration of "Herba Paris" (truelove) appearing in Gerard is
reproduced in MLSL, p. 163. For the text, see John Gerard, Gerard's Herbal: The
History of Plants, ed. Marcus Woodward (1927; repr. London, 1994), pp. 101-03.
9. Siegfried Wenzel, Verses in Sermons: "Fasciculus Morum" and
Its Middle English Poems (Cambridge, Mass., 1978), pp. 159-60.
10. Susanna Greer Fein, "Form and Continuity in the Alliterative
Tradition: Cruciform Design and Double Birth in Two Stanzaic Poems," Modern Language
Quarterly 53 (1992), 121.
11. A fuller discussion of the evidence appears in a forthcoming
article, Susanna Greer Fein, "Quatrefoil and Quatrefolia: The Devotional Layout of an
Alliterative Poem," Journal of the Early Book Society 2 (1998).
12. The woodcut is reproduced in MLSL, p. 169.
13.Bird is critically edited in MLSL, pp. 255-88.
Earlier printings of the poem (transcribed from single manuscripts) appear in Carleton Brown, ed.,
Religious Lyrics of the XIVth Century, 2nd ed., rev. G. V. Smithers (Oxford, 1957), pp.
xxi, 208-15, 283, and in J. Kail, ed., Twenty-Six Political and Other Poems, EETS OS
124 (London, 1904), pp. 143-49.
14. Paraphrased by Jonathan Hughes, Pastors and Visionaries:
Religion and Secular Life in Late Medieval Yorkshire (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1988), p. 268.
15. These illustrations--from Oxford, MS Douce 322 (fol. 15a) and
Trinity College, Cambridge [TCC] MS R.3.21 (fol. 34a)--are reproduced in MLSL, pp.
257, 262.
16. A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt, "'The Bird with Four
Feathers': Numerical Analysis of a Fourteenth-Century Poem," Papers on Language and
Literature 6 (1970), 24-25.
17.Pety Job is critically edited in MLSL, pp.
289-59. For other editions, see Carl Horstmann, ed., Yorkshire Writers (London, 1886),
2.381-89, and Kail, Twenty-Six Political and Other Poems, pp. xxiii, 120-43.
18. Hope Emily Allen, Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle,
Hermit of Hampole (New York, 1927), p. 370.
19. Edward Bliss Reed, ed., "Parce mihi O Lord Moste Excellent,"
in "The Sixteenth-Century Lyrics in Add. MS. 18,752," Anglia 33 (1910), 353.
20. These illustrations--from Douce 322 (fol. 10a) and TCC MS
R.3.21 (fol. 38a)--are reproduced in MLSL, pp. 293, 294.
