12) §22. The Author of the C-text. I. Piers the Plowman and its Sequence. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...per jura regni et statuta ac laudibiles ordinationes cum salubri consilio dominorum et procerum regni gubernari et regulari, sed capitose in suis insanis consiliis...

13) §1. Old English Verse. XVIII. The Prosody of Old and Middle English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...finds no difficulty in this, and merely regards it as an instance of stretched or swollen verses, with three or four accents in each half instead of two. Curiosity...

14) §10. "Tristram of Lyonesse". V. The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne, and Others. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...united: from love and strife The stroke of love s own hand felt last and best Gave them deliverance to perpetual rest. Tristram of Lyonesse, the highest achievement...

15) §1. Robert Southwell. VII. Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Saint Peters Complaint, admirably adapted for narrative or exposition, is one in which it is not easy to preserve the lyric exaltation; and Southwell s power as a...

16) §15. Laurence Minot. XVI. Later Transition English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...which occur in such poems as William of Palerne and Piers Plowman in rimed stanzas of varying length. The other six are all written in short iambic lines of three...

17) §12. Thomas Churchyard. VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...stanzas prized rather for the rarity of his editions than for the merit of his poetry. At the same time, Churchyard was, for his period, a smooth and accomplished...

18) §7. "The Bestiary; An Bispel; Sawles Warde". XI. Early Transition English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...The English adapter adds certain details, notably the incident of the five messengers, who are intended to represent the five codes of law. The Sawles Warde,. a more...

19) §10. Political verses. XVII. Later Transition English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...ministrel who sang or recited political ballads had to appeal to more critical audiences than had the composer of sacred lyrics; he had to endeavour to import into...

20) Middle English literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the unexplained reemergence of the Anglo-Saxon verse form in the 14th cent., includes some of the best poetry in Middle English. The Christian allegory The Pearl...