...world's appetites ! l/o! the fine and guerdon for travaile Of Jove, Apollo, Mars, and such RASEAILB ! t Lo ! here the forme of olde clerkis speche In poetrie,...made to feel regret. Doe hun aen ijse, maere rouw bij hoon's ; qe bring terror into him ; for that repentance follows disgrace is a mere fable ; inspire...

...oure tonge firste to magnifie And adourne it with his elloquence. al425 (cl385) Chaucer TC 5.l855: Lo here, the forme of olde clerkis speche In poetrie, if ye hire bokes seche. (?al439) Lydg. FP (Hrl l766) 9.3404: I nevir was aqueynted with Virgyle. . Nor with...

...appetites; Lo here, the fyn and guerdoun for travaille Of Jove, Appollo, of Mars, of swich rascaille! Lo here, the forme of olde clerkis speche In poetrie, if ye hire bokes seche. (V, i849-55)ffl Precisely what is the significance of the verbal similarity? I suggest...

...senno' ('sixth amid so much wisdom').03 But, at the same time, the reader had to beware of the classics: Lo here, the forme of olde clerkis speche In poetrie, if ye hire bokes seche. (v, 1854-5) In a thousand years a language changes (especially English). Meanwhile,...

...appetites; Lo here, the fyn and guerdoun for trav.nlle Of Jove, Appollo, of Mars, of swich rascaille; Lo here, the forme of olde clerkis speche In poetrie, if ye hire bokes seche. (1849-55) Yet by the time the last 'Lo here . . . ' is reached, the effect has subtly...

...within this pre-Christian material but also the prevailing rhetoric in which that view was expressed: Lo here, the forme of olde clerkis speche In poetrie, if ye hire bokes seche. (V, 1854-5) Though the primary meaning here is that poetry whose essential principle...

...energetic denunciation. Moreover, as several critics note, the denunciation fades into a kind of elegy: Lo here, the forme of olde clerkis speche In poetrie, if ye hire bokes seche. (Tr VI, 854-55) Talbot Donaldson is surely correct that "Lo here" refers to the poem...