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- Title
TWO NOTES ON THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PATIENCE, lines 56 and 329.
- Authors
Burrow, J. A.
- Abstract
The article focuses on two note on the middle English poem "Patience." The poet, reflecting on the wisdom of patient endurance in the face of inevitable, imagines being commanded by his liege lord to go to Rome. There would be no point in complaining. The lord would probably oblige him to go in any case. If the liege man has to be forced to do what he is asked, he will have suffered compulsion and incurred his lord's disfavor into bargain; but if he yields gracefully, he will be rewarded by the gratitude and good will of his lord.
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); PATIENCE; MIDDLE English language; VIRTUES; WISDOM; EXPERIENCE
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1989, Vol 36, Issue 3, p300
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/36-3-300