Northern Homily Cycle
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Northern Homily Cycle
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The Northern Homily Cycle is a Middle English poem written c. 1315. The poem consists of approximately 20,000 rhyming, octosyllabic lines. It features a Middle English retelling of the Gospel in verse form, alongside stories to illustrate the points of the verses and messages. Many of these illustrative stories use familiar, agricultural examples, calling to mind Chaucer's tales. The work is anonymous, however the text suggests that the author "wrote in his native dialect and was well versed in
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