Copyright, 1921 THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA, ILLINOIS The Collegiate Press GEORGE BANTA PUBLISHING COMPANY MENASHA, WIS. ARTICLES Jefferson B. Fletcher, The Allegory of the Pearl..... Albert Morey Sturtevant, Zum Vokalismus des Gotischen And-waihando, Raymond M. Alden, W. L. Cross' 'The History of Henry Fielding'. ... 110 Harold N. Hillebrand, Robert Withington's 'English Pageantry' THE ALLEGORY OF THE PEARL A fitting subtitle for the Pearl would be Paradise Regained. The poet declares how that which Adam lost the Christian may recover. The blood and water which flowed from Christ's wounds, and still mystically flow in the wine of communion and the water of baptism, have washed away all impediments between mankind and its forfeited bliss. 'Inoje is knawen þat mankyn grete 'Innoghe per wax out of þat welle, Bytwene vus & blysse bot þat he wythdro}, & þat is restored in sely stounde, & be grace of God is gret innogh.' Man is made one in body and spirit with Christ. 'Of courtaysye, as sayt; Saynt Paule, Al arn we membre; of Jesu Kryst; As heued & arme & legg & naule Temen to hys body ful trwe & tyste, Ryst so is vch a Krysten sawle A longande lym to be Mayster of myste." 1 Stanzas liv-lv. LIBRAR 'Il. 457-462. Obviously, the poet means that we are attached in all our parts-extremities and middle, or "navel"-to the divine body. Osgood (ed. Pearl, Boston, 1906, note to l. 459) renders "naule" as "nail," declaring "navel" |