...! This wretched Waster that is known all over. There is neither emperor, nor king, nor knight that follows you, baron nor bachelor nor knight that you love, but four fellows or five that owe you allegiance. And he shall summon them to dine with delicacies so many that every person in this world may weep...

.... Tragedians who moralize are time wasters, since true tragedy has to happen, and so renders the moral denunciation otiose. Either preserve the tragedy and drop the moralizing, or else (more intelligently) switch mode from trag- edy. Gregory, instead, preserves both the tragedy and the “moral” hectoring...

... Literature of Medieval France . Faux Titre: Études de Langue et Littérature Françaises, vol. 455. Leiden: Brill, 2022. viii, 362 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Ormrod, W. Mark. “Winner and Waster” and Its Contexts: Chivalry, Law, and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England . Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2021. xi...

... that William Rhodes identifies in overtly apocalyptic poems like Winner and Waster . 39 Not chaos, not only a world turned upside down, but something, to borrow the words of Valerie Allen in a different context, that “incants rather than describes.” 40 Formally, the images are partial snapshots...

..., Richard Brathwaite urges women to “Chuse rather with Penelope to weaue and unweaue, than to giue Idlenesse the least leaue: wanton Wooers are time-­wasters.” The English Gentlewoman, Drawne Out of the Full Body Expressing What Habillments Doe Best Attire Her, What Orna- ments Doe...

... of the life of the farmer and, at the same time, his praise of the moral virtues to be ascribed to the laborer who toils in the virtuous work of agricultural and animal husbandry: But, let these carelesse Wasters learne to know, That, as Vaine-Spoyle is open Injury; So, Planting...

... poor from the idlers, wasters, and frauds. Implicit in the extravagant descriptions of rogues that make up Harman's book is a serious insistence that, because of the severity of the threat such persons posed to the community, practical charity must be a matter of reasoned judgment and careful...

... imposed by Rea- son’s catalogue. Reason pushes deeper. Are you rich? he asks, “hastow londes to lyue by . . . ?” [Then you have land to live off If not, then it seems you are a time-­waster and a beggar, and this is no way to live, this is “lollarne [idle] lyf, that lytel is preysed,” while...

... the complex attitude of Piers the Plowman as he seeks to control recalcitrant adversaries: unlike Moses, Piers makes a distinctively Christlike turn in his reflection on his own use of coercion. We recall him ruefully acknowledging that these violently hostile working people (abused as “wasters”) are “my...