Round 16: Tossup 13

A character in this poem complains that another has been blessed despite having “neither Pater, nor Creed,” and is then rebuked with the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. This poem’s first and last lines end with the word “pay,” the most dramatic example of its “concatenation” across 20 stanza groups. This poem’s speaker sees a lamb with seven horns, a heavenly city, and a “little queen,” (10[1])which all disappear when he tries to wade across a stream. This poem begins in a “green (10[1])garden,” (10[1]-5[1])where the speaker searches (10[1])the ground for a “spotless” (10[1])object (10[1])that (10[1])represents (10[3])his dead daughter. This alliterative (10[2]-5[1])“dream vision” poem is usually thought to be by the same anonymous author (-5[1])who used “bob-and-wheel” verse (10[2])to write (10[1])Gawain (10[1])and the Green Knight. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])name this Middle English poem whose speaker has lost an allegorical jewel. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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