It occurs in countless variations from recipe collections from all over Europe and is mentioned in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and in an early 15th century cookbook written by the chefs of Richard II.

This priory achieved notoriety in the prologue to the Prioress ' tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

The Parson's Tale seems, from the evidence of its prologue, to have been intended as the final tale of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetic cycle The Canterbury Tales.

Some idea of Chaucer's intended structure for the Canterbury Tales may be gleaned from this " final " prologue.

The general prologue to The Canterbury Tales describes the Miller, Robyn, as a stout and gracious churl fond of wrestling.

" The Wife of Bath's Tale " () and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

She calls herself both Alyson and Alys in the prologue, but to confuse matters these are also the names of her ' gossib ' ( a close friend or gossip ), whom she mentions several times, as well as many female characters throughout The Canterbury Tales.

He pinpoints the early spring season of the Canterbury Tales in the opening verses of the prologue by noting that the Sun " hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne ".

The original poem, written in 1846 but not printed until 1848, had 11 stanzas and formed the prologue to the great verse cycle The Tales of Ensign Stål (" Fänrik Ståhls Sägner "), a masterpiece of Romantic nationalism.

Finally, the prologue to Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, played on horn without the use of valves but equally suited to the alphorn, is a beautiful, inspired example of the lyric possibilities of natural harmonics.

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

The cyclic pattern set out in the prologue is readily apparent at the beginning, but as the stories progress it begins to disintegrate, mirroring the disintegration of the world of the Israelites.

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.

Job does speak of an adversary on several occasions within the central poem, but it is doubtful that he is referring to " the Adversary " of the prose prologue.

The speeches of Elihu ( who is not mentioned in the prologue ) are claimed to contradict the fundamental opinions expressed by the " friendly accusers " in the central body of the poem, according to which it is impossible that the righteous should suffer, all pain being a punishment for some sin.

It is set in the land of Edom, which has been retained as the background, and in the prologue and epilogue, the name of God is YHWH, a name that even the Edomites used.

This prologue is intended to identify Jesus as the eternal Word ( Logos ) of God.

In his prologue or proem he describes two views of existence ; initially that nothing comes from nothing, and therefore existence is eternal.

The film's graveyard prologue is a recreation of the opening scene from Ed Wood's then-unreleased 1958 film Night of the Ghouls.

The replacement character that acts as the chorus would in Greek drama is often called the “ prologue .”

The specific type of monologue ( or soliloquy ) in which a Plautine slave engages is the prologue.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

Prince Igor (, Knyaz ' Igor ' ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue.

It contains twenty-three books ; the final book, which deals with the events of 1183 and the beginning of 1184, has only a prologue and one chapter, so it is either unfinished or the rest of the pages were lost before the whole chronicle began to be copied.

In the prologue to the second book of the Commentaries is found one of the best examples of a Mappae Mundi of the high medieval culture.

Songs cut prior to the Broadway premiere include: " All Things Bright and Beautiful " ( used in the prologue ), " Can That Boy Foxtrot!

*: In the prologue of Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers, Ultraman, Ultra Seven, Ultraman Jack, and Ultraman Ace used this to imprison U-Killersaurs and Yapool in the sea at the cost of their ability to transform.

The oldest now surviving manuscript ( Harley 3859 ) from c. 1100, used as the base text in Stevenson's, Mommsen's, and Morris's editions, lacks Nennius's prologue.

The opening theme from Vertigo was used in the prologue to Lady Gaga's " Born This Way " video, and during a flashback sequence in the pilot episode of FX's American Horror Story, which also featured " Georgie's Theme " in later episodes as a recurring musical motif for the character of Tate.

For the section of the prologue that is set in 1911, Anderson used a hand-cranked pathé camera that would have been used at the time.

* A literary genre that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.

Vonnegut used Cohn with his verbal permission, promising in a January 1979 telephone call to " do him no harm and to present him as an appallingly effective attorney for either the prosecution or the defense of anyone ," according to the prologue of the novel.

Individual time trials are often used as stages in stage races such as the Grand Tours ; these vary from short prologue time trials over no more than eight kilometres, to longer distance events over flat or rolling courses, to timed climbs up mountain roads.

The Greek word διγλωσσία ( diglōssia ) normally refers to bilingualism in general, but was first used in the specialized meaning explained above by Emmanuel Rhoides in the prologue of his Parerga in 1885.

In the prologue to the tale, the host, Harry Bailly, asks the Parson for a fable ( the form used earlier with such apparent success by the Nun's Priest ) but the Parson refuses with a round condemnation of fable stories, saying instead that he will tell an improving tale in prose since he can neither rhyme nor alliterate.

In 1962, they used it to make the prologue to Orson Welles ' film adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial.

In William Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet, epithets are used in the prologue, used in the familiar phrase of " star-cross'd lovers " and " death-mark'd love.

In the case of Sin City, the short film was used as the prologue of the final film.

Dos Passos had added a prologue with the title " U. S. A ." to The Modern Library edition of The 42nd Parallel published the previous November, and the same plates were used by Harcourt Brace for the trilogy.

Eventually she sees something that the camera does not see, and it gives chase ( as shown through the first person view that was used in the prologue ).

The following year, it was first used in the prologue to Manfred's third novel, This Is the Year —

Other reviewers complained that an epilogue Shaw wrote was used as a prologue and recurring scene throughout the film.

A young female prototype used for the " project if ..." series was used in Sound Horizon's musical work " Ido e Itaru Mori e Itaru Ido ", labeled as the " prologue maxi ".

If frame pointers are being used, the prologue will typically set the new value of the frame pointer register from the stack pointer.

The prologue and epilogue are not a part of the assembly language itself ; they represent a convention used by assembly language programmers, and compilers of many higher-level languages.