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The Dominicans’ Banner in Wynnere and Wastoure.

The Dominicans’ Banner in Wynnere and Wastoure.

Interprets the satire of the Dominicans’ banner (WW 163-73) in the context of Midsummer Eve fires decried by moralists as emblems of lechery, but here associated with the Dominicans in a satire of the traditional description of that order’s founder as “a light breaking out upon the darkness.”