ROBERT LANGLAND..

Mercy and Truth allegorized.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER....

Passages from Troilas and Cresseide...

Description of a Poor Country Widow...

The Death of Arcite.....

Departure of Custance..

The Good Parson....

Lines Written on his Death Bed.....

JOHN GOWER.....

The Envious Man and the Miser..

SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE...

A Mohammedan's Lecture on Christian Vices...

LECTURE THE THIRD.

CAUSES OF THE DEARTH IN LITERATURE THAT FOLLOWED THE AGE OF EDWARD

THE THIRD.

THE FORMATION OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND..

SCOTTISH POETS....

JOHN BARBour..

Apostrophe to Freedom...

Death of Sir Henry De Bohun..

ANDREW WYNTOUN..

Interview of St. Serf with Sathanas.

BLIND HARRY.

The Death of Wallace..

GAVIN DOUGLAS....

Morning in May.

SIR DAVID LYNDSAY.

JAMES THE FIRST..

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ROBERT HENRYSON..

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The Garment of Good Ladies.

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ILLIAM DUNBAR..

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Extract from the Dance.

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The Merle and the Nightingale..

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This wavering wald's wretchedness..

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THE BALLAD OF SIR PATRICK SPENS.

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JOHN THE CHAPLAIN.

THOMAS OCCleve.

JOHN LYDGATE

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JOHN SKELTON.

To Mistress Margaret Hussey..

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY.

A Prisoner in Windsor Castle..

The Means to attain Happy Life...

SIR THOMAS WYATT....

The Lover's Lute can not be blamed, though it sing of his Lady's un-

kindness...

The re-cured Lover exulteth in his Freedom, and voweth to remain free

until Death.....

That Pleasure is mixed with every Pain....

THOMAS TUSSER...

Housewifely Physic.

Moral Reflections on the Wind....

ANDREW BOURD.

Characteristic of an Englishman.

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.....

A Praise of a Poet's Lady.

Amantium Iræ Amoris Redintegratio est...

The Nut-Brown Maid..

Chevy-Chase.

PROSE WRITERS..

SIR JOHN FORTESCUE...

English Courage...

WILLIAM CAXTON...

Legend of St. Francis...

ROBERT FABIAN...

The Deposition of King Vortigern..

EDWARD HALL................

Scene in the Council-Room of the Protector Gloucester..

SIR THOMAS MORE...

A Letter to his Wife....

Character of Richard III..

ALEXANDER BARCLAY..

LECTURE THE FIFTH.

HUGH LATIMER..

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JOHN FISCHER..

Portraiture of the Countess of Richmond's Devotions..

SIR THOMAS ELYOT....

Passages from the Castle of Health..

JOHN BALE......

Hasty Judgment....

The Shepherds of Bethlehem..

Death of Lord Cobham..

THE STATE OF THE POPULAR MIND....

WILLIAM TYNDALE..

The Lord's Prayer....

The Third Chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel..

MILES COVERDALE...

JOHN FOX....

JOHN LELAND......

GEORGE CAVENDISH..

The Invention of Printing...

LECTURE THE SIXTH.

Henry the Eighth at the House of Cardinal Wolsey..

LORD BERNERS..

The Choice of a Tutor......

The Necessity of learning more than one Language.

Qualifications of a Historian....

Allegorical Personages in the Infernal Regions...

SLR PHILIP SIDNEY.....

Sonnet on Pride...

Sonnet on Sleep....

Sonnet on The Thames..

SIR WALTER RALEIGH...

HENRY CONSTABLE...

Sonnet from the Diana..

JOSHUA SYLVESTER..

The Soul's Errand..

RICHARD BARNFIELD..

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Passages from the Country's Recreations..

The Passionate Shepherd to his love, by Marlow..

The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd..

NICHOLAS BRETON...

Farewell to Town..

Address to the Nightingale....

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Rinaldo at Mount Olivet and the Enchanted Wood..

SIR JOHN HARRINGTON.

Of a Precise Tailor.

SIR HENRY WOTTON....

SIR JOHN DAVIES....

LECTURE THE EIGHTH.

A Farewell to the Vanities of the World...

The Character of a Happy Life..

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Approach of Spring..

GEORGE WITHER..

The Companionship of the Muse.

A Stolen Kiss....

WILLIAM BROWNE...

A Morning Picture.

A Rose.....

Evening

Night....

HENRY KING..

A Dirge...

FRANCIS QUARLES..

The Shortness of Life.....

The Vanity of the World..

Delight in God alone....

GEORGE HERBERT.

Virtue.....

Sunday....

ROBERT HERRICK.

Cherry Ripe....

Gather the Rose-buds.

To Blossoms.

To Daffodils.

To Primroses filled with Morning Dew..

To Corinna, to go a Maying....

A Thanksgiving for his House..

JOSEPH HALL.....

The Domestic Tutor..

LECTURE THE TENTH.

JOHN CHALKHILL....

The Priestess of Diana.

The Votaress of Diana..

WILLIAM HABington.

Description of Castara..

THOMAS RANDOLPH....

To a Lady admiring herself in a Looking-Glass.

SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT...

Description of Birtha.

Song.....

SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE..

A Rose....

The Saint's Encouragement-A Song...

SIR JOHN SUCKLING.....

A Ballad upon a Wedding..

Detraction Execrated..

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT..

The Dream..

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