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CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE FIRST.
LECTURE THE FIRST.
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THE CELTIC LANGUAGE...
THE ORIGIN AND FORMATION OF THE ANGLO-Saxon..
OSSIAN, THE Celtic Poet....
His Address to the Sun..
His Last Song..
Gildas.
NENNICS..
St. COLUMBANUS.
CÆDMON.....
Satan's Speech.
JOHN OF BEVERLY..
BEDE.....
KING ALFRED..
A Song of Sorrow.
A Song of Despair.
A Psalm to God....
ALFRIC, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
NORMAN-FRENCH Writers.
MAISTER WACE.
THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
RHYMNG CHRONICLERS..
LAYAMON..
ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER.
METRICAL ROMANCES.....
MINSTRELS OR JONGLEURS.
RICHARD THE FIRST....
Song
ROGER BACON......
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LECTURE TIIE SECOND.
The Era of EdwARD The Third.....
JOHN WICKLIFFE.
The Magnificat..
THE PRECURSORS OF CHAUCER.
LAURENCE Minot....
RICHARD ROLLE....
What is in Heaven.
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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..
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LECTURE THE THIRD.
CAUSES OF THE DEARTH IN LITERATURE THAT FOLLOWED THE AGE OF EDWARD
THE THIRD...
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THE FORMATION OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND.
Scottish Poets.
JOHN BARBOUR ..
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Apostrophe to Freedom ....
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Death of Sir Henry De Bohun.
ANDREW WYNTOUN ....
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Interview of St. Serf with Sathanas.
BLIND HARRY.
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The Death of Wallace.
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JAMES THE FIRST..
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The first sight of Lady Jane Beaufort, as seen from Windsor Castle... 67
Robert HENRYSON.....
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The Garment of Good Ladies..
WILLIAM 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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Be merry, man, and tak not sair in mind..
GAVIN DOUGLAS.
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Morning in May.
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Sir DAVID LYNDSAY.
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The Building of the Tower of Babel, and the Confusion of Tongues.. 80
TAE BALLAD OF Sir PATRICK SPENS.,
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LECTURE THE FOURTH.
JOHN THE CHAPLAIN.
Thomas OCCLEVE.
JOHN LYDGATE..
Description of a Sylvan Retreat.......
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PAGR
John Skelton...
To Mistress Margaret Hussey.
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HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY.
A Prisoner in Windsor Castle..
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The Means to attain Happy Life..
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SIR THOMAS WYATT...
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The Lover's Lute can not be blamed, though it sing of his Lady's un-
kindness....
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The re-cured Lover exulteth in his Freedom, and voweth to remain free
until Death ....
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That Pleasure is mixed with every Pain.
THOMAS Tusser ...
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Housewifely Physic....
Moral Reflections on the Wind.
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ANDREW BOURD. .....
Characteristic of an Englishman..
MISCELLANEOUS Poems.
A Praise of a Poet's Lady.
Amantium Iræ Amoris Redintegratio est.
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The Nut-Brown Maid....
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Chevy-Chase.
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PROSE WRITERS....
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Sir John FORTESCUE...
English Courage...
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WILLIAM CAXTON....
Legend of St. Francis..
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LECTURE THE FIFTH.
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......
JOHN F18cher..
Portraiture of the Countess of Richmond's Devotions.
Sir Thomas Elyor....
Passages from the Castle of Health.
Hugu LATIMER ...
Hasty Judgment....
The Shepherds of Bethlehem..
John BALE......
Death of Lord Cobham.
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LECTURE THE SIXTH.
THE STATE OF THE POPULAR MIND.
WILLIAM TYNDALE..
The Lord's Prayer...
The Third Chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel..
Miles COVERDALE..
John Fox...
The Invention of Printing.
JOHN LELAND...
GEORGE CAVENDISH..
Henry the Eighth at the House of Cardinal Wolsey..
LORD BERNERS..
The Battle of Cressy
JOHN BELLENDEN..
SIR JOHN CHEKE..
Remonstrance with Levellers..
Thomas Wilson...
Simplicity of Style Recommended..
Moral Aim of Poetry..
ROGER AschaM.......
The Choice of a Tutor..
The Necessity of learning more than one Language..
Qualifications of a Historian...
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LECTURE THE SEVENTH.
THE AGE OF ELIZABETH..
QUEEN ELIZABETH...
Verses on her own Feelings...
JOHN HARRINGTON...
Sonnet on Isabella Markham..
THOMAS SACKVILLE......
Allegorical Personages in the Infernal Regions..
Sir Philip SIDNEY..
Sonnet on Pride..
Sonnet on Sleep...
Sonnet on The Thames..
SIR WALTER RALEIGH...
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..
HENRY CONSTABLE...
Sonnet from the Diana..
Joshua SYLVESTER.....
The Soul's Errand.
RICHARD BARNFIELD...
Address to the Nightingale....
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EDMUND SPENSER....
Passages from the Epithalamium.
Una and the Red Cross Knight...
Adventure of Una with the Lion..
The Bower of Bliss....
Description of Belphebe....
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LECTURE THE EIGHTH.
ROBERT SOUTHWELL...
The Image of Death
Scorn not the Least.
Samuel DANIEL.....
To the Countess of Cumberland.
Sonnet on Sleep....
MICHAEL DRAYTON...
Morning in Warwickshire..
The River Trent.....
EDWARD FAIRFAX..
Rinaldo at Mount Olivet and the Enchanted Wood.
Sir John HarrINGTON....
Of a Precise Tailor.
818 HENRY WOTTON..
A Farewell to the Vanities of the World..
The Character of a Happy Life...
Sie John Davies....
The Dignity of Man.
The Dancing of the Air.
Joux Donne..
The Will..
God should be worshiped everywhere.
RICHARD CORBET.....
Farewell to the Fairies.
To his Son....
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LECTURE THE NINTH.
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Sir John BEAUMONT....
Lines to the Memory of Pulton.
Epitaph upon his Son. ...
PHINEAS FLETCHER ...
Description of Parthenia or Chastity
GILES FLETCHER..
The Rainbow..
Tuomas Carew
The Compliment...
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