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FIFTEENTH CENTURY PROSE AND VERSE AN ENGLISH GARNER FIFTEENTH CENTURY PROSE AND VERSE

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALFRED W. POLLARD WESTMINSTER ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO., LTD. 1903

PREFACE CONTENTS INTRODUCTION JOHN LYDGATE (?). The Siege of Harfleur and the Battle of Agincourt 1415.

Thus endeth the Battle of Agincourt. F I N I S.

Thomas Occleve, Clerk in the Office of the Privy Seal. The Letter of Cupid. Thus endeth The letter of Cupid. The Ballad of Robin Hood. The first printed edition by Wynkyn de Worde, about 1510. English Carols. Unto the Christian Reader. [William of Thorpe's Preface.] [The Examination of sir William of Thorpe.]

And hereafter followeth his Testament.

On Translating the Bible.

On Translating the Bible. Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk upon Translation.

The Epistle of Sir John Trevisa, Chaplain unto Lord Thomas of Barkley, upon the translation of Polychronicon into our English tongue. Certain Prefaces and Epilogues by William Caxton. 1475-1490.

William Caxton. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy.

Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae. Golden Legend. Caton (1483). Aesop. (1483). Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Second Edition. (1484).

Malory's King Arthur. (1485). Eneydos (1490). A Miracle Play of the Nativity.

[The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, from the Coventry Corpus Christi Plays.]

Everyman.

[From John Skot's Editions, c. 1525.]

Pleadings in A Theatrical Lawsuit. Temp. Henry viii.

[From the Records of the Court of Requests.] John Rastell v. Henry Walton.

I II III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX X XI XII. XIII. XIV. XV.

GLOSSARY Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable