ENGLISH METRICAL ROMANCES,
Extract from the King of Tars,
Extract from the Squire of Low Degree,
IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS OF CHAUCER,
What is in Heaven,
ROBERT LANGLAND,
Extracts from Pierce Plowman,
GEOFFREY CHAUCER,
Select Characters from the Canterbury Pilgrimage,
Description of a Poor Country Widow,
The Death of Arcite,
Departure of Custance,
The Pardoner's Tale,
The Good Parson,
An Ironical Ballad on the Duplicity of Women,
Last Verses of Chaucer, written on his Deathbed,
JOHN GOWER,
Episode of Rosiphele,
The Envious Man and the Miser,
JOHN BARBOUR,
THE RHYMING CHRONICLERS,
The Muster for the First Crusade,
The Siege of Antioch,
The Interview of Vortigern with Rowen, the beautiful
Daughter of Hengist,
Fabulous account of the first Highways in England,
Praise of Good Women,
JOHN SKELTON,
To Mistress Margaret Hussey,
EARL OF SURREY,
Prisoner in Windsor, he recounteth his Pleasure there
passed,
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Description and Praise of his Love Geraldine,
How no age is content with his own estate, and how the
age of children is the happiest, if they had skill to un-
derstand it,
The Means to attain Happy Life,
Evening,
Night,
Pastoral Employments,
The Syren's Song,
FRANCIS QUARLES,
Stanzas,
The Shortness of Life,
Mors Tua,
The Vanity of the World,
Delight in God only,
Decay of Life,
To Chastity,
GEORGE HERBERT,
To Blossoms,
To Daffodils,
The Kiss-a Dialogue,
To the Virgins, to make much of their Time,
Twelfth Night, or King and Queen,
The Country Life,
Julia,
Upon Julia's Recovery,
The Bag of the Bee,
Upon a Child that Died,
Epitaph upon a Child,
Mark Antony over Cæsar's Body,
Othello's Relation of his Courtship to the Senate,'
Queen Mab,
End of all Earthly Glories,
Life and Death Weighed,
Fear of Death,
Description of Ophelia's Drowning,
Perseverance,
The Deceit of Ornament or Appearances,
Mercy,
Solitude preferred to a Court Life, and the Advantages
of Adversity,
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