INTRODUCTION

CHAUCER’S MANCIPLE’S TALE OF PHŒBUS AND THE CROW MODERNISED BY LEIGH HUNT.

CHAUCER’S RIME OF SIR THOPAS MODERNISED BY Z. A. Z.

CHAUCER’S FRIAR’S TALE; or, THE SUMNER AND THE DEVIL MODERNISED BY LEIGH HUNT.

CHAUCER’S REVE’S TALE MODERNISED BY R. H. HORNE.

CHAUCER’S POEM OF THE CUCKOO AND THE NIGHTINGALE MODERNISED BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

TREASURE TROVE MODERNISED FROM THE FIFTH BOOK OF GOWER’S “CONFESSIO AMANTIS.”

LONDON LICKPENNY BY JOHN LYDGATE.

BICORN AND CHICHEVACHE BY JOHN LYDGATE.

BEST TO BE BLYTH BY WILLIAM DUNBAR.

DOWSABELL BY MICHAEL DRAYTON.

NYMPHIDIA, THE COURT OF FAIRY By MICHAEL DRAYTON.

POPE’S RAPE OF THE LOCK. AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM.

THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN: SHOWING HOW HE WENT FARTHER THAN HE INTENDED AND CAME SAFE HOME AGAIN.

TAM O’SHANTER: A TALE

THE DEMON SHIP

A TALE OF A TRUMPET

GLOSSARY

NOTES.

{125} THE GAME OF OMBRE