Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse
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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.
[Chapter XV. of the Prologue to the second recension of the Wycliffite Version. Attributed to John Purvey.]
On Translating the Bible.
Dialogue between a Lord and
a Clerk upon Translation.
[From Trevisa's Translation of Higden's Polychronicon.]
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.
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GLOSSARY
Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable
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