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Introduction

7–15

Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale of Phoebus and the Crow

Modernised by Leigh Hunt.

17–27

Chaucer’s Rime of Sir Thopas

Modernised by Z. A. Z.

29–37

Chaucer’s Friar’s Tale; or, The Sumner and the Devil

Modernised by Leigh Hunt.

39–48

Chaucer’s Reve’s Tale

Modernised by R. H. Horne.

49–62

Chaucer’s Poem of the Cuckoo and the Nightingale

Modernised by William Wordsworth.

63–73

Gower’s Treasure Trove

Modernised from the fifth book of the Confessio Amantis.

75–80

Lydgate’s London Lickpenny

81–84

Lydgate’s Bicorn and Chichevache

85–89

Dunbar’s Best to be Blyth

91, 92

Drayton’s Dowsabell

93–96

Drayton’s Nymphidia

97–116

Pope’s Rape of the Lock

117–137

Cowper’s John Gilpin

139–146

Burns’s Tam O’Shanter

147–153

Hood’s Demon Ship

155–158

Hood’s Tale of a Trumpet

159–180

Note.—The Game of Ombre

181–187

Glossary

188–192