CONTENTS.

Introduction .

CHAUCER'S Manciple's Tale of Phoebus and the Crow

The Manciple's Tale of Phoebus and the Crow.

CHAUCER'S Rime of Sir Thopas

CHAUCER'S Friar's Tale; Or, The Sumner And The Devil.

CHAUCER'S Reve's Tale.

London Lickpenny.

Bicorn and Chichevache.

Best to be Blyth.

Dowsabell.

Nymphidia, the Court of Fairy.

POPE'S Rape of the Lock.

THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN:

The Demon Ship.

A Tale of a Trumpet.

NOTE . THE GAME OF OMBRE

GLOSSARY

FOOTNOTES.

This etext was produced by Les Bowler, St. Ives, Dorset.

Companion Poets

PLAYFUL POEMS

EDITED
AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

HENRY MORLEY.
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND
LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
LONDON

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