FIFTEENTH CENTURY PROSE AND VERSE
FIFTEENTH CENTURY PROSE AND VERSE (2)
PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
JOHN LYDGATE (?).
The Siege of Harfleur and the Battle of Agincourt 1415
Thomas Occleve , Clerk in the Office of the Privy Seal.
The Letter of Cupid .
Thus endeth
The letter of Cupid . (2)
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.]
On Translating the Bible. [Chapter XV. of the Prologue to the
On Translating the Bible.
Dialogue between a Lord and
a Clerk upon Translation. [From Trevisa's Translation of Higden's Polychronicon .] 1387 ?
The Epistle of Sir John Trevisa, Chaplain unto Lord Thomas of
Certain
Prefaces and Epilogues by William Caxton . 1475-1490.
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
Everyman. [From John Skot 's Editions, c. 1525.]
Pleadings in
A Theatrical Lawsuit. Temp. Henry viii . [From the Records of the Court of Requests.]
GLOSSARY
Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable
