Reproductions of original title-pages: initials.

A volume of Arber's "English garner," re-arranged and classified under the editorship of Thomas Seccombe, 1903-04. "Of the contents of the present volume about a half now appears ... for the first time."

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Preface.

Introduction.

John Lydgate (?) The siege of Harfleur and the battle of Agincourt.

Thomas Occleve. The letter of Cupid.

A little geste of Robin Hood and his meiny and of the proud sheriff of Nottingham.

English carols. From a manuscript at Balliol College, Oxford.

The examination of Master William Thorpe, priest, of heresy, before Thomas Arundell, archbishop of Canterbury, 1407.

The examination of Sir John Oldcastle.

On translating the Bible. Chapter XV of the prologue to the second recension of the Wycliffite version.

John Trevisa. Dialogue between a lord and a clerk upon translation.

William Caxton. Prefaces and epilogues.

A miracle play of the nativity. The pageant of the shearmen and tailors, from the Coventry Corpus Christi plays.

Everyman: a moral play.

Pleadings in Rastell v. Walton, a theatrical lawsuit, temp. Henry VIII.

Brief glossary.

English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500.

Great Britain > Social life and customs.