EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH
ROGER ASCHAM
INTRODUCTION
xi
The Scholemaster: The First Booke for
the Youth...
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE (extract from
An. 1137)
John Foxe
Acts and Monuments of these Latter and
(by a Monk of Peterborough).
AN OLD English HOMILY (extract)
Perillous Dayes: The Behaviour of
Dr. Ridley and Master Latimer at
(by an unknown author).
the Time of their Death....
RICHARD POORE (?), Bishop of Chichester,
Salisbury, and Durham
The Ancren Riwle (Speech; Nuns May
THE AGE OF ELIZABETH
Keep No Beast but a Cat).
ENGLISA PROCLAMATION OF HENRY III.
Sir PALIP SIDNEY
4
RICHARD ROLLE (of Hampole)
Arcadia (from Bk. I). .....
45
RICHARD HOOKER
Epistle III: The Commandment of Love
to God..
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (ex-
5
SIR John MANDEVILLE
tract from Bk. I)......
54
The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John JOHN LYLY
Maundevile, Kt., Capp. IV, XVII,
Euphues and his England (extract) ... 57
XXVII...
6 THOMAS LODGE
JOHN WICLIP
Rosalynde: Euphues' Golden Legacy (ex-
The Gospel of Mathew (Both versions)... 9
tract)..
60
JOAN DE TREVISA
ROBERT GREENE
Higden's Polychronicon, Bk. I, Cap. LIX 11
A Groat's Worth of Wit, bought with a
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Million of Repentance (extract).
64
A Treatise on the Astrolabe; Prologus. ... 12
The Art of Cony-Catching (extract).
Translation of Boethius, Bk. III, Prose IX,
Greene's Never Too Late; The Palmer's
and Metre IX...
Tale (extract).....
69
13
REGINALD PECock, Bishop of St. Asaph, and
FRANCIS BACON, Viscount St. Albans
Chichester
Essays (I, Of Truth, p. 74; II, Of Death,
The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of
p. 75; IV, Of Revenge, 75; V, Of
the Clergy, Pt. I, Cap. XIII......... 16
Adversity, p. 76; VIII, Of Marriage
and Single Life, p. 76; X, Of Love,
THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
p. 77; XI, Of Great Place, p. 78;
XVI, Of Atheism, p. 79; XXIII, Of
SIR THOMAS MALORY
Wisdom for a Man's Self, p. 8o; XXV,
Le Morte Darthur, Bk. XXI, Capp. IV-
Of Dispatch, p. 81; XXVII, Of
VI....
WILLIAM CAXTON
Friendship, p. 82; XLII, Of Youth
and Age, p. 85; XLIII, Of Beauty,
Preface to the Booke of Eneydos..
74
SIR JOHN BOURCHIER, LORD BERNERS
THOMAS NASBE
The Cronycle of Syr John Froissart, Capp.
The Unfortunate Traveller (or Jack Wil-
CCCLXXXIII, CCCLXXXIIII....
ton) (extract).....
86
THOMAS DEKKER
THE TRANSITION TO MODERN TIMES
The Gull's Hornbook, Capp. VI-VIII. ... 89
SIR THOMAS MORE
BEN JONSON
A Dialogue of Syr Thomas More, Kt., Bk.
Timber; or Discoveries made upon Men
III, Cap. XVI......
29
and Matter (LXIV, De Shakespeare
WILLIAM TYNDALE
Nostrati, p. 94; LXXI, Dominus
The Gospell of S. Mathew, Cap. V........ 34
Verulamius, p. 94; C, De Bonis et
Huch LATIMER
Malis; De Innocentia, p. 95; CXV,
The First Sermon before King Edward
De Stilo, et Optimo Scribendi Genere,
VI...
P. 95)....