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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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I.-JOHN BARBOUR, 13162-1396,

Freedom

IL-GEOFFREY CHAUCER, 1328—1400.

1. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

2. Morning Walk

III.-JOHN GOWER, 1325 ?-1402.

A fragment

IV.-JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND, 1394-1437.

The Lady in the Garden ...

IV.*-ANDREW WINTON, about 1420.

Saint Serf's Ram

IV **-_RCBERT HENRYSON, 1425-1446

Simple Life

IV.***-BLIND HARRY, about 1460.

The Death of Wallace

V.-JOHN LYDGATE, 1375—1460.

1. The Golden Age

2. God's Providence

VI.-WILLIAM DUNBAR, 1465—1530.

Vanity of Earthly Joys

VI.*_JOHN SKELTON, 1485 2 - 1529.

To Margaret

VI.**_SIR THOMAS WYATT, 1503—1541.

Blame not my Lute

TI.***--ANDREW BOURD, 14**_1539.

The Englishman

VII.-GAWAIN DOUGLAS, 1475—1522.

Shipwreck of the Caraval...

VIII.-SIR DAVID LINDSAY, 1490—1557.

The Peasant

IX.—EARL OF SURREY, 1517–1546.

Spring ...

X.-SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, 1554-1586.

Lover's Argument

XI.—THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST, EARL OF

DORSET, 1530–1607.

1. Midnight

2. Misery

3. Sleep

4. Old Age

XII-ANONYMOUS.

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XIII. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, 1562—1593.

1. Edward II., Leicester, and Winchester

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2. Edward I.I., and Lightborn

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8. The Death of Faustus

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4. The Shepherd's Song

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XIV.-SIR WALTER RALEIGH, 1552–1618.

1. Answer to the Shepherd's Song

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2. Lines composed the night before his execution 22

XV.-EDMUND SPENSER, 1553—1599.

1. The Butterfly...

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2. Charity

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3. Envy

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XVI.-ANONYMOUS author of "Crabbed Age and Youth" 25

XVII.—ROBERT SOUTHWELL, 1550—1595.

1. Delay

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2. Vicissitude

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3. Content and Rich

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XVIII.--JOSHUA SILVESTER, 1563–1618.

A Contented Mind

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XIX.-FULK GREVILLE LORD BROOKE, 1554--1628.

To Tyrants

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XX. SIMON WASTELL.

Man's Mortality ..

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XXI.-SIR JOHN DAVIES, 1570—1626.

The Soul

XXII.-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 1564–1616.

1. Othello's Apology

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2. Duke and Lord

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3. Henry V and Lord Chief Justice

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4. Night

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5. Ariel's Song: Full Fathom, &c.

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6. Ariel's Song: Where the Bee, &c.

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7. The Progress of Life

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8. Life

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9. Hamlet and Horatio

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10. Queen Mab

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11. The Apothecary

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12. Hotspur's description of a Fop

13. Clarence and Brackenbury

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14. Scroop and Richard

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15. Henry IV's Soliloquy on Sleep

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16. Henry IV and Prince Henry

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17. Henry V to his Soldiers

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18. Wolsey and Cromwell

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19. Lear

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20. Macbeth's Soliloquy

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21. Antony's Funeral Oration over Cæsar's Body 56

22. Hamlet's Soliloquy on his Mother's Marriago 59

23. Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death

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