John Barber.-Remarks on the Language of Scotland at this period.-Sketch of the BRUCE. Andrew of Wyntown-Extracts from his "Original "Chronicle of Scotland."-Thomas Occleve.Anonymous English Poetry. CHAP. XI. REIGN OF HENRY V. 246 Life of Lydgate Character of his Writings. Specimen of his." Troye Booke.” CHAP. XII. REIGN OF HENRY V. CONTINUED. 273 CHAP. XIII. REIGN OF HENRY VI. Digression on the private Life of the English. 312 CHAP. XIV. REIGN OF Henry Vl. CONTINUED. Hugh de Campeden.-Thomas Chestre.-Scotish Poets-Clerk of Tranent.-Holland.-Henry the Minstrel.-REIGNS OF EDWARD IV. and V.Harding. Scogan. -Norton.-Ripley. - Lady Juliana Berners.-William of Nassington.-Lord Rivers.-Scotish Poets-Robert Henrysoun-Patrick Johnstoun--and Mersar. CHAP.XV. REIGN OF HENRY VII. 345 William Dunbar.-Gawin Douglas.-Minor Poets of this Reign.-Stephen Hawes. 372 The Reader is requested to correct the following Errors, which have occurred partly in the transcribing, and partly in the printing of this Work. 44, Page 42, line 7, for Bestrairius, read Bestiarium. 88, note, 1. 7, for cyprus, read cyperus. 180, 262, 285, 14, for better, read bitter. 14, for XI. read II. 10, for brettered, read bretexed, penult. for fitted, read forged. HISTORICAL SKETCH, &c. CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks on Language.-On the Poetry of the Anglo-Saxons.-Specimen of Saxon Poetry. THERE is, perhaps, no species of reading so popu lar as that, which presents a description of manners and customs considerably different from our own; and it is the frequency of such pictures, interspersed in the relations of voyages and travels, that principally recommends them to notice, and explains the avidity with which they are usually received by the public. But as the pleasure we derive from this source, must be proportionate to the degree of interest which we take in the persons described; it |