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SECTION XLIII.
Laurence Minot.
Sir Thomas More's English Poetry. Tournament of Tottenham. Its age
and scope.
Alliteration. Digression illustrating
comparatively the language of the fifteenth century, by a specimen of
the Metrical Armoric Romance of Ywayn and Gawayn
SECTION XLIV.
The Notbrowne Mayde. Not older than the sixteenth century. Artful
contrivance of the story. Misrepresented by Prior. Metrical Romances,
Guy, syr Bevys, and Kynge Apolyn, printed in the reign of Henry.
The Scole howse, a Satire. Christmas Carols. Religious Libels in
rhyme. Merlin's Prophecies. Laurence Minot. Occasional disqui-
sition on the late continuance of the use of waxen tablets. Pageantries
of Henry's Court. Dawn of Tašte.
SECTION XLV.
Effects of the Reformation on our poetry. Clement Marot's Psalms. Why
adopted by Calvin. Version of the Psalms by Sternhold and Hopkins.
Defects of this version, which is patronised by the Puritans in opposition
to the Choral Service
SECTION XLVI.
Page
94
123
142
Metrical versions of Scripture. Archbishop Parker's Psalms in metre.
Robert Crowley's puritanical poetry
SECTION XLVII.
Tye's Acts of the Apostles in rhyme. His merit as a Musician. Early
piety of king Edward the Sixth. Controversial Ballads and Plays.
Translation of the Bible. Its effects on our Language. Arthur Kel-
ton's Chronicle of the Brutes. First Drinking-song. Gammer Gurton's
Needle
157
167
SECTION XLVIII.
Reign of queen Mary. Mirrour for Magistrates. Its inventor, Sackville
lord Buckhurst. His life. Mirrour for Magistrates continued by Bald-
wyn and Ferrers. Its plan and stories
SECTION XLIX.
Sackville's Induction to the Mirrour for Magistrates. Examined. A pre-
lude to the Fairy Queen. Comparative View of Dante's Inferno
SECTION L.
Sackville's Legend of Buckingham in the Mirrour for Magistrates. Ad-
ditions by Higgins. Account of him. View of the early editions of
this Collection. Specimen of Higgins's Legend of Cordelia, which is
copied by Spenser.........
181
190
215
SECTION LI.
View of Niccols's edition of the Mirrour for Magistrates. High estima-
tion of this Collection. Historical Plays, whence........
224
SECTION LII.
Richard Edwards. Principal poet, player, musician, and buffoon, to the
courts of Mary and Elizabeth. Anecdotes of his life. Cotemporary
testimonies of his merit. A contributor to the Paradise of Daintie De-
vises. His book of comic histories, supposed to have suggested Shak-
speare's Induction of the Tinker. Occasional anecdotes of Antony
Munday and Henry Chettle. Edwards's songs..............
Tusser.
SECTION LIII.
Remarkable circumstances of his life. His Husbandrie, one of
our earliest didactic poems, examined
SECTION LIV.
William Forrest's poems. His Queen Catharine, an elegant manuscript,
contains anecdotes of Henry's divorce. He collects and preserves an-
cient music. Puritans oppose the study of the classics. Lucas Shep-
herd. John Pullayne. Numerous metrical versions of Solomon's Song.
Censured by Hall the satirist. Religious rhymers. Edward More.
Boy-bishop, and miracle-plays, revived by queen Mary. Minute par-
ticulars of an ancient miracle-play
SECTION LV.
English Language begins to be cultivated. Earliest book of Criticism in
English. Examined. Soon followed by others. Early critical systems
of the French and Italians. New and superb editions of Gower and
Lydgate. Chaucer's monument erected in Westminster Abbey. Chaucer
esteemed by the Reformers.
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248
257
271
SECTION LVI.
Sackville's Gorboduc. Our first regular tragedy. Its fable, conduct, cha-
racters, and style. Its defects. Dumb-show. Sackville not assisted
by Norton.......
SECTION LVII.
Classical drama revived and studied. The Phonissæ of Euripides trans-
lated by Gascoigne. Seneca's Tragedies translated. Account of the
translators, and of their respective versions. Queen Elizabeth translates
a part of the Hercules Oetæus
SECTION LVIII.
Most of the classic poets translated before the end of the sixteenth century.
Phaier's Eneid. Completed by Twyne. Their other works. Phaier's
Ballad of Gad's-hill. Stanihurst's Eneid in English hexameters. His
other works. Fleming's Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics. His other
works. Webbe and Fraunce translate some of the Bucolics. Fraunce's
other works. Spenser's Culex. The original not genuine. The Ceiris
proved to be genuine. Nicholas Whyte's story of Jason, supposed to be
289
302
a version of Valerius Flaccus. Golding's Ovid's Metamorphoses. His
other works. Ascham's censure of rhyme. A translation of the Fasti
revives and circulates the story of Lucrece. Euryalus and Lucretia.
Detached fables of the Metamorphoses translated. Moralisations in
fashion. Underdowne's Ovid's Ibis. Ovid's Elegies translated by Mar-
lowe. Remedy of Love, by F. L. Epistles by Turberville. Lord Es-
sex a translator of Ovid. His literary character. Churchyard's Ovid's
Tristia. Other detached versions from Ovid. Ancient meaning and
use of the word Ballad. Drant's Horace. Incidental criticism on
Tully's Oration pro Archia ......... 319
SECTION LIX.
Kendal's Martial. Marlowe's versions of Coluthus and Museus. Gene-
ral character of his Tragedies. Testimonies of his cotemporaries. Spe-
cimens and estimate of his poetry. His death. First Translation of
the Iliad by Arthur Hall. Chapman's Homer. His other works. Ver-
sion of Clitophon and Leucippe. Origin of the Greek erotic romance.
Palingenius translated by Googe. Criticism on the original. Speci-
men and merits of the translation. Googe's other works. Incidental
stricture on the philosophy of the Greeks
............
SECTION LX.
Translation of Italian Novels. Of Boccace. Paynter's Palace of Plea-
sure. Other versions of the same sort. Early metrical versions of Boc-
cace's Theodore and Honoria, and Cymon and Iphigenia. Romeus and
Juliet. Bandello translated. Romances from Bretagne. Plot of Shak-
speare's Tempest. Miscellaneous Collections of translated novels before
the year 1600. Pantheon. Novels arbitrarily licensed or suppressed.
Reformation of the English press
SECTION LXI.
349
372
General view and character of the poetry of queen Elizabeth's age......... 395
SECTION LXII.
Reign of Elizabeth. Satire. Bishop Hall. His Virgidemiarum. MS.
poems of a Norfolk gentleman. Examination of Hall's Satires
403
Hall's Satires continued
SECTION LXIII.
SECTION LXIV.
Hall's Satires continued. His Mundus alter et idem. His Epistles. As-
cham's Letters. Howell's Letters
SECTION LXV.
Marston's Satires. Hall and Marston compared ....
SECTION LXVI.
Epigrams and Satires. Skialetheia. A Scourge of Truth. Scourge of
420
433
441
Truth by John Davies of Hereford. Chrestoloros by Thomas Bastard.
Microcynicon by T. M. Gent. William Goddard's Mastiff Whelp. Pas-
quill's Mad-Cap, Message, Foole-Cap. Various collections of Epigrams.
Rowland's Letting of Humours blood in the head vaine. Lodge, Greene
and Decker's Pamphlets. Catalogue of Epigrammatic Miscellanies.
Satires by G. Walter. Donne's Satires.....
Index
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469