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| Song of Canute. | 87 |
| Archbishop Aldred’s Curse | 87 |
| St. Godric’s Hymn | 87 |
| St. Godric’s Sister’s Rhyme | 88 |
| St. Godric’s Hymn to St. Nicholas | 88 |
| Rhyme of Flemings and Normans (1173) | 88 |
| Hugh Bigott’s Boast | 88 |
| The Here Prophecy | 88 |
| Layamon’s Brut:—Part of Introduction | 92 |
| The Ormulum:—Part of Dedication | 96 |
| The Ormulum:— Injunction as to Spelling | 98 |
| The Ancren Riwle:—Eating and Fasting | 101 |
| Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicle:—French Language in England | 105 |
| Minot; First Invasion of France by Edward III. | 108 |
| Vision of Piers Ploughman:—Commencement | 113 |
| Piers Ploughman’s Creed:—Description of Piers | 118 |
| Chaucer:—House of Fame; Eagle’s Address to Chaucer | 138 |
| Chaucer:—House of Fame; Notice of Fire-arms | 140 |
| Chaucer:—House of Fame; Old Mechanical Artillery | 141 |
| Chaucer:—Canterbury Tales; The Prioress (from the Prologue) | 142 |
| Chaucer:—Canterbury Tales; The Mendicant Friar (from the Prologue) | 143 |
| Chaucer:—Canterbury Tales; Emily (from the Knight’s Tale) | 145 |
| Chaucer:—Canterbury Tales; Temple of Mars (from the Knight’s Tale) | 146 |
| Chaucer:—Canterbury Tales; Passages relating to the Host | 148 |
| Chaucer:—Canterbury Tales; Part of the Clerk’s Tale of Griselda | 153 |
| Barbour:—The Bruce; Eulogy on Freedom | 162 |
| Mandevil:—Travels; part of Prologue | 164 |
| Chaucer (Prose):—Canterbury Tales; Pride in Dress, etc. | 166 |
| Bishop Pecock:—Repressor; Midsummer Eve | 170 |
| Fortescue:—Difference, etc.; French King and People | 171 |
| Malory:—Morte Arthur; Death of Lancelot | 173 |
| Wyntoun:—Chronicle | 177 |
| Blind Harry:—Wallace; his Latin Original | 181 |
| Blind Harry:—Wallace; The same subject | 181 |
| Blind Harry:—Wallace; Commencement of the Poem | 181 |
| Blind Harry:—Wallace; Part of Battle of Shortwoodshaw | 182 |
| Blind Harry:—Wallace; L’Envoy | 183 |
| Sir Thomas More:—Letter to his Wife | 185 |
| Udall:—Ralph Roister Doister | 204 |
| Spenser:—Fairy Queen; Belphœbe | 234 |
| Warner:—Albion’s England; Old Man and his Ass | 241 |
| Warner:—Albion’s England; Fall of Richard the Third | 241 |
| Warner:—Albion’s England; Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor | 242 |
| Daniel:—Musophilus; Defence of Poetry | 244 |
| Drayton:—Polyolbion; Stag-hunt | 246 |
| Drayton:— Nymphidia; Queen of the Fairies | 248 |
| Sylvester:—Divine Weeks and Works; Praise of Night | 250 |
| Donne:—Song | 256 |
| Cleveland:—Epitaph on Ben Jonson | 290 |
| Cleveland:—Eulogy on Jonson | 290 |
| Wither:—Amygdala Britannica; Prophecy | 293 |
| Wither:—Songs and Hymns; Thanksgiving for Seasonable Weather | 295 |
| Wither:—Songs and Hymns; Thanksgiving for Victory | 296 |
| Fuller:—Worthies; Shakespeare and Ben Jonson | 304 |
| Fuller:—Worthies; Philemon Holland | 304 |
| Milton:—College Exercise; His Native Language | 313 |
| Waller:—His Last Verses | 324 |
| Marvel:—The Picture of T. C. | 326 |
| Mandeville:—Fable of the Bees; Anticipation of Adam Smith | 360 |
| Burke:—Speech on Nabob of Arcot; Devastation of the Carnatic | 414 |
| Burke:—Reflections on French Revolution; Hereditary Principle | 415 |
| Burke:—Letter to Mr. Elliot; True Reform | 417 |
| Burke:—Letters on a Regicide Peace; Right Way of making War | 419 |
| Cowper:—Table Talk; National Vice | 432 |
| Cowper:—Truth; Voltaire | 432 |
| Cowper:—Conversation; Meeting on the Road to Emmaus | 433 |
| Cowper:—Lines on his Mother’s Picture | 434 |
| Darwin:—Botanic Garden; “Flowers of the Sky” | 439 |
| Darwin:—Botanic Garden; The Compass | 439 |
| Burns:—To a Mouse | 442 |
| Burns:—To a Mountain Daisy | 444 |
| Burns:—Epistle to a Young Friend | 446 |
| Burns:—The Vision (part) | 449 |
| Burns:—Highland Mary | 453 |
| Burns:—Verses from various Songs | 453 |
| Wordsworth:—The Fountain, a Conversation | 463 |
| Wordsworth:—The Affliction of Margaret | 465 |
| Wordsworth:—“Her Eyes are wild” | 467 |
| Wordsworth:—Laodamia | 469 |
| Coleridge:—“Maid of my Love” | 475 |
| Coleridge:—Time, Real and Imaginary | 476 |
| Coleridge:—Work without Hope | 477 |
| Coleridge:—Youth and Age | 477 |
| Coleridge:—“Yes, yes! that boon!” | 479 |
| Coleridge:—Love, Hope, and Patience, in Education | 480 |
| Scott:—Marmion; The Battle (part) | 484 |
| Campbell:—Adelgitha | 491 |
| Campbell:—Theodric; Letter of Constance | 491 |
| Crabbe:—Tales of the Hall; Story of the Elder Brother (part) | 492 |
| Moore:—Lalla Rookh; Calm after Storm | 495 |
| Shelley:—Ode to a Skylark | 499 |
| Keats:—Ode to a Nightingale | 503 |
| Hunt:—The Sultan Mahmoud | 505 |
| Hunt:—The Fancy Concert | 507 |
| Mrs. Browning:—A Child’s Grave at Florence | 514 |
| Mrs. Browning:—Aurora Leigh; Pictures of England | 518 |
| Mrs. Browning:—Aurora Leigh; Paris | 519 |
| Mrs. Browning:—Aurora Leigh; Her Mother’s Picture | 520 |
| Tennyson:—The Lord of Burleigh | 522 |
| Tennyson:—Wellington | 524 |
| R. Browning:—The Pied Piper of Hamelin (part) | 526 |
| Hood:—The Death-bed | 531 |
