Prologue, part of Chap. 12, and Chap. 26; ~15~. Piers the
Plowman, A-text, Prologue, Passus 1, part of Pass. 2, Pass. 3,
Pass. 5, parts of Pass. 6 and 7; ~16~. Barbour's Bruce, ed.
Skeat, Book VII. ll. 1-230, 400-487; ~17~. Wyclif's translation
of St. Mark's Gospel, Chapters 1-6; Hereford's version of the Psalms,
Ps. 14(15), 23(24), 102(103); ~18~. Trevisa's translation of
Higden's Polychronicon, lib. i. c. 41, c. 59, lib. vi. c. 29;
~19~. Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale; ~20~. Gower's Confessio
Amantis, part of Book V.

S3.--SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH, Part III, ed. Skeat; from A. D. 1394-1579.

This book contains extracts from:--~1~. Pierce the Ploughman's
Crede, ll. 153-267, 339-565, 744-765, 785-823; ~2~. Hoccleve's De
Regimine Principum, stanzas 281-301, 598-628; ~3~. Lydgate,
London Lickpenny, and the Storie of Thebes, bk. ii. ll. 1064-1419;
~4~. James I (of Scotland), the King's Quair, stanzas 152-173;
~5~. Pecock's Represser, pt. i. c. 19; pt. ii. c. 11; ~6~.
Blind Harry's Wallace, bk. i. ll. 181-448; ~7~. Chevy Chase
(earlier version); ~8~. Malory's Morte Darthur, bk. xxi. c. 3-7;
~9~. Caxton's History of Troy; ~10~. The Nut-brown Maid;
~11~. Dunbar, Thistle and Rose, and Poem on being desired to be a
Friar; ~12~. Hawes, Pastime of Pleasure, c. 33; ~13~.
G. Douglas, Prol. to Æneid, book xii; ~14~. Skelton, Why Come Ye
Nat to Courte, ll. 287-382, 396-756; Philip Sparrow, ll. 998-1260;
~15~. Lord Berners, tr. of Froissart, c. 50, c. 130; ~16~.
Tyndale, Obedience of a Christian Man; ~17~. More, Dialogue
Concerning Heresies, bk. iii. c. 14-16; Confutation of Tyndale,
bk. iii; ~18~. Sir T. Elyot, The Governor, bk. i. c. 17, 18;
~19~. Lord Surrey, tr. of Æneid, bk. ii. ll. 253-382, 570-736,