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INTRODUCTION xiii

WILLIAM LANGLAND
I. Pilgrimage in Search of Do-well 1

GEOFFREY CHAUCER
II. III. The Monk and the Friar 6

JOHN LYDGATE
IV. The London Lackpenny 10

WILLIAM DUNBAR
V. The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins 14

SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
VI. Satire on the Syde Taillis--Ane Supplicatioun
directit to the Kingis Grace--1538 19

BISHOP JOSEPH HALL
VII. On Simony 22
VIII. The Domestic Tutor's Position 23
IX. The Impecunious Fop 24

GEORGE CHAPMAN
X. An Invective written by Mr. George Chapman
against Mr. Ben Jonson 26

JOHN DONNE